An omnipotent god could make another omnipotent god. So there can be two omnipotent gods. There isn't- there's one. But if there's one, it is possible...
If most of the greatest reasoners arrived at the conclusion that there is one god who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent, then I think one i...
Relevance? First, why are you asking psychologists a philosophical question? Second, why are you asking questions when you've already decided the answ...
Well, if you agree that it is not telling me your weight, then you agree that it lacks representative content. It is not representing you to weigh, er...
Er, I did. I was describing the Euthyphro challenge to DCT. Not making it. Describing it. I think the Euthyphro challenge fails. It fails precisely be...
No, why are you talking about neurons? Information is always information 'about' something - so it must reduce to thinking activity. But 'information'...
Yes, I made it up. So? Relations have relata, yes? I will speed this up by answering for you: yes. When it comes to a representative relation, what ar...
States of awareness have representative contents. I am arguing that the only way a state can get to have representative contents is if there is a repr...
Phycisists are indeed talking about something other than time. Here is a thought experiment that you can easily carry out in reality if you wish. Some...
Well no, the evidence is that you don't know your stuff (yet are confident you do) and that you are not good at understanding what you read. Now once ...
He had two for God and three for the soul. You really need to stop talking about Descartes - everything you say is wrong! Let's remind ourselves: you ...
Again: don't tell me what you think I believe. You are the world's worst authority on what Bartricks thinks. And that's according to the world's undis...
No I haven't (though christ only knows what you think Descartes argued). Descartes argued that our faculties are designed by God and on that basis we ...
Yeah, only that's not my argument. I mean, not in any way shape or form. There's what you think my argument is, and then there's this big canyon, and ...
No, what you are saying is confused. What you say in one sentence, you take back in the next. Anyway, this should be about the Euthyphro challenge to ...
It was a standard 'if p, then q' conditional. It wasn't 'nested and convoluted'. Anyway, why don't you just ignore what I said in defence of it and te...
No, that's not what you said. What I am saying and what you are saying are quite different. Virtue ethics is a theory about how goodness is distribute...
No, that's not a question in metaethics. The metaethicist wants to know what goodness itself is - what's it made of. So, not what has it. But what it ...
I don't know what you're talking about. This thread is about states of awareness. And I am arguing that we are not capable of being aware of anything ...
Oh for goodness sake - stop flagrantly begging the question. Optic nerve, retina, blah di blah di blah. Put in as much detail as you like - talk about...
No, that makes no sense. There is no such thing as a 'metaethics of virtue ethics'. You can be a divine command virtue ethicist; a naturalist virtue e...
No, I do not understand you. Virtue ethics is a normative theory. It is not a metaethical theory. That is, it is not an analysis of what the goodness ...
I don't think there are subconscious thoughts - the idea sounds contradictory. But if there are such things, then the same would apply to them as woul...
So why did you ask? Why would you presume that? "I think Jane was murdered - there's an axe lodged in the back of her head and axe wounds all over her...
Yeah, er, I provided a defence of it in the OP. You've not said anything to challenge it. You've just said 'language is different'. Oh, ok. If you say...
Yes, that is what I'd say - to be a language rather than squiggles and noises it has to be being put to a purpose. And purposes are the sole preserve ...
How? Let's say I have a good argument about free will - a good argument that implies free will is compatible with determinism. I should write a novel ...
That's not a definition of a Queen. A biscuit's definition is, I believe, matter of public record. A biscuit - unlike a cake - gets softer with age. I...
Not a clue matey. Sounds like a bs course on bs. It is to your credit that you find his question confusing. Leave the course and do some proper philos...
And you are wrong. You are confusing apples and oranges. Divine command theory is a theory about what morality is made of. It's the theory that it is ...
What are you on about? Virtue ethics is a normative theory. One of many. It's a 'normative' theory. That means it is a theory about how we ought to be...
No Kenosha, I don't. There are different kinds of representation. But all require a representer because they all represent, even if some do so proposi...
Metaethics! Metaethical theories are theories about what morality is composed of (so they'd be theories of what 'normativity' is). Normative theories ...
Virtue ethics is a normative theory, not a metaethical theory. Divine command theory - at which the Euthyphro is directed - is a metaethical theory. S...
I was charitably trying to figure out why you'd thought it significant that I didn't know for sure who was responsible for our mental states with repr...
Most of you seem pretty damned confused, I have to say. There was a quote from William Lane Craig above that identifies the main supposed problem that...
I've got expertise in ethics and free will. None in philosophy of science and none in logic (I know a valid argument when I see one, but I don't have ...
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