Bartricks

4 does not assume what's under contention. And I am not wasting any more time with someone who thinks otherwise. I might as well show the argument to ...

oh I am begging the question am I - riiiight. When I write you a note, the note isn't telling you anything. It doesn't have a little mouth or desires ...

4 does NOT assume it. Christ! The issue under contention is E. Here's how I've reasoned All As are Bs. All As are Cs. Therefore all As are Bs and Cs. ...

No, the matter of contention is whether God exists. That's what you asked me to prove. So I have. Stop changing the goalposts. I presented you with th...

The machine is designed to tell your weight. How is that a counterexample? I am arguing that your faculties need to have been designed to tell you abo...

read mine!!!

Yes, I have lots of arguments for 4. But we need to be clear about something: 4 does NOT express the matter under contention. You may think 4 is false...

it is not the matter under contention. It's a non question begging premise. It does not say 'God exists'. If you think 4 is false just say that and ra...

No. The argument is not circular. The conclusion is not expressed in any premise. Note that one could agree with 4 and yet not think the source is a m...

I just set it out above. You will note that it is valid and thus that you need to deny a premise. I believe no reasonable doubt is possible about any ...

Yes, and I have done numerous times. But it is powerless to persuade those who don't already respect reason. So there is little point if you don't thi...

By ratiocination. I have reasoned about the nature of an aspect of reality that exists more surely than all else - its rational aspect - and have conc...

Oh. Thanks. I don't watch the news so I don't know about these things.

I believe in a mind who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. God then. I am sceptical that they are the creator of all things. They could be ...

What are you on about? I am not religious. I believe in God. I am not religious. So clearly I have no difficulty separating belief in God from being r...

What are you on about? What u turn?

It's very clear. I cannot make it clearer. There are some whose capacity for understanding is exceeded by the ideas it expresses. There's nothing I ca...

The scale example doesn't work. First, they're designed. Second, I have not denied that one can acquire true beliefs from bot-created faculties. You a...

Did you read anything I said? There's more than one way to know something. One can arrive at the belief in God via reasoned reflection - as I did. And...

If I write you a note saying "The cat is on the mat" is the note telling you that the cat is on the mat? No. I am. By means of the note. The note is t...

No matey, you're just confused. The word 'faith' has several different meanings. Delineate them.

You're just ignoring the argument I made. Do you know what a 'state with representative contents' is? Perception happens by means of them. This is a r...

Er, no. You can go left or right. And if you went left, then in principle you could have gone right. That does not imply that you can go right and lef...

Yes, on your part. If you reasoned carefully you'd realize there's no contradiction there. I mean, even if you didn't reason very carefully - for ther...

You seem confused about faith and how it works. Everyone must believe some things on faith, for if every belief has to be arrived at via reasoned refl...

I thought FW meant fast-forward for some reason. So I'm a clever weasel on a motorbike. I just want to get the imagery right. I'm zooming around the f...

I thought I was a weasel. Now I'm driving a car or perhaps motorbike? Is it a little one for weasels?

Yeah, I didn't say that though, did I. I didn't say anything about what philosophy is about. But experts know things. And the experts in ethics know t...

Such skill at argument assessment. Such insight. I imagine esteemed philosophy journals must send you work to review for them all the time.

You mean someone who knows a lot more than you do told you how things were and you didn't like it? Ethics means the same as morality. One's Greek, the...

I shall try once more to motivate some interest in my profound and beautiful argument. When are you perceiving something? Well, when the 'representati...

It isn't an 'opinion' and you are not respecting it. Calling it an opinion is disrespectful. For an opinion is unjustified. It is just an opinion. Whe...

Yes. I have that book knocking about somewhere. I think it's quite good.

I am just reporting how the terms are used by those who have dedicated their lives to thinking as carefully as possible about their subject matter (an...

You said you didn't understand my argument. So I am taking you through it. Or have you already decided that because you don't understand it, there isn...

Go ask a psychiatrist the meaning of a term in psychiatry. Then contradict their answer. You have asked a question about whether ethics and morality d...

It doesn't have anything to do with it. If clouds form into what look like words, are you being talked to? Don't change the example. Don't imagine the...

So just to be clear: when it comes to what ethics means, you think the authorities on this are not professional ethicists, but psychologists? Where do...

Yes. And I use the terms interchangeably. Like everyone else apart from those who lack expertise. So, psychologists, sociologists, historians and, wel...

You don't seem to be getting the point.

Yes, that's the one. It isn't an issue in philosophy. Academic philosophers do not debate whether ethics and morality have the same meaning. When some...

Like I say, anyone who thinks unethical and immoral have different meanings lacks expertise in ethics. For instance, you are insisting there is a subt...

Whether our faculties have developed slowly or fast makes no difference to the point. What's important is whether they were designed or the product of...

I do not understand why you think that whether or not the states our faculties generate in us make us aware of things will be unaffected by how we cam...

Why? Can an act be unethical but moral? No. Look, the experts all use the terms interchangeably. It's not an issue. They just mean the same thing (wit...

They mean the same thing. If someone tells you different, I guarantee you that person is not an academic philosopher. Fromage and Cheese - they mean t...

Really? This from someone who thinks you can reject an argument if the one making the argument is a Christian! You really sure you know about the work...

I said you're not a follower of Reason. I didn't say you weren't a follower. Again with the phrasing.

I am not religious; not a Christian, not anything. I just uncover and follow arguments where they lead. Now, if you were like that, then you'd know if...

Not to my knowledge. Why would it matter? Are you one of those lucky people who knows how things are with the universe prior to investigating it? And ...