180 Proof

wut

And your point?

Yeah, but flip the pillow over to the cool side ... (Emphasis is mine.)

Fuck around and find out, troll-stain. :cool:

I'd found, after the first twenty-odd years of unbelief, that it's more profitable to argue with (religious) theism which exists than to argue against...

:up: Ortega y Gassett, along with Albert Camus & James Baldwin, was one my earliest intellectual influences. :death: :flower:

So the lil shit finally wore-out his welcome? Good riddance. Like a stubborn STD, that self-fellating troll will be back soon with a new handle and th...

10 Neither. For the sake of this debate, I'm only defending PD in opposition to SD. The latter unparsimoniously "multiplies entities without necessity...

These works of moral philosophy reward close rereading ... Natural Goodness, Philippa Foot Morality and Conflict, Stuart Hamphire The Therapy of Desir...

There has always been something and nothing. (Democritus) No. The degree (density) of "information integration" manifest as "consciousness", however, ...

Non-reciprocal judgments, conduct and relationships which strive to prevent increases in harm and/or reduce suffering. Language ... efficiently coordi...

It only implies that we've reached the limit of "explanation" so far, whether it's "the simplest" (which we're never certain of) or not.

Reality: N-dimensional objects constituted by less-than-N-dimensional objects (e.g. hyperspheres constituted by spheres constituted by circles constit...

So you're saying, in effect, that 'the simplest explanation explains nothing at all' – like g/G? :sweat: You lost me.

A "necessary fact" is only true in (all) impossible worlds.

Stare at the sun (or solar eclipse) and go blind seeing – intro-specting – what you want to see. In other words, the eye cannot even see itself when i...

I didn't say I was scared, only that "sacred" looks like "scared" to me. But thanks for the encouragement.

Whenever I see (not hear) the word "sacred", my brain reads it as scared. Must be a forty-odd year hold-over from being a teenage apostate / atheist. ...

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I gave a serious answer.

So what? However much we confabulate, Jack, we do so because we are, as you say, "extremely aware of how uncertain we are" (re: atavistic woo-of-the-g...

9 Why doesn't it? Also, explain how "non-physical substance" gets around physical laws of energy conservation and inertia insofar as it, as you believ...

We see faces in the clouds and star-patterns in the night sky because our large brains are confabulating survival engines first and foremost. 'Making ...

I don't follow how this follows from what I wrote. :up:

:100: :fire: Deus, sive natura. Aside from me being black and American, we could be twins. Bonjour!

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Since 'explaining presupposes existence', to "explain existence" makes no sense (i.e. begs the question). As for the "development of life", neo-darwin...

8 What? Describe how "non-physical energy" is distinguishable from "non-physical substance".

7 Redefine terms to your heart's content, Hanover; I've qualified my uses in previous posts according to my understanding – how I use "property" and "...

:up: *grunt* ...

Is theism (A) realist or (B) non-realist? (A) If realist, then: Is theism true or not true? If true, then theism obtains. If not true, then non-theism...

6 Beside examples of PD's account of a "woman" and a "tree" (2nd para.), my input was given: Tell me (us) what's wrong with this description.

:up: Yes, I prefer Rushdie's version.

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What more really needs to be said ... In other words: Hitchens' Razor.

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5 Since you remain confused and still flailing, Hanover, below I'll simply copy and paste from my previous post 'the argument for preferring Property ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_iBl3w2ph5A Body and Soul (20:33) side A Billie Holiday, 1957

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:clap: Outstanding. I'm looking forward to seeing how well/far this thread developes. I'll probably sit this one out though since my own more hetereod...

4 I see now it's pointless of me to point out fallacies, misunderstandings (willful or otherwise) or factual errors, so I intend to stick to simple de...

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Why a minimum? As long as it's a story à la Frederic Brown's "The Knock" (1948) "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the d...

3.2 Again I'll lean on Spinoza (EIP 1-14) – that "godless irrational hater of Descartes" – and in my own words state that "mind-matter" are, in princi...

3.1 Nonsense. My "position" in this context is, as I've said, I'm not arguing against dualism per se, only against SD and thereby not undermining PD a...

Tell that to e.g. Aristotle, Leibniz & Schopenhauer...

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2 The vastly greater part of (physical) substance "cannot be sensed by our five sense" and yet is not "non-physical" (e.g. dark matter, planck scale e...

I intend to mercilessly avenge myself on Hanover for not declaring me the victor by default. 3017amen will keep running away like a little girl so lon...