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by Advocate
Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: War
Replies: 19
Views: 1164

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...
by Advocate
Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:51 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The Kalam Cosmological Argument - William Lane Craig
Replies: 460
Views: 92440

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.
by Advocate
Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:50 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Nothing to somthing is logically impossible
Replies: 220
Views: 5148

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.
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: solving racism
Replies: 212
Views: 34501

Equality Street

by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:37 pm
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: War
Replies: 19
Views: 1164

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.
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:53 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Name that fallacy...
Replies: 327
Views: 308012

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...
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Name that fallacy...
Replies: 327
Views: 308012

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...
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Kant on space
Replies: 11
Views: 1465

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...
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:55 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Name that fallacy...
Replies: 327
Views: 308012

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 ...
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Who Done IT?
Replies: 30
Views: 6277

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.
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: The Sun Also Sets
Replies: 176
Views: 1725216

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...
by Advocate
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Great Coincidence
Replies: 68
Views: 2634

Re: Great Coincidence

[quote=bahman post_id=692712 time=1706207630 user_id=12593] [quote=Advocate post_id=692694 time=1706200211 user_id=15238] The universe never began. Space-time is just a way of describing change at a nonspecific level. [/quote] The universe definitely has a beginning. We should be in heat death if th...
by Advocate
Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: solving racism
Replies: 212
Views: 34501

Re: solving racism

Race was an arbitrary biological development due to species development in a variety of niches. As the world gets relatively smaller it is relatively less meaningful. Besides which, every individual can only be judged on their characteristics which are under their control, which cannot include race.
by Advocate
Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:35 pm
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: solving racism
Replies: 212
Views: 34501

Re: solving racism

Race was an arbitrary biological development due to species development in a variety of niches. As the world gets relatively smaller it is relatively less meaningful. Besides which, every individual can only be judged on their characteristics which are under their control, which cannot include race.
by Advocate
Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Great Coincidence
Replies: 68
Views: 2634

Re: Great Coincidence

The universe never began. Space-time is just a way of describing change at a nonspecific level.