There's what looks like a significant story broken today in the ABC, Dutton failing to declare financial interest in a profitable family trust involve...
It's true that that particular integer has no special significance, but the role of integers is significant in the overall scheme of quantum mechanics...
You're welcome. Note the link to the author profile. He has many published scientific papers in his speciality, rheumatology. I don't know if he publi...
I’m differentiating the sense in which particulars exist from the sense in which universals are real. Particulars exist in a phenomenal sense, but uni...
Trump is notorious for echoing what the last person who impressed him has said. Obviously, Zelenskyy impressed something on him in that impromptu meet...
@"substantivalism" @"apokrisis" New theory of entanglement - Persistence Theory, Bill Gianokopoulos (Profile) Spooky Action at a Distance, Reversed: E...
It seems possible that Trump will support a peace plan that heavily favours Russia; that Zelenskyy and the Europeans will reject it as unfair (Trump h...
Words can only be general because they denote universals. But universals are not things that exist. They are not objects as such. Designating them as ...
Why is the concept of a plane bounded by three sides 'mystic'? I say the problem is in trying to come to grips with the sense in which such concepts e...
Yes, the image of God as a loving parent is a recurring motif in Christian scripture. But it’s meant analogically, not literally. Divine love isn’t th...
Acknowledged. I had associated the word with general discussion of the problem of evil not realising that it was usually intended as a apologetic in t...
Specifically, the Old Testament. And bearing in mind, the OT texts preserved in the Bible originated in the late Bronze age, amongst agrarian tribes, ...
Weren't all of these measures simply Trump lashing out at a Government that he hates, using 'waste and fraud' as a pretext? Similar to how he is havin...
But regardless, one being amongst others - apparently with extraordinary powers and longevity but a being nonetheless. This is why Paul Tillich says t...
I'm sorry, I still don't think that is a fair assessment. It's a very Dawkins style depiction, God as a kind of cosmic film director, staging all of t...
Ah. They like them. The Buddhist creation myth has it that sentient beings were originally composed entirely of light. At the beginning of each kalpa ...
But it's already been said that Which to me suggests the question, does the perversity and cruelty of existence negate its worth altogether. Which aga...
Again - how could existence be free from suffering? Predation is fundamental to organic life, disease inevitable, even before intelligent life develop...
Well, sure, nowadays physics has metaphysics which has not much to do with divinity, although that is rather an old-fashioned word. And yes, that is a...
In some senses, it's an adventure. According to the Alan Watts book I mentioned, and without wanting to sound flippant about a serious topic, God play...
While the term 'theodicy' usually refers to attempts to justify God’s goodness in the face of evil, my use of the phrase Hotel Manager Theodicy was de...
According to legend, the Pythagoreans—followers of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras—believed that all things could be explained through whole ...
I think a case can be made that the forms are nearer to what we would call principles. Have a read of the chapter on Plato in this .pdf book, it will ...
To good effect, considering what happened next. That’s a fair challenge, and I agree it raises one of the most serious theological tensions in the Abr...
You don’t. My family were from an anglican backround but were not religious. They were ‘crying out’ to the Lord, but actually talking to Moses, weren’...
The David Bentley Hart passage that @"Count Timothy von Icarus" quotes, explicitly criticizes the 'greater purpose' view. As to why evil is possible a...
As I mention in the OP, that life is suffering is the foundational truth of Buddhism. But that is not the end of life, indeed it is the first of the '...
I didn't intend this as an essay in religious apologetics, and I didn't (and generally don't) quote scripture. It's an essay in philosophy of religion...
'Dragging Trump out of the White House' won't happen, but there's a lot of protest movements starting to appear. The judges are holding firm (the Boas...
There's a story today about a Venezualan immigrant, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, (whether documented or not, it doesn't say) who mistakenly crossed the brid...
You mean, not created the world? It's one answer, although suffering that is inflicted, or intentionally brought about, is generally regarded as evil ...
I believe that this is where philosophy started, but that it's not necessarily where it has remained. But one of the things I liked about John Vervaek...
It's a thorny issue and one which I've by no means resolved. But I appreciate the opportunity to try and spell it out in response to your perceptive r...
Yes, you've put your finger on the core of the issue. It's not that I dispute the necessity of individual conscience in matters of value and meaning—o...
That's fair. It might be that my criticism is more of modern culture. For instance that provided in 'The Blind Spot of Science, by Thompson, Frank and...
That can't be assumed. A subject might arrive illegally seeking refuge from threat of death or starvation. That's why they have to be assessed. Agree ...
But they do! That’s the whole point. It’s the same in Australia. It also precipitated a political crisis about ten - fifteen years ago when boats kept...
But notice that embodied unstated realist assumptions about 'what the world is like'. And as Sabine Hossenfelder points out in Lost in Math, there's t...
The Hegseth issue continues to fester, as he's plainly, utterly incompetent for the role of CEO of the largest organisation in the world. But, hey, si...
Yes - but the salient question is, why does the interference pattern occur, when light is emitted at the rate of one particle at a time? How can that ...
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