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In: How important is (a)theism to your philosophy?  — view comment
Nope. It was for you. I tried.
October 17, 2019 at 19:58
In: The Problem of Existence  — view comment
Until you get hungry.
October 17, 2019 at 19:38
In: How important is (a)theism to your philosophy?  — view comment
@"3017amen", one of the things that happens to some folk who begin to study a new philosopher is the they will begin to see things from the point of v...
October 17, 2019 at 19:36
In: Former Theists, how do you avoid nihilism?  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxA4-2ylqgc
October 17, 2019 at 19:25
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Yep.
October 17, 2019 at 19:03
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Good- now let's examine the evidence. If every physicist learns that the Third Law of Motion is also called the law of cause and effect, then one woul...
October 17, 2019 at 18:52
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Cause and effect are not directly observable. One might be able to observe a sequence of events, and then to claim that one is the cause, another the ...
October 17, 2019 at 05:33
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Well, no. He used the word "force" to mean force. Force is the product of mass and acceleration. Kinetic energy is, in contrast, half the square of th...
October 17, 2019 at 05:28
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
You quoted some stuff about the Laws of Motion. What I am questioning is the connection between this and supposed laws of cause and effect. Your quote...
October 17, 2019 at 05:25
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
he he.
October 16, 2019 at 21:31
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Maybe. That looks a stretch to me. Look beyond billiard balls and the metaphor of cause and effect breaks down. Given two equal and opossum forces, it...
October 16, 2019 at 20:18
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
What's that, then?
October 16, 2019 at 06:27
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
SO if we use "know" to mean something it doesn't...
October 15, 2019 at 20:35
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
I don't see how a sausage is irrational. What would be irrational would be to doubt where doubt is incoherent. Banno has coffee, therefore, there is a...
October 15, 2019 at 20:34
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Why do you need proof? Why the preference for doubt here? Even Descartes? It was a terrible mistake on his part to seek certainty.
October 15, 2019 at 11:11
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
How can you, unless there is a you to do so?
October 15, 2019 at 11:09
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Absurd. Was that your point?
October 15, 2019 at 11:08
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Indeed; who would have the proof?
October 15, 2019 at 11:07
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
I prefer
October 15, 2019 at 11:06
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
A better approach would be the Sartrean stare. You know you exist when someone looks at you with contempt.
October 15, 2019 at 11:04
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Only other people die, in my experience.
October 15, 2019 at 10:55
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Works for me.
October 15, 2019 at 10:54
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
We don't exist, except for ourselves?
October 15, 2019 at 10:53
In: Minds Without Words Do Not Self Report  — view comment
Nice.
October 15, 2019 at 08:19
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Indeed. An unjustified leap. Fair enough. But you started this discussion because you think others ought make the same leap. Debate?
October 14, 2019 at 21:31
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
The format of this thread allows @"3017amen" to ignore the posts that answer his questions, so that he repeated himself beyond tedium. There's a forma...
October 14, 2019 at 21:01
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Hm. Eventually the thread drops in to tedium. I've shown you uncaused events. I've agreed with you that there is mystery in the world, and pointed out...
October 14, 2019 at 20:05
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Those who have read my views on epistemology will know how keen I am to distinguish belief from truth. While both are predicated to propositions, they...
October 13, 2019 at 21:24
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
If you like. That's not how I would use those terms.
October 13, 2019 at 20:56
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Meh. @"3017amen" is arguing in good faith. He may be beginning to realise that his conclusions do not follow from his premises; his argument is no whe...
October 13, 2019 at 20:56
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
We might call that agnosticism.
October 13, 2019 at 20:51
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
And it's not because it doesn't work as an explanation... It's that it is far too successful. It explains everything; even stuff that ain't so. So as ...
October 13, 2019 at 07:43
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Indeed, it is... silent.
October 13, 2019 at 05:05
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
And yet I gave examples of uncaused events.
October 13, 2019 at 04:53
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Crash. Down comes the gate. You deny the conversation any future. So is it really the case that your belief in god relies absolutely on the notion tha...
October 13, 2019 at 04:43
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Yep. The trouble is - as mentioned in the discussion of existentialism elsewhere - we may either follow god or deny him; so god fails as a source of m...
October 13, 2019 at 04:39
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Only I explained earlier that this is just wrong.
October 13, 2019 at 04:35
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
"Become..." Is there a membership form I need to fill in? A secret handshake?
October 13, 2019 at 04:31
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
How? Further, doesn't that oblige you to believe in a god who chooses to keep some things hidden from you? Why should he do that? Yes. There are thing...
October 13, 2019 at 04:28
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
I didn't see a reply from you to this.
October 13, 2019 at 04:18
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Why not?
October 13, 2019 at 04:17
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Well, it's your thread. You put the bits together. So, again, suppose that mathematics confers no evolutionary advantage... is this the third, or four...
October 13, 2019 at 04:16
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
In a sense, yep. Well put.
October 13, 2019 at 04:14
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Again?
October 13, 2019 at 04:13
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Well, no. Atheism is not an explanation so much as the rejection of an incorrect explanation. The notion of a theistic god is not credible. Hence, ath...
October 13, 2019 at 04:13
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
You're saying that there must be an explanation for why we have choices. Am I understanding you correctly?
October 13, 2019 at 04:11
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
I guess I would have liked to see some sort of Bayesian analysis, wherein the probability of god being a believable theory becomes higher after one co...
October 13, 2019 at 04:09
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
SO you are saying that choice is important. Sure. Now what?
October 13, 2019 at 04:05
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
Why? YOu are a competend user of English; you know what "needs" are. AS for why they exist... again, what could it mean to ask such a question, to pon...
October 13, 2019 at 04:05
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
I've no clear idea of what this might be.
October 13, 2019 at 04:02
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