Harry Hindu

In other words, you don't have one example of a question that irrationality has answered. What is ironic is that you keep making rational statements i...

Each side claiming to be right is a matter of their opinion. The cases leading to contradictory conclusions is is a result of there being no objective...

Blaming, praising and judgement of guilt are the same as holding someone responsible. So that would be circular. Trust and distrust would be the same ...

What a pitiful argument. I believe in unicorns. Some would disagree. Thus the "failure" of reason in the the field of the existence of unicorns. :-}

More nonsense. In your first sentence you say that I'm interpreting his idea philosophically (well, we are in a philosophical internet forum). Then in...

Then why don't you be clear on what statements you have made that you consider illogical, but not nonsensical.

Great. So then we agree that what something means has to do with the causal relationship between what we see (the effect) and the cause of what we see...

Uhh.... How else do you hold someone responsible for their actions? What does "holding one responsible for their actions" mean, or entail?

2+2=5 is nonsensical. Let me make it simple. If you commit a logical fallacy you would effectively be illogical. In other words, when you aren't confo...

I'd say that it's silly. "Irrationality" and "fallacious reasoning" mean the same thing. What do you mean? Any time that you make an argument for some...

It's not really about holding one responsible for their actions. Punishment is meant as a deterrent for that person, and others, from thinking about p...

Nonsense. Really. If you intend to make sense, or find a consensus, or make some argument of how things are, then you must be rational. If not, then w...

Right. But how do we come to know such things? What does it mean to find the bones of some dead animal, that we've never seen, buried in ancient rock?

How has rationality failed in it's application to ethics? What other "issues" have not yielded the "desired" results? Results are results. If they are...

So, the rings wouldn't actually "mean" the age of the tree if an observer wasn't there to observe the rings? It's funny then, that meaning becomes a p...

He just did. It's all there is. Everything around you, you, everything beyond what you can see and that has a causal relation with everything that you...

How is it that you can acquire knowledge of some cause by observing it's effect? Andrewk seems to say that we never possess knowledge of some cause, j...

Meaning is the relationship between cause and effect. What do the rings in a tree stump mean? They are the result of how the tree grows throughout the...

Even then, there isn't enough money that we can take away from the obscenely rich to pull everyone out of poverty. Who do you choose to keep in povert...

Dollars are worthless when there aren't enough resources to sustain the population. Even if everyone had a million dollars, it would do them no good w...

Tiger Woods? How many of the mighty have fallen? It's easy to provide more examples.

So A couldn't have a run of bad luck along with the combination of possible bad decision or two?

There have been scientists that say the opposite, that the brain despises mysteries, hence our natural tendency to solve them, or to figure things out...

How did A win that first hand? Couldn't you say that he had no control over the hand he was dealt? The same could happen in the next round for someone...

Google, "what is the GDP of the world". Of course it does. Dollars is how we measure wealth. No, there isn't. You seem to think that the world populat...

Which side is the "hot-shots"? The side that gets overthrown every once in awhile by the overwhelming numbers of those that aren't "hot-shots"? The "h...

I could hand you a dictionary/encyclopedia, but wouldn't you prefer to experience x for yourself? Why is a dictionary full of pictures better than one...

That's another aspect of consciousness that many refer to - that first person nature, or the subjectivity. But doesn't that also seem to be an integra...

It depends on whether or not you's seen x before. If you have never seen x, then it requires that I define x for you, so that you may picture x in you...

Then ask the new life - the children, "Would you prefer that you had never been?" Their response might be something like, "Life is but a game. Sometim...

Life is a pleasure in the groin... It's what keeps our species going, If we all thought life was only a pain in the ass, we'd all kill ourselves en ma...

In other words, you were aware that you were asleep. How could you say that you're asleep if you didn't possess the knowledge that you were asleep, an...

I thought it was your argument that meaning is related to word use. If it isn't then we have no disagreement. I don't see how you can say that when yo...

The only time I used "supernatural" is to ask what it means and to show that it's meaning, as provided by you and others, is inconsistent. If you can'...

How typical. When you can't find yourself out of your own hole you dug, you simply throw your hands in the air and give up and go on believing the sam...

Of course it's a biggie because it shows that your words refer to other things, and that is what you mean when you say them. I should just drop the mi...

So in all the eternity before the creation of the natural world, the gods, angels, devils and spirits never communicated the idea of the reality in wh...

Of course they do. Hobbits existence beyond the visible observable universe, don't they? Where have you seen a hobbit, or a devil, for that matter? Ho...

Wait a second, are you even reading my posts? Are you agreeing at all with what I said about your mother, about typing words on screen, and all those ...

If that is your answer, then I obviously didn't understand your point you were trying to make when I asked you why angels are supernatural and hobbits...

Ok, great. We are now in agreement that four-leggedness isn't an inherent feature of dogs because it's not in the definition (something you told be to...

But, as I said before, "supernatural" carries with it the connotation of "divinity". If supernatural was only related to things that haven't yet been ...

Because we share ideas. I can have the same idea in my head as you without you communicating it. Why do you think people congregate into like-minded g...

The only thing I'm arguing for now, because you seem to have given up on the primary discussion of "supernatural" vs. "natural", is that things have m...

It is the shared meaning of the word that I learned. If intent isnt related to meaning then why do we say things like, "What did you mean?" or, "what ...

Exactly. Just because something has four legs doesnt make it a dog. There must something more to being a dog than just having four legs. In fact, it i...

I just couldn't help myself: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAJV5kOUIAArzDz.jpg ...too funny.

If having four legs were an inherent trait of being a dog, then what prevents you from labeling all four-legged animals, "dogs"? Ok. https://www.merri...

Well, I did include in that same post the idea that for communication to happen, that your listener would have to understand your use of terms. If you...

Then having, three, four, or no legs isn't an inherent trait of being a dog. It seems to me that things have several traits, not just one, and it is t...