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My participation begins on page 7. Take a look. you might be surprised at what I say. Here
February 17, 2021 at 16:27
There's an older thread called Privilege. I suggest you have a look.
February 17, 2021 at 16:20
No, I do not think that you do. If you did, you wouldn't have said the things that you have.
February 17, 2021 at 16:12
Oh dear, yet another white person that does not know what white privilege is, nor the benefits of acquiring such knowledge. So many people equate priv...
February 17, 2021 at 16:05
Freedom of speech has been rather shamelessly invoked as a means to exonerate otherwise completely unacceptable behaviour. If one's speech is used as ...
February 17, 2021 at 04:37
Yeah. Let's keep an eye out for those! :lol:
February 17, 2021 at 03:55
Hmm. That strikes me as rather odd. On the one hand, you point out that "things" are much more specific(and rightly so, by the way) than the term impl...
February 17, 2021 at 03:41
There's a curious thing about both implication and entailment, but that's another topic in it's own right. When we talk about particular circumstances...
February 17, 2021 at 03:01
I use "things" and not "objects" for good reason. I reject the subject/object dichotomy/framework as well as a few other inherently inadequate, but no...
February 16, 2021 at 16:13
Indeed. Cannot stand that guy. He is not a sincere person. Very dishonest, in a lies of omission sort of way. He should be impeached for openly admitt...
February 16, 2021 at 05:53
Yep. McConnell made the case clearly. He padded what may seem to be a contradiction(because of his vote of acquittal) by virtue of explaining that the...
February 16, 2021 at 04:27
The chemical gradient is not meaningful to the amoeba. The amoeba is incapable of drawing correlations between different things.
February 16, 2021 at 03:39
So did the DNC.
February 15, 2021 at 16:33
...drawing correlations between that something(whatever it is) and something else; roughly always between different things. Sometimes, it could be bet...
February 15, 2021 at 16:10
The question makes little to no sense on my view. Not all things that exist are meaningful. Some causal and spatiotemporal relationships exist in thei...
February 15, 2021 at 07:08
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February 15, 2021 at 07:00
Existence is not a thinking process...
February 15, 2021 at 06:59
In the States at least... All it takes to become successful and financially secure(rich, if you like) is hard work, saving your money, and obeying the...
February 15, 2021 at 03:38
I don't believe in domains. Not too sure I'm rightly called an analytic philosopher either, so... The pinto bean is the focus. Specifically, faith as ...
February 15, 2021 at 03:27
Fair enough, teach(as in short for teacher)... :wink:
February 15, 2021 at 03:22
emphasis mine... :smile: :point: :smile:
February 15, 2021 at 03:20
I don't talk in terms of things being meaningful in their entirety. Existing is not equivalent to being meaningful. I think I agree with the gist of w...
February 15, 2021 at 03:11
I didn't look that closely. Just quickly saw that your suggestion would have improved his positions and took you at your word that that stage was a go...
February 15, 2021 at 02:58
Having an effect/affect. A necessary precondition of becoming meaningful and/or becoming part of a causal and/or spatiotemporal relation. That looks l...
February 15, 2021 at 02:33
This might be our main point of contention. It seems to fit fine to me, without ending in incoherency, equivocation, or self-contradiction.
February 15, 2021 at 02:04
Interesting. It reminded me of para-consistent logic or rejecting bivalence or rejecting the LEM. Have you no issue with explosion? No use for truth?
February 15, 2021 at 02:02
Bok bok bok.... That's good advice though, regarding the stage in the game at which a castle would've been advantageous.
February 15, 2021 at 01:55
I prefer Othello.
February 14, 2021 at 23:25
You may. I'm not very good.
February 14, 2021 at 23:24
Didn't think one could castle as a means to get out of check. Wasn't he already in check?
February 14, 2021 at 23:15
I have a feeling that I'm somewhere in between the two of you in terms of talent or knowledge at or of the game of chess. I'll watch, though. You two ...
February 14, 2021 at 23:13
Perhaps faith is a self-imposed inability to admit that one's own belief(s) are, or could be, mistaken. A consciously chosen refusal to believe or eve...
February 14, 2021 at 22:58
"Belief systems" seems a better description than "the universal"... "Helps" is far too neutral or positive.
February 14, 2021 at 22:55
:point: Yup. It has shown itself to be exactly that.
February 14, 2021 at 22:50
:point:
February 14, 2021 at 22:48
Yeah, I'd figured out that that's probably where he first moved. :point:
February 14, 2021 at 22:37
Those who believe they've been persecuted, perhaps, will believe that there will come a day of reckoning, when the persecution stops? In today's moder...
February 14, 2021 at 22:33
I don't see it.
February 14, 2021 at 22:22
This is a good question. That's the role faith plays. The reasoning away... That's a psychological question. I would say that there's much more to lea...
February 14, 2021 at 21:25
Yes. Exactly!
February 14, 2021 at 21:15
Use them then. By all means... Quote these scholars on faith in the sense we're discussing here. The term is also used as a synonym to a belief system...
February 14, 2021 at 21:08
Let's just say that I'm uniquely qualified to assess faith. I've seen it up close and personal. I've lived in it's immediate presence. I've watched it...
February 14, 2021 at 21:05
Like the wise men?
February 14, 2021 at 20:57
Religious belief is no different to any other about what's happened, is happening, and/or will happen.
February 14, 2021 at 20:54
You think that this somehow contradicts what counts as faith? What's lost, shaken, or regained? When it is lost or shaken, is it unshakable? No. If on...
February 14, 2021 at 20:50
It presupposes the existence of Zeus. It shows the role of authority throughout history as it pertains to religious belief. It shows that religious be...
February 14, 2021 at 20:44
I'm not saying that all religious belief is held with unshakable conviction. Indeed, one point of the paper is to draw and maintain a distinction betw...
February 14, 2021 at 20:40
Think about that.
February 14, 2021 at 20:37
Noah's ark... The parting of the Red Sea... The second coming of Christ... Jonah and the whale... Job - now there's a story about faith!
February 14, 2021 at 20:29
That's not what I said. Faith is unshakable conviction that some claim or another(many usually) is true. True believers have it. All of them. That goe...
February 14, 2021 at 20:08