Freddy points out, paraphrasing both the Epicureans and Stoics (IIRC), that 'the senses don't lie, it's our interpretations of the senses which introd...
Maybe the TS has already happened and we are being kept from discovering ETI by our TS-saturated satellites, telescopes & space probes? Maybe the TS c...
I find those "negatives" more specifiable (and irrefutable) than the alternative. IIRC, I've shared my negative ontology with you (& Mr. Enformy) on m...
My supposition is that 'X exists' factually IFF the sine qua non properties of X are not (a) non-relational, (b) un-conditional, (c) un-changeable and...
All believers are atheists insofar as there are many gods, etc which they don't believe in except their own. (We disbelievers are just more consistent...
Maybe your conception of "moral claims" is inadequate for assessing their truth values or you lack a sufficient, or relevant, criteria of truth? :chin...
No. "Moral norms" are like dialects (or even distinct languages) – complementary, not oppositional. Besides, plurality is more adaptive than uniformit...
:100: Maybe apologists are, in fact, idolators who cannot imagine that their critics are anything but idolators too. :roll: We were "justifying social...
:fire: "Existence" is fundamentally contingent: there cannot be anything external to existence that stops existence from coming-to-be, continuing-to-b...
Antinatalists like David Benatar and @"schopenhauer1" value life over morality (not unlike Kierkegaard's 'teleological suspension of the ethical'), th...
I think atheism is disbelief in theism. Yes. I believe there was a historical figure named Socrates, but I do not (need to) have "faith in Socrates". ...
Life breeds eats and shits, then feeds and fertilizes more life. Local disorder increases because local order dissipates as it despoils its environmen...
Answering your question is orders of magnitude above a primate's paygrade; you're probably going to have to wait like the rest of us for (terrestrial)...
Yes, if you have >1 tickets with different numbers for the same drawing, of course the odds increase to >1 / X. I misread(?) @"Hanover"'s "the more I ...
Life is getting better for whom? Whose pessimism is being overcome but at what cost and to whom? "Progress" – if there's such a thing – is just not ev...
Well, "vaguely religious" comments do tend to be more mystifying than anything else. Yet de-mystification and clarification have priority in philosoph...
Populations or species evolve, not "individual organisms". Apparently, you do not understand evolution or the second law of thermodynamics. And you're...
Given his deep suspicion of poetry, I doubt Plato wrote his Dialogues, dramatic and stylized as they may be, to be read only or principally as 'litera...
For the vast majority of h. sapiens existence (ctwo hundred millennia), people lived in small familial groups without strangers (until about five mill...
Gambler's fallacy. :roll: See link above. No. The theory demonstrably works better than any of the alternatives whether or not you believe it's true. ...
:up: Technology controls nature whereas science explains nature. No doubt, the latter is the force-multiplier of the former. This move is a regressive...
:smirk: :up: Spinoza's God is simply another name for Nature (i.e. natural laws). As I understand it, 'evolution' quallifies as a natural law even in ...
All that means is Socrates aggravated or embarrassed the wrong people. In my book, choosing to kill oneself over exile is suicide not martyrdom. Yes, ...
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