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Do you mean that you were being ironic? No? OK then - well that simply doesn't work because the whole point of science is to break the reality into sm...
December 17, 2019 at 00:38
Theology without a theos? I like that idea.
December 17, 2019 at 00:22
So should we also have a cancer-denying field of study to counter-balance mainstream cancer research?
December 17, 2019 at 00:10
That's what happens when you try to categorize a continuum...16 million colours - but there's still only one rainbow - and it is a naturally occurring...
December 16, 2019 at 22:23
I think that's right - but then what we can do (in the light of your other comments) about the 'essentialist' part of the process? To say, "its contra...
December 16, 2019 at 19:55
Well in terms of human gender categories, it wouldn't be an infinite regress, just about 7 and a half billion maximum at one time (as of now). I'm pre...
December 16, 2019 at 03:01
I think its more the recognition that "happenings" are the real "stuff" of reality - there are really no "points" in space or "moments" in time - thes...
December 12, 2019 at 20:29
"The correspondence theory seems to be easy to understand – on the surface. It says that something is true if it corresponds to known facts. So, “Gras...
December 12, 2019 at 01:23
Well no again - matter is really just a form of energy (E=mc^2) and the net energy of the universe is exactly the same now as it was "in the beginning...
December 11, 2019 at 22:49
No - time exists within the universe - that's probably where you're going wrong.
December 11, 2019 at 22:34
But then the argument is invalidated because it is based on the premise that everything that exists has a cause. Your argument is essentially: There a...
December 11, 2019 at 22:04
Therefore there can be no first cause...because a first cause can have no prior cause and therefore cannot exist. Its not about agreeing to differ, yo...
December 11, 2019 at 21:17
If you insist. If, as you began your argument, there is no first cause, that does not imply that there are no other causes - indeed, my argument is th...
December 11, 2019 at 20:51
Yes I see flaws in your logic.
December 11, 2019 at 20:17
Yes.
December 11, 2019 at 20:16
Okey dokey then! We've progressed from "dumb" and Wikipedia, to "child" and "magic"...and still no logical argument establishing the claimed impossibi...
December 10, 2019 at 23:00
Well that gets back to - who was it - Russel's (?) - counter argument...there is such a number as -1 (yes?) so in the series of negative integers, wha...
December 10, 2019 at 22:12
But how can you prove logically that it is "impossible"? Just because someone - even someone as smart as Aquinas - can't get their head around it does...
December 10, 2019 at 20:02
Well no they don't really, indeed it seems to be a fundamental (not just practical) limitation of the universe that "particles" (whatever those are) c...
December 09, 2019 at 23:15
Is preaching warranted? From a Christian POV (not that I have one of those, you understand), I'm told by some people who do have one, that preaching i...
December 09, 2019 at 22:23
You are moving relative to more or less everything else - you just don't sense it because because you are sitting on a fairly large lump of rock that ...
December 09, 2019 at 21:59
In this argument you contend that the "lack of an initial state invalidates all the subsequent states - a system’s initial state determines all subseq...
December 09, 2019 at 20:48
Wrong - an infinite regress of anything has no first term - that's all you can say...using the example of the negative integers, I can think of the bi...
December 09, 2019 at 19:53
Is it? Apart from imaginary billiard tables, why? And also - think of it the other way round - if at some future point, all the particles in the unive...
December 09, 2019 at 03:13