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What about that @"Snakes Alive"? This wins the prize for the stupidist, most unphilosophical, thing a primate has grunted so far today. Good job, Snak...
March 18, 2020 at 07:12
I don't recall a "question" of the ontology of quantum mechanics in Plato's Dialogues. Or "questions" of mind-body interaction, or demarcating science...
March 18, 2020 at 07:01
Well read in the "tradition", I find this 'essentialist' position, at best, unwarranted (pace Whitehead). Reeks of p0m0 over-simplification and poseur...
March 18, 2020 at 06:15
:rofl: :clap:
March 18, 2020 at 05:37
So picking-up from where we left off ... :eyes: Obviously, since "gods" is undefined, this statement is nonsense. Only because your use of "gods" is u...
March 18, 2020 at 05:19
:cool: Likewise, Tobias!
March 16, 2020 at 04:29
To the extent that "good" refers to an optimal state of mind (or well-being), I think a "good philosophy" consists in reflective exercises for alignin...
March 15, 2020 at 14:22
Anytime.
March 15, 2020 at 11:23
Clear as ... mud. You lost me, Fool.
March 15, 2020 at 11:07
"God" undefined - sans definite predicates (i.e. what type of g/G? or what differentiates g/G from non-g/G?) - renders these statements incoherent (i....
March 15, 2020 at 10:48
:up: Yeah, I agree, but as an implication of believing that theism is not true, the truth-value of which being demonstrable, whereas the truth-value o...
March 15, 2020 at 10:00
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March 15, 2020 at 02:42
"Bullshit"? This from a man who can't "guess" whether or not (because he doesn't "know") &÷#@$% :rofl: Anytime, Frank. You're welcome!
March 14, 2020 at 13:32
:clap: :cool:
March 14, 2020 at 11:30
"Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and...
March 14, 2020 at 11:15
Forcing the point on me, I revise (or, better, yet qualify) my contention that 'atheism is not a belief' by reformulating it so: atheism is a negating...
March 14, 2020 at 10:52
Let's start with my two main posts from the old "The ethical standing of future people" thread: One. My use of the non-identity idea (Parfit, not Ador...
March 14, 2020 at 07:04
This distinction concerns epistemic warrant, that is, whether warrant is possible (re: cognitive) or doesn't obtain at all (re: non-cognitive). Instea...
March 14, 2020 at 06:18
Agreed. Furthermore, however, whether or not I/we "believe" ... (A) To the degree the sine qua non claims of theism (i.e. a mystery (1) that created e...
March 14, 2020 at 05:22
:cool: Will check out that thread.
March 13, 2020 at 21:06
If I only confuse things further, please explain ... My position - anti-theism - consists only in the positive statement that 'theism is not true' (wh...
March 13, 2020 at 20:21
Appeal to popularity fallacy. Colloquial is as colloquial does ... :yawn:
March 13, 2020 at 13:21
Well, atheist or not, you certainly ain't no thinker, Frank. Happy Friday the 13th!
March 13, 2020 at 12:54
Unless, of course, one claims 'no theism' because its claims are false or nonsense - instead of 'no g/G' because g/G does not exist - in which case on...
March 13, 2020 at 09:18
:100:
March 13, 2020 at 05:59
:up: :up:
March 13, 2020 at 05:40
UPDATE: I've edited the above for clarity's sake (I hope). • metaethics - Non-Identity Eudaimonic Naturalism (i.e. GOOD = optimal (adaptive-synergisti...
March 12, 2020 at 05:55
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March 12, 2020 at 04:33
:up: Think Democritean / Epicurean atomism. :100:
March 12, 2020 at 00:54
Likewise, people who proclaims themselves 'agnostic' ... are, in effect, atheists in practice. Just sayin'. :smirk: So, Frankie, what do you call it w...
March 12, 2020 at 00:35
Is g/G a possible object of knowledge (as distinct from mere fiction)? What makes it so? Because if it is not, then 'agnosticism with respect to g/G' ...
March 11, 2020 at 14:02
:mask:
March 11, 2020 at 08:09
No. Atheism isn't a "belief" any more than Off is a television channel. We don't watch "nothing" when the tv is off, we're just not watching tv. Like ...
March 11, 2020 at 01:52
I've speculated along these lines in an old post, though emphasizing (epochal?) experiences - shocks - which I think have made philosophizing possible...
March 11, 2020 at 00:41
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March 10, 2020 at 23:31
She can only hurt Bernie by endorsing Biden and not help much, or at all, by endorsing Bernie. I won't be surprised if she waits till the nomination t...
March 10, 2020 at 06:39
I won't go down that rabbit-hole, but I agree that it's not relevant - certainly less so than my suggestions. Anyway, as a 'complementary opposition' ...
March 10, 2020 at 05:32
Ascetic? (à la Jainism)
March 10, 2020 at 03:15
"Every society must justify its inequalities." ~Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
March 09, 2020 at 20:34
Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty
March 09, 2020 at 20:32
Platonic (re: Form of the Good)? Or meontic ("beyond being")? :chin:
March 09, 2020 at 17:20
:up: :up:
March 09, 2020 at 14:54
Moral non-naturalism is neither naturalistic nor descriptivist. ... "deontic".
March 09, 2020 at 08:05
Moral non-naturalism.
March 09, 2020 at 06:07
Yes, Godless - ?????; no reason given. My work's done here. :victory: Thanks, Frankie. :rofl:
March 08, 2020 at 21:25
I don't even agree with myself much of the time, especially my own "whole philosophical view" ... but positions you & I often take, Pfhorrest, do line...
March 08, 2020 at 21:20
My intent is to establish whether or not you claim or agree that you are GODLESS - as I'd parenthetically spoon-fed (and then quoted by) you: IN OTHER...
March 08, 2020 at 21:01
How so? In what ways? Such as? Thanks.
March 08, 2020 at 17:40
No. You didn't answer my Yes or No question with a "yes or no" or give its reason (option (h) is left undefined for you to defined a reason for your a...
March 08, 2020 at 15:16
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March 08, 2020 at 13:13