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Presenting etymologies and alternative words is not an argument. Ever heard of fomentation and mob rule?

Some people are incited by other people. It happens often enough. You seem to be confusing incitement with forcing.

If you abandon human notions of goodness, evil and justice, then you can say anything and get away with it. The idea of an omnipotent, omniscient and ...

Acts are called just when they seem to the one doing the calling to be fair. There is no necessity that everyone will agree with the assessment of jus...

I wondered about that too. Your aphorism seems very apt.

Don't we all?

You ask whether anyone really supports (I presume you mean believes in) a mind-independent reality. Do you believe anything existed prior to the adven...

If science is predominantly evidence-based then we have faith in it because we assume that the evidence is valid, has been examined rigorously and the...

Without God you are not suffering justly or unjustly. To apply the notion of justice to your suffering in the absence of the presumption of an omnipot...

Okay, then it seems I misunderstood what you said. As I see it it's very simple. I said science is predominately evidence based and religion is purely...

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I'm afraid I have to agree with you. has mounted no argument to support the contention that religious beliefs are evidence-based or logic-based, and h...

Evasion after evasion. It seems that when it comes to discussion you have little faith of the good variety. If you cannot offer anything even vaguely ...

Yes, I did that, so why not attempt to address that instead of pretending that I said something purportedly encapsulated in a nonsense sentence? Here ...

That last sentence does not even make sense. It looks nothing like what I've been saying. Try pushing your reading skills a bit harder. Or if you are ...

I took you to be asking the difference between evidence and faith. If you are asking the difference between science and religion, then I would say sci...

The basic difference is that evidence is observation-based or reason-based whereas faith need not be.

Faith and trust can be synonymous, I think. The same word may have different interpretations or associations. I don't think it matters that much what ...

I don't see that we are talking about linguistics, but rather about the logics of different kinds of faith. If we have good reason to think that the a...

See, you're doing it again. If it is mixed up with trust in authority it may be somewhat faith-based., whereas a belief which is entirely following an...

1.93...whining rotter... The questions, at least some, were ambiguous enough to be difficult to answer without equivocation. All in all a ridiculous t...

I was disagrreing with who seemed to be saying that any belief about which we cannot be certain (because it is not self-evident or we have not seen fo...

I said it is often criticized as being falsifiable and that, for the reasons I gave, it does seem to be unfalsifiable.

By "black and white" I was not referring to text. :roll:

Yes, that's right and that is why I pointed out that 'The Hotel Manager Theodicy' is a misnomer.

Racist claims seem unfalsifiable. As far as we can tell they are. I'm just allowing for the possibility that they might be falsifiable. If they are un...

As I said I think the crisis, if there is one, consists in too much meaning, too much choice and too much trivia, coupled with too many looming real-w...

What about inciting people to murder then? Or even inciting them to persecute others? To anticipate a likely objection: you might argue that people ma...

There are so many problems we now face, and solutions seem to be unlikely because of humanity's incapacity for globally coordinated action. Despair le...

Which beliefs are matters of faith and which are not, cannot be rendered in black and white terms.

Right there are deistic conceptions of God, such as Spinoza's, whose god is not concerned with humanity, or anything else, at all. You may be right ab...

The irony with this OP is that the "Hotel Manager" analogy presented is not a theodicy, but a critique. A theodicy is an apologetic.

I see you have no argument, so your only strategy is to question my intellectual honesty. I told you exactly how those claims could be falsified if it...

Okay, I did somehow miss your answers...in a bit of a hurry...I know that's no excuse, so apologies seem to be in order. So, it now seems we are not s...

None of the rest of what you said is cogent as I see it, so I won't respond to it; I don't like wasting time. I might agree that the criteria that det...

1. would be falsified if sound criteria for considering one race to be, tout court, inferior to another were found. Do you disagree with that? If so, ...

I've already addressed your misinterpretation of the intended meaning of this sentence. Perhaps it wasn't expressed in the clearest of ways. Why bring...

Misgendering is not clearly hate speech. I don't believe it qualifies as such. It doesn't follow that there are no clear cases of hate speech. You see...

I am not; I don't know about you. I'm merely saying that unfairly disadvantaged groups may warrant additional rights. I think this is disingenuous. Ha...

"Scientific theories can be falsified insofar" means "scientific theories are falsifiable insofar" so I am talking about falsification. We won't get f...

This is of course true—the framework cannot be neutral when it comes to fairness, or neutrality, itself. Fairness, or neutrality is a value simply bec...

When you consider that justice is undermined when one person is treated more harshly than another for exactly the same crime or misdemeanor or rewarde...

But autonomy is something that can be curtailed by a lack or failure of distribution of goods or opportunities.

I think you are reading what I said in a different way than intended. Scientific theories can only be falsified insofar as their predictions fail to a...

You seem to be distorting what I said. I said some think that scientific theories are not falsifiable, I didn't say I endorse that view. Simple observ...

I don't think it is simple as you are painting it. We all have something of the female and something of the male in us. It's not as black and white as...

Of course, a simple claim about the form or other characteristics of an object, in your example, the Earth, can be falsified by an irrefutable observa...

That is lamentable, but it does not represent a liberal attitude—quite the reverse. There may be a dividing line between freedom and hate speech which...

Generally the burden of proof is on those who are making extraordinary claims, and I think racism the idea that racism is rationally or empirically su...

Grief is usually a temporary loss of compass due to losing something that figured as central to what had been felt to be the meaning of one's life. It...