An odd wording, but not wrong. It gets complex, of course. As shown in the links above, the logic of possibility and necessity - modal logic - has a s...
I agree. It's not offered as a definition, as I hoped was clear from the previous few pages, where I indulged Austin's method in order to set out the ...
Funny, I thought I saw that a few days ago on the ABC, but can't see it now. I wondered if it was old news that news.com.au only just caught up with. ...
Compulsory Voting in Australia Electoral Commission page with history, comparison with other countries and so on. Remember that the compulsion is not ...
You again tempt me in to threads I really should just avoid. A good way to think of an axiom is as constitutive of a language game. So Euclid's Axioms...
One more time, then. You have simply equated faith and trust in authority, then argued that every instance of trust in authority must thereby be an in...
One last explanation before you go buy a sausage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXHq04W0kBs&t=7s ...and it might be useful for the foreigners to l...
Put simply, those worlds in which LNC is contradicted are not possible worlds. That ought confuse you even more... In a world in which the LNC is cont...
Yep. We should also keep clear the distinction between volition and physics. Giving an order involves volition, on the part of the order-giver and the...
If you think black holes do not exist, what do you do next? Do you explain, predict, and revise, Investigate the objection, and use Assertive/testable...
Ok. Can you understand how from were I stand that looks insincere? I've given a substantive account of the nature of faith, over several posts and usi...
Loooks to be two very different things. To get anywhere would have to show how T-sentences could be used here. And T-sentences do not make use of atom...
Spot on. Hence the very denial of the existence of transgender folk that impedes the understanding of the so many here. It's "beyond the pale"; it is ...
That's an issue of accessibility, it seems to me. So the day before the battle might occur, the possible world in which it takes place and the possibl...
Pretty simple. God's being loving and merciful is incompatible with his damning folk for eternity. Any retort is ad hoc sophistry. Further, those who ...
I dunno, Bob. I've given you much more about what I think faith means than just a five word definition. I've also shown how faith is at its most appar...
Perhaps we have a beautifully apt demonstration of bad faith in Leon's posts. Bad faith is an insincere performative, the mere pretence of engaging in...
ChatGPT identified three "clusters" in the use of "faith": faith as trust in persons or things; faith as adherence to doctrines or beliefs; and faith ...
I'll try again. Any "precise" definition of a complex term will miss some of that term's common uses. Hence, no such definition can capture the full u...
A bit of analysis on AUKUS from the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Built on "Hopes and Dreams" – AUKUS and the Future of Australian F...
Temporal possible world semantics allows for multiple accessible futures, while scientific determinism implies only one fixed future. If determinism i...
Excellent. A version for those of a more analytic persuasion, b y way of checking my understanding: Reality always exceeds the concepts we apply to it...
There are two possible worlds that are accessible from today. In one, the sea battle occurs. In the other, it doesn't. In no possible world does the s...
Yep There is plenty of space for a richer rejoinder, along several lines. My attempt... 1. Faith is not believing without evidence so much as believin...
claims that critics bring a hostile definition of faith into the debate. But religious tradition itself prizes faith most where reason gives out — whe...
Yes. it'll be a big story only if the private media pick it up. As it stands, it'll be rejected as "Hate Media". Sky's headline? "Albanese forced to a...
As am I. I'm interested becasue of ethical concerns, and the appeal of respect for the suffering of particular beings that are "crushed" by universali...
Faith and trust are different things, no? Sure, trust is a part of faith, but not the whole. So, what's the bit extra? I've given my account: that fai...
Dutton thinks a dozen eggs cost $4.20. The last debate was a rehash, of course. That bastion of the "hate media", the Guardian, has a summation: Who w...
That paragraph is particularly perspicuous. Indeed. Addenda: I left this thread and went to , where I found what is apparently a case in point of the ...
Father O'Hara was a priest who participated in a Symposium on Science and Religion in 1930, who apparently argued for Catholic Doctrine on scientific ...
Yep. Here's 240: Faith, again, is epitomised by belief continuing when the other things you know and the have heard and seen show your belief to be wr...
Yep. The sort of immorality spoken of earlier in this thread and elsewhere, exemplified by the Binding of Issac, is a case in point - where a blatantl...
Religious traditions themselves emphasise believing without seeing. For example, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe" — John 20:29. S...
I probably should be clear that I would still count faith as a virtue. Sometimes we must make a leap. Or commitment to fragile, finite things — like l...
:lol: Did you take a look at the SEP article on Faith? Even a quick glance will show that the issue is far from settled, especially amongst the believ...
Also noticed This is an unaddressed aspect, worthy of some contemplation. Faith is about community, about "us" and "them"... as can be seen in this ve...
Some might find this tool interesting... a meta analysis from SEP. https://www.inphoproject.org/idea/1569.html or here: https://www.hypershelf.org/sep...
I asked "Tom was surprised that "evidence" was not found." Notice the "But once the definition of faith shifts toward loyalty, duty, trust, or group b...
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