My point in the quote above that, was that nature and nurture are the same. If they are the same thing, then it makes no sense to say that there must ...
This is a good question. Your ultimate intent/goal would be to get better. How you go about achieving would be several sub-goals. I can't think of a c...
Intent to do harm is the goal to do harm. Sometimes what you intended isnt what happens. You didn't intend to cause harm. It wasn't your goal to cause...
No. You made a formal argument based on faulty prepositions. I already told you this. I questioned your first premise. You are just too dense to get i...
I never said it was. I said objective claims are about objective views. What is a claim other than a truth statement? How can you make any claim witho...
You just made an objective claim about the nature of views, as if you had an objective view of views. Do you have an objective view of views? If so, t...
You just made an objective statement - one about how things are - that "objective views are not possible". So your statement defeats itself. Is this s...
I'm going to stop you right there. The argument from evil is dependent upon a theist's claim that a god is good - about the nature of god. No claim ab...
No, they aren't. Sex is determined by biology. The expected behavior of each sex is determined by society. No matter how hard they try, society can't ...
No, it is based on the theists' claims about the nature of god. What they are saying is that IF the theist claim is true, then... No, it was based on ...
Nature doesn't have goals, like trusting the environment to complete our designs. You imply that nature has a mind. As I already told Andrew, genes ar...
Intent is a goal. What you intend is the goal you have in mind. Your willpower would the magnitude of the goal in your mind and how it determines your...
And I already said that atheists don't make those types of claims or else they wouldn't be atheists. Only theists make claims about the nature of god,...
As I already pointed out, it is you that is equivocating - using terms like, "matter", "ideas", "being" and "essences" without any clear explanation o...
I'm not shifting anything. Emotions are symbols, just as color, sounds, tastes, smells, etc. are. They refer to some state of affairs. Emotions are sp...
It's the opposite. Your distinction is an unnecessary complication. I am a determinist. I also believe that nature and nurture are one. So that makes ...
This is ridiculous. Jake's posts are even more ridiculous. "The Atheist claims - If God is the 3 O's - then God should not permit evil - therefor ther...
"Shoulds" fall into that category of value judgements. They relate to objective existence of goals. If your goal is to survive, then you should agree ...
But this contradicts the objective fact that mass delusions exist and that large groups of people can take fiction as fact. Take the belief that the E...
Oh boy - where to start? First, I never said that the overlapping definition was that they both exist. I said the overlapping definition was that they...
It's not just neural processes that are involved with emotions. There are also chemical processes. This combination is what correlates to your model (...
The Jolie example supports my argument because there are two reasons (nature and nurture) why someone would want to remove their breasts. You basicall...
Right. So, it is up to the claimant to define what it is their term refers too. What does the string of symbols, "god", refer to? Some religions call ...
It's the same qualifications you have, I'm sure, or else you'd have a lot of contradictory ideas floating around in that head of yours. All unfalsifia...
They do have overlapping definitions. They both have causal power. I said that and you agreed, right? Right. So, like I said, intent is to you as colo...
This is akin to saying that we cannot determine objectively what causes nuclear bombs to explode. We don't see atoms. We see objects. We don't see min...
Well yeah. What are you talking about when you make any claim about how things are? If you were to type "I feel happy.", do those scribbles refer to a...
But your parents are bags of genes and how they behave (raise you) is a result of their genes and their own upbringing (adopting the behavioral norms ...
I don't have to prove anything. It is your responsibility to prove that God exists in the first place to then go on to say that we can never understan...
I seems like you've lost interest in reading other people's post and are set on just restating your claim over and over. I already said that the artif...
Did your emotional state cause you to behave a certain way? Close friends and family can read you better than you can sometimes. Having a more objecti...
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness loses its power when "physical" things are simply described as things that have causal power, and both "matter" ...
Do you think this is why we have the current break between Classical Physics and Quantum Mechanics and the strangeness of QM? What do you mean by "no ...
But humans are part of nature - the environment - your social environment. I forgot to mention this last time. Modern society is just a new environmen...
Typical TS - responding to something I never said because they didn't take the time to read the whole post. I never said, nor implied, that subjectivi...
If we can use feelings as explanations for peoples' behaviors, then aren't feelings objective? Anytime that you talk about the way things are, which i...
Exactly. How does an unchanging thing cause change? That last question doesn't make sense. Which number? There are an infinite amount of numbers (infi...
No. The environment is Nature. Isn't another name for the environment, "Mother Nature" and "Natural"? Again, it's environment/nature. It seems to me t...
And give the same amount of water and soil to different seeds and the difference in genes will cause different outcomes in how they grow. It seems lik...
Loops often come to my mind when thinking about reality. Self-awareness is like a camera pointing at it's monitor and creates a visual feedback loop o...
No. It is you that has missing the point. I understand what you are trying to say. What I'm saying is that it is no different than what a materialist ...
Again, if God has a mind, then God changes. If god doesn't have a mind, then why call it God? It would just be some mindless existant, no different th...
If human beings are outcomes of natural processes, then it only makes sense to say that the things we've created are are natural as well. Separating h...
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