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The argument is ancient, undeniable and simple: Goats eat everything. So for whatever you imagine, there is a goat that eats it. Therefore goats are g...

The Great Goat sups on flying pasta.

Indeed, not unlike the dance of Shiva and Kali.

But what if we link the quantum switch to Schrodinger's catbox? Then there is no truth to the suggestion that the death of the cat was caused by event...

That's just an issue with setting up set theory. Nothing to do with goats.

A Revelation! Praise the Curry!

This thread belongs in the Philosophy of religion, not the lounge. The logic demonstrated here is a direct mirror of the logic used elsewhere in the R...

That's just not true. You falsely imbue the Great Goat with your own limitations.

A goat that does not eat would be a gastronomic heresy. It would lie alongside the heresy of the Goat that eats, but is not itself eaten.

Just what was needed. More God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRAO_vG_K4&disable_polymer=true

If you knew how to use "60" but lost the capacity to say the word... If you knew how to ride but lost the capacity to balance... Do you maintain the c...

I'm thinking about this in relation to the following from @"Snakes Alive": https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/214348

@"Sam26" What are we to make of "I know how to ride a bike"? The justification here, if there is one, is in riding the bike. The doing makes the knowi...

But despite there not being a something, the game takes place; and has a role. We do things with our talk of pain.

Then don't.

Wittgenstein, Davidson...

:wink:

Pots and kettles.

And whether we have a section for religious philosophy does not depend on whether god exists. That section of this thread is bunk.

A philosophical discussion of transubstantiation or of the Trinity should be placed in amongst discussion of other logical paradoxes and contradiction...

I don't agree. Descartes split asunder that which is one. Choosing between materialism and idealism inherently involves accepting that split and takin...

Very poor philosophy, yes. The Powers That Be seem to me too lenient on topics of religion. Far too much rubbish is permitted.

Obedience as a virtue.

The laws of physics might indeed be different outside the laws of physics!

Odd, that this corresponds so closely with changes in the brain...

That just does not remove the problem. Instead it makes the soul something physical. The story of the soul involves a juxtaposition of the physical an...

Presumably alcohol has some weird effect on the weak force interaction such that the soul looses its capacity for good judgement...

So the soul disappears when one goes to sleep?

Well, yeah, you do. Further, that is a much more reasonable approach than searching for a gap in physics into which the soul can be slot; the weak for...

That's the point at issue; to be part of an organisation of any sort is to partially abrogate responsibility. TO maintain one's integrity one must con...

Apart from Meta, is there anyone willing to defend the notion of words having essential meanings?

...or there might be no such thing as a soul. Problem solved.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-24/prosecutors-appeal-decision-to-acquit-rape-victim-of-abortion/10280896 This is such a wonderful situation.

yeah. For some reason you can’t see it. That’s not really anyone’s problem except for you.

Behold! Here is my collection: the odd numbers. Did I miss any? Did I include anything that shouldn't be there? No! Astonishing, i know, but there you...

I'm sure you think this, but you are wrong.

He has a predilection for essences. He is not able to think without them. Quite an odd malady, quite anachronistic.

Oh, were you talking with @"Metaphysician Undercover"? no wonder there's confusion. Let's just collect all the odd numbers and ignore him.

This is Islam at its worst. Submission; even unto that which is morally abhorrent.

Common decency, for a start. Including not inflicting ones own views on others. You know, not stoning an adulteress, not asking someone to sacrifice t...

What is cogent in existentialism is the choice of the individual. You choose to follow Islam. That's fine, go right ahead. You can follow the precepts...

Indeed, the trinity is nonsense. But that does not mean Islam is correct.

In both cases, aphasia and locked-in syndrome, we have a capacity that was previously used and then taken away. If someone had never used "sixty", we ...

But then we should consider locked-in syndrome, where someone might understand but be unable to signal.

And yet he does talk of there being 60 people in his organisation. That's our understanding of what he said; our translation of his hand signals. But ...

SO the argument would be that he understands the concept, but is unable to use the word. Next step: unpack what it means for him to understand the con...

Good point. Being able to use a word is not restricted to being able to say it. So does he understand the meaning, despite not being able to use the w...

Yeah, we don't need to get all analytic and such. Tom Tom is a machine, and therefore doesn't understand what you are saying... except when it does. T...

...and not at all trying for a rhetorical save.