Yes, I've read it. It's wrong, but it's still very impressive. It's really a very ambitious project, to derive a system of metaphysics and...
Just something that Erasmus has been saying that's been bothering me. (1) Just because a certain philosophical position has fallen out of...
Whether anyone actually believed if the world was flat or not is beside the point. It's still a very valid question to wonder if we can know...
Let's exchange the unfamiliar term "intellectually lazy" with one we are more familiar with - "stupid." I'm not entirely sure what it would mean...
And when doing philosophy, theology and metaphysics in particular. And that's the whole point. Every agnostic knows that God doesn't exist. He...
Well, that's what all major philosophers from Descartes to Kant said. The trouble is that that distinction between what is internal and what is...
Some philosophers would say that only statements that are false by definition are impossible. Things like "There exists at least one married...
That's not the point. You can substitute "government" with "society" or almost anything you like. The problem isn't with the word "government,"...
The trouble is that no one has any clear and distinct idea of what it would mean for a system of government to "work." And obviously the question...
For the time being, we can call a proposition "impossible" if and only if it is logically false. For example, "It is raining at this very place...
Michael Newdow is a whiney, little bitch. He cares nothing for civil rights or any of the jargon he preaches and only wants to find an easy,...
That doesn't answer my question, at all. I don't care about the mysterious nature of the universe. I don't care if unicorns have an impact on...
I've been over this at least once before. It doesn't matter if you have some sort of gut-feeling or inexplicable urge to ponder God's existence....
I really didn't expect this thread to get resurrected, but I should still defend my argument against the recent new wave of criticism. First,...
My argument is that you implied that science is valid by saying that people once thought that the earth was flat and now know it to be round. But...
You can get caught up in semantics all you want. It's also logically possible that the earth will stop rotating tomorrow. A statement is...
That's just intuitively wrong. Besides, you didn't answer either of the two arguments.
Because it's absurd to suspend judgement just because a statement is logically possible. It's logically possible that the sun won't rise tomorrow,...
And what are some examples of such things? I can't think of one. No, I understood what you were saying. I just think it's a serious problem....
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