It's raining, so I'll play with the notion of faith a bit more. An exercise from J. L. Austin is to look up a key term in a dictionary, then look up e...
frankly I think you would benefit from some study of formal logic. Think on that for a bit. Why shouldn't there be rules that apply in one world, but ...
This didn't come up on my notifications. Odd. Starting a discussion with a definition is usually a mistake. It turns the conversation into a fight ove...
Well, no, it doesn't. It deals with it by clarifying what's going on in metaphysical chat. That Kant made much the same error as Plato is not all that...
So 'Wayfarer" is a universal? No. That doesn't follow, and he doesn't, anyway. Back to playing with 'exists'. If a 'ligatures of reason' is logical st...
Thanks. A thoughtful reply. I'm struck by how much this is an evaluation. And an evaluation that debases the physical world. A hierarchy, the commons ...
Thanks for clarifying. It's the general picture to which I would draw attention, much the same as the quote Wittgenstein used as his starting block in...
Yep. The slippery slope. You need faith to fly a plane, so why not have faith in the Trinity - as if these were on par. There are multiple uses of the...
No. I said the marker of faith is holding on to a belief - that your friend will pick you up or that the bread is flesh - despite the evidence. We are...
That's all? For all my efforts? At least let me know if you agree, and if not, perhaps where and why. Or was your aim just to drag me back into this m...
I'm not seeing that this is useful, nor how it makes a difference, nor indeed how it might count against what I wrote. But I do not grant your definit...
It isn't. But reifying it is. You've had a read, I hope, of Austin's Are There A Priori Concepts?. I've mentioned it so many times over the years. I c...
I haven't been following this discussion. I've pretty much said what I thought already. So my answer here may well be out of context. We might agree t...
He said a bit more than just that. As Hanover pointed out, he held that true knowledge is knowledge of the forms, and developed a proto-scientific met...
One can see and respect the merit of Plato's ideas - and ideals - without accepting them. His is a brilliant account. There is a difference between un...
That the forms rest on a mistaken theory of reference is not a theory about Plato's motivation. It's nto that Plato invented the Forms because he misu...
If that were so, the notion of 'reification" would be rendered senseless. If nothing is concrete, then there could be no making something abstract mor...
The usual problem of evil is that a theistic god who creates hell is not a nice person; the Lewis extension to that is that those who worship such a g...
Is there such a crisis? Sure, @"Wayfarer" says there is, but the crisis seems on analysis to be just that folk disagree with his view. So, what's the ...
Cheers. I stand corrected. Yet what is it that was supposedly lost? The god botherers have taken to posting en masse; a symptom of something... but wh...
The theory of forms is an application of a mistaken theory of reference. That theory holds that names refer to things, and that therefore, if there is...
The "idea that if God exists, he must operate like a benevolent manager of human well-being" is not something to which folk outside of the theistic tr...
I would characterise the thread quite differently. You can read Lewis' argument and comment on it. The punishment of the damned is infinitely dispropo...
Folk have a misguided view of the effectiveness of punishment. Evidence shows that being certain that they will be caught has a much higher deterrent ...
One Nation and the Liberal Party have apparently done a vote deal. Hanson has pulped how to vote cards in order to put the Liberals ahead of Teals. Li...
The master of slide put it like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fFdc-karA ...looks like a request for a discussion of the nature of free spe...
We need to take care to seperate logically possible worlds form physically possible worlds. There are finite possible worlds, logically speaking, if t...
Pretty much. But in the scenario of the OP, that replacement does not occur. Therefore harm is done to the parents. It's pretty deaf to Singer's argum...
I agree. Provocative, that a year ago we were toying with these word-stringers, and how we are now in a position to compare and contrast various "arti...
Meh. I'll be voting early for reasons of simple convenience. Those who would change their vote because of some last minute change in policy place too ...
It's your argument, but that's not how I read it. The argument in a nutshell appears to be that genocidal infanticide would for Singer morally neutral...
Yep. The main source is Practical Ethics. Now somewhat dated. Here's a sympathetic piece on trying to understand Singer: What I learned about disabili...
To exist might well be to stand in a relation to something else - perhaps this would be one way to understand Quine, for example. But to restrict the ...
Not that clearly. It suggests the unlikely situation where the parents are OK with having their infants killed. We might pass such circumstances over....
I'm not a fan of consequentialism, but the OP shows a poor understanding of Singer's approach. Put simply, the parents of those infants would be a bit...
In response to 's thread... Not too shabby, actually. The first and second paragraphs hints at the wrestle with personhood found in his more recent wr...
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