Wed 21 Apr, 2010 05:12 am - [QUOTE=Krumple;153450]When are people going to realize that it is just a lack of a belief to begin with. I don't have to believe anything to be an atheist. I don't have to believe in the... (view)
Sun 3 Jan, 2010 02:18 pm - I meant refutable in Aristotle's dialectic, the one we usually use. This shows that materialism is absurd, but not reductionism. I can't even think of an argument against reductionism. (view)
Sun 3 Jan, 2010 02:12 pm - Sorry about the sloppy typing.
Yes, a reconciliation of extremes. But I don't know what you mean by 'declaring all ways of living to be false.' That all positive metaphysical... (view)
Sun 3 Jan, 2010 12:13 pm - It is one for which all positive metaphysical positions would be false. Think of compatibilism applied to all philosophical problems. No distinctions would be fundamental. The universe would be a... (view)
Sun 3 Jan, 2010 11:09 am - I'm still not clear what is being opposed to what so I'll also defer to Jeeprs, who seems to have superhuman powers of politeness. (view)
Sun 3 Jan, 2010 10:43 am - [QUOTE=prothero;116518]Now you see, I would have said "mysticism" which for the most part rejects logical rational attempts to describe god or assign divine attributes and relies more on... (view)
Sat 2 Jan, 2010 06:18 pm - I'm not so sure about b), but a) is on the button.
Mind you, it would depend on how we are defining religion. Not all religionists are reductionists. But mysticism, which many would regard... (view)
Sat 2 Jan, 2010 05:46 pm - You're putting words in my mouth. Scepticism puts paid to realism as a scientific theory. Whether the theory is true or not is another matter. (view)
Sat 2 Jan, 2010 02:05 pm - Thoughts...
Perhaps it was asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin that eventually led to the idea of fluxions.
The problem of scepticism puts paid to realism as anything more... (view)
