I am not a Christian and haven't read the bible. But as I understand it, the bible says both that God created everything, and also that God created al...
Those are states of mind or processes involving minds. Obviously. You do not divide water by freezing it, even though that changes its state. Likewise...
Yes, it is also the most well known as both Plato and Descartes made it (though the latter only to establish the immortality of the mind, not its asei...
I believe in reincarnation on philosophical grounds. There are at least three distinct mutually compatible cases. First, a case from indivisibility. O...
No, don't be silly. It is self-evident. If Tim approves of raping Sarah, that does not entail that it is morally right for Tim to rape Sarah, does it?...
Not 'ours' necessarily (that's individual subjectivism specifically), but if you drop the 'ours', then yes. Yes. But one could be an objectivist relat...
It doesn't muddy it, so much as clarify it. I'm an immaterialist, but I'm still talking about the same person when I talk about Jennifer as someone wh...
If I am a materialist and you are an immaterialist, we're still talking about the same person, Jennifer - the same object - even though we have radica...
What do you say about my example of Jennifer - are we both talking about the same person? I take it the answer is an obvious 'yes'. Now does it make a...
They're not different 'things'. They're one and the same substance. But one does not need to know everything about a thing in order successfully to be...
You're missing the point. Subjectivism and realism are different kinds of theory. Subjectivism is a theory about what something - in this case, morali...
Well, you're clearly very sloppy: the authors are referenced for claim 3, not claim 2. And if you'd taken the trouble to read the relevant quotes from...
'Accurate'? No it certainly isn't. See previous post above. You are basing your definition on a misreading of one - one - philosopher's definition. Op...
It is absurd insofar as you'd then have to describe substance dualists and monist immaterialists as naturalists! What use is the term 'naturalist' in ...
What's wrong with my definition? Where causality is concerned, those - such as myself - who believe in non-natural entities, do not thereby disbelieve...
Some of our mental states appear to be 'about' things. Perceptual states 'represent' something to be the case; beliefs are 'about' things; desires are...
That is incredibly dishonest of you. They did NOT say such things. Someone who wrote that wikipedia entry said those things - someone who is clearly N...
Let's define a mind as an object that has mental states. Let's define a material object as an object that has extension. Let's also stipulate that my ...
No, it carves things up correctly, for if the ultimate constituents of reality are minds, then immaterialism is true - and that's not a form of natura...
But now you're just using 'real' and 'natural' as synonyms. That's not how they're used, not in philosophy anyway. Two philosophers can agree that, sa...
That source is wrong, yes. Wikipedia is not peer reviewed. It's written by people like you: non-experts who only half-understand what they're writing ...
You realize you've just dismissed philosophy. You find philosophy boring. B.S. is much more interesting to you. For that, after all, is all you deal i...
And I'm telling you that if you include that claim then you are a 'subjectivist realist' about morality. Two points then, that you seem incapable of u...
That can't be correct, for that would mean that immaterialism - a view that is as far from naturalism as it is possible to be - would turn out to be a...
Yes you are, because you are saying that a commitment to moral realism is part and parcel of moral subjectivism. That's false. It's no different from,...
What on earth are you on about? This argument is valid, no? 1. P 2. Q 3. Therefore P and Q Does it matter where I am? If I'm in China right now, is it...
Yes, that sounds correct to me. It is an abuse of language to refer to such practices - that is, the practice of just describing a worldview uncritica...
But you don't have any expertise. You're not really getting this are you? You have no expertise when it comes to philosophy. I do. You are confident t...
Your assumptions are wrong. Academics have loads of arguments that they don't send out for publication or take on the road to conferences or discuss w...
You played, matey. You don't have any expertise. We both know it. Yet you've been confidently telling an expert - me - that his arguments - all of the...
See answer to Banno above. The numbers don't count. It's the actual level of expertise that matters. Do you have any? (Why am I asking - we both know ...
Ah, your refusal to answer confirms what I already knew - you have no expertise at all. You think the numbers count? You think that if 10 people with ...
what makes you think you're a good judge of replies to criticisms? Do you have any expertise? For again, that's crucial to determining who is most lik...
Your point in the second paragraph is an instance of the straw man fallacy. I never argued otherwise. So why do you keep making a point 'as if'it cont...
Why do you think I am manifesting the Dunning Kruger effect? You think my arguments are shite, right? Okay, fine. But what expertise do you have? Beca...
Why do you keep conflating subjectivism with realism? Subjectivism in metaethics is the view that moral statements are truth apt and their truth maker...
B.S Say what you mean in English. Here's what I think: either someone argues something, or they're a b.s artist who loves themselves more than evidenc...
Are you sceptical that Khaled's replies constitute an instance of it? If so, then so does your scepticism. Oh, and argue something if you dare, or go ...
So you are not paid to teach. You just scream some 'teachings' at passers-by do you? I am on my mobile at the moment as I am up a mountain. Consequent...
"Mr 180 Proof, you are drunk sir" 180 Proof: "And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I will have shat myself" Anyway, rather than try and insult...
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