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Call it faith if you must. Again, it's not what you say that counts so much as what you do.

And I am pointing out that many social structures are not dependent on enforcement by violence. I went to an event last night that had eighty folk in ...

The important thing to do in your analogy is to go out and look for your missing friend, and muster what support you can for the search. Your stance o...

Not sure what this has to do with the topic at hand, but there's not often a need to resort to force in order to maintain social norms. The meaning of...

The claim I questions was You reply: So no ethical theory convinced you. Note that whether or not you were convinced is different to whether or not th...

Well, he never was all that bright.

I was surprised you allowed Bart back for that long.

Metaphysical as in not having a truth value? would miss that. I don't see why ethical and aesthetic statements need not have a truth value. After all,...

That's not a small statement. There is a large body of ethical theory that insist that moral statements have a truth value, but do not rely on a deity...

Really? So your preference is to render the term useless. Fine.

Oh, OK. too much editing. I see it. My apologies.

What? You having a hard time having to think instead of just post Emojis? Not having the belief that there is a god does not commit you to having a be...

Pretty sure there are only six. If you have no beliefs concerning god, then you don't believe in god and you don't believe there is no god. You seem t...

Again, the significant difference is just between those who can say "I don't know" and those who can't, of whatever persuasion. What folk are doing wi...

It's worse than that. It's a tool of commerce, inventing the need to purchase novelty. but more, in not having a base, it fails to embed itself in the...

And first nations Australians dance the same dance they have done for the last forty thousand years! Long live stagnation!

Much of the trouble is the result of a personality type that just can't live with "I don't know". So they make shit up.

I've no talent and very little skill, but I play anyway. There's a friggin' madness pervading talk of music that wraps it with talent, authenticity, o...

, It just depends on where you go for your music. If you restrict yourself to Spotify you get what you deserve. Instead, go down to the shops and list...

Belief is best understood as ranging over propositions. It is the attitude we have when we take something to be the case. So take the proposition that...

I am tired of explaining this any further. Sorry. Ask someone else with more patience.

I'll leave you to it.

You mean you read what I wrote. There's not a whole lot of point in anyone answering your puzzlement if you won't listen. Those shapes are triangles, ...

Not so much. There are clear definitions of each, that work in hyperbolic, elliptical and flat space. Just three lines intersecting. https://naiadseye...

Certainly not.

Again, if you find 2+2 is not 4, you are saying it wrong.

Contradictions can only occur in how things are said, not in how things are.

Well, if you are happy to introduce contradictions into your thinking, best leave you to it.

You misunderstood me. Perhaps I should have said that equation was not suitable. That is, in our universe multiple volumes are summed using a simple a...

Thanks. This bit, too. A logically possible world is stipulated, rather than discovered. So when one wonders, for example, what would have happened if...

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Not a axiom, but a theorem. "Seems" is a poor phrasing. It doesn't just "seem", it "is". Immovable? It's true. And the funny thing is that it's not ju...

I don't have access to the original argument, but the issue seems to me to be deciding between a universe that is indeed symmetrical and one that mere...

That article ends in a way not at all incompatible with the article from Street's OP. Maths is a construction, matching the way the world is for much ...

Ah. My condolences. Have a think about Russell's comments: The notion of cause. It might show you a different way of thinking about such issues. As fo...

Here's the argument again: Each human has a mother, therefore the human race as a whole has a mother. But on the contrary, the human race is not the s...

See Russell's "On the notion of causes". You're afeared of a Snark.

You mean.... Atheist do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do! Oh, No! They are half-decent to others without the threat of etern...

What grounds are they, then, that are shared by all atheists? That's a pretty shallow accusation.

Russell suggested the counterexample: each person around me has a mother, therefore the human race as a whole has a mother. Cause takes place within t...

Yep. https://assets.weforum.org/editor/fGLlCvzYDDiufodwdASmdjr9_MBN8Fql9ZrG3pHXpm8.png

:smile: It was a nice little place. Not so much anymore. The {Socrates} singleton is just a set that has Socrates and only Socrates as a member. The a...

My response is, what exactly is the "more", and what exactly is a "real" definition? A real definition seems to be one supposedly setting out the thin...

Does a definition tell you how to use a word, or what the thing defined is? how are these different?

The whole of philosophy in a knutshell. The "deep" question is whether there are any individuals in the world, or if there are only properties, or is ...

Oh, shit. I've been staring at the screen too long. I had it down as an attempt to "revitalise" essentialism post-Quine. :roll:

That's an appeal to nature, not the naturalistic fallacy.

Thursday.

I also have a vague recollection of a short film from many years ago of a nun with a cucumber while alone at night in her cell. Pelvic floor exercises...

, : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGlon_ezvU Rastaman like Kukumba.