Michael

We're specifically talking about claims of literal transubstantiation. There's nothing to argue if it's just a metaphor.

Just ask a Christian what they are doing when they claim that the bread and wine literally changes into the body and blood of Christ. Just ask them wh...

There's a difference between what a thing is and what a thing is called. They might call it the blood of Christ, but if it isn't the blood of Christ t...

It has nothing to do with naming practices and everything to do with the facts. Whether or not the wine is the blood of Christ is a factual matter (wh...

Your question doesn't make any sense to me. There are people eating bread and drinking wine. Some claim that the substance of the bread and the wine l...

There is predication where there are claims of literal transubstantiation. It isn't just a case of naming. Just ask those Christians who believe in th...

There's a difference between naming and predication. When I claim that the 45th President of the United States is Barack Obama I'm not simply stipulat...

But this isn't just a case of stipulating the referent of a term.

The United States isn't the only government, and not everywhere has something like the First Amendment.

"What I have done – and this is unprecedented, by the way, no administration has done this before – is I’ve said to each agency, 'Don't just look at c...

Trump, guns, and whether or not the moderators are doing a good job.

If you plan to transfer the Bitcoin to something like Bittrex so that you can buy more than just the three currencies on Coinbase, don't send them dir...

I read though 20-odd pages and individually selected the appropriate ones (ignoring any joke comments that only belong in the shoutbox). Took some tim...

Sure. But I'm not trying to argue against transubstantiation. I'm trying to argue against this claim by Metaphysician Undiscover: It is simply false t...

"The presence is real. That is to say, it is ontological and objective. Ontological, because it takes place in the order of being; objective, because ...

When the Christian claims that transubstantiation occurs he is claiming that the bread's objective substance changes into the objective substance of C...

Right, so your original arguments were non sequiturs. You're accepting now that transubstantiation requires divine intervention. But that there is a G...

You're right. Hanover's a one-hander, but I definitely require both.

Then you accept that it is false to argue that transubstantiation happens by fiat simply because the Church says it does. Your arguments are a non seq...

You're making no sense. I can't make it the case that the water in my glass is the blood of Zeus just by saying that it is, or by creating a religion ...

And in the case of the Eucharist, it's not just naming an object. The Christian isn't simply stipulating that he's using the term "the blood of Christ...

No it isn't. Just as to assert the proposition "I have £1,000,000 in my bank account" isn't just me naming the amount in my bank account (which is act...

That wasn't the claim I was responding to. I was responding to this: There's a difference between calling the colour of the sky "blue" (an act of nami...

"I believe in transubstantiation " - Agustino

No it didn't. My argument relies on the distinction between naming a thing and asserting a proposition about a thing. When the Christian describes the...

I've split the transubstantiation comments into its own discussion. 15 pages. That took some time. Let me know if I've missed any.

You're still missing my point. You think that the ritual is transubstantiation by fiat. But that's not the case, just as the world wasn't flat by fiat...

You're being pedantic. The point is that they're not just choosing to use the term "Christ's body" to refer to whatever substance the bread actually h...

This has nothing to do with names. When the Christian claims that the bread is the body of Christ, he isn't just choosing to use the label "body of Ch...

As far as I'm aware, TimeLine edited her own post, not someone else's:

Yes, because that's the worse you have to worry about your teenage son doing at college.

I'm pretty sure the electricity cost is going to be more than the amount earned from mining.

I suppose the social corporatism is enough to count them as at least somewhat socialistic? Although it looks like @"Posty McPostface" is more concerne...

If they're socialistic countries and if they're working then socialism does work, so the question is contradictory. What you've been told isn't true.

The issue is whether or not tables are reducible to those molecules; whether or not "table" is a mind-independent kind. If not then the above is a cat...

Is this is a stipulative or a lexical definition? If the latter then I think it fails (or at least isn't exact enough). Putnam's internal realism is o...

Maybe for something like "Hitler had pancakes on his birthday". Not for "Jesus died, was resurrected, and then ascended to heaven."

History doesn't change.

Finally got approved. CoinBase sucks. £11 transfer fee sending £39 worth of Bitcoin to Bittrex (currently I have a £50 weekly limit). Ugh. Hopefully o...

Nope, that's harassment. You should resign from and/or not run for Congress.

More likely than indigestion, right?

Yeah, but I have a bulletproof plan. I'll only buy into the currencies that increase in value.

It's OK, I won't do that.

Just got an email from them in response to my query regarding the long wait for verification: "From entire CEX.IO team, I ask for your patience - plea...

A fad that can be easy money.

We're a frugal lot. Drinks from Tesco are much cheaper than at the club.

I've had more luck with CEX. Just need to verify a bank transfer and then I'm good to go. :)

They should work together and build a new company. Call it Broked.

No more After Hours? Damn.