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Not necessarily. Spinoza categorizes logic (i.e. laws of nature / natura naturans) as "divine" and understanding logic this way (via scientia intuitiv...

Theism is significant to many atheists because too many damn theists proselytize and/or inject magical thinking – superstitions – into their explanati...

@"universeness" Had I been putting words in your mouth, sir, you'd be making more sense with far fewer incoherent and inconsistent statements. For ins...

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@"Agent Smith" ... or idealists/antirealist. :clap: :up:

Yes, no doubt, and this is why I addressed that video to others instead of you. Btw ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/776449 :yawn...

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I think the categorical goal implies, or constrains, every hypothetical means. To wit: reducing 'suffering' by any means which does not increase or ex...

Interesting. I have always thought that Mishima's seppuku, in spite of himself, symbolized the futility – 'nostalgia' (Camus) – of modern Japanese lon...

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Whatever he's posited, that's the implication. It's unintelligible New Agery to me.

:fire: It's going to take me some time to think through the labyrinth of your post.

My "puzzle" ... (yin) the impossible is X (yang) the unthinkable is Y

Casuistry.

You've lost the plot, amigo. "Good / bad" – ends don't justify means. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/777050

What "list"?

Really? :chin:

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:smirk: :up: Incorrigible incomprehension! Typical idealist (antirealist) conflation of epistemology (mapmaking) and ontology (territory). What's to b...

I said "chalatanry", mi amigo ... As for boasting that his quackery is – consider this video summary on 'quantum information' and, since increasing di...

:roll: For very strong, sound arguments in favor of atheism, read (contemporary) philosophical atheists like e.g. André Comte-Sponville Theodore Drang...

Your presumption is nonsense.

That's not remotely a new insight ... and, IMO, irrelevant to the manifest functions of both institutions. :roll:

False trichotomy. :meh:

Nonsense, comrade. :brow: :100:

Atheism is second-order negation of first-order theism. Apple to orange, not apple to apple, comparison.

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I agree. Never thought of Witty as a 'positivist' from my first reading of the Tractatus ... which (along with learning how Einstein used the 'gedanke...

:up: In other words, like e.g. nihilism & relativism, positivism is self-refuting.

A quick read of the wiki below provides a nontechnical but 'accurate' synopsis of the nature and etiology of hallucinations. Your video begins with ch...

:up: Contra the OP (yeah, I know s/he was booted), I've found metaphysics indispensible to my understanding of philosophy (thanks again, @"Tobias"), h...

Yin contains yang and yang contains yin, so in what way are they "mutually annihilatory"?

'Policing culture' in America has very deep roots in the 18th century establishment of Slave Patrols, followed later on by appending the 2nd Amendment...

From one of our earliest exchanges three years ago, a confession ... E.g. "panpsychism?" "panendeism?" "pancomputationalism?" Uh huh. :roll: Maybe @"u...

:up: Yes, at most "neoliberalism" is only an metastasizing symptom ...

Cheers! :yum:

I don't care whether or not @"Gnomon" and I directly engage with one another again as much as I'm interested in ideas and discussing them without soph...

Andrew seems to me to be saying 'being an agnostic hasn't morally worked out for him ... and somehow that's atheism's fault.' :shade:

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My earliest interaction with @"Gnomon" was three years ago, not ten. TPF has been around barely eight years, not ten. I joined in 2015, made a dozen p...

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:up: :up: "Flow chart"? No, this is philosophy, not project managenent. Instead of taking snippets out of context, man, read the post they come from i...

Yeah, well, until @"Gnomon" explicitly addresses the questions I've put to him – directly or indirectly – I'll consider him nonresponsive to the offer...

For me, that's physics, not metaphysics.

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ~Benedictus de Spinoza I agree philosophy began with que...

I don't follow any of this.

Thanks. I know Rebecca Goldstein's works on Gödel & Spinoza, respectively, and her speculative novels. I'm in the brute contingency camp, presuming th...