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We're in complete agreement here. American history textbooks are a joke. An injurious one at that.

To What Extent is Human Judgment Distorted and Flawed? To the extent that the individual's belief system is false.

This is overstating the case. At least it seems that way from where I sit. Sure, there were at the time. and there still are Americans who sympathize ...

If all belief manifested into reality, what would happen if two individuals held mutually exclusive beliefs about the very same events? Insight? :wink...

If I promise to plant a rose garden for you on Sunday, then Monday there ought be a rose garden. Is that an institutional fact ? It seems to fit the d...

Impossible.

Information is often thought about in terms of organized data. That is a definition that's put to use. Sometimes for good. Sometimes not.

Is one that fails to take the right sorts of things into consideration. Point one:Cause and effect is a kind of relationship. Point two:It makes no se...

If everyone is actually egoistic, then it makes no sense whatsoever to talk about preferring a system in which everyone is egoistic. It makes sense to...

To the OP... Now that's a praiseworthy resurrection if there is such a thing! Greeks didn't do funny stuff with words. Those who came later are the on...

It's neither been taken as a given, nor have I provided a case of affirming the consequent. I'm not a fan of informal fallacies. The question was aske...

What's stated in the quote above struck me as quite an important yet neglected consideration. The question was also not satisfactorily answered. I'm e...

Interesting article that this thread is based upon. I'd like to see you keep developing that with someone. Can't be me. I barely have time nowadays to...

Religion fills gaps in human knowledge.

I'll leave your avatar name and link out of any future quotes from you. That's the best I can do. :flower:

I'm offering a much needed dissenting opinion regarding the utmost important topic. You do not have to read it. It's not like you're being forced agai...

No it is not. That would make truth rooted in language use. If truth is rooted in language use then either there are no such things as language less t...

That's not true either.

Be well.

That's not true at all.

By means of substitution... I assume an acceptance that a statement is true is derived from the quality or state of being in accordance with fact or r...

My apologies. I didn't realize that that was a definition of "truth". In my defense, the format wasn't familiar. Usually people write the term followe...

You just linked me back to your own assertion that the term "truth" is rooted in the term "true". You've still not defined the term "truth". I also di...

Make no mistake. I do not understand the mathematics. I've read extensively regarding the three most common interpretations. If you have an example of...

Hitler is a fine example of what can happen when people doing wrong to one another is found as permissible/acceptable; killing is believed to be justi...

I see definitions of "belief" and "true". There is not one yet of "truth".

No worries. Be well. Best wishes.

I've nothing further until you offer the definitions I asked for. It's a waste of time otherwise.

I've no reason to agree with this presupposition. I'm agnostic on the issue of the origin of all things. Could not care less really.

Well, I do not use the term "evil" but all sorts of folk knowingly take actions that they know will cause all sorts of unnecessary harm to others. So,...

I can't make sense of what you're trying to say. The substitution exercise spelled out earlier renders the things you're saying unintelligible and/or ...

They fire(for most people anyway) while observing another having a familiar experience. It's said to be the basis for empathy, although I'm not convin...

I do my best to not make enemies.

Mirror neurons.

You defined the term "true". The term "true" is not interchangeable with "truth". Normal definitions are okay, I mean that's how people use the terms....

Nah. It's better to know both.

If it is possible to physically effect a subatomic particle residing in one location by virtue of physically disturbing a different one residing in an...

Define "belief" in such a way that we could write a coherent essay on belief, so that when we were finished, we could then replace each use of the ter...

I was thinking more along the lines of quantum entanglement(spooky action at a distance).

Well, that's another matter altogether, replete with it's own set of common problems as well as some that are much less well known. However, that bein...

I've no idea what you're attempting to say here. It is established, well documented, undeniable knowledge that many people across the globe of history...

What's the problem with what I wrote?

Is that supposed to count as relevant to what I wrote?

Much of the deep-seated meaning and the resultant seemingly disparate array of meaningful influence that religion has had upon so many different kinds...

:smile: The above presupposes that you have a good grasp of my view. I'd like to see you offer a comprehensive summary of the position I hold and have...

The structure was different. That is exactly what I pointed out. So, they are not just different except for that structure. To quite the contrary, the...

Arriving at incoherence is a sign of self-contradiction and/or equivocation. You've littered the thread and this conversation with such things. I've j...

You're such a moron. The objection was based upon a conflation of belief and statements. I do not conflate belief and statements. The objection was ba...

Reminding the reader of the notion of belief you're working from again... The contents of an individual's belief, according to your own words, "expres...