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In: Something out of nothing.  — view comment
Welcome to TPF, sir! You seem to be arguing towards (nonevident here•after) rather than from a given position (evident now•here). I begin with life, l...
February 09, 2020 at 16:53
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Btw, what said! :smirk: Read the OP. His trivial 'argument from etymology' only goes back to Middle French; I simply go deeper to Attic Greek to upend...
February 09, 2020 at 15:27
In: Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy"  — view comment
Interesting, despite 'hints' of psychologism (i.e. Protagorean / species relativism) vis-à-vis rational ethics, or moral philosophy. (Maybe these 'hin...
February 09, 2020 at 14:59
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:rofl: killin' me ...
February 09, 2020 at 00:01
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
4.24 ly. (Proxima Centuri.)
February 08, 2020 at 22:51
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
:nerd:
February 08, 2020 at 21:58
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Addenda to this post. Possibly. Not likely. Here's why I don't think we're alone (it's a bit of a ramble) - (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)
February 08, 2020 at 21:18
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
I preface the following by confessing my love for the trilogy and strongly recommend these books. Plausible, as far as they go ... Bingo. Hold on. Wha...
February 08, 2020 at 21:12
In: Do the Ends Justify the Means?  — view comment
No. Not without undermining its end (i.e. 'destroy the X to save the X' (Ben Tre 1968), 'just following orders' (Nuremberg 1945-46) ... etc).
February 08, 2020 at 17:38
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:yawn: Now I'll fuck-off to some other less idiotic OP with this last dropping ... "No commitment to belief in the gods", or in other words, Frankie's...
February 08, 2020 at 17:06
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Folks like him need it most because they (will) never get it. Sweep out the tide, tilt at windmills & curse the darkness, here in the agora we rodeo c...
February 08, 2020 at 02:10
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:smirk:
February 08, 2020 at 01:29
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Re: "OP confusion", etc ... I pointed out in parenthesis the levels of abstraction to which "knowledge" and "belief" obtain in the (hybrid) epistemolo...
February 07, 2020 at 23:58
In: Is modern psychology flawed?  — view comment
:up: :smirk:
February 07, 2020 at 22:33
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
That's my point when I state that g/G is underdetermined (re: caveat A). Any scriptural or theological account can and will do. And does for most indi...
February 07, 2020 at 00:23
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Not you and I. Most of us and Frank A. With his confusion. (Or mine / ours.)
February 06, 2020 at 23:42
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
@"DingoJones" @"ZhouBoTong" @"god must be atheist" @"Relativist" @"jorndoe" et al ... point out where my descriptions sans labels (or are they mere de...
February 06, 2020 at 23:24
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
The confused are the last to recognize they're confused though ... :up: (For the sake of this discussion, DJ, your analogy works for me. Maybe go a ta...
February 06, 2020 at 20:50
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Busted! :yikes: :rofl:
February 06, 2020 at 20:42
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Well, that's some ... "voodoo" fertilizer. :mask:
February 06, 2020 at 20:32
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Consider yourself corrected again: I was talking about you, Frankie, not to you. Fora are public. You may start the thread but you don't own it. Besid...
February 06, 2020 at 19:58
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
And bald is a hair color. :roll: Good luck, :sweat:
February 06, 2020 at 19:03
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
You're right about that: it does stay with you. 1979, St. Patrick's Cathedral - I served mass as an altar boy (Cardinal Spellman H.S.) with John-Paul ...
February 06, 2020 at 17:38
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
• The Black And The Blue - Matthew Horace • Overground Railroad, Candacy Taylor * re-reading In honor of George Steiner 1929-2020 • The Death of Trage...
February 06, 2020 at 17:04
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." I am not an agnostic. If you've read my previous posts and believe I am an agnostic, then you are mistaken...
February 06, 2020 at 16:16
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Like many others, Frank A, you confuse yourself about "atheism" by conflating its meta-statements (re: theism) with theism's object-statements (re: g/...
February 06, 2020 at 07:52
In: Truth  — view comment
:lol:
February 06, 2020 at 05:49
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:roll: "Atheist?" One who is committed to second-order (meta) falsifications of first-order (object) 'beliefs about g/G'.
February 05, 2020 at 21:52
In: Truth  — view comment
:up:
February 04, 2020 at 22:28
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
February 04, 2020 at 17:45
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
George Steiner 1929-2020 adieu, rabbi ... :death: :flower:
February 03, 2020 at 21:37
In: What makes a government “small”?  — view comment
Besides municipal, county, village, & (small) island governing bodies almost by definition, and most Western social democracies (i.e. market socialist...
February 03, 2020 at 15:09
In: What makes a government “small”?  — view comment
Stakeholder owned and/or controlled public institutions & private businesses, where the latter is well-regulated and accountable to the former, rather...
February 03, 2020 at 06:51
In: Do the Ends Justify the Means?  — view comment
:up: From a prior discussion:
February 03, 2020 at 06:26
In: Truth  — view comment
We understand, or learn how to use, "truth" in our language-games, including the "knowing" ones. Same as understand, or learn how to use, knowledge wi...
February 03, 2020 at 05:45
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Missouri, if you're listening ...
February 03, 2020 at 04:50
In: What if you dont like the premises of life?  — view comment
:up: :sweat:
January 29, 2020 at 18:15
In: What if you dont like the premises of life?  — view comment
(There are no suicides in foxholes.) Life is an abattoir, not an argument. :death: :flower: :smirk:
January 29, 2020 at 01:08
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
January 28, 2020 at 23:56
In: Analytic Philosophy  — view comment
:chin: :up:
January 28, 2020 at 15:32
In: What do non-philosophers make of philosophy?  — view comment
I suppose "they" make of it what the non-religious make of religion: not much (until it threatens their livelihoods or bad habits). Uneducated - no. E...
January 28, 2020 at 02:22
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:roll: Déjà vu all over again, huh? Des Moines Register endorses Warren 9 days before Iowa primary.
January 27, 2020 at 13:35
In: I have anxiety over the fact I might not exist  — view comment
Hey, if you don't exist, then you're not anxious at all because there's no you to suffer from anxiety. :point:
January 26, 2020 at 02:10
In: Analytic Philosophy  — view comment
No. A contrast of complementaries rather than opposites. Means-ends. Ends-means. As you've suggested elsewhere ... You've another in mind?
January 26, 2020 at 01:49
In: What do non-philosophers make of philosophy?  — view comment
They don't 'think about thinking' so those who do must seem strange to them to the point of stupidity. They just don't know, maybe can't understand. F...
January 25, 2020 at 21:09
In: Analytic Philosophy  — view comment
An 'analytic philosopher' attempts to clarify problems* until they're solvable. :nerd: Means in need of critical ends. Primarily, tools and techniques...
January 25, 2020 at 19:31
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up: :up:
January 25, 2020 at 02:37
In: Did Descartes prove existence through cogito ergo sum?  — view comment
'I cannot doubt that I'm doubting'? Yeah, big whup ... There are no grounds, René, to doubt everything else in toto, and it's this lack of grounds for...
January 25, 2020 at 02:32
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
In the beginning, kid, was unbounded finitude ... :fire: :rofl: No doubt about that! Oh yeah, I'm "searching"; but clearly you don't "think". For star...
January 24, 2020 at 20:03
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"Here - right is supposed to matter; it's what's made us the greatest nation on Earth. No constitution can protect us right doesn't matter anymore. An...
January 24, 2020 at 09:14
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