Freud? The mucky cook or the artist? Or the PR guru? Or the TV presenter and Curtis wife? Or the fashion designer? Which one? I imagine they've all wr...
I don't read books. I write them. I ain't no reader loser. And I couldn't care less about IQ and have no idea what mine is. I think I'd break the test...
It is what it is. An astonishingly simple argument for a profound conclusion. God can make mistakes. Did Russell demonstrate that? No. Bartricks did. ...
You mean it is not healthy for you, as your ego can't cope? You don't want to learn anything, matey. You - like most people - want to be told what you...
More fallacious reasoning. I am so good at telling good arguments from bad ones that I do it for a living. You are very bad at it, so you can't see ho...
Again, all you're doing is begging the question. Read the argument I gave in which it is shown exactly why being omniscient does not entail possessing...
An intelligent person would recognize that there are no logical problems in the OP. An arrogant fool with no proper philosophical training would, by c...
It was a simple IQ test, and you couldn't answer it. If your IQ was higher, you'd understand the OP. I have helped you as much as I can, but you are s...
The question - can God create a rock too heavy for him to lift? - is ambiguous. That is, it admits of two quite different interpretations ('de re' and...
Yes they are. They are favouring relations. Do you know what one of those is? It isn't an object. It is a relation. There is sight, which is a faculty...
Ratiocination. Omnipotence - it means being able to do anything at all. Only someone who had control over the laws of Reason would be able to do anyth...
Ratiocination. It follows from being omnipotent. To be omnipotent requires being the source of all normative reasons. Epistemic reasons - which is wha...
Those aren't arguments! Some of them might feature as premises in arguments against God, but they're not themselves arguments. Most of them are just s...
You know there's a temporal element to IQ tests? Oh dear oh dear. Well, I suppose armies need people to fling at enemies. The answer, Kiddo, is 'no'. ...
it's a basic IQ test. Just answer the question. If knowledge has two components - true belief and justification - then does possessing all knowledge e...
Really? So you understand, then, that a true belief by itself does not constitute an item of knowledge? You understand that, do you? So, can I presume...
Shall I try and explain using an example you may be more familiar with because you bake them for a living? Pizzas. A pizza has at least two components...
You didn't read it. You looked at the words and then decided it was about free will and said something about that. And now you're saying more things t...
Can you read? Free will isn't mentioned. Your tasks, should you be willing to accept them: 1. Learn to read English 2. Read the OP. 3. Understand what...
I argued carefully in the OP that being all-knowing is entirely compatible with having some false beliefs. Rather than address anything I argued you h...
This thread is not about whether God exists. I have provided a demonstration of God elsewhere. This thread is about whether God can make mistakes. You...
Then you are even more confused than I thought. How on earth is this not philosophy? You don't seem to understand the difference between a true belief...
And what do you think I am? Shall we recap? Moral norms are directives. I have asked you who is issuing the directives constitutive of moral directive...
I repeat, I addressed your point in the OP!! Read. It. He does not have to know that they're false beliefs. They're just false beliefs. He thinks they...
I'll tell you what it is with you people - you don't read the OP. I might as well have said 'God can make mistakes because moo moo moo moo" I explicit...
Absolutely absurd. It is a meaningful statement and it contains no contradictions. If I own all of the Rembrandt paintings in the world, does that mea...
It is no more contradictory than "Bartricks owns every Rembrandt painting in the world, but he does not own some paintings and he has some fake Rembra...
It's what omniscient means. It means possessing all knowledge. Maximally knowing. Come up with your own term for it if you like. But it is what I am t...
What did I define incorrectly? Omniscient? That means all knowing, yes? What does that mean? That means possessing all knowledge, yes? And knowledge i...
it is them. They don't. And there isn't a problem. I am arguing that God can make mistakes, not trying to solve a problem. That's quite profound. Most...
No, Corvus. What you're dealing with is some heavy-duty reasoning that's above your intellectual pay grade, that's all. God is an omnipotent, omniscie...
Why wouldn't I? Why do you think not? Knowledge is more of an object? What? I told you what knowledge involves: it involves true belief and justificat...
I literally - literally - argued carefully that this is not so. Did you read the OP at all? I feel like I am presenting arguments at an old people's h...
But it is surely clearly wrong to watch other people 24/7 and to peer into their minds and read their inner most thoughts? There are lots of ways to d...
That simply doesn't follow. If the only basis I have for believing in Napoleon is a book I read about Napoleon, that doesn't mean Napoleon is made of ...
What on earth are you on about?? God is omnisient. God is omnibenevolent. God is omnipotent. I'm not denying any of those. Don't you understand what I...
Problems for my thesis: if God's will determines what we have reason to believe, and God does not favour himself believing some things about us, then ...
I'm afraid I do not know what you're saying. That's bible stuff, right? I said God is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent person. I said don't p...
Relevance? Justifications are made of normative reasons. There are different kinds of normative reasons, including epistemic and moral. But all of the...
Incidentally, I should add that I am not arguing that God does not know what 'we' get up to - for we are not innocent, so the argument I am making doe...
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