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Well, you keep proving what type of person you are Phil8659. When one argues with an idiot, then there are two. As Ann Robinson said, "You are the weakest link. Goodbye!"

The notes say that defining mathematical terms. Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick, 151.) Enumerating numbers and making them sufficient but also necessary integers-base, inductive, and external cause. Thanks, as I had forgotten this because it was not important. Going, over my notes, ...

Okay, connotative cluses as constituents. a denotative definition. Lol, took me a while but a dug into my notes, lol.

Astro Cat, fallacies of relevance had turned this into an ad hominem claim rather than the argument itself. Tu quoque (I steal from by boss because he has underpaid me for years) argument. Justifying bad behavior and wrong actions were argued. The whole things was appeal to authority when you knew n...

Having, taken a physics class, kudos for the accomplishment. Democritus and Leucippus, both circa 5 BCE. Necessity has a reason that was according to the Greek atomists. The Stoics, also believed, that every event had a cause, but had to be rational. Newton was a genius of physics and proposals. Qua...

The problem of evil argument had turned into one big fallacy and that mainly being a ad nauseam using the straw man. I am now just writing and not defining my terms. As you should know the terms, being able to use them in a sentence and not making them a pooh-pooh argument. Soren Kierkegaard used th...

The argument has just become too semantic. "It is not God I do not accept," Dostoevsky grumbled, "But the world he has created." According, to Saint Augustine of Hippo and Philosopher Herbert Mc Cabe held wickedness was a bad that amounted to a lack of some kind. The evil argumen...

Plato followed a duality of body and soul (Harris, 24.) A Hellenistic writer rejected the traditional biblical concept of Sheol (Harris, 226.) Plato influenced Western religion about the immorality of the soul rewards and punishments (Harris, 276.) The philosopher would seek eternal truth (Harris, 2...

Having, completed a Power Point Presentation of the Problem of Evil. Do you understand evil? What it is and is not? I can explain it to a two year old, so that means I understand it, but too explain it to a person who already has assumptions of it, then I cannot.

Whatever God prohibits,

wrote bahman. Not really knowing how to answer prohibited used in the subjunctive mood, of the word defined. "You should stop," dĕsinis. A more verbal meaning of the verb cease, would be the infinitive, it completes the meaning of the verb.

You have to define Evil and the Moral Order.

Bishop George Berkeley, circa 1685-1753 CE, The Basic Argument: (1) Matter was only known to us by its sensible qualities. (2) It was impossible to describe, or even imagine matter without these qualities. (3) Absence of sensible qualities, matter, by definition, loses its essential qualities . Work...

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Work Cited Chalmers, David. Reality + Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy, New York, NY, 2022 CE. Thank-you, your works have been cited and knowledge does exist in the definition of knowledge. Having, discovered your knowledge, thank-you. The relationship between first person and third per...

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