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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Is the beef with science or with those - often not scientists - that make philosophical claims about science, such as that science reveals the Truth? ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
While limiting one's concern to exploitation that is illegal is commonplace and understandable, it seems an unsatisfactory moral stance to me. It dele...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Interesting points MU. Certainly, to a theist that would be a sensible interpretation. To a non-theist, perhaps an alternative - and equally workable ...
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...
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...
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...
Peer review and acceptance by a panel of independent scientists, not chosen by the Vatican, conducting investigations under terms set by them, not by ...
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...
Are there any Latin scholars out there that know how one would say in Latin 'Thinking is happening, therefore something exists', with sufficient preci...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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