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and the Amnesty page does not mention 'Islamic Culture'. Why not try to learn from the example of an organisation led by very wise and compassionate p...
May 18, 2017 at 10:34
Yes, it reports 77 million hits. Then I Google 'Asian race' which is generally agreed by anthropologists and biologists to be a non-existent category,...
May 18, 2017 at 07:03
Surely that's not the first time you've found dubious info on wiki, is it? Wiki is a marvellous institution that has enriched my life in many ways, bu...
May 18, 2017 at 05:24
nothing is intrinsic to Islamic culture, because there's no such thing as Islamic culture. That's my point.
May 18, 2017 at 04:32
Yeah, that Islam is a bad, bad person, who has some really violent beliefs. What's that you say? Islam isn't actually a person at all, but a label app...
May 18, 2017 at 02:24
I agree with this mcdoodle. Obscurity is by no means confined to pomo. I get far more irritated at obscure writing by analytics than I do by Continent...
May 17, 2017 at 22:53
GR helps me whenever I use GPS, which would be hopelessly inaccurate without it. QM enables me to write these fascinating messages on this computer, a...
May 17, 2017 at 22:33
Is the beef with science or with those - often not scientists - that make philosophical claims about science, such as that science reveals the Truth? ...
May 17, 2017 at 09:05
Me too.
May 16, 2017 at 23:10
It's a tough one. But I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility that there may be some people in the world that may find his worldview spiritually f...
May 15, 2017 at 03:50
There are no rules. New worldviews are welcome, from any quarter!
May 15, 2017 at 01:44
Perhaps a better way to look at the 'appropriate' description of an emotion is to interpret it as meaning that an 'inappropriate' emotion is one that ...
May 14, 2017 at 22:45
I don't know for sure but I think it will be either in the Ion or in the early parts of the Republic. That is where Plato sets out his hostility to Po...
May 11, 2017 at 06:23
That's not what I mean by 'bad'. I mean if it encourages (eg by glamorising) harmful attitudes and actions (and looking back at my post, I believe tha...
May 11, 2017 at 02:10
I agree. While I am generally very liberal, video games or other media items that encourage violence or socially harmful attitudes (eg to women or min...
May 10, 2017 at 22:33
While limiting one's concern to exploitation that is illegal is commonplace and understandable, it seems an unsatisfactory moral stance to me. It dele...
May 09, 2017 at 22:51
In my experience, wise people rarely say that things are 'stupid'.
May 08, 2017 at 03:27
Yes that's what I meant. Agnostic Uncommitted (AU) are people that that have no strong belief or disbelief in God, and who believe fairly strongly tha...
May 08, 2017 at 00:55
You can choose to use the word agnostic that way if you wish. It would be consistent with how some people currently use it, but not consistent with th...
May 07, 2017 at 23:06
Yes, of the two alternatives you describe, this one sounds closer to my position. I place the authority of all authors at naught, and I would encourag...
May 07, 2017 at 22:53
Here's an attempt from me:/uploads/resized/files/gu/bbb2q78soxqkdd2s.png, using belief in god on the horizontal and belief in the possibility of knowl...
May 07, 2017 at 04:18
That may be overstating it a bit, but I think the diagram does have some problems. I think that to be internally consistent, both dimensions need to b...
May 07, 2017 at 03:43
'pick and choose' is a loaded term, implying a flippant attitude to the decision. There was nothing the least bit flippant about Gandhi's decision to ...
May 07, 2017 at 02:28
I'm surprised that you have such a binary, black and white view of things. Do you not know of any people whom you mostly respect, but who have done on...
May 06, 2017 at 21:50
That goes too far for me. Look at my Gandhi example. Did he have no respect for the law? Of course not. He was a lawyer! He just had no respect for th...
May 06, 2017 at 11:55
Is there a step missing in that? Certainly the first part seems sensible, but the second part doesn't follow from the first if human understanding of ...
May 06, 2017 at 09:20
I didn't blame you, and I'm sorry that you thought I did. I can't see anything I wrote that implied that. Recognising the existence of a Verbal Disput...
May 06, 2017 at 05:19
Indeed. I suspect that question is one of those that has no answer. Perhaps it is the 'wrong question'.
May 06, 2017 at 05:17
Goodness - I'd forgotten that Mary's Room is mostly about the Physicalism issue. It often sounds like it isn't because it often ends with a question a...
May 06, 2017 at 02:22
Doesn't it just come down to one's meta-ethical stance in the end? For a utilitarian, harm would be the sole factor. For a Divine Command Ethicist it ...
May 05, 2017 at 23:12
Yes, it can work with that definition of knowledge, as well as with a more restrictive definition. If we count ability to recognise and remember as kn...
May 05, 2017 at 23:03
Yes. That is how I use the term. I understand that it is not how you use it. Are you familiar with David Chalmers' very useful notion of a Verbal Disp...
May 05, 2017 at 22:59
FWIW, I too find Twin Earth devoid of interest or significance. Other examples like Prof Nordby are human experts on bat echo-location or other animal...
May 05, 2017 at 03:10
They won't necessarily feel bad about it. When I say they 'recall having committed the crime' I mean they recall having done the alleged act, not that...
May 04, 2017 at 23:40
This highlights again the lack of precision of natural language. I was using 'guilty of the crime' with the meaning of 'had done the crime', whereas y...
May 04, 2017 at 02:45
Nobody deserves hate. Nobody deserves anything. But people need things. What that person needs is help. If for some reason help cannot be provided, an...
May 03, 2017 at 22:06
Interesting points MU. Certainly, to a theist that would be a sensible interpretation. To a non-theist, perhaps an alternative - and equally workable ...
May 03, 2017 at 22:04
I don't think there's much, if any, controversy about the US development of the A-bomb. It started early in WW2, when the Allies were aware that Germa...
May 03, 2017 at 10:38
Well I would miss you. I would never have been introduced to Krishnamurti, for a start.
April 30, 2017 at 22:55
That's a very interesting example ernest. Did you come up with it? I would agree with the conclusion that neither a metaphysical theory, nor theory of...
April 30, 2017 at 22:51
No, if they're claiming the cures contradict science then they are making a claim about science. Can you not see that? Far from being scientism, which...
April 23, 2017 at 12:10
Peer review and acceptance by a panel of independent scientists, not chosen by the Vatican, conducting investigations under terms set by them, not by ...
April 23, 2017 at 12:04
I don't know why you've started talking about a case where the Vatican thought there was no miracle, as it has no relevance to the point in contention...
April 23, 2017 at 11:25
Are there any Latin scholars out there that know how one would say in Latin 'Thinking is happening, therefore something exists', with sufficient preci...
April 23, 2017 at 03:45
I don't understand what you are talking about. If the church concluded that the scientific account prevailed then they are not claiming a miracle, so ...
April 23, 2017 at 00:19
Don't put words in my mouth. There is no logical objection to the possibility that a spiritual experience may be accompanied by a miraculous cure. The...
April 22, 2017 at 11:26
That's not the way the word 'scientism' is used. 'Scientism' occurs when someone demands that non-scientific claims, such as claims about spiritual ex...
April 22, 2017 at 10:27
and my point is that it would be inappropriate for any non-RC to place any credence on what the Vatican deems to be the case, unless that deeming has ...
April 22, 2017 at 09:37
If it wants to make claims about scientific phenomena, which is what you appear to be suggesting, then yes - if it wants those claims to be taken seri...
April 22, 2017 at 09:20
Which of them have been accepted by peer-reviewed scientific journals?
April 22, 2017 at 08:48