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That is a misrepresentation of what I have said. I have pointed out that religious ideas can lead to evil acts. I've argued that theology deriving fro...

Yes. And this interpretation stands. Indeed, the two interpretations are not obviously mutually exclusive. You might also find intolerance of atheism ...

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Yep. He's been misrepresenting you throughout this discussion and elsewhere, as is his habit.

Not so much. I've avoided mentioning Islam in this context becasue of the knee-jerk prejudicial reaction... and your account is exactly what I'd expec...

My understanding, and I may well be wrong, is that it is a prime influence on Islam; Absolute Submission. That would be easier on you, I presume. But ...

Already on Solar.

I'm not that interested.

Why? Even so, it remains that the story is understood by many as advising one to maintain one's faith even if one believes that god is asking for an a...

You seem to have covered that adequately. So far as I can see, this thread is finished. And was, long ago.

But I had understood that being offended was a symptom of being woke.

Well put. Is the argument being presented here now that in a philosophy forum, when asked specifically about faith, we should not entertain or discuss...

Just to be sure, the Binding of Issac is understood as an exhortation to faith, especially in adversity. A quick search on ChatGPT: It's not as if thi...

Seems we have broad agreement.

I, and others, have. You can't see it. Indeed, you have quite explicitly refused to see it. Not our problem.

Not always. They might come to pass. They do this when the possible world is the actual world.

I like dumb jokes. Sometimes.

Water presumably was H?o in Aristotle's day. But I'm pretty sure Aristotle never called it "water". And if water were not H?O in ancient Greece, then ...

Well, you can ask folk to burn there books, which would make your life more interesting. Yep.

That's all very curious, , but where does it get us? I guess I’ll have to respond to each item. Yep, all cats are cats. Whether a cat can be a dog wou...

That's pretty close. And "A property had by a thing that we cannot imagine it existing without" works for many purposes. The formal definition is some...

Ok. Anyone in this thread?

Who does this?

Leon. Kripke: Identity and Necessity? or Naming and Necessity, reading group? and Naming and necessity Lecture Three? Been a few others, too. Here's t...

Too late. It's not mine to change. These is the accepted term. Not mine to change.

Repeating your errors does not reduce them.

The Libs consider themselves to be the natural party of government, in their entitled way, despite never actually achieving enough seats to govern in ...

Just to add, the Libs are far more ideologically driven than the more pragmatic ALP. Hence the dearth of policy.

I quite agree. Downside is that the Labor gov will have no strong supervision. The Greens will be the effective Opposition, via their power in the Sen...

Yes, but... doing so supposes support for a move to the centre. See this article: This has been the state of play in the ACT, where the Liberals have ...

So does Ley have an expiry date? Or will she be kept as a figurehead, a small "l" Liberal, so they can pretend to be reforming? I don't think the Boys...

That looks like the second option. The ALP specifies socialism in it's charter, so I doubt it.

Scenario one: the Libs finalise their divorce the Nats, clean out all the right wing nutters and adopt genuine liberal policies with a social conscien...

Yep. It's rather a way of setting that logical status out, and in a broader context. But what it does put the lie to are ideas along the lines that lo...

The semantics of possible worlds just says that we understand "it is possible that it will rain tomorrow" as stipulating for our consideration two pos...

:wink: Did they not recognise the peace offering?

Cool. There's a bunch of ambiguities in Leon's formalism that muck it up. "Water" rigidly designates H?O, and does so even when we talk about what hap...

Yep John had a drink of water=John had a drink of H?O Substitution works, so it's transparent. John knew he had a drink of water ? John knew he had a ...

Sure. Yep. Fixed to "water is necessarily H?O, D?O, HDO or T?O". As discussed, I'd simplify all this by just stipulating that the "H" in H?O incudes a...

Sure. We covered that previously. Of course it depends on how you use the term "water". It's a side issue. Here we are in effect supposing that the ex...

Nice.

So the concern is that at some future date we re-assess "Water is necessarily H?O" and decide that it is false. Well, then we would say that water is ...

Water is necessarily H?O. However, prior to Cavendish, folk did not use the expression "water is H?O", and did not know that water was H?O. That seems...

So we now agree that the binding of Isaac would be immoral even if he were a consenting adult. Ok.

On a quick look, I'm not seeing much to commend here. Why would I care whether Quine was more like Aristotle or Plato, when Kripke, who is not mention...

Nuh. Instead of worrying about meaning, worry about what folk do. I'm not asking folk to burn their book, just that they not to use it as an excuse fo...

Meh. This just looks lazy. "I'll only consider stuff that reinforces the views I already have".

Is wisdom found in the book, or in the conversations and interpretations of the book? The alternate story might be understood as a way of showing how ...

And what do you think of this? Will you be off to join an exclusive religious community - or are you already a member? Do you think this an admirable ...

This is a reading of the Binding that is told in parallel to reading it as an admonition against human sacrifice. It's the target of much of my argume...