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The most common usage of 'reasonable' is equivalent to 'rational'. You cannot claim a belief is reasonable if it is held for entirely self-serving rea...

You are losing the distinction between truth and belief. A belief doesn't have to be true to be warranted, and it doesn't have to be warranted to be t...

I would never refer to poetry as "mere". I think it is the highest art.

I would agree with that in cases where contrary or contradictory propositional claims are being made by different faiths. If religious stories are tak...

I don't disagree with that in regard to empirical assertions. But we were considering what makes beliefs reasonable, and whether all reasonable belief...

Here is our earlier exchange: So, you asked me if I agreed that being reasonable 'requires only coherence and plausible premises". I said that seems u...

So you don't consider a belief being coherent with plausible premises, which you say makes it reasonable to believe, constitutes a warrant to believe?...

Those conditions seem uncontroversial. In everyday empirical matters and in science those criteria seem unproblematic enough. It's when you want to ma...

Yes and that's just what I meant by "faith taking itself to be knowledge", or in other words, fundamentalism. Yes a proposition's being coherent is no...

What are you suggesting is in contention? That for something to be reasonable it must be warranted? If that is what you say is in contention, then I t...

Right, for Kenny religious faith is not unreasonable; does it not follow that it is reasonable? If it is reasonable it must be warranted, but if it is...

I think that should be understood to represent a previous position, it does not seem to be in accordance with the thrust of this article.

Firstly, I think this is wrongly framed. A theist believes, an atheist believes; they just believe different (contrary) things. An agnostic does not b...

Yes, provided it doesn't mistake itself for knowledge.

I read the article and found nothing much there to disagree with, other than the way Kenny frames believing too much and believing too little. No one ...

That sounds unlikely! More likely they were simply seeking acquiescence, or revenue or maybe they just enjoyed torturing people.

When I read literary works I just try to understand them. Am I trying to understand what the author intended to say? Maybe, but I don't usually have t...

I know you're joking, but this is serious: he wasn't effected by "affecting'' he was affected by "effecting'. But it was merely an affectation in any ...

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I think, although I am not sure yet as I need to read him more thoroughly, that Gabriel does not think that animals, insofar as they are also consciou...

As I read him Gabriel is not denying that consciousness is not completely determined by the biological; in fact that it is not so determined is the ce...

I agree, consciousness clearly exists in nature, if nature is defined as everything that we encounter. But we also have a conception of the natural or...

I'd say naturalism as a metaphysical standpoint is either trivial or it is eliminative. That is it either says everything that exists is part of the n...

Most philosophers have given that game away. I wouldn't say Heidegger wanted to answer the kind of question you are interested in, in any case. His an...

The problem is that the general question concerning being or existence, as distinct from questions concerning beings or existents, is unanswerable. Th...

I think those issues are not really moral dilemmas in the sense that an any moral principles is being disagreed about. If it is accepted that most wou...

These are just your own idiosyncratic senses, not the ordinary senses, of the of the terms, as I said. If you like those senses, then fine, but you ca...

To be is to exist. Phenomena exist. They are what is. Being is what is. It follows that phenomena are be-ings. 'Existence' is equivalent to 'being'. E...

You both seem to think I am arguing that you should change your views to be in accordance with mine. No, I am merely telling you how I see things, bas...

So what? Everybody who engages with people and has a critical mind studies people constantly. Doing it for a living only makes it more likely you will...

You need to get out of your armchair more and engage with actual people.If you do that you will realize that most people have a reasonable moral sense...

I think most people of reasonable disposition have a good sense of what constitutes encroaching upon other's freedoms. Some cases may be nuanced to be...

No, not if they are not thinking critically. Not at all. The moral principle of personal autonomy is contingent upon not encroaching upon the personal...

Yes, there's no moral element involved in determining whether some moral principle is being transgressed by some practice.If we are asking the questio...

OK, sure but for me there is good evidence or there is not. And ideology begins with believing without good evidence. Of course not all believing with...

And what solid evidence do they have for their belief in your thought experiment. None, I'll warrant, and for me that's the very essence of ideology; ...

Such fights are legal matters and can only be settled in the context of the current law. That has nothing to do with what I am addressing. If the laws...

I'm talking about social harmony on the local scale. Anything that privileges some over others, any impositions on individual autonomy and freedom to ...

We certainly may agree on some points in this, but this is where we disagree. To my way of thinking an ideology is an overarching formulation of how e...

None of the spurious arguments you presented are based on pragmatics, common decency or common sense, if your aim is social harmony. It's not worth th...

Ah, thanks for that. I agree with you insofar as you seem to be suggesting that Heidegger is overly generalizing the nature of "Dasein". I think being...

So, you're suggesting that it could be arguable that consuming all the unnecessary shit they fatten us up on, taking over responsibility for other peo...

Because they are not based on ideology but on pragmatics, common sense and decency. If you can't see the difference, then I'll leave you to to it.

I don't need to have "strong opinions" in order to have preferences that guide and motivate my actions. By "strong opinions" I have in mind political ...

People who hold (what they think are) correct opinions for (what they think are) good reasons: the ideologues. Steer clear of them. People who don't h...

Right, a dictionary is merely an adjunct, in case we are not familiar with a word. We can usually glean the meaning of unfamiliar words using that res...

Although this story of the genesis of the self is probably (at least partly) true; it would seem to be irrelevant to our everyday experience of, and f...

I seem to remember a line from (I think) Leonard Cohen which went something like: "Do we have the strength to be alone together?".

I don't understand this; as i see it we have nothing but memory to rely upon. Granted it is not always accurate, but that just means we and our knowle...

It would help if you could give an example of a mistake which also is, as opposed to merely is causing, an accident. I have long thought Wittgenstein ...