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It doesn't seem tendentious to me at all. There is no doubt that the idea of a hierarchy of being has been used to justify human exploitation of the n...

Here is a nice summation I came across concerning the detrimental effect of the idea of "The Great Chain of Being" and the inevitable belief in human ...

The irony! :rofl:

This is right. Worship establishes the existence of God for the worshipers. I think that much cannot be argued against.

And your point?

I doubt Dennett would be stupid enough to deny there are subconscious mental processes (or brain processes if you prefer). Do you claim to be aware of...

Capitalistic thinking, as it has evolved historically, is attributable to a whole range of conditions, not least of which has been the discovery and e...

If you say that is the extent of god's existence, I can find no disagreement. :grin:

It's not a matter of believing anything but of recognizing what is the most effective way to live harmoniously and happily with community. So, if huma...

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The subject has compelling evidence for the existence of an experience that s/he conceptualizes as 'seeing god". Alternatively s/he could conceptualiz...

If a complex system such as the Universe were to be intentionally planned, then the mind that planned it would need to be at least as complex.

You're talking about a feeling, and I can relate to that. But no feeling entails the existence or reality of anything in particular (other than the on...

Do theists understand what it is they think exists?

Not quite what I had in mind but that works, too! Yeah, nice! :grin:

Yes, it seems reasonable to say there are different ways of being or existence, but not radically different kinds of being or existence. The idea of a...

I agree that mystical experiences, and other kinds, communal, aesthetic and ceremonial, for example, can be religious motivators, but I would not coun...

Neither Maslow, nor James endorse any particular religion; and James at least (whose work I am most familiar with) does not count mystical experience ...

That seems irrelevant. Are there any who don't?

I have had quite a few what I would count as mystical or religious experiences, and yet I am not religious, because I don't interpret those experience...

Ah, but you're forgetting the distinction between being real and existing! :lol: Say I'm bald and my hair is nonetheless real (and it's blonde :joke: ...

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Multiple factors have gone into the decline of the nuclear family and the increasing lack of desire to marry. The problem with religion is that it is ...

Did I say it's a "totally new thing"? Of course it's never been a good idea. But then being ruled by crusty old farts isn't a good idea either; seems ...

I agree with what I think you are saying there: the gazelle senses danger just as we do, and responds instinctively rather than rationally. My point a...

Of course that's true, and it is what I meant, but I spoke ambiguously: as though there might have been a prize to be won and no one had won it rather...

The totality of the physical world or domain just is usually defined as the Universe Even if there were another separate "ideal" domain (and how would...

How could that ever be tested? What could it even mean to say that the physical world is not physical? It is physical by definition. Are there measura...

Gazelles are constantly wary of danger. I would say that the gazelle that sees no danger where there is danger has a false picture. I acknowledge that...

What you say makes sense to me. I'm partial to Sanders myself.

I was responding to "Being true does not (require language)" and agreeing with that. As I said I think a human being without language or an animal cou...

Sanders is just five years older than Trump. Should Sanders be dismissed as potential candidate just because he had a heart attack?

Yes, you could have a true or false picture of things without language.

We do until we are asked to say what it is.

It would be hard to definitely demonstrate, but I think it is arguable that our present age of consumerism, entertainment media and mortgage slavery c...

Yeah, no one's ever won a Nobel prize for philosophy either!

Indeed! If things continue on the current course, the whole of the Third World will likely be thrown under the bus to preserve our precious lifestyles...

We don't need to bother about it unless we want to try to analyze what makes propositions true and false, or explore the ways in which we are able to ...

I knew I could count on you for some serious discussion.

The fate of the world in the hands of the enraged inexperienced? What a terrifying prospect! I suppose in the long run the collapse of civilization as...

The two notions are related and the OP is explicitly about the "power of truth", which truth as the merely formal property of propositions on its own ...

So, all terms have only one sense for you? What a strangely limited viewpoint!

I see no need for confusion. It's not that difficult. They are simply different ways of thinking about truth; and they don't need to be "compatible"; ...

What more does the T-sentence tell or show us in your opinion? As I've said repeatedly I'm not claiming we can do any more than unravel the logic inhe...

What do you mean? I thought we are here to discuss all senses of the term, not merely the notion of propositional truth. The OP is concerned with the ...

It's just a broader notion of truth, akin to Heidegger's "truth as unconcealement" or "alethia". Of course if you think narrowly that truth is only a ...

I would say that actuality is what makes statements true or false, and I'm still not seeing how that is out of sync with the "conventional" understand...

I kind of agree with that. I think truth is more of a general notion than a clear concept with clear facets. And I think the inherent logic(s) in the ...

Are you referring to the "iff"? If so, I would respond that the correspondence theory also affirms that statements are true iff they correspond to act...

The point is that the intuition is all you're going to get. All accounts rely on intuition, it's not the other way around. For example how would you k...