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So Shakespeare's plays & sonnets can be "reduced to" Elizabethan-era grammar (which was "one step ahead" of the Bard)? :sweat:

(My) arche :point: :fire:

The koine greek translation of the Gospel of John employs 'logos' which is an Attic /Ionian concept used by philosophers to denote 'rational account'....

So this "being" is any living, complex organism? (à la e.g. panpsychism, Berkeleyan idealism, etc) Do they have definite (testable) solutions like mat...

I didn't propose an argument, Wayf. I wonder if you can clarify those phrases – what you mean by those terms.

:roll: No doubt this is the case with the so-called "New Atheists" (except Victor Stenger or Rebecca Goldstein) which is why I consider their argument...

It's unclear to me what kind of things are "philosophical problems" or a "subject of experience". Also, the only object of scientific reduction is wha...

You've lost me again.

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???????? (’Ehyeh).

I suspect no one has ever believed in g/G because of a Pascal's Wager who wasn't already riding the fence up his sacramentally Confirmed keester. Pasc...

Spinoza was a Jew, not a Christian. More to the point: an 'anthropomorphic, anthropocentric, supernatural and teleological deity' like the God of Abra...

No.

Such as ...

:death: :flower:

"Einstein's God" is Spinoza's natura naturans (i.e attributes of substance aka (modal) "laws of nature"). :fire:

Apparently, whatever G_d says ...

... in chess and in the road. :wink:

Another one of The Architect's macguffins. Remember, Smith: "There is no spoon" (i.e. there is no Matrix). :smirk:

:death: :flower:

No. No. Are "all doors" actually locked?

As a philosophical naturalist I exclude non-natural 'first principles'.

:fire:

I quoted your words. It's also "common sense" that the Earth is flat and the Sun rises and sets, all swans are white and hammers always fall faster th...

My candidates for arche: dao, or atomist void, or natura naturans ... :fire:

... or delusion? ... or whichever is cognitively-socially easier? ... or??? :up: :up:

All I mean is that "religious apologists" posit a first cause and call it "god" though they, in every case I'm aware of, fail to show that it's the sa...

We always have a choice whether or not to hold rational (dis)beliefs.

Google any of the bolded names in the first paragraph or the video lecture at the bottom. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/582454

:up: No "lack of belief" here, just active disbelief.

Explain.

:ok: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/463672 (follow the links ... or not)

Panpsychism?

Well, that's good enough to demonstrate that disbelief in theistic g/G is more reasonable than theistic g/G-beliefs. From a recent post ... Also (same...

So you believe paramecia – perhaps the most "vulnerable" life forms – have "souls" too?

Yeah but not the "god of religion" ...

:smirk:

Well, there certaintly isn't any corroborable, non-anecdotal, public evidence of or sound arguments for "theism" (e.g. the existence of any "theistic"...

:smirk:

What are those statements (link)? Interesting exchange. How do you answer those questions?

:100: :up: @"Agent Smith"

My baker's dozen ... All in the Family 1971-75 The Boondocks 2005-10 Chappell's Show Deadwood (+ Movie) The Expanse 2015-18 Fawlty Towers Firefly I, C...

:cool:

Ditto :up: Top Ten TV series???

@"universeness" Thanks for the posts. I'm confident that they won't persuade those who need to be persuaded out of their error. Lots of pseudo-science...

I guess you didn't run down all these rabbit holes...

:roll:

Atoms which make up strawberries don't taste like strawberries either. Biology emerges from chemistry, Smith, not "sorcery".

You take it as a given but you don't know. I agree it's a handy heuristic, and maybe that's all it is. ... and your / my own "mind" too – since it's a...

Non sequitur.