Much of what you say is well-crafted, but then you write something such as this. Taking words as the names of ideas - "are these ideas the proper refe...
@"Metaphysician Undercover" has deified the individual. The prime commandment is that One must be kept whole. At the alter he sacrifices all of mathem...
It's just that philosophy uses words, and hence philosophers take words seriously. Hence, starting with a definition is likely to be problematic, sinc...
I find what you said very hard to follow, but it seems that you are working with a theory of meaning that involves the coding of a private meaning in ...
:up: There's a philosophical approach that seeks to force a wedge between an inner self and an outer world, usually following this up with a diminutio...
Waiting for Godot was presented by the Lockdown Theatre Company last night; it was four in the morning here, a somehow apt time. A dreadful play, one ...
I like your linked post. Not quite how I would phrase the issue, but we do overwhelmingly agree as to the facts; our disagreements being forced to the...
What does this mean? Are you saying that when you look at the quote above, you are not seeing the same thing as I see? But there is a clear sens ein w...
I am agnostic as well. The point I was making is methodological, in that insofar as god answered every question god is sufficient for us to divest our...
That seems to be the usage on Stanford and IEP, much as one ought not appeal to authority. It's the view that morality is merely the opinion of this o...
I don't know where to go with this. You've framed the discussion in terms of subjective/objective truths in morality, and I have shown that that disti...
Yeah, I disagree. If you deserve some specified consequence, then it is true that you deserve it. Nothng is gained by adding that you objectively dese...
The OP is arguing that relativism is muddled. I agree. Our discussions about the world would indeed be entirely meaningless if there was no truth. Tha...
That I prefer vanilla is justified subjectively. The answer to "why do you prefer vanilla" can be "I just do". Objective justifications can be contras...
The distinction between objective and subjective truth breaks down on analysis. What can be maintained is a distinction between objective and subjecti...
Quite the opposite. Scientists can do the predictions despite there not being a cause. The electron in a double split will go right or left with a 50%...
You do take things so personally. It's just that I don't see you post here are contributions to the topic. I'm giving you enough rope. Do with it as y...
Mind your manners. No need for name-calling. Folk tend to assume causation as a hard-and-fast rule, which it isn't. First it is unclear what causation...
Taking your example, a discussion of Calvin's view of free will might take either of two paths. In one, it would be argued that it is true because the...
I've re-read this with eyes that are less wearied, but still think it muddled. Yes, i was thinking of omnipotent deities when I wrote the OP. But I do...
Seems this thread has had the unintended consequence of getting @"Gnostic Christian Bishop" banned. Result. Your damnation thread is at best borderlin...
Are there mods here who were mods in The Other Place? They might know more detail. I think that the main motivation from the mods perspective was not ...
You went for the science; the ethics arm of the argument might have been more fun. I'll try to be clear. Science operates independently of religion, i...
Somethign similar was implemented in the previous incarnation of the forum. Roughly, folk could post to an equivalent of the lounge, that did not show...
I'm becoming increasingly astonished that this thread continues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586b1327bebafbc747451130/1507042827759-...
Perhaps it is; but it is not so because it is the principle tenet of religion. If religion happens to be ethical, it's not because it is religion. Con...
I've argued elsewhere against over-reliance on commencing with definition. it's often better to allow the definition to grow alongside the conversatio...
To be sure, the titles listed are examples to be discussed, not examples of what should be banned. And yes, the answer is not hard-and-fast. So take t...
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