Michael

Every word is invented by imagination. So what about the word "omnipotence" makes its definition wrong?

I don't know what you mean by the definition of "omnipotence" being wrong.

This is just a misguided question, giving too much significance to a word. It is said that there is a being, God, which created the universe and has t...

If omnipotence includes being able to commit suicide then if someone is omnipotent then they can commit suicide.

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The best thing about the reputation stuff is that I can now channel my inner YouTube content creator and end every post with "don't forget to like, co...

Wittgenstein, Dummett, and anti-realism Lottery paradox The Raven Paradox The simulation argument and the Boltzmann brain paradox The problem with the...

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Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

We introduced a new "No Akanthinos" rule.

That's what I did?

Yes, and neither is an example of modus ponens. The syntax of the problematic version simply gives the false appearance of one. Much like a sentence s...

Yes, I'd say this.

Sort of misleading. They were warned of potential air raids, but it was specifically decided not to warn them about the nuke. And in the case of Nagas...

They tell you, just like they tell you their name. The post you were responding to was responding to the OP saying "the issue comes from when Person B...

One issue is that the icon to like a post is hidden by default unless you hover over the post (on desktop) or click the post twice (on mobile), so I t...

For someone with gender dysphoria the mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity is a cause of distress for them, which coupled w...

Love that album. Although Plans is my favourite of theirs.

Not because of Planck-scale constraints, although it may be that the Planck-scale happens to be the smallest movement possible. I would say that conti...

Illicit minor

Continuous motion. Yes. However, motion is possible, therefore motion is discontinuous as the OP suggests.

There is no first point to pass, and so motion cannot start. Just as there is no first fraction to count, and so counting the fractions (in order) can...

I'm sorry, but I made a promise not to like them and I never break my promises. Kant demands it!

The issue about the time it takes to pass each point is only one of the issues to resolve (one that can be resolved if the time taken per point is a c...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/#Dic

Then I promise to never like your posts.

1. A ? (B ? C) 2. ¬(B ? C) 3. ¬A If a Republican wins the election then if it's not Reagan who wins it will be Anderson If it's not Reagan who wins it...

See here. When you replace A ? (B ? C) with the logically equivalent (A ? B) ? C you'll see that it isn't modus ponens. The former just gives the fals...

I thought your point was that it was supposed to be an example of an invalid modus ponens? Except it's not a modus ponens at all.

A ? (B ? C) is equivalent to (A ? B) ? C (see Exportation (logic)). So the argument above is: 1. (A ? B) ? C 2. A 3. B ? C Which isn't modus ponens.

If movement is infinitely divisible then to move from one point to another requires having passed an infinite sequence of points in between, which for...

What did Southgate and his team do?

True, I suppose it could be argued that the mind and brain are distinct but that both are physical, so it would be neither substance nor property dual...

I wonder if an answer to this is even needed at this stage. Can the debate be reframed as "is the mind a property of the brain or a separate entity th...

Matter, strictly speaking, is any substance that has rest mass and volume. There are aspects of the physical world that do not have rest mass or volum...

Yes. I'm not sure what you're asking for. You want me to visit you and physically present you with the evidence? Because I can't do that, and it's unr...

Yes. Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome

I agree with this. I don't think quoting should be allowed in these debates. It should flow as an offline debate would. Also standard grammar and punc...

This debate seems to have the same issue that the previous one had, and reaffirms my belief that the general format of these debates should be that ea...

Not if God is omniscient. An omniscient god will know -- have a justified true belief -- that it is raining, and so "but no one believes it is raining...

What's the minimum?

Unless it's the Second Amendment. That's effectively the Eleventh Commandment.

The metaphysics of laws. Quite the discussion for the shoutbox.

It derives from the German “Fußball”, or “fussball”, referring to players “fussing”, or “showing unnecessary or excessive concern” over a ball.

As someone who doesn’t watch football, the sooner England lose the better. It’s getting hard to find somewhere to drink on the weekends when everythin...

Happy illegal rebellion day my colonial friends.

We turned likes on, and that number is how many you’ve had.

There is no puzzle. There are times when we call a collection of sand grains a heap and there are times when we don't, but there is no clearly defined...

Less interesting, but correct. Essentialism is false. There isn't a set of (mutually exclusive) necessary and sufficient conditions that qualifies a p...

Yes. The implicit premise is "if P1) a single grain is clearly not a heap and P2) adding a single grain can never turn a non-heap into a heap then C) ...