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A hole is a boundary just as a surface is. So a hole, together with the surface of the object the hole is in, encloses or shapes part of an object: a ...

What's the difference between saying that someone is not worth listening to, and saying that their arguments are vacuous, and thus refuted?

You'll only be trod upon if you choose to engage in argument on their own terms with the tiny minority of self-important idiots who consider themselve...

Who says they do? Do you think your beliefs need to be justified, and if so, who do you think they need to be justified to; to others or merely to you...

I posted this in the "independent Existence" thread. Basically the same issue , so I copy it here: I would count as an object of awareness or consciou...

I would count as an object of awareness or consciousness anything that stands out, whether that be a hole, a surface, a mountain, a tree, an animal,a ...

Of course we call the objects presented to consciousness 'phenomena'. You haven't said anything about what is left out. Also the formulation 'objects ...

Objects do not exist "on their own" any more than holes do. Naive realism.

To say that the empirical world is a creation of the understanding is an unfounded presumption: we don't know, beyond the current theory of genesis, h...

Presentation of objects to consciousness.

Wouldn't it be more parsimonious (and more accurate and less misleading) to simply say that cognition is presentation?

The book of nature.

If you know that you must have already done the digging in which case you should be able to provide the links. As to the WHO being a propaganda machin...

:smile: I'll take a look when I get more time Joshs...

Everything that can be known about the brain ( at least about how it appears to us) can only be known by way of the objective sciences. We can know (d...

You really can't because the contributions of subjects to the appearances of objects are pre-cognitive. Essence is just an idea.There is no essence be...

If knowledge is true (and if it is not then it is not knowledge at all) then it is a faithful mirroring of how things are presented to the community o...

I think you are wrong about that. The eliminative materialists (for example, Chruchlands) say that consciousness and experience is not what we intuiti...

This is an empirical observation, not an a priori judgement. I think this is a strawman. Of course all knowledge (ours at least) is human knowledge, a...

In what sense could we be said to be not separate from, for example, galaxies which are yet to be discovered? This would only make sense conceptually ...

You should explain to your "other half" that from the fact that she cannot see us it does not follow that we are invisible. :brow:

I think that's a disingenuous claim and all the more so since you know very well that I actually used to agree with you on this, and that I have at le...

You claim you have given answers, but I have never seen anything from you that I would count as a satisfactory answer to the question. Now I'm not cri...

I just made the same point, and have done in the past, but that is an objection Wayfarer simply refuses to address. I wonder why?

What does it mean to be an empirical realist if not to say that the phenomena we collectively experience are independent of any mind? From my readings...

There's always an excuse for your inability to deal with objections that threaten your beliefs. You always claim I misunderstand your position and yet...

But that observation, according to your own argument, is derived from what is empirically given and hence must be (according to you) unreliable as a g...

Read my response to Christoffer.The WHO present no information for the types of useful comparisons I am seeking. If you think they do then send me a l...

What evidence could you possibly have that the world is "in some fundamental sense projected by the observing mind." if the fundamental nature of the ...

I wasn't able to access that without registering. Do have any open source information or data?

Try searching on the WHO site for statistics comparing the drop in the number of cases Covid in countries mapped against the percentage of the populat...

Please present comparative statistics.

Those who are vaccinated will, according to your argument, be safe. The only people at risk will be others who have chosen not to have the vaccine. Of...

Firstly, Ivermectin is not a new medicine; according to the information I have it has been around for forty years, and is considered one of the safest...

It seems there is a cheap, safe and proven treatment for Covid 19, a drug that has been around for 40 years, and yet, puzzlingly, the WHO is warning a...

Perhaps indeed!

As soon as your "arguments" are cogently challenged you lose interest and resort to pomposity. That is so disingenuous!

It is the will of gods, not the will of God in the Euthyphro; and that's why the argument doesn't work in the monotheistic context. The argument relie...

Roughly speaking this objection is nebulous and unargued. Can't you do better than that? In any case mine is not an objection to the argument in the E...

Yes, Praxis, it is irrefutable, as is its negation. So that is why religious beliefs are a matter of faith, not of logic or empirical investigation.

It's not logically contradictory to say that ideas might have their own existence; independent of the material.I don't personally believe they do, but...

That's a strawman argument; no religions today (except some radical, politically motivated sects, proclaim "death to the infidels" and almost all mode...

What this misses is that some do what they do and are able to find their justification in that without any appeal to God or gods, and others are able ...

That's merely an assumption, not a logical truth or an empirically decidable claim.

Of course scientific knowledge is incomplete, that is a given and wasn't the point I was making at all. Science is an incomplete understanding of cert...

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This is a logical contradiction since God is understood to be an immaterial being.

The answer is both/ and not either/or.

If God loves only the good, and God as creator and sustainer of all things determines what is good, then there is no contradiction that I can detect. ...

I'm guessing the ideas were probably introduced when the Nicene Creed was instituted, but I haven't investigated that, so I could be wrong. It is hard...