Really? You're answering a question with a question? Why is it so difficult for you to back up your position of disagreement? The conversation can con...
I just had to come to the forums early this morning to see all the left-wingers whine. The country has been a divided, polarized mess before Trump got...
So you're saying that my statement is outdated? You've gone from pleading to the majority to the genetic fallacy. When someone on these forums mention...
Then you were wasting your time telling me something I already know - that others disagree. Great post. :-\ Apparently, I'm not going to receive a rea...
Whether many others agree is irrelevant. That is simply pleading to the majority and we all know that the majority of people who thought the Earth was...
The limits of science aren't due to the limits of the process itself, but due to the limits of our own senses and ability to reason in a consistent wa...
If that means that I won't have to read any more of your ad hoc hypotheses to prevent your failing explanations from being falsified, then good riddan...
Actually, it's that you don't understand that one cannot exist without the other. The rationalist vs. empiricist shouldn't be arguing, they should be ...
How does one validate any idea except empirically? The cosmological argument has the same problem as any other God hypothesis. It doesn't explain why ...
Jim refers to his experiences of the sun rising hundreds of times as the justification of his belief. Sue cannot refer to any experience, but simply "...
It's not sound because if there is no beginning then it would be illogical to count moments. The only thing you could do is start with an arbitrary mo...
Appealing to the majority, Mongrel? How... illogical. The universe itself functions along certain lines - causal and consistent. Our brains (and compu...
A "logical principle" is an idea. There are no logical principles outside of our heads. There are processes that are lawful in that they are consisten...
I think you're being purposely obtuse, but I'll ask it a different way. How do you know when you performing logic? Don't you have to have an experienc...
If you and others in this thread weren't denying this then what were we even at odds with as my point was that thoughts and reasoning take the form of...
It seems logical to conclude that natural selection would favor organisms that can change their behaviors on the fly because the environment is dynami...
Again, I ask: What form does your reasoning take? You simply can't omit the fact that symbols are required for logic. How would you even know that you...
And my point is that you must have had some sensory experience in order to reason. If you didn't then what form does your reasoning take? What is it t...
We've already been over this, Wayfarer. Several others mentioned mathematics also which I already showed that you need a visual experience of symbols,...
Because evolution by natural selection isn't inconsistent, biased "selection". It is simply a process that engineers organisms to master changing envi...
Ok then point out what my explanation doesn't explain. What is missing? Isn't it simply the fact that most people have an emotional investment in thei...
Then you're not familiar with modern theories in neuro science and psychology. Exactly - just as the number and kinds of sensory devices you have redu...
Well, we know that there are hermits which distance themselves from society. They take no part in it and seem to be able to take care of themselves an...
They are all strings of symbols that refer to (mean) something other than the symbols themselves. What they refer to is some external process to the m...
That all depends on the social environment one finds oneself in. People who lie and don't get caught can usually get what they want, but it's that par...
How do we know that these other ideas are "unconscious"? Our brains are modular and we could have several different parts forming different concepts w...
No. That's not all my post says. Defining these terms would certainly be a starting point and would build a good foundation for what we are talking ab...
I'm not disagreeing that the ability to organize sensations isn't less inherent in the nature of the mind than the sensations themselves. Without eith...
You're conflating the process of organizing sensations with the sensations themselves. You must have something to organize - sensory symbols. You must...
But the "effects" of God are visible to the eyes. The effect (like your existence) is what needs to be explained and your mind seeks explanations for ...
Are you saying that these blind and deaf mathematicians were born knowing mathematics, or were they taught it? If the latter then how did they learn i...
Primarily from our sense of vision. Our sense of vision provides us with the most information about the environment than any of our other senses. We a...
My sense of vision. Could you do math without visual symbols - like numbers? Math is just another form of language. Notice how you had to put up visua...
What is an idea? Every idea is composed of some sensory impression. We think in colors, shapes, sounds (language is just colored shapes and sounds), s...
Well, that depends on how you define, "meaning". Some have already claimed that "meaning" refers to some end goal. The problem with this is that one c...
Why would the robot need to experience blue in order to know what blue represents? Why couldn't it represent a 475nm wavelength of EM energy with some...
Exactly. So, in order to single out one of those (philosophical) theories from all the rest and make it valid, you'd need to perform testing and falsi...
Uhh. By using science. Duh! Which philosophical theory that hasn't been tested is better than any that also hasn't been tested? Which one would you sa...
The Democrats have done more to deny their own voters a voice by what they did to Bernie. I agree that the elections are rigged to sustain a two party...
Philosophy is a science. The conclusions of one branch of investigation of reality must not contradict those of another. All knowledge must be integra...
...and in my next post, I admitted that people can use the term, "world" to mean/refer to different things. When are you going to get over something I...
Religion is subjective which includes seeking truth through faith and revelation. Science is objective, making use of methods of investigation and pro...
Re-read my post. I acknowledged that people may use different terms for "everything that exists". As I have tried to show you before "meaning" is what...
Sigh... No, Wayfarer, science is in no way related to religion. They are different methods of seeking truth. One is based on authority and tradition, ...
Yes, Earth is another meaning of "world" and many people can mean/refer to different things with a word that has a fluid meaning. But then fluid meani...
But we do need to ask the question because if other domains have a causal relationship with our domain, then there are effects here in this domain cau...
To me, the world is all that is - the objective reality, which includes subjective perspectives of it. It is everything. So for someone to say the phr...
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