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...that would imply that Pforrest exists in every possible world. SO much for your version of modal realism.

But the question is not "why are we not in the empty possible world?".

There's something unconvincingly trite about 's post. It's a sort of revers ontological argument. Existence or lack thereof should not result from mer...

...that's not an empty world, then, since it contains a void... :razz:

An empty world - symmetry relies on there being a something to be symmetrical. If you like, an empty world has no state, and hence no Lagrangian, and ...

As if modelling and contemplation were not situated.

Empty in not containing any individuals - hence Noether's Theorem could not be proved.

I guess your phone was right. How unsettling.

But there is a possible world that is empty.

The god of the Christians is an immoral chap. No, I don't want him to exist. But I hadn't considered the question until you asked; so that desire is n...

I've no idea what you are arguing here.

...that's your problem, right there.

...but there isn't an experience of listening to music. Listening to Jimi Hendrix is not the same experience as listening to Brahms. Listening to Jimi...

Is there something you mean but cannot say, or does it just feel as if there is? If you cannot say it, how can you mean it?

I, me, mine, I, me, mine, I, me, mine.

...and other forms of flatus.

The OP amounts to nothing more than an appeal to the Earth's being the only place we know of that has an example of consciousness. Not so profound a p...

Beans.

@"Bartricks" Still waiting for your answer to

Discovered.

Ah. Is this the possibility that bothers you? If maths were invented, do you think it might be subject to mere opinion?

Meh. There is nothing of value in what you have written.

I'm aware of that conversation. So we've marked an area for further discussion. Now what?

The egg. Fish laid eggs long before there were chickens. SO does "it" come form god or from the heart? And can you decide not to do as god bids?

Fear of punishment as morality. Morality starts when you decide to look outside your own comfort, to think about how you should treat others. Doing so...

Argh. You have my sympathy. Of course that is insufficient. It does not follow that they are real... and we still do not know what real is doing here....

Ok - what is the conclusion that you would like us to reach from this?

Yep - as I said, We might consider this alternate definition of real... On this account a painting is real, but it is also a construction. Our two vie...

So you agree with me that morality proceeds from "the heart" as you call it, and not from god. All good, then.

It's a real physical object - it's not an illusion, it's not a reflection, its not a mirage... It's a real abstract object - its not...?

Then show me were Wigner does more than I say - the arguments are there, but I think them of little merit. Choose one to discuss. You know that is not...

Well, stop there if you must, but it looks like you are unable to respond to the criticisms I levelled: 1. Despite the title, Wigner is merely express...

SO... go on.

Relativistic is a way of calculating relative velocities at speeds approaching c - a way of behaving. I think the issue around Platonic realism is sim...

I'd like a clear answer to this, too.

Sure. The juxtaposition is not so clean. But see Davidson's "On the very idea of a conceptual scheme" for an excellent critique of Kuhn. The upshot is...

Ethical statements have a direction of fit that is the reverse of scientific statements. . In science you change the theory to match what you see in t...

This topic lies parallel to my "1" does not refer to anything., where I advocated a constructivist approach after me ol' mate Witti. So I will transcr...

That's quite right - no mechanism, no algorithm. you decide the truth of ethical propositions. Is the person who says suffering is necessary for human...

So what more is needed here? We agree that suffering is worth eradicating. What more do we need? Why ask "How do you get to the idea that suffering is...

On A child who learned chess by watching adults play might insist that it is "self-evident" that the bishop stays on its original colour. But it isn't...

The most striking thing about The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is that the argument is not about reason, so much ...

...and yet you still are not be able to follow the conversation.

The question remains: ought we do as god commands? Your rambling OP does not even begin to address this.

Žižek's critique helps here: it's not so much that folk no longer what to be free, but that they have no idea what they want. They are told that being...

It's so easy to criticise stuff you haven't understood.

I suspect that @"SmartIdiot" is here rejecting the notion of objective value altogether. It might have been better expressed as rejecting both objecti...

Will you act so as to reduce racism? Do you agree that suffering is worth eradicating? Your answer tells us about you.

Yep. As you alluded, it should be apparent that even if we suppose there is a god, and said god wishes us to behave in a certain way, the choice to do...

Ok. I'm fishing for "what it is" that is inexpressible. Or rather, pointing out that there is a prima facie contradiction in saying that there is some...