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A Christian advocate is threatening to sue the NFL for discrimination towards Christians, showing immodesty without warning, and putting souls in dang...
February 16, 2020 at 23:45
Who is to say there will be genitals in heaven, or four limbs, assuming monotheism? What is the perfect or normal human body?
February 16, 2020 at 22:29
I know this creates questions, but what if Christians outlaw pornography and we have all the porn stars making an honest working at Jack in the box! P...
February 16, 2020 at 22:15
If experiments can prove B theory, then physics IS philosophy
February 16, 2020 at 20:10
Potential became actual at the first start of time. Motion causes time. There is a very real sense in which we can say, consistent with A theory, that...
February 16, 2020 at 19:32
Tyra Banks said on her show once that older people can experience orgasms that last literally however long they want. "It get's better?" she said. Wel...
February 16, 2020 at 19:09
There was nothing before the Big Bang. There was no time, so only a motion exists. Nothingness is fundamental perhaps to math, grammatical studies, an...
February 16, 2020 at 18:29
It's really hard to proceed in psychology when all you can do is measure brain waves and connect them to what the person is saying. All the various in...
February 16, 2020 at 18:17
Nice!
February 16, 2020 at 18:13
Conservative logic says Hannity and the whole gang owe all their money to service men, police, and fire fighters. "It's not fair they put their lives ...
February 16, 2020 at 17:32
The Dining Kruber study is flawed like all psychological studies. You can't measure a person's intelligence. Conservatives say "freebies aren't fair, ...
February 16, 2020 at 17:27
Inheriting wealth is a freebie (Trump). Winning the lottery even is a freebie. People get mad when it's the government who takes their money and helps...
February 16, 2020 at 06:33
If you are so smart and consider religion an intellectual en-devour, why not become Christian, since they have a stronger case in the historical and m...
February 16, 2020 at 06:16
Are beautiful porn stars getting freebies too in this society? I bet they make more money than many on this forum.
February 16, 2020 at 06:04
Do woman get freebies by becoming wives?
February 16, 2020 at 05:59
No way offended. Sometimes the mind can say "you can do this" but the will really cannot. Sometimes the will says "I can't do this" but the reason kno...
February 16, 2020 at 05:56
Pascal's Wager is intellectual trolling. People try to take something away from others by an illegal logical move folks. Plain and simple
February 16, 2020 at 05:49
Life is a destination, not a depot.
February 16, 2020 at 05:47
I sometimes wonder what kind of job being a priest is. They get into questions like whether it's wrong to test yourself with temptation. If philosophy...
February 16, 2020 at 05:28
The two great laws are the Golden Rule and Do what Thou wilt. I don't even think Nietzsche himself would have approved of Americanism, where IQ tests ...
February 16, 2020 at 05:17
I also wonder if doing philosophy is really a more brainy activity than say being really good at video games
February 16, 2020 at 04:59
Im the truck guy at a fast food joint. The guys and girls who take orders and make food don't have it easier. I don't know how to compare that kind of...
February 16, 2020 at 04:57
When we understand something, the object is "projected upon its possibilities". That's what Heidegger says. "The world is the wherein of already-being...
February 16, 2020 at 04:38
I have a so-called illess: schizoaffective. I do manual labor for a living. I do love to read philosophy on my spare time and l do sound authoritative...
February 16, 2020 at 04:27
1) necessary truths 2) contingent truths (univetse) A) infinite truths B) finite truths. 1 is infinite because it includes mathematics. Leibniz though...
February 16, 2020 at 02:43
My understanding of Brouwer is that only those things that are capable of an infinity of proof are properly mathematical. The intuition part comes int...
February 16, 2020 at 02:10
Good points fishfry. An eternally falling piano with only it in existence and with no beginning.. is possible! Math doesn't work this way though
February 16, 2020 at 02:08
For Plato, the pattern that holds 4, 6, 8, and 20 together is 12. Sounds right to me. Those thinkers get confused with 7's versus triangles. But the 1...
February 16, 2020 at 01:31
If math is infinite, it could be understood by an infinite intelligence. Godel is claiming that even God could not prove math is self consistent. What...
February 16, 2020 at 01:22
Why limit Godel? Why not let it run wild throughout math? Pi does not have repetition in it, so is ill-ordered in a sense. Since it starts on the left...
February 16, 2020 at 00:16
Who proved the rule that if there is an uncountable infinity in addition to another countable infimity, it is greater than another countable infinity....
February 15, 2020 at 16:15
Or Godel is beautiful. I bet the Godel supporters get hung up reconciling Wittgenstein with linguistic relativism. Reading GEB..
February 15, 2020 at 06:44
Beauty trumps Godel
February 15, 2020 at 06:24
Benacerraf thought platonic objects were like a cathedral, where there has to a certain pattern. However patterns spiral into uncountable infinities, ...
February 15, 2020 at 05:55
If Godel is a Platonist, is he sabotaging it with math\logic? How is his approach different from the " indentification problem"
February 15, 2020 at 05:46
General question, does Godel assume negation or cancelling precedes positing? He ends up saying there are incorrect equations that can be used properl...
February 15, 2020 at 05:34
What's the different between logical atomism and Hilbert's program? I thought they were the same. It seems to me Godel threw the same monkey wrench in...
February 15, 2020 at 04:09
I knew what you meant lol
February 15, 2020 at 04:03
Aristotle to Aquinas to Scotus thought an eternity in the future to be impossible to complete, so how in the past then? Saying "God did it" doesn't ex...
February 15, 2020 at 03:38
Aristotle thought the universe eternal for no other reason at least than that time seemed more sublime that way. How could time be infinite from count...
February 15, 2020 at 03:09
Godel sets up an impossible scenario without proving it necessary to to go there. Math can do weird things. The jello of non Euclidean geometry is wei...
February 15, 2020 at 00:35
Godel is talking about set theory, that has a physical counter part in eternal time. Aristotle said an infinity of days is only well behaved of there ...
February 15, 2020 at 00:11
I just want to get clear what Godel proved. You can use arithmetic without sets, and this theorem only applies to set theory.
February 14, 2020 at 22:46
A set is merely a rationalized image in the imagination which represents one's intellect. It seems to me that we have freedom to do whatever we want w...
February 14, 2020 at 22:36
Leibniz said contingent proofs take an eternity to prove, but not all truths are this way. Maybe there are things math can't touch
February 14, 2020 at 21:49
Let's get "negative self reference" clarified sufficiently first. A set can cover itself infinitely and still have control of the procedure
February 14, 2020 at 21:48
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People are allowed to inflict pain on someone to give them sexual pleasure,.But up to a point because there is a discrete difference between enjoying ...
February 14, 2020 at 21:22
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"Of course , innerworldly beings in the sense of what is real, as merely objectively present, can still remain covered up. However, what is real, too,...
February 14, 2020 at 08:50
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The idea reflects itself in the imagination the way poetry works "As something factical , the understanding self-projection of Being is always already...
February 12, 2020 at 22:30
Descartes found his own victory over his real relativism thru the cogito. I often doubt if I exist. But truth is not a thing, so it has no substance. ...
February 12, 2020 at 20:16