BlueBanana

You have the implication wrong way around. Taking something as true regardless of evidence is belief, but not necessarily vice versa.

Why would a god do that?

And your point is? Are you trying to claim the empirical observations are also necessarily true?

Exactly. Believing empirical observations is a belief. I never said you don't have evidence, but the evidence you mentioned is no proof. Science is no...

I can even go ahead and admit my confusion about my mortality if that makes you happy but I'd be delighted if this discussion could advance somewhere,...

Can you speak in a civilized manner without insulting animals?

"What" in this context is different than "what" in general. Ie. What is the location of the object? The location is the part of space where the state ...

Not as good as I once was.

You do know how quotations work, right? If I quote a claim of yours and say "clarify" I mean "clarify the thing I quoted". You made the claim I believ...

Well it's directly comparable to evidence for/against religions. The evidence as a whole is against them, including for example the science, but even ...

Go ahead and clarify then.

If you throw dice 100 times and get a six 99 times, that's evidence the dice are rigged, and those 99 times are evidence for that. The one throw that ...

Induction requires existing perceptions to induct from. All the humans you know have the power to dream up anything to have it, therefor I have as wel...

Doesn't mean it isn't evidence.

There's a limited amount of beliefs with no evidence, and a practically infinite amount of beliefs supported by evidence. For example, the existence o...

It's not anymore nonsensical than claiming consciousness is bound by those rules with no evidence. There's 0 evidence of either claim. What is any of ...

Does not follow. The function is only determined by the past, but its value (=what it refers to) is the future.

But those patterns could be generalized to include, what would happen in the hypothetical case it was possible and happened?

But you can, based on those patterns, make expectations and generalizations?

That's a great argument for the claim that the beliefs that ignore evidence are harmful, but there's a ton of beliefs that do not ignore it. I might e...

So you have no opinion at all on what would happen in the case an observer was able to travel backwards in time?

You only have that evience about non-conscious objects. You can't apply those conclusions to include people. Indeterminism does not imply that causali...

So a thought experiment is not an argument anymore because it's impossible?

How about this: if you went back in time without affecting anything in that time, there's no reason to assume something would happen differently.

What are your arguments for not believing in determinisn again? That you dislike its implications?

That's a strawman, indeterminism in no way implies those kinds of events happening.

Apparently you don't get it because I do not believe in magic.

The claim that psychological (/cultural/social) gender exists independently of the biological sex.

A social role of a sex is an oxymoron. As I said before, biological sexes don't contradict the gender theory.

So you believe.

You're the one who mentioned it, so that doesn't answer my point.

To me the relationship between the gender theory and biological sexes resembles a lot that between religion and science: ignorant people think they co...

How so? Afaik it's just deterministic.

1) Magic could be deterministic. 2) Scientific method requires neither determinism nor causality, they are results of it.

According to determinism.

Why do you assume it does? It was merely meant to be an example of what might be true.

Nothing he said implies otherwise, however you have claimed that the universe is not both determinisric and causal.

How about I just don't? We aren't. Uh, a lot. One is a living being with a free will, one is an object with neither a consciousness nor an ability of ...

I'm taking Apokrisis' side, this isn't relevant to the comment you replied to, and not least because it doesn't contain a thesis of any sort.

No, that could be prioritizing the well-being of others before yours.

To be fair, we don't have any arguments for the view to disprove. Nothing can be disproven if they take their claim as a premise that just contradicts...

What are your arguments against calvinism?

You need intelligence to make discoveries or inventions or to create something new. Most people would be as productive if they were as intelligent.

The thoughts are representations of something. The imagined thought of the greatest being represents the greatest being but it isn't the greatest bein...

I was referring to you drinking Banno's beer.

Ha, I bet it was you that ate my popcorn as well! If I PM my needed information, will you post me popcorn?

Belief is defined to be without proof. Your twist of belief being with or without evidence is in itself valid. However, the question of whether scienc...

The very same dictionary definitions you've posted contradict the ones you're using.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/disagreement

An expression of disagreement in such a state of considering the aforementioned to be blasphemy that no verbs are to be inserted in this sentence.