:up: That depends on "the idea of God" at issue. I propose this "rethink of the notion of God" is consistent enough for my pragmatic (yet ecstatic) na...
For almost two decades my default has been "to argue the position" regardless by demonstrating that the sine qua non claims of theism are not true (an...
Yes, two post-Kantian centuries after – out of the context of Berkeley's "to be is to be perceived" and so, while your analysis has merit, Tobias, it'...
IIRC, there's nothing in Berkeley's speculation that says 'to be is to be self-perceived'. And even if so, that's mere solipsism, which I suppose pert...
From this : if "to be is to be perceived", then, for a perceiver to be, a perceiver must be perceived by another perceiver ... by another perceiver . ...
A vital touchstone since my adolescence ... :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tXsxvdF481I Yes, incorporated into my own sigil :death: :flower: (i.e...
If you don't agree with the wiki article summary of the freethought tradition which I have linked in my previous post, then we're not talking about th...
Though it is possible for one to be an unbeliever while not a freethinker (this is usually the case), I cannot see how a freethinker is not also an un...
Raised and educated Roman Catholic, then apostate in my middle teens, and finally unbeliever^^ (freethinker) over four decades since, here are many of...
Addendum to ... The US Senate hearings for US Appellate Judge KBJ this week were a disgraceful spectacle of under-qualified weak men triggered by an o...
If so and if, however, it doesn't make sense to say "perceiving is perceived", then "perceiving" cannot be; therefore "to be" has to be other (more) t...
On the contrary, gamblers, like lovers, play to lose – to keep the games going. The action is everything, that's the jones! :broken: The philosopher l...
The Copenhagen Interpertation is not "unpopular because it offends intuitions"; it's just patently incoherent because the observer cannot be "consciou...
A building contains far more materials than the "blueprints, scaffolding and tools" (logic) used to build it. If your point is that, by analogy, "a ma...
I've pointed this out previously as the crux of my objection to the formulation "thinking = being". I'd appreciate a reply to what I've actually writt...
I prefer logic to magic, science & history to pseudophilosophy & mythology, nature to fantasy. I don't have an emotional need for wishful thinking. Fo...
Sadly, he basically did though Freddy didn't know it (and more or less hated her in those final years before "his lights went out" for her rabid anti-...
If g/G created this universe for a Reason, then it's Reason that's "divine" since g/G obeys (obeyed) it. If, however, g/G created the universe for no ...
I don't think so, I don't see how, especially insofar as logic consists of syntact translations of tautologies and functions like scaffolding for buil...
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