Forget the 'in principle' bit. Islam can't recognise things because only agents can recognise things and Islam is not an agent but a loose term for a ...
To be fair to Pauline Hanson, she doesn't just hate Islam. Her hatred is very inclusive, extending to all non-Caucasians. Indeed, she got her start by...
That's correct. That's why I chose my words carefully in my post, and did not say something like 'Muslims don't drink', which would have been incorrec...
The question 'Is X system of belief more violent?' can only be made sense of if interpreted as something like 'Do people that would self-describe as h...
I'm afraid I don't follow this. Surely you're not suggesting that before Foucault all political discourse was purely rational - all logic and no rheto...
I quite liked Common Sense. The pamphlet by Thomas Paine, that is, not the everyday notion. I am very much opposed to the everyday notion of common se...
Good for you! I for one will look forward to reading your comments. This thread could yet turn into something worthwhile and educational - for me at l...
Not if one is arguing for the benefit of the audience - and ultimately of the voters. As I said, the yardstick there is what convinces the voters, not...
What I wonder is why somebody with an interest in philosophy would want to debate a 'post-modernist'. Isn't one of the main joys of philosophy the div...
My observation - based on no formal statistical analysis whatsoever - is that in most cases where this phrase is used it relates to a value judgement,...
I don't see any inconsistency between the grammatical and the non-grammatical senses of 'subject' and 'object'. The sentence 'The ball is red' does no...
If the defence is that the Problem of Evil accusation is too anthropomorphic, CS Lewis is not a suitable lawyer for the defence, as he, being a very t...
If you need to give your eyes a rest, the Partially Examined Life has a discussion of Fromm on Love here. That link is Part 1 (Part 2 is here). The li...
The evidence to which I was referring was evidence of AGW, not that it is a bad thing. If you can't see why it would be a bad thing, I suggest you ask...
It's not skepticism. To be skeptical is to withhold belief when there is little or no evidence to support that belief, and is the approach of all good...
That's because one can still get pricked by a thorn despite the averted gaze, which is in turn because the thorns are not just an artefact of the visu...
I don't understand what you mean by this question. Can you explain it? I explained in the post to which you were referring that the criterion is that ...
As I said above, you need to think about this in the context of a process-based metaphysics. Your question is rooted in an object-based metaphysics, w...
No, it is not tied to that. The requirement is that only one plank be replaced at a time. Those replacements could happen at the rate of one per nanos...
When I say that 'time is not the important element', I mean the time it takes for the change process to be completed. We can't disregard the time dime...
It depends on what you mean by the change being done 'instantaneously'. Since such a thing is impossible, it is hard to imagine what you have in mind....
Yes, brackets solve the problem. They are more precise than commas, which is the usual tool. The downside of brackets is that people don't like them, ...
I don't think 'do what thou wilt' comes anywhere near capturing the notion that harm is what matters. One example will suffice - unwanted pregnancy is...
I would judge that on a case by case basis, according to how private the platform was, and the means of attempting the shutdown. If it is a private ho...
I don't think we do say that. What we say about paedophiles and homicidal maniacs (not psychopaths, because psychopathy is about the absence of a cons...
I agree that this is a worthwhile topic. I do wonder whether the example given is a good one though. The suggestion is that it advocates the curtailme...
If we regard the physical world as the 'cause' of our phenomenal experiences, then the existence of the physical world - thus defined - is an assumpti...
I certainly agree that different philosophies will suit different people, from which it follows that - perhaps unless internally inconsistent (and may...
Well that brings us to one of the key fault-lines in consideration of philosophy - between those who believe that a necessary criterion for being a go...
Not at all. It is, as I've said, an observation - a casual opinion, no more emotionally charged than my observation-based opinion that all live animal...
It was meant to be an observation of human nature rather than a philosophy, but I can see how it might have come across that way. Perhaps I should put...
Well Agustino, Darth did say they were just personal criticisms he had of Scholasticism. Emotional reasons are perfectly valid from that standpoint. H...
We need to be careful here. I think it's safer to say that experimental evidence is consistent with what we would expect if the HUP holds. Maybe I'm g...
The probability that I won that lottery is 1, as it is for any lottery winner. Your 'we' is a human, and a human has - unless severely mentally impair...
Appeals to authority are reasonable and sensible in the hard sciences, unlike in branches of metaphysics, particularly when the participants in the di...
I wouldn't put it that way, because the inaccuracy predicted by the HUP is much smaller than our ability to perceive. So HUP does not impinge on our r...
How do you get that reading out of the text? Here's the text in full: I can't see any mention of a changed appearance in there. The passage appears ve...
There's nothing to be gained by rehashing the argument here. None of us are experts on the issues involved, whereas there is a great deal of expertise...
One key difference between physics and philosophy is that much greater certainty is possible in physics because of its empirical nature. Unlike in met...
Well let's accept for the sake of furthering the discussion, that Jesus being also the Messiah is tremendously significant and that Jesus saw it as es...
Are they not the same person? My understanding is that 'Christ' is a name essentially meaning 'Messiah' that was applied to the historical Jesus some ...
Sorry, my first mistake of the day (and it's only 815am). That should be 'Saul's experience....'. He didn't change his name to Paul until after the ex...
How do you interpret that in the context of Paul's experience on the road to Damascus, or indeed any other non-corporeal experience? I would call that...
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