I don't know. I just know that my reason and the reason of virtually everyone else tells them that death is something to avoid. There's a bottle of bl...
To quote you: :up: stopped clock. No, death itself. Fear is unpleasant, of course, but it is not what the harm of death consists in for the death of o...
You're drawing distinctions among dreams, not providing any reason to think that a dream of a shoe on a roof, had while one's body nears death, is not...
My advice is not to ask questions in bad faith. What do you mean by 'is'? Your advice is itself 'to not disparage'. That is, 'to not disparage' and yo...
Eh? This thread is about the probative value of near death experiences. And I am arguing that they have very little if any probative value, for it see...
Yes, there's nothing incoherent about it. Perhaps you don't know what 'incoherent' means. And yes, you're definitely missing something. But if I told ...
Some mental states have representative contents. Now, in a way I agree - it makes no sense to talk of a mental state representing something to be the ...
Our faculties of reason represent death to be a great harm. That's why rational people do virtually all they can to avoid it. It would not be a great ...
Out of body experiences could potentially constitute evidence that the mind is an immaterial thing or that it is a tiny material thing that can float ...
So if I have a dream of a sixpence under the oak tree and then find a sixpence there, you agree that's still a dream (albeit one that raises a lot of ...
Why not? Out of body experiences are not evidence we survive our deaths. You haven't answered my questions. My dream of the sixpence - was it a dream ...
I am talking about the fact - if it is a fact - that many of those who report having near death experiences (walking towads ilghts and so on) report h...
I'm not among the hoi polloi. Like I say, it's Dr Bartricks to you. No, you're confusing a crap mind with half a mind. Which is sign that one has one....
That's not the defining feature of a dream. Let's say that tonight I have a dream that there is a silver sixpence under the old oak tree at the bottom...
I don't see how inspecting what's going on in the brain is going to cast any light on these matters. Imagine I become brain dead and then brain alive ...
It is not 'biased' to prefer listening to reason than to just believing what you want. Most people believe what they want. They listen to reason as a ...
The evidence I gave you is the best evidence. NDEs are not good evidence. Note, good evidence is not that which would persuade most people. Most peopl...
Our reason represents our minds to be indivisible. As it is by reason that we know of their existence, we should also listen to what our reason tells ...
That's not evidence they are not dreams, but that they are a certain sort of dream. What makes something a dream has nothing to do with how vivid it i...
There is the fact our minds are indivisible and thus indestructible. And there is the fact our deaths are extremely harmful to us (which yet would not...
Why think the experiences are veridical as opposed to dreams? The testimonial evidence is evidence of the experiences. No one seriously doubts that pe...
I think there's excellent evidence that life continues after death, but I'm sceptical that this sort of experience provides it. Why isn't it more plau...
I believe that's incoherent. Yes, the person of God is a substance -a mind. And, qua God, he has the properties of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnib...
They're not essential properties of a person. They are essential properties of God. But all that means is that to qualify as God you need to have them...
I do not follow. I am the same person as my child self. Yet my child self has all manner of properties that I lack and vice versa. Indeed, I am the sa...
But that's why i mentioned other cases. We ourselves give ourselves instructions. We do it all the time. We leave instructions for our future selves. ...
No, the claim that the less a person thinks, the more they will believe. Some people will believe more if they think less, and some will believe less ...
I do not understand why you think everything cannot be explained. I think everything can be explained. When is something explained? That is, what, at ...
No you haven't. It's entirely unclear to me what your view is, as you said 'exactly' when I said something that contradicted something you'd just said...
But what I did there is simply appeal to the argument for idealism. That is, I simply applied the basic argument for idealism to resemblance itself. T...
Because unless our sensations resemble the world they are telling us about - and tell us about it in that way - they will not constitute perceptions o...
I don't see why. Surely the literal reading enjoys the default? And if it makes sense when taken literally, that's surely the reasonable interpretatio...
Here, for your convenience, is the initial exchange that led to the focus on the non-instrumental nature of moral reasons: You then contributed a face...
If you'd taken the trouble to read what I said on the subject, then you'd know that I do not know what an 'existential ethics' is. But anyway, my poin...
Why did you say 'exactly'? I was correcting you. You think moral reasons 'are' instrumental reasons. They're not. You: we are in Paris Me: no, we are ...
If you have moral reason to do what you have instrumental reason to do, then that does not make the instrumental reasons into moral reasons or vice ve...
I don't understand why you can't understand what I am saying. Is English not your first language? Or do you just enjoy being told off? An instrumental...
Again, to be selfish is to be being self interested when one OUGHT not to be. So, if or when it is right to be self interested, it will not be selfish...
Well, you can't have an obligation to be selfish and the concept of selfishness incorporates wrongness - that is, to be selfish is to be self-interest...
But it is question begging to say that he is referring to different entities. The point is there are other interpretations. The founder, the chair and...
I don't know how you got that from what I said. My point was that it is one of the marks of a moral norm that it is grounded in the interests of other...
It depends where you get it from and who your examiners were. A PhD from a top 100 university and with good examiners - that's something. An MD is jus...
Once more, if you borrow 1million to generate 500,000, then you're a rubbish business person. You've made a loss. Now, when a person deserves somethin...
No it isn't. Every single harm an innocent person suffers is an injustice. How many harms do you think that is? Oh, it's all of them. That's quite a l...
I don't think it is. Which passage commits one to the view that there are three distinct entities rather than one entity that occupies different roles...
That seems a clear misuse of language. Relations are not persons. I am in front of my computer. That's a relation. It's not a person. There's not me a...
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