I cannot logically or empirically demonstrate that you are human (rather than, say, an AI program). Its called the problem of other minds. That mentio...
Nope. When we get something, when something clicks with us, there may be emotions also experienced, but the thing that clicks--the deep inner (to the ...
I agree with what you say. Truths which can be questioned and knowledge in the form of JTB are things that only pertain to dualistic egos. And that wh...
I gave my justifications for it in the respective post. One can theorize something to be X and so maintain, but if it in practice is Y, then it is Y a...
As long as we’re indulging in theological issues regarding the issue of marriage between men and women, maybe it ought not be forgotten that the Engli...
I’ll acknowledge that it might be due to an improper reading in-between the lines of the posts I’ve so far read from you, this given my own biases pic...
Ah. Again, my bad for my specific reply to you. Maybe I overly conflated your views with those of @"Count Timothy von Icarus", who from what I've so f...
Not having read the entirety of this thread, its quite possible that i could have misinterpreted your stance. In which case, my bad. To clarify: Do yo...
I already quoted you in the post I gave. As to: No quibbles there. Hence the ancient Greco-Roman world, for just one example, being replete with homos...
Yea, I think you missed the whole gist of my post to you. To sum things up: (healthy) sex ain't about the begetting of chidlren. As to the whole burge...
A little head’s up: Many (quite many, actually) of us men and women do not engage in sexual behaviors with others with the intend of procreation in th...
True. Add to this notions of the Devil, in parallel notions of the flying (not yet slithering on Earth) serpent whose will to awaken all to right and ...
Not sure what the Count holds in mind, so I'm not commenting on his behalf nor am I commenting to him. But if "The Good" were to be interpreted as equ...
This ain’t no place for me to expound on my own philosophical views which I’m working into a treatise (which could be labeled as analytically philosop...
That's cool I have a problem with this part: Neither of these present an ultimate end as the teleological reason for what is. Godswill is a mouthful: ...
Not when it's an explanation for why the avalanche happened. Quite obviously I would think. OK then. Point being that not all purposes are intentions ...
As in the rock intended to start the avalanche that happened by intending to pursue gravitational paths of less resistance down the mountain just so? ...
Yes, he was one of the folks that discredited teleological and formal causes. (Not that I support him on this.) But it is due to him that we have a mu...
Well, again: In other words, a metaphysics that via falliblist means rationally justifies the objective truth of meta-ethics in manners that account f...
I'll go further, but again nothing conclusive. First, you have to place him in his time-period, a time-period of heresies and the maybe yet occasional...
I can see this … and can develop it a bit more. As our technology progresses, AI included, we will (granting that by then we don’t become extinct) eve...
BTW, in keeping with both my last post and the theme of this thread, Hume can be interpreted in multiple ways, one of which is that we was, in fact, a...
Some will resonate with this sentiment, no doubt. All the same, it’s a bit Orwellian in its nature, even if unintentionally so. This being the notion ...
Help me out with that. I take explanations to answer question of "why" and descriptions to answer questions of "what". Each then pertains to two diffe...
Well, without getting into the nitty gritty, the notion of gravity coheres into all other notions we hold without contradiction: as to simplistic defi...
I gather that much. But there's something to not throwing out babies with their bathwater. I can deal with that. Just wanted to mention that you're lo...
cool. Yup, I'm aware of it. (see my last comment) They can become so when entertaining Aristotelian notions: natural laws then here become formal caus...
:up: Given posts such as these, seems that the only difference between us in all that’s been so far said concerns whether or not the word and correspo...
Nah, I’m not claiming that. To clarify my position: What is central to the scientific method of the empirical sciences (in contrast to what some term ...
:up: ---------- As to Peirce’s devised notion of abduction, I’ll butt in for a sec.: Abduction is as worthless as pure guesswork when divorced from th...
OK, I can see how some out there want to pigeonhole everything into their own devised conceptual containers (i.e., schemas). For one among many exampl...
:up: In agreement with much of your post. To come at this from my own perspectives, in the examples frank provided I only see three differing types, o...
Insults devoid of rationality. Why is this not a surprise? (before you start on mathematical theses of entropy, its a rhetorical question). I'm not en...
Right. So we can't survive, live, in a society without posing the question, at least implicitly, "who's responsible for what". But then, I find the sa...
To you apathy, for one example, mild liking as another, are equivalent to hate? (Who the heck am I debating here???) Back to the issue of the good, th...
Can you, like, give a rational answer to a simple, straightforward (and might I add not rude) question?: Now, just so it said, I won't apologize for i...
Apparently so. Weird, ain't it. No, you pointed out gritty teeth speech. Now changing tune to something alluding to rationality, I see. So you find th...
You know, fallible me, but you seem to hold a grudge against what I said. As though you were insulted by it. Yet I still maintain that love/agapism is...
How do you know that I even have any, physical, metaphorical, or what not? :razz: And no, replied to @"unenlightened" about what i so far find to be f...
Well, not all sex (child begetting sex included) is endowed with some degree of love. Sometimes, it can be pure hate and tyranny. But point taken. Sti...
Couldn’t resist. :razz: How can you, or anyone else, uphold responsibility sans “the whole idea of causality”? I, and I can only affirm many another, ...
I’m trying to leave the forum for now. But, yes, claim 1 and claim 2 are semantically the same (with a possible semantic difference regarding emphasis...
I’m baffled by your once again separating politics from ethics/morality. For one thing, you previously agreed the two are entwined. This would mean no...
Well, thanks. I appreciate that. Cheers. Yup, going about to doing other things is on my current list of things to do. As with the example you've give...
Yes. No. Future actualities that are not yet actual int he present will happen. If one's belief of what will be a future actuality conforms/correlates...
As always, no problem. No. It can be quite harmful depending on subtext and context, but not all harm is violence. So, again, no. Yes. But since we ar...
Here’s a related issue: Ought we take all affirmations of “I/you/they/etc. did, are, or will do X”, “X happened, is happening, will happen”, “X was, i...
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