What else can perform faulty reasoning except organisms? What is faulty reasoning? Your excuse in not answering the questions is pathetic. That is how...
I don't know of any reputable physicists who claim that the universe purposely developed to give rise to life. Why isn't life everywhere, or any other...
This is the either/or fallacy. There are more options. You are just ignoring them because they don't fit the presumptions you've made in this thread. ...
Right. So it comes down to asking the right questions to get the right explanation. Philosophy is rife with asking the wrong questions. F=ma always wo...
You admit that there is a brain. Whose brain? You admit that there is a mind. Whose mind? Where is it relative to other minds? As I have said before, ...
Laws are models of the way things are. If there are limits in the laws, then that is a representation of the limits in nature. So people don't have an...
if you hope that I live in a world of my own then you are hoping for your non-existence as a real person outside of my world. Are you a real person or...
Outside of yours - just like yours is to mine - which is to say in my head. The question should be, if we are not in our heads then why does it appear...
More nonsense. Brains, and what they think about, are part of the world. Imagined trees can be a causal influence on the rest of the world as much as ...
This is a great example of a "philosopher" who has let his imagination run away with him. Seeing only occurs in a brain/mind. Not "out there". Seeing ...
The only thing "out there" is light reflecting off of, or being absorbed by, various surfaces. The image in the mirror appears only in the mind. It is...
Where are other minds in relation to your mirror? Do we each have our own mirror? I've used a similar analogy of a video camera looking back at the mo...
No. Meaning resides in the relationship between cause and effect -which is to say that meaning can reside externally to minds. Minds merely try to get...
This reply is just one giant circular argument. In the link that Michael provided on the first page of this thread - and that you agreed with - also e...
Less guns in schools actually is one of the problems. Gun-free zones are where these kinds of attacks take place, which is why you have to wait for th...
There is one way to interpret the Constitution - by looking up the quotes of the founding fathers (the authors of the document) that relate to and exp...
...and neither has anyone else in this thread except yourself. Its a red herring. You're off-topic. So people don't have a right to choose their own p...
As I said, I already addressed the mental illness issue. The fact is that you are engaging in selective outrage. What about the uncountable number of ...
Wrong. Trump and the rest of the govt. are not saying the same thing as me. I have proposed that legalizing, or at least de-criminalizing drugs, is a ...
I didn't include suicide for good reason. People have the right to choose to live their lives or end it. They do not have the right to end other peopl...
This is ridiculous. I never said that school shootings are drug-related. I said that most shooting are related to drugs and gangs. So you want to enga...
Race cars and monster trucks aren't banned completely. You can still own them, just not drive them on the road. The comparison with guns would be that...
Is the increase of .9% true for all countries? If so, then why not compare all countries instead of making exceptions for developed ones? The facts I ...
There are nations with strict gun laws that have a higher rate of gun violence than nations without. There are also nations with strict gun laws that ...
Cherry-picking. In the rest of that post I also said... In other words, we don't let certain people who have exhibited violent tendencies to own a fir...
Isn't that your claim too? We just disagree on the cause. You think it's guns. I think it's the culture. In looking at the deaths by gun violence arou...
No. The point is that you can know a language, but translating the meaning to another can give results that differ from what people ordinarily expect ...
You speak as if guns have legs and can go around shooting people all by themselves. People are the problem - people with issues that shouldn't have ac...
You and the girl in the video are commiting the false cause fallacy. The guns aren't the only things that have changed since the founders wrote the Co...
Showing that Christians don't fear death actually supports the claim that the belief in the after-life actually alleviates their fear of death. Arguin...
Whether or not the clerk lied isn't what is being argued against. My argument is that he isn't a logician. What I'm saying is that implication-proposi...
Again you miss the point. It's not about speaking different languages, it's about using the correct terms in ANY langauge to translate to the correct ...
You're missing the point. The point is that the customer's interpretation of the sign is just as legitimate as the clerk's. The problem is that they b...
The OP never said the clerk wrote the sign. As a matter of fact, the store owner (which isn't a logician) most likely wrote the sign because he is the...
Then I was right when I said that you used an improper logical system in translating the logical meaning of the sign. In "If-THEN" statements, the THE...
Because you're forgetting something important - the interpretation of the customer, which contradicts the clerk's interpretation. Which interpretation...
I'm talking about the implications of the truth table and how those p's and q's get translated into English words. Language is logical and they both n...
I'm talking about the logical implications of the truth table. So you're admitting that there is more than one logical way to interpret the sign as th...
Which is the same as saying that it doesn't matter whether or not p is true or false. q is true regardless of the truth value of p, which means that q...
I'm saying it isn't relevent to the topic. The OP didn't include it. You did later. I'm saying that is you that is off-topic. Just read the sentences....
An IF-THEN statement: Make "if you have not given $5,000 to the sales-clerk" = p and then "if you have given $5,000 to the sales-clerk then he will gi...
Exactly. If 2 isn't logically dependent upon 1 then he will give you the diamond. It would also be incorrect to use the truth table in this instance b...
So then why didn't the clerk give the customer the diamond before the customer gave him the money? The sign would have been true when the customer wal...
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