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Any moderator agreed on by us both will also be judged by the audience as to whether s/he moderates fairly. The only relevant requirement is 'demonstr...

Good question. I'd say they are still oppressed even as willing collaborators in their own oppression like local collaborators at the behest of an occ...

Caught up in the excitement of the moment, I shot off my mouth a little too much. You're the challenger, 3017, so you define the position you're takin...

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I told you I disagree with Putnam, Quine & co. I cited previously with whom I do agree. No need for me to account for any other positions that I don't...

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Sorry I'd long forgotten such an auspicious meeting. 11 (mostly) quarrelsome years, not really newlyweds anymore, are we? :point: Well, another tiff t...

Agreed. I fancy the imagery of 'religions are the ancestors' of philosophy and 'the sciences are her descendents'. Or an arboreal metaphor: religion a...

I disagree with them. And I disagree with your earlier implication that materialism is incompatible with – rejects – formalisms (i.e. objective abstra...

Comte and positivism came well after the 'Age of Enlightenment' during the laissez-faire early Industrial Era. Besides, the sciences have yet to exorc...

This suggests that 'materialists' reject (ignore) e.g. mathematics, logic, music and poetry. Is this what you believe?

When did this happen? I've never heard of "the priviledged ... scientific perspective"? "Priviledged" elite theocrats and aristocrats, plutocrats and ...

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Guess who?

"End racial discrimination" and "racism" are discrete, divergent (though related), concepts. Only the latter is germaine to the post you quote from. N...

My "definition" of what? (re: your first sentence)

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If even you understand it, then what I wrote suffices. Diagnosis here, treatment & prognosis for another thread. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discus...

To actually end Class-driven Racial oppression, Marshall Plan-like government & business policies would need to be instituted to redress centuries of ...

To paraphrase Seneca: Treat those 'less secure and worse off' than you the way you would like to be treated by those 'more secure and better off' than...

An answer is just a question's way of raising other (unbegged) questions, y'know.

I gave it a shot in the dark and nobody shot back so I must have something. Or everybody is out of bullets and they ran off. :smirk:

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Elaborate on this. 'Speculation and concept-(re)creating/problematizing', while at best grounded in sciences and lived experiences, already extend fur...

FYI: The proposed debate is with @"3017amen" and not Apollodoofus.

Yeah, in other words, both 'matters of fact' and 'matters of feeling (or speculation)'. The latter has no bearing on the science, however, just as "wa...

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Not only that, try to prove that atheism (as I argue it, not as you define it) is false. :wink:

I defend my positions and challenge others with sound reasoning. Observe, maybe you'll learn something.

You've nothing to say anyone needs to bother with, Apollodoofus. Don't feel you need to logically demonstrate your positions on a site dedicated to ph...

Yes, of course, a moderated debate (which I vaguely hinted at in my last reply to @"3017amen".) :up:

You made the challenge. You set up a debate thread with the mods. Lock out all comments except yours & mine. Maybe a few debate ground rules too. If y...

Time & place, sucker. Call it! I'm already there. Won't be the last "wager" you'll lose. :smirk:

What's wrong with being an "angry atheist"? How does "anger" have anything to do with the truth-value of atheism? It's definitely a negative truth-val...

Well, okay, so when you say "information is physical and metaphysical" you are, in effect, saying that information can be scientifically treated like ...

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Apparently, as a 50something, fairly well-educated, working class-raised, Black person in 21st century America, I'm still confused about some of the t...

Is this what we are, or all that we are – some(thing) with the potential "to become human"? My online musings are ... inconclusive, and not very encou...

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You're, more or less, a Heideggarian, aren't you? Or Sartrean?

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Study of X denotes formulating a model for explaining X-relevant data or phenomena. Study of the 'philosophy of X', on the other hand, denotes analyzi...

Team Spinoza here.

Sooooo ... by "division" you mean more or less 'distinct but not completely separate'? Or complementary like 'inner-outer' and 'wave-particle'? And li...

Well, to answer my own question, (B) describes my stance. For me, it's not a question of being "fixed" or not, but of which stance has, so to speak, t...

Is "the empirical and metaphysical division" empirical or metaphysical?

Me too; however, I find it more productive – probative – to be selective in gathering "possible" viewpoints to juxtapose, thereby shrinking the scale ...

Hmmm ... just because X is "possible" and can't be "ruled out completely", doesn't make X plausible or probable. Many Xs are "possible", so what? That...

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