Just something that I've mulled over a few times in my head without any validation one way or another. Wasn't sure if there was a confounding epistemo...
A couple of corollaries, if you will, to this are: - A rock is not an atheist as it is not capable of conceptualization - A newborn is neither theist,...
The example I'm considering is the proposition "There is currently a man wearing a hat standing at 10th and 1st in New York City". Is it not possible ...
Not a surprise, then, that you the find the topic "simple". But they are not all subjective in the same way. Trying to find the contours of your stand...
The whole topic is premised on an obligation that I referenced in my the first post. I wouldn't contend that fair is equivalent to reasonable in all c...
I don't know what you intend by having science as a standard (a standard for what). Perhaps you can help delineate it in the following way. Which, if ...
In comparing it to a chess game, as @"Anthony" does, a concern arises that we may be heading towards a local maxima (using some metric or analog to pr...
Taken as a first premise, that minimal constraint involves not interfering when an agreement exists. In absence of an agreement, all force necessary t...
I don't disagree that it's fundamentally unworkable. As to your objections, though, if I were arguing against you I might mention that we already have...
Thank you. While I was under the impression there was a position among some of our Founding Fathers that the Constitution ought to be re-ratified ever...
1. With respect to your question about fairness, my response is that fairness is essentially subjective (see point 3 above). I'm not sure by what you ...
Let me modify that slightly. Just as a point of clarification, governance only applies when we talk about more than one person. If I'm on the Earth al...
If we limit ourselves to a sample of 10 instances, in 8 cases the credible witness's testimony would align with ground truth (in a justifiable way, sa...
I like to entertain the idea that if dark energy consigns this universe to an ever increasing, ever diluted space that at some point, after trillions ...
Let me ask you if this isn't an alternative formulation of your replacement of JTB with JB. Assign a factor to the epistemological reliability of your...
An idea that I'm throwing out here as a possible resolution to claim 1, below. Strikes me as even less reasonable after I applied a little more format...
I missed your reply to this thread as I was travelling. I'm trying to interpret this in the way I've been thinking about it as nested reversals. Outsi...
I have learned something in the intervening day and that is that I initially misinterpreted your use of the word 'mystery'. I found your claim that co...
Indeed. Any further argument devolves into dictionaries and word play -- boring. Imbued within the word 'mystery' is some sense of wonder which I acce...
I very much like this response, perhaps because it appeals to me intellectually. Are there any authors that you would recommend that have put meat on ...
Subjects of inquiry are mysteries to a greater or lesser extent (dark matter is both a mystery and an inquiry requiring further study) and, as the dom...
Consciousness is no great mystery? I'm trying to interpret this in a way which is not grossly misspoken. I understand that there have been efforts to ...
When we say 'The existence of God is unlikely' what does that mean? I can interpret this a reflection of the subjective state of speaker's knowledge o...
This one is more along the lines of what I've been considering, in that I posed it as a tension in the (human generated) system for and against human ...
My interpretation of this argument is that it deals with the question whether man ever has free will. As such, it deals in an existential question. Is...
My father told me when I was young about a news item regarding a delusional man who claimed he was Superman. This man insisted he could stop trains. H...
I did mention it ("B is false based on the contrary case from P2"). You may have missed it in as much as there are many different ways of expressing t...
The cool thing about this conjecture is that we engage the possibility that discrete states are reflected as a set (a or maybe a bag, cf Java) without...
When we use the phrase "does not follow", it means it cannot be justified logically from the antecedents. While "undetermined" is fine colloquially, w...
In the near term people who don't want kids not having kids might create a strain on the social security system. Not nearly enough concern or potentia...
Not 'necessarily', of course. In contemplating it, I don't even get to the point of considering it seriously. It is unnecessary to bother with. It is ...
Irrespective of its qualities of legitimacy, validity or reasonableness, anti-Natalism, held firmly, has a distinct reproductive disadvantage against ...
"matters" is transitive in as much as if it has any sense whatsoever, it requires something or some person to attach to. Matters to whom? While stars ...
I'm skeptical with how the principle is posed: "If you think about it, everything we do in our lives has as ultimate purpose to bring us personal happ...
The following statement is NOT true: No people are not dinosaurs Translation to second-order logic: P1: It is not the case that there exists an x, suc...
Speaking of potential, my mind goes to the tendency of creation myths to express the concept of the 'void', that in which creation was exhibited. I'm ...
For me, reading this thread and contributions by you and others stoke my imagination and curiosity. Without evidence, what we have is conjecture. But ...
I remain at the point where we have assumed the fundamental nature of the universe needs to be comprehensible to the human mind. Isn't it possible tha...
Here's a link to a news item regarding a dataset currently under construction. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2018/05/law-and-autonom...
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