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You don't answer my questions, so here they are again: If to construct a model of reality (an 'FSRC') is to construct reality, then of what is the model a model? And if all we can know about reality are the models we construct, how can we construct them in the first place? And how can we assess and...

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within the universe, as opposed to that which is only imaginary, nonexistent or nonactual . The mathematical definition for reality is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics Mathematical realism, like realis...

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To repeat. If to construct a model of reality (an 'FSRC') is to construct reality, then of what is the model a model? And if all we can know about reality are the models we construct, how can we construct them in the first place? And how can we assess and, if necessary, change them? You misinterpre...

In this case, God is merely a thought , an idea never a real physical entity. For theists this idea or thought is reified as real and it works for them. If we define God as a collection of positive qualities, then God is a Platonic abstraction. If we define God as the creator of the heavens and the...

My interlocutor [Godelian] claimed the God is real based on Godel's God Argument using Higher-Order Modal Logic. That is not what I claimed (or actually what Gödel claimed). Gödel's God theorem establishes the following instead. The belief in God is provably equivalent to the belief in five subtle ...

Perhaps we all agree that correspondence theories of truth are incorrect. For example, there's no correspondence between the factual assertion 'water is H2O' and the feature of reality that it asserts. For a start, a name no more corresponds with what it names than an arrow corresponds with its tar...

SO "water= H2O" relies on a set of long held assumptions. These assumptions are endemic an this make it look universal, absolute and eternally objective. However the history os science tells a different story. In declaring this a fact beyond our interest you are no different from Veritas ...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:45 am Does God exist?

New: It is Impossible for God to be Real
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Kant: It is Impossible to Prove God Exists as Real
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And then if the power goes out or the system crashes, who is going to know how to restore it or do anything if no one can do anything without AI to help them? The more wiser ones will make sure they have alternative back-up plans in case of disasters. It is the same with any other catastrophe [natu...

God is an idea [in various conceptions] that is critically necessary to facilitate the survival of the majority of humans by soothing the terrible mental angsts arising from a cognitive dissonance driven by an inherent existential crisis. Do you mean to say that God is critically necessary to facil...

How is AI answering these questions? Is AI answering based on how other human beings answer or have answered the question and if so, which human beings is AI getting its answers from? Who is AI to tell humans answers to questions important to us? The most critical thing to do is not to take AI's an...

How is AI answering these questions? Is AI answering based on how other human beings answer or have answered the question and if so, which human beings is AI getting its answers from? Who is AI to tell humans answers to questions important to us? The most critical thing to do is not to take AI's an...

God is an idea [in various conceptions] that is critically necessary to facilitate the survival of the majority of humans by soothing the terrible mental angsts arising from a cognitive dissonance driven by an inherent existential crisis. 1. All humans are programmed to survive as long as possible t...

Aristotle was a great philosopher but the main theories of his philosophy contributed to loads of contentious issues, e.g. his Substance Theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_theory#Aristotle I have never claimed that everything Aristotle ever wrote, was correct. I just wrote that some th...