A further point is resistance to disproof. It's curious to see how Meta, who is articulate and intelligent, is able to resist recognising that his ide...
Cheers. I suggested elsewhere that the motive might have been a search for recognition; perhaps this is transference on my part. That link between the...
Glad you liked it. Wittgenstein was seriously spiritual, by all accounts. While he would have rejected outright the ridiculous argument of the OP, he ...
The God of the Gaps is doomed to shrink, it seems, as we learn more. The Hawking example I provided is not intended as an answer, as, perhaps, are the...
"For god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten bacillus..." What advantage is there in positing a creator, not found in enabling an open s...
That's what I was using, so that's no excuse. Lexico claims "All definitions and translations are written by Oxford lexicographers". So we might give ...
It doesn't lend itself readily to a real world example, apart from the Big Bang - which it denies happened. Moving south might serve as a metaphor. @"...
It's a slow day, so I dug out both the Concise and the Shorter OED. Neither contains Meta's definition. How is that to be explain'd? The first definit...
@"Metaphysician Undercover", perhaps in answer to Tim's question you might set out where the flaw is in this calculation - regardless of wether the it...
There's a body of literature linking an inability to deal with ambiguity to conservative political views. That may explain the reliance on half-argume...
SO the answer to Zeno is found in the runner occupying an infinite number of places in a finite time; but in Hawking's example it's an infinity of cau...
@"Metaphysician Undercover", out of curiosity, what do you make of i? I assume that for you imaginary numbers are not numbers. Redacted. Move on to Ti...
More as a curiosity than an argument, there's Hawking's suggestion. We can have an infinite causal chain in a finite time. The event at time 1 is caus...
My objection - which is too strong a word - goes beyond the structure of your diagram to the attempt to produce such a model in the first place. My ob...
A fair point. It would be rude to accost a christian simply going about their daily life. But that's not the case here. This is a philosophy forum, an...
We can fill the argument out, I think. The implication of the OP is that a rational person must accept a chain of cause and effect - that every event ...
As usual, those who feel the need to defend the OP do so by changing the topic - to mind, or to evolution, or to authority - rather than addressing th...
Why adopt even this? The truth is simply that our knowledge is incomplete. We don't know how mind arrises, but we do not therefore need to jump to a d...
Having read much of their work, I felt no need to use Google. Perhaps my relying on primary sources rather than Wikipedia is a Boomer flaw. I've set o...
...and I think this a mischaracterisation. Who one is extends out from one's body. Even if you claim your stone tools are not part of you, you were st...
I mentioned before - I don't know if you noticed it - that this thread is not about mathematics so much as about the psychology of crackpots, of which...
An appeal to authority. Dropping names without explaining were and how they might apply. I suppose that in Christian circles, that's the ultimate argu...
No, he isn't. But in order to defend your faith, you are obliged to misrepresent his argument. And you continue not to address mine, given here. Displ...
You continue not to address the notion of causation. You continue to provide support for my contention that the nominal topic - chains of causation - ...
The evidence is your failure to address the OP and subsequent repudiations. This is, nominally, a thread about causation. You are not addressing the t...
Indeed; theology should be banned from the forums, because it explains everything. All questions - philosophical and otherwise - can be answered with ...
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