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Hmm. I take lack of cogency to be exactly a counter to what you said, and sufficient to dismiss it. You try to force a wedge between what you wish and...

I'd take incontinence of the will to be an entirely different issue. I don't see, nor frankly much care, how you make these compatible. Have a read of...

My bolding. Arendt seems to be saying that you do not know what freedom is...

No... the point is that you are not free because you are not free to do other than you will. The Oppression of the wil. Word play. The argument is tha...

My spelling checker insists that she is ardent. (Thanks, @"Tom Storm"). Too ardent, it would seem.

The first page or so brings out a strange little paradox for those who insist they have free will: Are you free to act against your own will? Hence th...

Ah, so you are just missing the courtesies of context. Fair enough. Take care of the kid.

That's not how it works, but for the benefit of all I think it a good idea that you stay away from editing Wikipedia.

One does what one can...

Anyway, how's this thread going? Working it all out, in an amiable atmosphere of mutual understanding, I see.

Why would anyone make an attempt to explain this to you when you already nailed you flag to the mast? You've misunderstood the remark, which is from t...

Ah, you are in the thrall of the Devil! It starts to make sense...

I guess it is easier for you to pretend I've no idea of that of which you speak; you don't have to pay attention to me. I have experience with Transce...

:grin: And this is not obscuritan...

If it is not obscuritanist, then you ought be able to tell us what it is... But then it would not be beyond comprehension... This is the nonsense to w...

It would seem not.

I'll take your word for it. I'm happy for folk to feel good at church on Sunday, but not happy to allow folk to use their creed to dictate on women's ...

Physicalism perhaps holds that the best description of how things are is to be found in physics. Neither @"Wayfarer" nor I would agree with that - I d...

Of course. But firstly, religion has no monopoly on such things. I find much more of such value in the garden, in the bush, in the gallery, than in th...

To my eye, no pronouncement that might be called religious would have merit. Looked at at face value, they are senseless, and so not the sort of thing...

If this thread were entitled "The problem with physicalism", the agreement between @"Wayfarer" and I would be more apparent.

Ah, so this argument is for you the rejection of a father figure. Hence the passion. But as soon as philosophical religion brings forth a proposal, it...

Truth is, I was invited. Doubtless you would rather I had remained absent, but you love it when I chime in. Always remember, you are not obliged to re...

What is the colour of a proposition?

@"Wayfarer" So what do we disagree on? I think you imagine materialists hiding under you bed.

That the universe is made up entirely of matter bumping into more matter. And it is wrong. ...then a list of articles rejecting materialism.

Poor old @"jgill".

I had hoped for a succinct, intelligent and challenging reply! But it was just .

Then why is there no entry on materialism in SEP? I say because there are no materialists. "Materialism" is a term used by spiritualists to mischaract...

Indeed, these arguments are tiresome. Materialism disappeared with Newton's action at a distance. And yet you and again insist on criticising a positi...

How small has religion become! Once it explained everything, physical, social, moral and political. Now it is reduced to the hope that neuroscience wi...

You try to prove this by quoting Einstein. The poverty of your position, as had been repeatedly demonstrated, is that you suppose that wonder, achieve...

, No, no, no! You have to grow the sage and mushrooms, hunt down the eggs, and build the fire to get the full benefit...

Maybe. But I just had a cheese, mushroom and sage omelet that might have been good enough to make up the difference.

I don't think we have a substantive point of disagreement. The language here becomes so clumsy. SO not too sure. Pretty much everything you do that re...

I disagree. Folk talk about mental states as if it were clear what they are and as if they helped explain stuff. I chose the obscurity of Darwinian sh...

All the same, this thread is embarrassing.

I'd not put too much emphasis on "mental state", so much as on explanations for behaviours. It is not that there is always a thing in the mind that is...

Again, the slogan is misleading. Wittgenstein showed us how to better answer philosophical questions by forgetting about essences, definitions and mea...

it's what I do. Yes. You've tried to infer more than they will allow.

How does this support your contention that studies suggest that we are gradually becoming less intelligent? I see where you wish to go; that the lack ...

Language games are neither discrete nor inviolable. Deism, theism and pantheism are not constituted by different uses of "God". To your question, is t...

Still calling bullshit. You have presented no evidence whatsoever. The very study you cite uses comparisons in brain anatomy that show the increase in...

Nor does that one. These articles are about the association between increased intelligence, tool making and language. There is nothing about a decreas...

That study is about whether language was a result of tools making or gesturing. It does not support your thesis.

What studies. Without that your post is vapid. The Flynn Effect I call bullshit.

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Given some finite set of numbers, how many formulae are there that fit? Given some finite set of actions, how many rules are there that fit? In both c...

The film is a tedious, pompous, self-absorbed attempt to excuse reprehensible behaviour as just part of human nature. An insincere, self-excusing cult...