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@metalsusa1 Cont'd...note: I am not arguing for solipsism (the view that only one mind - your own - exists). In fact, my view is about as far from solipsism as it is possible to get. Nor am I arguing that this is all a dream etc. I am arguing that the world around you is exactly what it appear...

@BailiffQuimby Cont'd...if you want some direct evidence that minds can control sense data, just say someting out loud. That's a mind directly producing and controlling some sense data. You - your mind - just created a sound (a sense datum).

So, my explanation invokes the existence of a kind o...

@BailiffQuimby So basically, if people have stupid reasons for believing the world is round, you'd say that it doesn't matter that there rae good reasons for believing the world is round? You're a fool.

If you're making a case for atheism you should attack the best case for theism, not the wors...

She then says that she is not going to change herself. She is going to embrace the tension. In a way she's being a strange kind of Nietzschean superman. It would be pathetic to change her values and equally pathetic to change herself, so she's going to be a self-hater. But now it is a positive...

I was converted by arguments. So I'm completely bewildered by what he says. I really, truly, was converted by arguments. I think there's a tendency among philosophers nowadays to not take their own arguments very seriously and to treat their own profession as nothing more than an exercise in i...

I'm an antinatalist but I think the case as presented here is going to backfire. If life is a bad thing then surely it is good the fewer lives there are. Well, given that humans are doing a mighty fine job of rendering other species extinct shouldn't humans be encouraged to procreate more and m...

Perhaps the objection is that morality is rendered arbitrary under divine command theory. But that's only a good objection because we sense that morality cannot be arbitrary. Which, if morality is God's commands, means simply sensing that God would not will other than what he wills. So again, ...

@GuitarNoob101 You assume - on the basis of nothing at all - that my definition of 'rightness' is based on belief in God. No it isn't. I'm not religious. In fact, I'm quite unlike most of those who believe in God. I was a fully paid up atheist until I encountered two ARGUMENTS for God's exist...

@Khuno2 Cont'd...to clarify further. For 'X is wrong' to be 'true' it would need to be the case that X is 'required not to be done'. And for that to be 'true' there would need to be a requirement issued not to do X. The only plausible issuer of that requirement - an issuer the recognition of w...

@FizzyWodawg Those who believe in God, such as myself, do indeed have greater incentive to do what is right and avoid what is wrong. And, having greater incentive, it is less impressive when we do so. So I just accept that point. It is harder to do right if you're an atheist, because there a...