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Re: For an atheist, are there any sure reasons to be ethical

May 17th, 2012, 6:00 pm

Myuncle; I would disagree with you on the following points: "It's not about religion, I think, it's all about intelligence, education, and parenthood." Well, I think anyone can think critically, and that's all you really need for morality or any other type of logic. And while education hel...

Re: For an atheist, are there any sure reasons to be ethical

May 12th, 2012, 12:36 pm

Well, to address Jackwhitlocke_005's original question, if you look at ethical systems from a logical perspective's they're all basically the same thing: a 'logical' static dynamic system. In 1931 Mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel published the paper "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of...

Re: Is Logic the most powerful force in the world?

May 11th, 2012, 7:28 pm

Kingkool said : [quote][The website you linked in your op described mostly pure black and white logic, very similar to that one learns in Highschool Geometry. For instance: Given: a implies b, b implies c, and you are given a is true, by the transitive property, you can assume c is true. If you are...

Re: Is Logic the most powerful force in the world?

May 10th, 2012, 11:48 pm

I would say that on the scale of the real world, which is filled with humans, logic is both the most powerful and one of the least powerful forces in the world. It's the most powerful force because most people have their own logic which they don't rigorously check, and to them it seems logical, but ...

Re: What is Art?

May 8th, 2012, 7:54 pm

While I think many things, perhaps even anything, Can be art, most things are not. Art is something that has Intentional symbolic or inherent meaning. Nothing without meaning in this sense, essentially, anything that doesn't have metaphor, is not art. Metaphor alone is a necessary, but not sufficien...

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