creativesoul

Nice racial slur. Your opinion does not matter here. It doesn't matter if it does not make sense to you. The 'logic' you've employed here is flawed as...

Accept the way things are. Know what difference one can make. Be content with what one does and/or has done.

Civilians were not the targets of the nuclear weapons used to end WWII in the Pacific. Stop spouting that bullshit! There were manufacturing facilitie...

Yeah, who cares whether or not our beliefs are reasonable, rational, and/or true? Be a force of nature. Geez!

Justification is all about the ground(basis) for the belief in question. Whether or not a belief is justified is determined by the truth/falsity of th...

I agree with the first claim(although I'm not sure of the significance of saying something "truthful"), disagree with the claim that speaking doesn't ...

Fine by me. To exist is to be the value of a variable things exist before we give accounts of them My issue with Quine's account was posed to you. My ...

His wants are irrelevant.

Not only does it(systemic racism) exist, but there are many who are currently attempting to stop the public from learning about how it does by virtue ...

The thread seems to have ontology underwriting it. The idea of something 'obtaining as a fact' seems a bit unnecessarily confused to me. If we're look...

I see. That seems relevant to me. So, what other dialogues are relevant to the Euthyphro and how?

Is there no difference between being taken account of and existing prior to that account? Seems Quine doesn't honor/accept that distinction.

Other writing by Plato, or other writings by others interpreting Plato, or writings by others claiming to be based upon Plato? 'Platonists' who use no...

Well, I'll have to take your word for what the Platonists believe. It does, from my vantage point, look a bit different from Plato. Regardless, when i...

The position Nos is attempting to promote is one that exonerates people like Trump and any other promoters of the known falsehoods about 'widespread e...

Ad homs are also something that can be done with the power of speech...

Okay. :brow:

This doesn't help your case Nos. Now you're just muddying the waters with irrelevant gibberish, false accusations, misinformation, and demonstrably fa...

Saying something is also a power. Moving the goalposts is yet another. You're doing both... with speech.

The question I asked remains however. If God is everything, what sense does it make to talk about whether God invented anything at all? That was the p...

Nah. I'm not as big a fan of Witty as many others are here. In general, I mean, I've read enough of the letters to Cambridge to see the man behind the...

Nah, Nos, you're full of shit. You claim words have no power. Then you use them because they do, in fact, have the power to... The ability to express ...

There's currently a push in Florida which is basically attempting to survey potential students at universities as a means to acquire knowledge of thei...

Ah. Forgive me for not having read the primary source, or for having forgotten if I have. I've nothing further, for Socrates' answer introducing the j...

It's not the 'conferring' of power to speech that is the problem Nos. Speech has power. We all know this. That's why we use it. That's why you're here...

Could you offer a succinct explanation of this? I have always understood the problem to be an issue for divine command theory(that what counts as piou...

That's been my focus.

How would that work if we also hold that "God is everything?"

Right. This thread is about the Greek arguments concerning the origins of piety, goodness, and justice... isn't it?

Interesting example... last I checked, Warhol's exhibit had been banned for exactly that piece. In Cincinnati anyway. Not exactly impugnity, but not e...

I have no reason to believe that "God is everything" leads to typical troll behaviour. I cannot find any way of making sense of "God is everything", a...

Question could lead to an interesting thread... Rather than discuss which 'philosophical position' we've changed our minds and/or belief about, it's f...

Hey Mad! Interesting post that the above was included within. I've a question though regarding what's quoted above. What reasons are there for believi...

Corrections were necessary...

When deliberately spreading known falsehood becomes the catalyst for newly formed beliefs that lead people who believe the lies to violent insurrectio...

Because that's how language works...

God is Satan. God is good. God is bad. God is evil. God is...

There ya go. Leads to utter nonsense, meaningless language use, equivocation fallacies, and inevitable self-contradiction and/or outright incoherence.

If you mean that I probably have to adhere to bits and pieces in order to interact(currently, as an adult). Sure. If you mean that my initial worldvie...

So then the human soul is not the divine.

The One The human soul The divine All the gods The Divine Are these different entities or different names for the same entity?

First, there is more than one. Second, I can interact with someone with a different worldview. Third, I can understand a completely different worldvie...

Multiplying entities... only for those entities to be different names for the same entity has it's own set of problems. Occam's razor. As far as monis...

Two different claims.

Well, Plato used the terms sensibly, and if he did so without equivocation, then pursuing a range of different meanings would be to say stuff that Pla...

The human soul is all the gods. That follows, you know?

Care to elaborate?

Some of us, perhaps. For my part, I built a worldview around things that I knew were true, and/or had warrant to believe. Disparate, at first, this wo...

The text is ancient. The logical implications are what interested me. If we use the text as though it is infallible, we arrive where they did... nowhe...