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Any information can be encoded as a string of bits. We can then calculate the entropy of that string. No 'icons' would be involved - unless bits are c...

Your need for invisible friends is a piece of personal psychology, and not philosophy.

From the very document you cited: My bolding. Then, Stop being such a fuckwit.

I hope he is a bit clearer that that in his explanations.

Perhaps we might all agree on the excellence of the philosophical contemplations of the apostates of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church?

Teilhard de Chardin’s writings are forgotten in name only. Do't read him; he's naughty. The Pope says so.

I'm going to take the other approach, since the private language argument and what little evidence I have found leads me there. And I'm not all that i...

I'm please that you did not follow the path that says "I don't understand it, so it's wrong".

I don't see that what has been said in this thread rules out cause and effect.

I'm still thinking it through, too. One of the features of philosophical discourse is pushing notions such as causation beyond breaking point. Causati...

...so you counter the baggage by increasing it. SO if I have it right, accepting that God exists, for you, involves accepting a a bunch of obscure, so...

Nuh. I ignored this error before, for the sake of getting to the main point. Each and every statement in mathematics has a Godel number. What you are ...

Yeah, I'm vaguely familiar with this sort of discussion. I'm not to keen on engaging in the game, except to say that what is to count as an abstractio...

Odd, these notions. What is substance then? Not mass. Not space. Not anything familiar from physics. Not a notion that has been part of the vocabulary...

That'll do. Cheers.

OK, let's try something a little bit more complex. informally: "this statement is not proven" can be provided with and equivalent well-formed formula ...

So there it stands, you have the issue, the solution and the choice. Please, reconsider. It can only be true.

Say what you like. It's not true. Being true is not the same as being proven, justified or believed.

...then there is a proof, and it is true. The only option is to conclude that it is true and hence not proven. Hence, being proven and being true are ...

So, you are right, and mathematics is wrong. Then your name is most apt.

Let me ask you another question... can "This statement is not proven" be false? Start by assuming that it has been proven... Then consider what happen...

Sure. I've argued as much elsewhere. Being true is not the same as being proven, justified, or believed

As @"boethius" said, "true" does not mean "proven".

Indeed, either Godel is wrong, along with all the subsequent mathematicians and logicians who have agreed with his findings and built on them. Or you ...

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not?

This breakdown is specifically for philosophers of religion. Here I'd just add that the question in the survey is "theism vs atheism", not "do you acc...

Set the "response details" to "fine". This link may do it for you. While there, take a look at One person out of over three thousand thought they had ...

I'm in the list, too. Apostate by about 13. Interesting, that age; to do with puberty and the ensuing rejection of authority, no doubt. Or just to imp...

Here's some real data, for what it's worth: the PhilPapers survey of philosophers. One might assume that these folk have at least some experience with...

Well, they are certainly not controversial. I'm being as polite as I can. In my view they are self-serving bullshit. But I won't say that here.

The answer was given back here: You missed it or misunderstood it. SO, again, what will you conclude?

I wonder how many atheists began their doubt with the Brothers teaching them the Five Ways? Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea.

Aristotelian mechanics comes in for a lot of criticism, but it is actually quite brilliant. However, it is wrong. I was looking at a video earlier tod...

Another issue, which I don't think has been mentioned here, is that existence is treated as a first-order predicate. My point here is not so much that...

So... you are suggesting that belief in god derives from the arguments. I'd bet that a survey of 'mercan Christians would show that the vast majority ...

I did the same with loose and lose for a while.

You didn't join in the discussion of causation here. A shame, since causation is central to your argument, yet problematic. There is a tendency for th...

Sure; you can't see how the argument works. My question is, what do you do next? Do you re-read and study and find alternate presentations, until you ...

It's because theists keep putting the apostrophe in the wrong place. So damned annoying.

Is this a definition, or an observation?

So what do you think is happening here? Do you think that Godel's argument fails? Or do you think that you need to do more to understand it? One choic...

An assumption is not an argument; give us something to critique that goes beyond Otherwise: Sure. Go ahead and make up whatever you want.

What do you think it demonstrates? What is it that makes it a poor example? You want to make an exception such that philosophers may answer unanswerab...

...like, maybe, when you insist that 2+2 is not the same as 4, despite the protests of all around you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUoiy22Q_lw ...just opening up new ways of thinking about your question rather than providing a definitive solution to...

Special pleading.

His agenda is on his sleeve.

Here's a thing; if a question is not just unanswered, but unanswerable, it is not rational to make up an answer anyway.