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They were Hanbali even before they were taken over by the Wahhabi state. There are still Hanbalis outside Saudi Arabia who are not Salafi. The traditi...

If you're not using predicate logic, in what sense are you negating A? I thought you understood this world as something like: There is an x such that ...

In that case, you've rejected the premise of this question. Regarding the photon: Its decay is in no way caused by the bosons of which it is a superpo...

I believe the OP asked for an entity with no parts.

Unless you're agreeing with me, I don't understand how. An elaboration would be much appreciated.

There are many problems importing classical negation wholesale into metaphysics. The most famous is the Raven Paradox. Suppose you have a theory: x is...

I gave you the example of a horse being different from a non-existent unicorn in not having a horn.

What about a photon decaying into an electron-positron pair?

If you grant that the self is an entity with no parts, which sounds questionable to me, then you could argue that the change in state in each step is ...

The sun has parts.

I answered your question. The text you quoted was change in an entity with no parts. If you want a concrete example, a photon can spontaneously decay ...

See the four Sunni madhhabs: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali. I'm most familiar with the Hanafi school. I gather the others are stricter.

Why do you assume that existence presupposes a relative difference from another existent? Couldn't A be different from (in this world) non-existent no...

By "no parts", do you mean no separable parts or no parts at all? Going with the latter interpretation, say we're dealing with a perfectly indivisible...

I find the OP's use of "reality" to be ambiguous. There are alternatives to scientific realism that are compatible with this line of thinking. For the...

Wahhabists pretty much argue for a return to the first 3 generations after Muhammad's time. This would mean they reject every intellectual achievement...

Which aspects do you consider to be fantastic? If you think pond scum has no significance to us, you're much mistaken: https://youtu.be/jCZq0yWBQMk ht...

I wonder if the aliens will share their energy sciences before they know they can trust us. Also, see the above.

You are theoretically correct, but there are many practical exceptions. There is a large number of organic molecules, and they are not easy to synthes...

Why do you assume that they found us in this scenario? We have programs actively trying to locate ETs. Even if they found us, there are many possibili...

I previously used "conservative" to mean an ideology that seeks to maintain appearances while leaving private life to the individual conscience. All a...

I wouldn't describe Saudi Arabia as conservative. It's a totalitarian nightmare. Wahhabism is anything but mainstream.

No, thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out. :up:

I'm by no means an expert on Islam. (I've done more reading in philosophy and computer science.) My understanding is that Allah created the world by w...

Yes, but I don't know where Islam says you can take the law into your own hands like that. If you know, please tell me. I do know that Zoroastrianism ...

"Western" morality is ambiguous phrasing. Free speech was not considered a right in the West until enlightenment thinkers like Locke. A lot of these e...

Until the 20th century, Europeans considered Muslims to be notorious sodomites. Homosexuality proliferated in Islamic society because it was very diff...

I agree that clerics should be more affirmative about freedom. But the Islamic world has never been very free. Like in Russia, it's hard for people to...

I don't think current Trumpist reactions cover all Christian violence in America. Off the top of my head: Violence against gay people used to be very ...

Surely, after Trump's America, you have some experience with how demoralizing conservative hypocrisy can be.

Yes, obviously. Islam is committed to human flourishing. They should change their tradition so that it's nicer to me.

There is tons of clinical evidence for the barebones theory I laid out. It's still used in contemporary psychology. I didn't mention any of Freud's ma...

I don't consider them bad, necessarily. I consider their tradition bad. I think they should at the very least reform their tradition. Currently, their...

I think we have every age we passed through as part of our personalities. The teenage part of me is still partly here. I just sort of outgrew him. I t...

Why do I have to "coexist peacefully" with an unjust medieval tradition? I want to live in a society where I'm free to tell the world the pain I suffe...

Or, you know, they might be Rushdie fans who are afraid to speak out.

It depends on whether the aliens have any resources that we can exploit more cheaply than from anywhere else. For example, if we need minerals, we mig...

Rushdie does return the favor. The Satanic Verses is highly ambiguous in its condemnation of Islam, conforming to the emotional contours of many India...

Yes, other people should be responsible for one man's existential problems. We form a community with the expectation of tolerating each other's differ...

Mysticism played a role in the revival of philosophy in Europe, when humanists like Ficino were trying to assemble a Christian Kabbalah. Traces of alc...

Why should Rushdie have to take responsibility? Rushdie should cry foul as much as he likes, and then let the Islamic community take responsibility fo...

Thanks to the internet, I read a pirated ebook of the Satanic Verses decades ago, back when I was in middle school. I remember feeling that Rushdie ex...

1. There are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan. That said, I'm sure Indian Muslims would say cruel things about Rushdie if they weren't terrified...

Sorry, my university applications are in the way. My goal in starting this thread was to identify mistakes in my understanding of Zizek, and I may hav...

Apropos of nothing, I really should have clarified that Lacanians understand pathology a little differently from standard psychoanalysts. For Lacan, t...

I will go through the reviews later, but I just want to note that this reviewer doesn't understand what Zizek is saying at all. Zizek is an absolute b...

Creating temporary crutches so we don't get snuffed out? Since no one fixes the world, perfection is never reached. A new constitutive trauma creates ...

I'm no expert, but my understanding is that in Lacanian psychoanalysis, the analyst is a master who forces the subject to be free. He does this by pre...

Zizek thinks we should give up that notion entirely for all the reasons I've been going on about. The Cause is not tied to any future perfection we're...

Zizek would beg to differ. He doesn't want us to identify with the humanity of others. There is no comradeship in mere identification. He wants us to ...