https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/564879 You're not making sense. A seed (1) is a potential sapling (2). An unviable fetus (1) is a po...
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." ~Freddy Zarathustra I think "faith" only suggests that "the fai...
That's like saying "signals without noise" are fundamental (or even that noise is only emergent from / dependent upon signals) which is completely inc...
Not even Communist regimes e.g. PRC & USSR were ever able to "impose" atheism, only (totalitarian aka "religious") statism. Your parents were wise not...
Big whup. You can barely hear us cursing the darkness over the cacophonous preaching of "thoughts and prayers" or prophetic glossolalia of religious h...
I was brought up by a devoutly Catholic mother, educated in a working class mostly immigrant Catholic grammar school and then an elite Catholic high s...
A seed is not a tree. A sapling is a potential tree. A pre-26th week old unviable fetus is not a person. A viable fetus aka "baby" is a potential pers...
It might be even a worse day for the Brits if Sir Richard's joyride to orbit goes the way of "Icarus' flight", y'know, hubris, etc. I wish him well (n...
Gibberish. Pro-choicers neither make decisions to abort using this method nor give two shits whether or not the decision is formally consistent. They ...
In my understanding: Before 24-26 weeks of gestation, a human foetus lacks intact thalamocortical circutry and therefore isn't sentient (i.e. feels pa...
Euro Championship 2021 Prediction: Italy 2-1 England Otherwise evenly matched, I think Italy's midfielders & strikers give them a slight edge over Eng...
Check the pre-hominid fossil record. No doubt. On this basis – conflation of epistemology with ontology (i.e. fallacious reifications e.g. platobic fo...
When the din of 'proselytizing unbelievers' reaches the jet engine ear-splitting roar of proselytizing believers (i.e. fundies, orthodoxists, theocrat...
No, you're still confusing (your) maps with the territory. Re: anthropic fallacy (on the basis of a misplaced concreteness fallacy in your assumptions...
Except that the "laws of physics" only refer to the invariant structures of our physical models which are strongly correlated with observations of reg...
I think Freddy was referring to gods of ancient peoples as "metaphors". For we compost-moderns, gods are anxieties, not entities (agents). We "explain...
Agnosticism? It's lazy, even stupid. Theist: "I suck on a cosmic lollipop." Atheist: "I don't suck on a cosmic lollipop (maybe because cosmic lollipop...
:up: I would like to see this format standardized. Agreed. What do you think of Banno's suggestions quoted here? Likewise. Thanks. Fair. Consider it d...
As far as I can tell, it's merely a woo-of-the-gaps ex post facto self-flattering rationalization for violating the mediocrity principle (à la teleolo...
15 Before closing this debate, I'd like to thank our audience for their patience, also the esteemed Hanover for engaging me (even though neither of us...
Off the top of my head ... solitude Confucian-Daoist "wu wei" Hillel the Elder's "golden rule" Epicurean "tetrapharmakos" (& "garden") Yeshua's "agape...
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