As I am a beginner, and don't know how to translate the notations into real world examples, and as I do much of my thinking visually, please can you g...
A cook can turn 2 small meat loaves into one bigger one and reroute several currents of smaller power into one bigger one, but not turn two apples int...
I prefer to talk round the subject. I think that revelations may be graded in various qualities. In a remote tribe there may be intersubjectivity both...
1. You can't demonstrate that everybody that believes in a religion is an idolater (that the head of their house is a liar) just because it is true fo...
Tim, the question was whether the question of what "decides what" "is" science and what "isn't", gets decided by confusion between necessary and suffi...
start quotes The problem is not calling some things science and some non-science, it is calling them science or non-science arbitrarily, and then usin...
"" The dualism of Descartes has hamstrung this discussion of ‘soul’ for centuries. If we follow the chronological path of modern philosophy through De...
The parallel loads produced by connection in parallel as described, are a mechanical way of transforming from a continuum of quantities to integers, l...
You are reproducing the reasoning of Michael Yoo, very well. What makes it in this case not a ponens is that the detail that is understood by the writ...
GCB and GMBA, pardon my brevity. Some people are worried, in the context of this sort of matter, whether if we go beyond, we come across "god", and I ...
Oranges are granular and volts are a continuum. I remember being fascinated by this in infants' school and have never ceased since. The reappearance o...
Some of the forms of argument that aren't on the list will probably be complex combinations chosen from the above, however there may also be fresh typ...
Michio Kaku points out in "Hyperspace" that immediately after the landing, Johnson abolished restrictions on the draft for graduate researchers, with ...
TMF (a day ago), I was trying to point out that in the example cited by the OP, and in your version of it, there are far more premises than the ones s...
Given that God is so much larger than us, and beyond dimensions we know, what appears eternal to Him (and described thus in Revelation) is momentary t...
Tim Wood (5 days ago), what a nice clear explanation! This harmonises I think with J H Newman's "assent to degrees of inference". My inference (from n...
It's taken a long time to get this far. My parents happened to be broad and deep thinkers (and times were different then) even though we were material...
Please do NOT add to the confusion between Kant - a specific bloke who said specific things - and "Kant" - ian - ism which means a huge survey of all ...
RNA in meterorites probably resembles a solid more than the other configurations. As for the "stuff" in "space" or "vacuums", scientists know little a...
In my schooldays, unbearable as the pressure was at times, at least I twigged imagination is about reality as well as fantasy. Helping one's fellow de...
Gnostic Agnostic, life is going to get difficult sometimes and fear is like a warning light. Perhaps this is where "holy spirit power for caring" come...
In the genuine version of New Testament teaching, in my opinion, the "holy spirit power for caring" economy of crown-gaining by trading the talents an...
Some things - like human beings - are more more, and some other things - inert ones - are less more. Exclusion of the excluded middle (an interest of ...
Your example sounds like one of the epistles of Paul, for example. Now, sending a letter was sticking one's neck out. Therefore they had to be on the ...
I call it "intelligible configuration", after all we are the ones that are here finding it to a degree intelligible, and we wouldn't be here if we wer...
It strikes me as a more than three-part "syllogism" because the remainder of the premises, background, ramifications etc will be contained elsewhere i...
Poetic Universe, and Uncanni, the interesting scenarios you describe are only part, in my view, of the panoply of different theologies that peoples an...
If God could see that some "revelations" contained greater value than others (which is not a numerical scale such as "positivists" would tend towards)...
Hegel and Heidegger were self-proclaimed theologians not backed by identifiable authority. As can any of us be, if we want. The point being as a guide...
I forgot to add that the details of the content of each "revelation" will have differed, ostensibly and/or substantially, between periods and location...
"The old testament says teaches that God can order you to slay your family. This was never revoked in the new testament." The incident with Abraham se...
Joseph S, in regard to "taking no action" and at the same time the bad structure of the tool, I would point out to you the different ethics of opportu...
Uncanni, as airborne cannabis doesn't give others the opportunity to abstain because it causes them illness and emergency, what you are recommending i...
Teilhard had no religious faith so his religious standing sadly was unauthoritative, and his scientific standing incidentally is nil. That doesn't sto...
I would evince slightly stronger caution than fresco simply because what faintly shadows "mind", in rocks, trees or stars, is of a far smaller kind th...
Peirce pointed out the pre-existing fact that things are in relation to the beholder while separate from him; Arthur Young points out that things are ...
I was told I was too deliberate. As if things would do themselves! If they are mine to do, my muscles and my faculties have got to do them in their ti...
Jude Joannis and Uncanni, some people are allergic to cannabis therefore it is NEVER ethical for anyone to use cannabis that becomes airborne. It shou...
Adam and Eve, who are not the first man and woman, but only the first man and woman that are remembered (and their ancestress Mytochondrial Eve has be...
"Hijab" is a confusing term because it might mean a decorative scarf over the hair. If we are talking about clothes, which I would include the above i...
" ... any kind of determinism appears to be just approximate ... " Dzung, I think that is the crucial factor. Removing ourselves somehow from a causal...
The minute transition between the immediate past, the "present" and the immediate future is called the Planck time. I presume that if its characterist...
Not doing, is itself doing. It creates time for thinking. Before one knows it, one has written much - especially if one's name is Schopenhauer (or Fin...
In their publicity material it ought to state their brand name, affiliation, and governance arrangements. This is equivalent to their denomination. Wi...
Thank you Alcontali for this informative post. A reference work I followed up stated that the idea of the Salafis was to strip away as it were accrete...
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