I respond especially to NotAristotle's post. One problem here is translation . In "Therefore, if everything is possible not to be, then at one time th...
Thanks for the tip! on tracing this thing further, I have found it associated with the name of Antisthenes, who has been associated with the Eleatics ...
I am unsure at several points in your communication whether you are expressing your own view or attempting to paraphrase Sartre. Obviously, you are en...
As i suggested, that syllogism was only an attempt on my part to reconstruct Buckley's argument: I suspected it was irrelevant to Hitchens' reply beca...
I just wanted to find the source of the quote out of sheer curiosity -- or maybe i wanted to quote it in something i was writing, i forget. As for the...
In Copi, we find this exercise: 'In While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within (2006), Bruce Bawer argues that “by appea...
Yes, of course it doesn't have to be verbatim since it's a translation; i'd be grateful to get a citation for the passage that was the source of what ...
In practice, we adhere to NEITHER of the following principles. 1. the burden of proof rests on the positive statement 2. the burden of proof rests on ...
To be compared to Mozart is to be praised. Here is an example of a valid argument in Aquinas (ST 1.2.3) 1. A thing cannot be simultaneously in potenti...
Pacem's response is one of the shallowest yet offered by humanity. Are you seriously saying that if a serial killer is operating, there is no evil and...
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