Yes, and a known brute fact (e.g. "BB") is far more informative than an unknowable brute fact (e.g. "God"), so by abduction we drop the "Goddidit" sto...
Where's the demarcation between becoming an adult and being a child? The latter is regulated by feelings (impulses) and the former by reasons (judgmen...
Pure BS. We're all "open" to such "reactions" no matter how loose or rigorous our arguments. I prefer sublime cathartic or ecstatic to the more ambigu...
I.e. begins as a disposition and maybe develops into a 'reflective' outlook / stance. Other old posts on 'pessimism', etc ... https://thephilosophyfor...
No. "Outside spacetime" is as incoherent as north of the North Pole. And to subsist is to be thought by minds which are, as I've pointed out already, ...
The Hitch makes polemical points (rather than philosophical arguments) for irreligion, so his "numinous" gambit worked fine in those public debate per...
I don't read an "argument" here but instead an "aesthetic appeal to 'aesthetic appeal'" for its own sake. Chasing – sniffing – one's own tail. I prefe...
Every monotheism is "the absence of belief" in every god except "the one God" ... that's not saying much. I prefer to be clear: either (A) belief that...
Stop with this strawman. Atheism does not make any "claims". Atheism is disbelief in god/s. Period. An incoherent idea. Idealists like Schopenhauer wh...
"Deepest description" so far ... Why wouldn't that "make sense"? This question, Art, doesn't make much sense. What else would / should "the wavefuncti...
Why do you believe that? This is definitely the case only in the absence of thinking critically and much lived experience. Stereotyping "atheists" say...
This makes no sense to me. A category error at least. "Existing" north of the North Pole ... :roll: If this is actually the case, however, I also don'...
I believe that there isn't any God or gods. I think there are "good grounds to reject the" truth-claims of theism. Nonsense. Neither belief nor knowle...
:up: I would answer that question put to Bertrand Russell more or less the same way he does but with slight variations: (1) intellectually trust nothi...
:lol: In a world of 8 billion people, Judaism as a whole has about 15 million followers and the "Reformed Judaism" movement only has a little over 2 m...
We can always act with courage when confronting that which we have "reasons for fear" (risk :chin:); it's the lack of "reasons" that paralyzes us with...
:up: I made my points on page 1 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/762981 Well I think finding one's own meaning in one's life is the p...
:up: :up: There are only individuals in res from which the predicates or properties they have in common are abstracted – generalized – into discursive...
... and therefore we're on an extinction path as we destroy more and more of the base of the food chain. Maybe we'll develop AGI before we're done. Ma...
Except for those creations, of course, who "devoutly" strap-on dynamite vests or carry out crusades & stake-burnings "In His Name" in order to settle ...
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