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A safe place for themselves. Saying for their sex brings in group identity and goes outside the purview of non-gendered talk about sex. A group identi...
May 31, 2023 at 05:51
Exactly, gender is only a factor when it is. . . well. . . an actual factor. Not arbitrarily inserted into a decision without relevancy. There is alre...
May 30, 2023 at 19:35
Basically this sums up every single problem that both sides possess in having any sort of dialogue on this sort of discussion. Everybody gets the dist...
May 30, 2023 at 02:08
Larger by what metric? I'm not going call you bigoted but I am going to call you out on a rather, at first glance, baseless characterization of the wh...
May 07, 2023 at 08:52
Consistency only requires that the truth of said metaphysics does not or cannot result in falsifying the metaphysical viewpoint via experiential pheno...
August 26, 2021 at 20:27
So what experiential phenomenon is solipsism inconsistent with?
August 26, 2021 at 20:17
The curious issue I have is about metaphysical hypotheses that are by definition consistent with any previous, current, or future experiential phenome...
August 25, 2021 at 20:45
"The good of war is it allows us to express and live the desire for war inside of us." . . . and if I never am put into such a situation or do not joi...
August 19, 2021 at 22:58
First, what is a 'thing'? I know this seems somewhat pedantic but are there really such different or distinct 'things' in reality that have dependency...
January 30, 2021 at 21:00
Depends on your definition of omnipotence or whether you happen to think that any and all definitions of omnipotence require the possibility of perfor...
October 08, 2020 at 17:42
Is it possible under the accepted logical axiomatic structure (fuzzy logic, classical logic, para-consistent, etc) for such an action to be performed?...
October 01, 2020 at 02:58
If you are able to do something that is impossible then it actually isn't impossible and rather not categorized correctly or specified. If something i...
October 01, 2020 at 01:17
Technically if what a human being can understand or what actions a human being can perform metaphysically are determined/governed descriptively by the...
September 30, 2020 at 20:09
I'm sort of fine with this definition if what we mean here is that we happen to search throughout the cosmos and of all beings catalogued we happen to...
September 30, 2020 at 16:58
Intriguing dichotomy, this seems to cover my thinking. As human beings have the environment change us as well as have it usually bring about varied ex...
September 21, 2020 at 18:11
Really? How do you know this? Reality is. . . how it's and to specify that it could have been any-other way (speaking in terms of nomological/metaphys...
September 19, 2020 at 05:08
I'd preface here that you'll need to specify whether you are talking about conceptual or metaphysical/nomological possibilities. There is a stark diff...
September 19, 2020 at 01:44
Claim among many others made in the bible with no external supporting sources. It was written and thusly claimed in the bible that he predicted his re...
September 18, 2020 at 21:42
What? He (lets assume it was you and you survived the crash) didn't have any waking experience of interacting with the car nor being able to do so (er...
September 12, 2020 at 19:55
Because intuitively explanation involves our ability to investigate and therefore fully understand whatever is that we are explaining I can give you t...
September 12, 2020 at 01:33
Logically impossible to investigate fully not to explain. To assert it's not possible to describe or abstractly investigate our mental faculties via f...
September 11, 2020 at 22:47
Experience and our thoughts exist so what is it that does and doesn't exist? What else is it that you require to constitute consciousness that isn't o...
September 11, 2020 at 22:44
Yes, we require a meta-analysis of the meta-metaphysics that underlie the discussion of god as numerous assumptions go into prescribing a specific nat...
September 11, 2020 at 22:29
Is a claim about an arbitrary definition of what moral principles a being called god (not defined) is supposed to possess. If everything was made of t...
September 10, 2020 at 22:58
Either it must exist in materiality or among our mental concepts, inequality that is, because otherwise we wouldn't understand equity. Even if slavery...
September 09, 2020 at 16:36
Are they? Human beings were made in the image of god according to Christian theology but no other animal, plant, or structure in the universe falls in...
September 09, 2020 at 04:11
Every concept does but not every concept is mean't to mean that which isn't just perceived by consciousness but is reflective of something that posses...
September 02, 2020 at 21:52
Somewhat correct in the sense that god could be given conceptual grounding or "reality" in the same sense that an imaginary red chair can be. There me...
September 02, 2020 at 17:47
So it is a language game being played? Something we call conscious existence exists and it has rather intriguing conceptual features that repeat. By e...
September 02, 2020 at 16:15
Well you saying "Jesus = God" is at best a renaming of the biblical character Jesus calling him now god or at worst a sneaking in of unstated characte...
September 02, 2020 at 02:14
Well there are theistic philosophers or god believing people who work in science/philosophical disciplines and there are those who claim that a god (u...
September 02, 2020 at 01:42
In my mind I find making such a distinction (between time and change) is rather dubious as I at least consider myself to be a relationist with respect...
August 31, 2020 at 21:03
Perhaps then if you are interested in the dissolution of the Eternalist/Presentist debate you could read this.
August 28, 2020 at 19:15
True in the sense that it can be shown to come logically given a certain set of accepted axioms. True in that classical logic inexorable without issue...
August 28, 2020 at 19:12
Back when I wasn't alive and William Lane Craig didn't seem as much of a dunce.
August 28, 2020 at 19:02
It's arbitrary what axioms you accept and while the conclusions you draw given a previously system within which to do so is not if you choose to preci...
August 28, 2020 at 18:57
Yes, descriptions of our reality and further arbitrary abstractions to model its behvaior. I can't remember again what it's that you've defined super-...
August 28, 2020 at 18:38
Ah, yes.
August 28, 2020 at 18:21
I'd also preface that you do not seem to note the difference between that which is merely undecidable and that which is paradoxical with both being ra...
August 28, 2020 at 18:14
What laws of nature? You mean the regularities or patterns in our experience because if that is what we value to navigate our experiences then contrad...
August 28, 2020 at 18:10
They have to be as at most I have come to be aware of these models or perhaps give rise to them, manipulate them, but in the end given I have not (wit...
August 28, 2020 at 17:08
Abstract models merely are further combinations of concepts that we possess now and continue to learn formulated in such a way that they are implied t...
August 28, 2020 at 15:59
A lot of that is already contained in even basic understandings (not being insulting here) of scientific methodology. The idea of constructing better ...
August 28, 2020 at 15:12
I was talking about how some may define natural differently in such a manner that they wouldn't require the label supernatural. There I was clarifying...
August 28, 2020 at 00:54
Not natural experiences but what gives rise to and are experiences (what they do or how they do it) are what is natural. Well you keep using the phras...
August 27, 2020 at 23:02
Natural is what exists and either is or gives rise to our experiences. Many can be accompanied by evidence that makes it likely among our web of belie...
August 27, 2020 at 22:31
Exactly so we can only work with approximations full stop, done. "Beyond the natural laws", you mean beyond the patterns we see. The patterns are all ...
August 27, 2020 at 22:16
It's not counterproductive to admit there is no way out of the philosophical skeptics thought experiments. You are probably right about energy conserv...
August 27, 2020 at 22:08
Well this is a mismatch between the map (model) and the terrain (reality) in which were asking how far can this model be applied before it stops model...
August 27, 2020 at 20:55
The afterlife is either eternal boredom and thusly a hell of its own making or a state of perpetual amnesia/enjoyment that negates our free will there...
August 27, 2020 at 20:19