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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: compatibilism
- Replies: 4192
- Views: 894589
Re: compatibilism
There is no sense in which the will is free, but we may feel free to the extent we are ignorant of causality.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Practical philosophy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4277
Re: Practical philosophy
Welcome. Here's the context for your journey: https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/m ... a-nutshell
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello, everyone!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4096
Re: Hello, everyone!
Welcome. Here's most of the answers:
https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/m ... a-nutshell
https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/m ... a-nutshell
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello everyone. I'm happy to be here.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3771
Re: Hello everyone. I'm happy to be here.
Welcome. Here's most of the answers: https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/m ... a-nutshell
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: War
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7726
Re: War
[quote="Gary Childress" post_id=695854 time=1707827630 user_id=6477] [quote=Advocate post_id=693044 time=1706395061 user_id=15238] An occupying force cannot claim the right of self defense bc they are the aggressor, not the defenders. Hamas has every right to exist. Israel has given up its...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:51 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The Kalam Cosmological Argument - William Lane Craig
- Replies: 460
- Views: 111277
Re: The Kalam Cosmological Argument - William Lane Craig
No version of god has ever been demonstrated to be possible, much less plausible, much less likely, much less actual.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Nothing to somthing is logically impossible
- Replies: 220
- Views: 21999
Re: Nothing to somthing is logically impossible
The existence of nothing as an alternative to something has no possible evidence, empirical or logical, to support it.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: solving racism
- Replies: 213
- Views: 50131
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: War
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7726
Re: War
An occupying force cannot claim the right of self defense bc they are the aggressor, not the defenders. Hamas has every right to exist. Israel has given up its.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Name that fallacy...
- Replies: 327
- Views: 335158
Re: Name that fallacy...
[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=693014 time=1706375437 user_id=11800] [quote=Advocate post_id=693011 time=1706374550 user_id=15238] [quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682923 time=1701709151 user_id=11800] There is a fallacy rampant about these parts, but for which I know no name. I imagine that there e...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Name that fallacy...
- Replies: 327
- Views: 335158
Re: Name that fallacy...
[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=683090 time=1701784785 user_id=11800] [quote=Iwannaplato post_id=682993 time=1701736347 user_id=3619] [quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682923 time=1701709151 user_id=11800] all I see is strawmen [/quote] It's a claim. I haven't seen this one, but for a while one poster...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Kant on space
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5547
Re: Kant on space
[quote=raw_thought post_id=650231 time=1687391953 user_id=10786] Space is not something objective and real, nor a substance, nor an accident, nor a relation; instead, it is subjective..." Immanuel Kant, Inaugural Dissertation of 1770, p 65 I agree with Kant that we cannot understand space eithe...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Name that fallacy...
- Replies: 327
- Views: 335158
Re: Name that fallacy...
[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682923 time=1701709151 user_id=11800] There is a fallacy rampant about these parts, but for which I know no name. I imagine that there exists a formal name for it, but if not I guess we must provide one. I am tempted to borrow from the Greek myth of Cassandra who was ...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Who Done IT?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17637
Re: Who Done IT?
[quote=Dontaskme post_id=688129 time=1703849896 user_id=12017]
Who made the grass, the flowers and the trees and the birds and the bees and the people who made the crop circles? :lol:
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It wasn't done by a Who, it was done by a How.
Who made the grass, the flowers and the trees and the birds and the bees and the people who made the crop circles? :lol:
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It wasn't done by a Who, it was done by a How.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: The Sun Also Sets
- Replies: 176
- Views: 2669682
Re: The Sun Also Sets
[quote=commonsense post_id=660115 time=1691349353 user_id=14610] I believe the sun will descend in the west tonight. I believe this because that is what has always happened. But, of course, I cannot know what the sun will do tonight, no matter how many times it has done such until now. I can believe...