Welcome to the Philosophy Forums! If you are not a member, please join the forums now. It's completely free! If you are a member, please log in.
Search found 404 matches
April 21st, 2013, 10:42 am
(quote not shown) No... I'm explaining that you seem to be making that failure to distinguish... since my statement was a claim about my belief. The counter was that I was wrong. Not that the facts my belief were based on was wrong. And second, within the framework of my intended meaning (which may ...
April 20th, 2013, 6:47 pm
(quote not shown) Fair enough... as I said in the previous post, that comment was more than a little tongue in cheek. However, if you consider IQ as a measure of what one knows (which is actually true) then I actually do believe that the average person was smarter in the past. Again, this has nothin...
April 20th, 2013, 5:21 pm
(quote not shown) Not to be intentionally offensive, but it seems to me that your comments are a pretty good example of what I'm talking about... because what you are saying probably isn't true... is literally my belief that something is true. But unless I'm lying, it is not possible for what I actu...
April 20th, 2013, 4:46 pm
(quote not shown) My understanding is that they were immigrants who came to America, were received warmly and given all the best that we had to offer. For instance, the older brother of the two suspects that are generally admitted to in the mainstream media (and there are at least four total, althou...
April 19th, 2013, 6:59 pm
(quote not shown) About the only thing I take offense to are people who take offense to things. lol. There are other things, of course, like people who set of bombs at the Boston Marathon... but if you boil down why they did what they did, I think the fact that they take offense to something they ha...
April 19th, 2013, 6:35 pm
(quote not shown) Honestly, I don't see any significant evidence that natural selection (or any part of evolution) functions in an algorithmic way. Largely, this is because I do not believe there is any significant evidence to support the notion of Darwinian-style evolution--period. I believe in evo...
March 17th, 2013, 1:06 pm
(quote not shown) It seemed that way to me as well. (quote not shown) I agree. I don't really have a definitive opinion about whether or not light actually moves (or whether that is simply the building up of pressure), but the later possibility is intriging, I think. (quote not shown) Sorry... still...
March 16th, 2013, 5:23 pm
(quote not shown) Thank you for agreeing with me. I appreciate your support for my stated position. (quote not shown) Actually, this is the exact opposite of the case. The Electric Universe does not try to create another dimension in any way shape or form. In fact, in may ways it relies on far more ...
March 16th, 2013, 11:25 am
(quote not shown) The fact the fact that we cannot detect a medium should not be all that surprising. In virtually all cases, what we notice most in any medium/message pairing, is the message not the medium. By way of analogy, think about how movies sometimes have a scene that is shot totally from a...
March 15th, 2013, 4:19 pm
(quote not shown) While you may be correct in as far as what you've said, I still do not believe that it changes my point. We can divide the question about Vacuum into two different considerations: First, we can ask if zero pressure can actually be achieved ? And my understanding is that the answer ...
March 14th, 2013, 9:28 am
I said in an earlier post that space is the medium on which physical reality resides. It's like a page... on which letters can be typed. Or a computer screen, like the one on which I'm typing letters now. The letters are the message, but the page (or screen) is the medium. Without the medium, there ...
January 6th, 2013, 11:14 am
(quote not shown) I recommend reading a book called Psycho-Cybernetics , by Maxwell Maltz. In it he talks about something that he calles the [self image]. This is a mentally created pattern of who we think we are... and it generally seems to stay with a person for about 21 days. That's about how lon...
December 27th, 2012, 7:28 pm
(quote not shown) lol... sorry, but I don't think we have anything even remotely close to the same meaning in mind. lol. But I think it's clear that we're probably not going to get any closer to a consensus by recycling the same arguments. (quote not shown) Actually, I would argue just the opposite....
December 27th, 2012, 12:11 pm
(quote not shown) Okay, I see what you're trying to say now... and there's a certain validity to what you're saying... but for the most part I still have to disagree. I can use a spoon to hold medicine. Or to dig in the dirt. Or for any number of other purposes. So [it's what you use to take soup ou...
December 26th, 2012, 7:01 pm
(quote not shown) I'm not sure what the point of this coment is. It doesn't really makes sense in any way I can think of. But if that was your only point--to show the illogic of trying to define something in terms of its opposite, then I would suggest that it'is an extremely poor attempt at logic. T...