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I suppose this is reasonably assumed whenever "God" is ascribed (according to tradition, scripture, doctrine, testimony) properties, or predicates, wh...
June 30, 2024 at 07:45
:roll: :sweat:
June 30, 2024 at 06:39
Nonsense. If "existential rationalism", then there can be no "rational answers" for an existential nihilist. :roll: Such as? (Btw, when you say "spiri...
June 30, 2024 at 06:27
Unlike philosophy being 'metaphysics derived by deductive / dialectical reasoning', religion consists in 'metaphysics expressed through symbolic myths...
June 30, 2024 at 05:56
In: Suicide  — view comment
No doubt, yet the act is not rational (i.e. false hope).
June 30, 2024 at 04:52
Both sets of exams can be independently verified by a third party (audit) if Biden's campaign is serious about getting the maximum effect (no matter h...
June 30, 2024 at 02:19
Yes, of course, the ballot box will be the final arbiter but if Biden stays in the race he has to address the "senile, enfeebled" issue with evidence ...
June 30, 2024 at 02:08
I have not stated or implied any "moral judgment against" you or anyone in the current discussion. I've only taken issue with your concepts and concep...
June 30, 2024 at 01:53
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June 30, 2024 at 01:44
I think Biden should have a complete physical and cognitive exams which witll then be released in document form (minimally redacted only for national ...
June 30, 2024 at 01:33
:roll: Stop being hysterical. Biden's competent, effective administration is not populated by "senile bitches"; however, The Clown's "Project 2025" wi...
June 29, 2024 at 20:58
:100: :up:
June 29, 2024 at 20:46
No. It seems that in the US at least,"the police" – established by laws – only enforce the 'controls of society' which are instituted by laws passed b...
June 29, 2024 at 20:31
Whatever that means, it's not that. Usually atheism is a reasonable rejection of 'any god described by theism' (with predicates entailing empirical fa...
June 29, 2024 at 11:37
Well anyway ... Sleepy Joe In A Coma still beats The neofascist criminal Clown like a dog in Roevember. :victory: :mask:
June 29, 2024 at 11:22
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June 29, 2024 at 11:15
What makes this "guidance of my intrinsic nature" moral? Suppose you are an antisocial psychopath: is acting "in accordance" with psychopathy also mor...
June 29, 2024 at 11:11
June 29, 2024 at 05:23
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June 29, 2024 at 00:32
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June 28, 2024 at 19:26
27June24 (addendum to ) Yeah, damn Dems fucked up bigly :shade: https://youtu.be/9itBXrblSP0?si=STP_z3Esv7aVOUWw Even so, Sleepy Joe at his worst is s...
June 28, 2024 at 09:32
Fraudster-Ra(p)ist-Insurrectionist-Convicted Felon-1 "outperformed" POTUS tonight. :sad: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/912686
June 28, 2024 at 03:21
Sleepy Joe. :zip: The Clown wins, no need to debate again this fall. He dodged a bullet. Biden campaign over-prepped POTUS to "debate" (pander to the ...
June 28, 2024 at 03:16
Yes, they are not identical phenomena.
June 27, 2024 at 23:01
:100: :up: :roll: :snicker: fyi Natural sciences are both "reductive" and "holistic" – by fallibilistic abduction, each defeasibly explains various le...
June 27, 2024 at 22:48
Well "dying" =/= death (i.e. being dead), so ...
June 27, 2024 at 22:47
"How" would be a scientific question (i.e. to explain empirically) instead of a philosophical question "why" (i.e. to clarify-justify conceptually). F...
June 27, 2024 at 22:41
Dude, you propose an answer that merely begs the question (i.e. precipitates an infinite regress). Argument from incredulity – lack of imagination – i...
June 27, 2024 at 18:37
Okay, you can't answer. Never mind.
June 27, 2024 at 17:20
Why? – and what then would justify that justification?
June 27, 2024 at 03:11
Oh, then you mean ... "human consciousness"?
June 27, 2024 at 03:00
:100: from p.28 of this thread ...
June 27, 2024 at 00:08
Why do you assume "AI" will ever be "conscious" or that it needs to be in order to function at or above human-level cognition?
June 27, 2024 at 00:04
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June 26, 2024 at 22:31
In: Suicide  — view comment
I don't think so. After all, from a rational standpoint, suicide is a disproportionately (ir-ratio ... absurd) permanent solution to a temporary probl...
June 26, 2024 at 17:27
Maybe within grammar (Nietzsche). By "religion" I mean 'official cultus' (i.e. collective ritual telling of ghost stories) that denies – symbolically ...
June 26, 2024 at 17:04
In: Assange  — view comment
From 2021 ... :mask:
June 26, 2024 at 04:34
Bullshit. Since 1948, Israeli occupier-oppressor terrorism has killed & dispossessed more Palestinian noncombatants than Palestinian occupied-oppresse...
June 25, 2024 at 08:35
For a person to die is to cease being a person for whom anything could possibly be "bad". 'Your death' irreversibly decomposes you for you. I think de...
June 25, 2024 at 08:12
If that's it, then you're not philosophizing, as I see it, just misusing (e.g. reifying) logic. I prefer to use reality instead of existence (just as ...
June 25, 2024 at 07:49
What do you mean by the term "existence"?
June 25, 2024 at 07:17
I.e. you can't tell the difference between ~b(G) and b(~G)? :pray: This is only so for someone who (analogously) cannot differentiate 'nonassent from ...
June 25, 2024 at 05:59
:ok: If you say so ...
June 25, 2024 at 04:19
:lol: Yes, it can be but that formulation is not popular – though it's formerly my preferred position (while quite reasonable, it's too narrow in scop...
June 24, 2024 at 23:16
Dunning-Kruger is in full effect.
June 24, 2024 at 21:43
:up: :up: Observations of your poor reasoning and discursive failures are not "personal attacks". Grow up, kid.
June 24, 2024 at 21:31
You ignore context and equivocate "exist", "faith", "proof" .... no wonder you're talking nonsense.
June 24, 2024 at 21:26
No one has asked for a "mathematical proof" – only you have offered one that amounts to nothing more than a "higher-order modal" tautology. ... is a s...
June 24, 2024 at 21:19
:up: :up: :roll: So, confirming you do not even know what you are talking about, Gödel only proves a mathematical expression and not, as you've claime...
June 24, 2024 at 21:13
Supported by the US, the fucking State of Israel repeatedly commits war crimes / crimes against humanity every day with impunity as the military appli...
June 24, 2024 at 18:56