Only problem with this is that the hard sciences do exactly that. One can argue that some of the ancient Greek metaphysicians were getting at the real...
Martin Luther said that human nature is like a drunk trying to ride a horse. He falls off one side, gets back on vowing not to fall off that side, and...
That's really disrespectful. Not that it surprises me, but an elected official usually doesn't mock a citizen in public, particularly one claiming to ...
The ground of being God escapes this sort of objection. But in that case, it's misleading to say that God created the universe, as if God were one mor...
That's true. I recall when Bill Clinton was first elected. I was taking a class. Two of the Republicans in the room refused to give him a chance. That...
I doubt very much that God, if such a being exists, would have much to do with human wants and reasoning. We're just apes that evolved on one little r...
Wouldn't the cat be doing the equivalent of taking a measurement, creating a definite result? I never understood why the cat could be in a superpositi...
Only if you imagine the Great Goat to be at the top of the Great Chain of Eating. But if instead you think of the Great Goat as that which makes eatin...
There is no Utopia. But there's better and worse, and tradeoffs. We might decide as a species at some point that humans just can't be trusted with pow...
Animals can, we're animals, ergo obviously yes. It's just very useful for us to put that knowledge into language. One can see that as a symptom of phi...
Maybe in a few decades the machines will be ready for us to hand such matters over to them. I can't remember which book it was, but I'm thinking off q...
Wouldn't that just depend on the situation? It's easy enough to imagine convincing scenarios. Just watch any show like Supernatural, or the movies lik...
And if we're going to be abusing terms, then it's not apathy that does the killing, it's ideology. Apathetic people are too apathetic to get worked up...
Nah, that's just a BS mantra by society to try and shame people into doing what the collective wants them to do. So basically you should vote for the ...
You really think the Democrats are against the confirmation for that reason? They don't want him because of how he might vote as Supreme Court justice...
I really wish the Judicial branch was entirely independent from all the politics of the other two branches, but I guess that's part of the checks and ...
That depends on whether the backlash is amongst swing voters or people who would have otherwise stayed home. It doesn't help if it's just those of us ...
Right, using 'red' to denote a color is arbitrary, but the debate is over whether words have an internal meaning in the head of speakers, or the meani...
It is, but I question whether humans are reliable enough to count it as evidence. There have been cases of picking the wrong person out of a lineup, o...
Calling it a conspiracy theory makes it sound like politics doesn't involve attempts to smear people or dig up skeletons to prevent them from taking o...
I doubt that. From what I've read and heard so far, opinion tends to break along political lines. But I'll agree with the posters who said each Senato...
But what's the probability when a big political decision is at play? Why is it that accusations come out right before someone controversial is about t...
I don't think the meanings of words is exclusively in their usage to the extent that we can ignore what the brain is doing cognitively. There's an cog...
Well, I'm not sure that's quite the case under intuitionism, where infinity is only a potential, and the only natural numbers that exist are the ones ...
Depends on whether one believes computers can think, or whether it would require a robot for a machine to understand math. Humans learn math because o...
In the movie (and book) Contact, SETI detects an alien signal because it's broadcasting a repeating sequence of prime numbers from 1 to 101. The idea ...
I think one could make a persuasive argument that the concept two the english word "two" denotes is an essential meaning, since there is going to be t...
The only reason for being an atheist is because you don't believe in any gods. That's it. There's no merit or value. It just is. One might feel good a...
The universe doesn't need us. We're born, humans evolved, space is vast, life inhabits all sorts of habitats we don't. Also, we depend on things like ...
And your experiences are unlikely to ever be exactly the same as mine. You can't know that it was my dream, or even a dream, without me telling you. A...
Sure, mental process are part of nature. The problem here is that mental processes can be about things that are not part of nature. Our understanding ...
However we wish to categorize the matter, even in reality there is a difference between subject perceptions of the world, and subject-generated experi...
Yeah, but I don't exist as you, so I don't have the same experiences. But you can't know this without being told. There are limits. I can't know what ...
Good rebuttal, but I think it confuses the process with the conceptual apparatus that makes it possible. We don't get numbers, operations or equations...
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