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