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I'm sorta busy now.

May I request a definition of "atheist"? Because even the noted Atheist Richard Dawkins has stated that he is not 100% sure that God doesn't exist. We...

I am just guessing. And I provided definitions and speculation because none was forthcoming from you.

I think your belief in reality is quite simply not skeptical enough. Magical thinking is simply ritual activity without full understanding. We engage ...

I'm familiar with this argument from Philosophy 101. It admits various interpretations. The only relevant one is: "Can God deprive himself of his own ...

Your post lends itself to two interpretations. The first, "naive" interpretation: lets start by converting your premises: "Consciousness is not nothin...

Beauty is a kind of ambivalence with no absolute standard. Truth may be the same way in the sense that there is not a determinate algorithm for findin...

Love is the only basic emotion. It is common to all life, not as the totality of desire but as the common thread of each desire, found in all other em...

The most absolute form of reality is not material, but conflict. Nothing is real until opposition and impossibility emerge. When I see something, it i...

We have before us a bare fact. How are we to interpret it? I don't want to be the one to stick his neck out.

"Munchausen Trilemma" is nothing more than a restatement of what was already known at the time of Aristotle. From Posterior Analytics, part 3: Just an...

I would like to have someone articulate what the actual problem with reading Lewis Carroll is. I'd also like to point out a certain organization of so...

Ultimately in any argument it is necessary to be honest. Progress in an argument comes from convincing individuals that they have made a mistake or to...

This is not a valid objection.

You are the one who is just repeating yourself. You have not been polite to me.

Anything a nitwit like Peterson can say has already been better said thousands of years ago. However, the same can be said for analytic philosophy.

You didn't even make an argument here. You're just assuming your conclusion, which is literally ... That's why my argument is better than yours. My po...

So you think the strength of an argument follows from whether you agree with it?

Well I've been working on an essay about this, but generally the answer to the question is "Ethics".

The point is debatable but you must admit my argument is a lot stronger than OPs.

This is an arbitrary point of comparison. It would be better to consider the case where that dog never lived at all. It's impossible to measure its su...

If this is inting, who gets the 300g?

This is probably the most important lesson that America must learn from Trump. The simple fact that after the coup attempt Republicans did not unanimo...

The proposal you make is like such a small step. It's as if we were in a battleship on the morning before a naval battle debating what to have for bre...

I think your thesis is hard to to defend because you don't ask whether God exists or whether someone can know God doesn't exists. Instead you ask how ...

It would actually improve the quality of the forum considerably.

You're radically underestimating the historical contingency involved here. (1) We could have lost world war II, in which case the whole planet would b...

This just gets at the issue with saying something like "you can't get an ought from an is". It stops you from evaluating whether things are working pr...

I have a few interesting ideas. But it is really hard, as an unemployed 40 year old with no life prospects, living in his parents' basement, to motiva...

So if I build a rube goldberg machine out of rocks, sticks, playing cards, and other things from my garage, that has consciousness?

I say to read them in the order you listed them. But I would also read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit after Schopenhauer, and listen along to the Ber...

A modern parallel might be the phenomenon where everyone says "I don't believe what I see on the TV and Internet." This is manifestly contradicted by ...

Seems like you're unaware of your own cognitive dissonance here...

I will side with Plato in this debate. There is something rather than nothing because of the Idea of The Good. It is best that there be something. In ...

Then what are we arguing about?

I admit that I was somewhat taken in by this myth myself. But I do not think the myth is Pro-Trump. Facts, even incorrect facts, do not have ideology ...

1. That which does not exist is nothing 2. The past does not exist 3. All causes occur in the past when measured in time local to their present effect...

I would start my investigation of cause and effect with Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Understanding the difficulties in merely asserting ...

Can you be a little more specific? How are you assuming the referee reacts? Because if the ref doesn't act on this information (and it is likely that ...

I don't understand why nobody in this thread can accept that this forum doesn't fall on the exact midpoint between Brett's political views and whateve...

This post is a personification of my theory Against Excellence. If I see a chair, I am happy to call it a chair and not a "chair". As a chair, it is a...

Theism can be interpreted broadly, just as atheism or scientism can. If you had said Christianity, your argument would be stronger, since there's more...

I think this is almost correct, except that you can't produce a contradiction between the yellow dragon and reality without considering both in terms ...

I mean memory in a more radical sense. Even the capacity to be aware of an object in motion requires the eye to take in a series of images. The nervou...

We tend to think of our own moral intuitions as being universal and objective. But can you prove that they aren't a product of your own culture? I am ...

I'm pointing out that you took my statement out of context in the first place. because I was talking about philosophical discussions in the first plac...

The dark shadow hanging over Marxism is his stages of history analysis which is complete bunk. Ironically the "communist future" is probably the most ...

So can you explain how people who are hanging out together talking about philosophy can relate their experiences to each other directly without recour...

You're twisting my words to say the opposite of what I wrote. This is evocative of a "magic formula" which is nothing but a vain belief that it is pos...

Because what Hippyhead said it self-contradictory.