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Michael Ossipoff

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Without noncircular definitions, how would you expect words to be able to describe reality? And, if they can't, then maybe you need to be a bit more m...
October 23, 2018 at 15:20
That's right, but specifically what else do you think that there is, other than abstract facts? What do you think that there is with objective-existen...
October 22, 2018 at 15:57
You keep repeating that "no evidence" assertion like a parrot. Evidence needn't be proof. Evidence is an individual matter (Someone's reason to believ...
October 22, 2018 at 15:16
. . You asked me a question about religion. Oh, alright, so you’re saying that you didn’t ask to find out something, but instead were just asking in o...
October 22, 2018 at 14:55
No one's saying that you should believe what you don't know of any reason to believe (...whether it be evidence, or justification for faith). Many The...
October 21, 2018 at 18:01
Faith consists of trust without or aside-from evidence ("outward-sign", as Merriam-Webster, in their definition #1, concisely stated what we all mean ...
October 21, 2018 at 17:45
That's all a good example of anthropomorphism. It's the kind of funny posts that result when Atheists expound about God. Michael Ossipoff
October 21, 2018 at 17:40
...if you think that an imagined "state of affairs" is a state of affairs. Your fallacy results from your calling it a "state of affairs" when it's on...
October 21, 2018 at 17:23
. An excusable error. Don’t feel bad. . Science is about “investigation in search of new information” about this physical universe and the interaction...
October 20, 2018 at 19:59
Exactly. Michael Ossipoff
October 20, 2018 at 18:01
It might not be an exaggeration to attribute our experience-stories entirely to our own will, meaning that we have no to blame but ourselves. ...inste...
October 20, 2018 at 17:40
I think the Gnostic notion is that the demiurge was acting without God's authorization, and screwed up. I think Schope would agree. But regret doesn't...
October 20, 2018 at 16:58
Exactly. Quite so. Defnitely. As I said, this life is temporary, as is a finite sequence of a vary great many temporary lives. Life is a blip in timel...
October 20, 2018 at 16:36
What if there isn't really "stuff"? Physicist Michael Faraday suggested that there isn't. He suggested that this physical universe consists entirely m...
October 20, 2018 at 15:49
. I said that the propositions, and the things that they’re about are hypothetical. In that sense, the story itself is hypothetical. I didn’t say that...
October 20, 2018 at 14:38
"Whatever silly nonsense..."? But if you don't know the specifics of my impressions on such matters, then how can you know that they're "silly nonsens...
October 20, 2018 at 01:44
You, not I, posit a magical being. The magical being is your God. Maybe you define as "magical" all that isn't physical. Then presumably the word "whi...
October 19, 2018 at 23:02
As I've said, the only word for that statement is "hillarious". It's a really silly thing to say, given that science can, and is intended to, only stu...
October 19, 2018 at 22:50
The notion of provable assertions about the nature and character of overall Reality is hilarious. It shows the incredible pretentiousness of Aggressiv...
October 19, 2018 at 22:25
The "magical being" that you refer to is your God. So you attribute belief in your God to others, and criticize a belief that is posited only by you a...
October 19, 2018 at 22:19
Scientists are specially-qualified to study and describe the physical universe and the relations among its constituent parts. That's all. Philosophers...
October 19, 2018 at 22:15
A raisin is a grape that has been dried. It would be redundant to speak of a raisin that has been dried, because all raisins have been dried. But it's...
October 18, 2018 at 17:13
As I mentioned in my previous reply to that passage, I don't think we mean different things by "hypothetical". But yes, the meaning of "actual" is wha...
October 18, 2018 at 17:04
Galileo didn't try to apply science outside its legitimate range of applicability. He studied and advanced physics. In fact, Galileo famously clarifie...
October 18, 2018 at 15:18
When someone tries to apply science to religious questions, or even metaphysical questions, that person is trying to apply science outside its legitim...
October 18, 2018 at 15:10
...and there is a door-to-door-promotion denomination that has asserted that God exists physically. But, if your objections only apply to religions th...
October 18, 2018 at 14:27
No, it's common knowledge. Michael Ossipoff
October 18, 2018 at 14:21
I've never heard of a materialist God. ...in the study of the physical world and the interactions of its parts. Michael Ossipoff
October 18, 2018 at 14:19
The notion of creation is anthropmorphic. Theism isn't incompatible with inevitably spontaneous self-generating universes. Michael Ossipoff
October 17, 2018 at 20:30
...the phyisical world. A nonsensical statement on the face of it. There's no such thing as a "scientific case" in physics for a position on a matter ...
October 17, 2018 at 20:25
. One accepted definition that I like is: “being the antecedent of an implication.” . That isn’t nonstandard. . Another well-accepted definition that ...
October 17, 2018 at 20:06
. No, I defined a fact as a state-of-affairs or a relation among things, and I defined “proposition” in terms of fact. . Yes, by the definition of “pr...
October 17, 2018 at 16:54
. The meaningful definition of the actual physical universe is: The physical universe in which the speaker resides. . . The suggestion that the physic...
October 17, 2018 at 16:31
. I think there’s room for different definitions about that. . Given the definition of the positive integers by repeated addition of the multiplicativ...
October 17, 2018 at 15:54
I hope I've since improved the wording. Michael Ossipoff
October 17, 2018 at 15:23
They certainly fit my definition of things, because they're describable and can be referred to. But any putative "fact" that doesn't obtain isn't a fa...
October 17, 2018 at 15:12
Here is an attempt at a summary of the approaches that I know of: 1. A proposition is a statement, and a fact is what makes a proposition true. (...bu...
October 17, 2018 at 14:54
If the king of France has hair, then "The king of France is bald" isn't a fact. Here's what I could find about the Principle of Bipolarity: I don't un...
October 16, 2018 at 18:59
Alright, but isn't a sign a thing? I define things as what are describable and can be referred to. Michael Ossipoff
October 16, 2018 at 18:08
I'd say yes, but I'd better look up the Principle of Bipolarity. Michael Ossipoff
October 16, 2018 at 18:07
But it's tautologically-invevitable that if a proposition is true it's not untrue. Consistency is tautologically-inevitable. That consistency is the o...
October 16, 2018 at 18:02
Other than my girlfriend, I practically never talk to anyone, except for the minimal business-talk needed in daily life. There just aren't conversatio...
October 16, 2018 at 17:50
No sh*t? :D It's the religious belief that you were espousing. Whether you're serious about what you say is a whole other matter, which, of course, de...
October 16, 2018 at 17:27
I don't believe that he said that he hates people--merely that he tends to avoid people. But you exemplify the familiar and dismal fact that there are...
October 16, 2018 at 17:05
. Yes, but Eternity doesn’t mean an infinite amount of time—It means timelessness. . But yes, there is Eternity, timelessness, for us, at the end-of-l...
October 16, 2018 at 16:46
That's Hanover's religious belief, but I don't agree with it. Hanover believes uncritically in the doctrine of a completely omnipotent God. Presumably...
October 16, 2018 at 15:25
Yes, "purports" (in a definition of "proposition) is a better word than "alleged", because it doen't require talking about an action of a speaker. Mic...
October 16, 2018 at 15:02
That's redundant. A supposed "state-of-affairs" that doesn't obtain isn't a state of affairs. My own wording used to be "An aspect of how things are."...
October 16, 2018 at 14:54
Some people speak of facts "obtaining" or being true. When someone says that, they're using "fact" to mean "proposition" or an alleged fact.. I prefer...
October 16, 2018 at 13:42
A proposition. I guess there could be and are different systems of definitions about these things, but I suggest these: 1. Things are what are describ...
October 16, 2018 at 13:33