Gregory

The Hebrew Bible speaks of the Void. Genesis 1:2. It does not say the Void was good though. The book first speaks of "the good" with regard to light, ...

Schelling, after studying Kant's dynamics, concluded that first there was force, then space and time, and then light and gravity. There are also Hobbe...

Maybe order is in the eye of the beholder

In saying that consciousness comes from a brain, we seem to be saying even more of matter than saying the big bang caused itself. Consciousness is suc...

So if there is nothing outside the universe, there is nothing then to make it contingent and it would be necessary. Dr. William Craig disagrees with t...

People are saying silly things, as always happens in discussion on abortion.

It's spatiality doesn't matter. It's nature matters. Abortion after the child can be a premie is murder, plain and simple. The fate of fetuses before ...

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Is it wrong to kill aliens if it's to our advantage? I think abortion is wrong if the child can live on it's own (that is, could be a premie). That se...

Compatibilism, when it says that free will is destined to act as it does by matter, makes us completely at the mercy of whatever matter wants to do

Hume followed Hobbes's mechanism, which is why motion was mysterious to Hume. Mechanism has the universe working like a clock, without forces. With Ge...

"nature is free" Hegel in his first book

Just because regularity has happened in this Eon doesn't mean it will be the same tomorrow, or that other dimensions won't blend with ours. Ron, you n...

Another problem with science is that it says that two identical things will always act in the same way. This is an assumption. Two things are at least...

Science is without criteria. If a billiard ball makes a click, what does this mean? It's just a sound. The transfer of force is not witnessed. It NEVE...

Ron Cram, you are picking a few things out from our experience of the world. We can all provide thousands of them too! Which sense do we perceive caus...

How many times must Galileo drop the two balls before he "knows" that they will always fall at the same rate? Till he is satisfied? That brings subjec...

How many times do we have to test bread before we know infallibly what bread is?

Science has worked so far, but so far we haven't seen the argument that it will continue too.

How many heads does a caveman have to cut off before he knows about this "law"?

Newton is like yang and Hume is like yin. You need both in life. Hume is more mystical you might say, but it is pure rational argumentation. Those who...

All we sense is matter. Hume says we are so far from understanding matter that it get even in the way of understanding motion!

I agree with Echarmion. Can anyone prove that after if 20 people die from a poison, everyone after that will? Can anyone provide the argument that sho...

How many times do you have to test something before it becomes a law? This question shows the correctness of Hume's argument. Whenever things go wrong...

To say we observe cause and effect is false. We assume there is a law, but the law could be different from what we think. That's Hume's point

Latter-day Saint hymn "O My Father" In the heavens are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare. Truth is reason: truth eternal tells me I'v...

The second part has a Lutheran tone, as does the whole chapter (from his first book). Indeed that was what he was claimed to be. The Roman Catechism r...

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Pot in moderation helps with abstract thoughts

So only three "people" ever got to be God. And my question was do they feel sacred to themselves, or are they humble and funny about the whole thing? ...

The problem with adding fractions is that they don't necessarily represent space. Infinite space with finite length is the problem of Zeno.

The infinity of the continuum would suggest that all objects have the same infinity, Thus thought Cantor. But Banach and Tarski essentially pointed ou...

So far l've seen is opinion about infinite sets here. Nobody has proven anything about this, most especially Cantor. He got in to many paradoxes that ...

A combination of other numbers is no guarantee that its a greater set since the whole numbers are more dense than the odd numbers

I think mathematicians take Cantor as dogma without considering other problems. If I can find all the even numbers but line all the odd numbers with a...

Cantor's diagonal problem is that, although he finds an infinity of real numbers not within the rational numbers, there are even numbers that are not ...

The exceeding of all magnitude seems to be what describes segments and objects. The only way something finite can have infinite parts is to posit some...

You can put a one to one correspondence between any infinite set, because infinite sets have units. Likewise, unless you are speaking of process philo...

I don't believe wisdom comes with age. Wisdom doesn't exist except after death. Only knowledge of facts increase, and character

Zeno paradox asks how a segment can be finite when it has an infinity of parts

Zeno's paradox shows that two or three dimensions are illogical. That they naturally imply other dimensions to make them real. Or something spiritual,...

Because how can something be finite and infinite at the same time

2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. This is the consequence of playing responsibility on some perfe...

As I pointed out, to strive for goodness is better than merely to posses it. This certainly must apply to "God", and even to us if we are God in some ...

If you want to make stuff up (faith) and believe in your lazy God, that's on you

By choosing to have children someone decides to incarnate God into a confused physical creature. If we knew if God was good we would know if life is g...

If we are all persons with God's nature, and are billions of incarnations, we can read modern liberal Christian works on Jesus, in which they say Jesu...

God's forgiveness is completely external to the sinners soul. Christians most often think God can remove the sin. Calvinist think God's does this agai...

Dawkins is taken by many theists as spouting nonsense. That the quote from Christopher seems in line with what the East says actually matters in ontol...

Hegel gave an interesting analyses of previous modern philosophers: "Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz have all indicated God as this nexus...