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And why would we want to avoid an infinite regress?

I meant to say, the set of facts that explain, and only explain, the set of facts that aren't self-explanatory. I agree.

According to some believers omnipotence doesn't mean that God can do things that are logically possible. By "omnipotent" they mean can do anything tha...

No, just because I don't have an explanation of the physical universe it doesn't follow that my materialism posits a brute fact. And even if did posit...

@"Banno", does the Great Goat eat goats that eat themselves? Because if not, then there is The Great Goat paradox: the Great Goat eats only every Goat...

Here's an article showing that you can't put all your trust in the dictionary. I bring this up because some users here try to prove a point using only...

What I meant was that perception doesn't create order in the world. I'd agree that the act of perceiving creates order to mental phenomena from messy ...

Look, do you want me to respond to your posts or not? I don't know. And I have a question for you: Why is there something rather than nothing? The for...

You can't perceive something that isn't there, otherwise you'd just be imagining it. If you environment is chaotic, then all you can perceive is the c...

I can't respond to bunch of bullet points. What is your argument? No it's not. My materialism is a philosophical position.

If an event happens at one time and the cause comes a second later, there is the second where the event is uncaused. How can an event be uncaused and ...

Not necessarily. Truth may not make us happy in the short term, but if you avoid the truth and do self-destructive things that make you happy in the s...

Another question that is relevant is - what type of threads do you like? And what type of threads don't you like ( don't say my threads :joke: )?

The medications that effect the neurotransmitters are not correcting some chemical imbalance as that's a myth Psychoactive medication that are used to...

Whatever it is they believe they don't call it brain disorders. The DSM doesn't call ADHD an unknown brain disorder with causes such and such symptoms...

I've never heard of person who believes that minds don't exist. I know that psychiatrists are limited by lack of knowledge of the brain. However, it s...

Commodities are valuable things. They have value by definition. I'm basically asking what makes paper bills a commodity?

The foreign exchange market doesn't do that?

Banno please stop acting the goat. https://youtu.be/LBGyPZkpWz8

Or you could be having a psychotic episode.

It could be something that can't be explained by science but is not in conflict with laws of nature. In other words, it is complementary with nature n...

I'm not making a statement on whether or not evidence of the supernatural is possible. I'm genuinely interested in what would count as evidence for th...

I liked Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne.

There are only two things that are certain: death and me getting the last word.

I think it would be called a technocracy.

Taking land usually involves war which can get really ugly. I don't think fighting a war in order to take someone's land is moral. Not necessarily. Yo...

Never try to teach a @"CuddlyHedgehog" to hug. Elephants will learn to jump rope before ________.

What is a charade? :joke:

How? I did not intend to propose subjective idealism. I am not sure if my position does imply subjective idealism. If there were no intelligent beings...

Okay, I'll include them. How could the universe exist without us or them (if they exist)?

I'd like to take my girl to the park and make love in the moonlight. I really don't give a ____ about other people and that's why I have no ____.

I know who it is because I googled the phrase you gave. I'm therefore disqualified. I never heard of him before. I'll let someone else answer.

Who is Saul Kripke???

Who is Thomas Hobbes?

It makes no sense to be upset over spoiled milk. There's no _______ in a _________.

Correct.

This German logician and mathematician was famous for his work in the philosophy of language. Also known as the father of analytical philosophy.

Who is Descartes? Bold is mine.

Somebody got the last word in the last forum.

I would rather go back in time and stop my former self creating this thread instead of having to spend a ridiculous amount of time thinking of a good ...

That's a matter of opinion.

This philosopher is famous for his pronouncement that God is dead.

Correct. What is rationalism?

. I'll just have outlive all of you to get the last word. That shouldn't be too hard.

I think knowledge is very mysterious just like consciousness and I don't think the regress argument does it justice.

What does the regress argument have to say about 'self evident truths'?

But these are not random questions. Aren't you implicitly excepting the regress argument as true when you interrogate the believer? It's a nice strate...

What did you do to me? Who are you? Why me? Confucius say...______.

What's up with the recent threads asking personal questions. Soon they'll be asking for your SS number.

Knock Knock Knocking on heaven's door, answer or i'll use drugs to get to you. Life is like a box of ____ everything is so _____.