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Thread: Is evidentialism justified?
Post: RE: Is evidentialism justified?
| (January 4, 2011 at 2:16 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: (January 4, 2011 at 1:53 pm)Stempy Wrote: I don't think you really do doubt your skepticism, and that is not an assumption but the observation that ... |
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January 4, 2011 at 8:06 pm |
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Thread: God and Morality: Separate Issues
Post: RE: God and Morality: Separate Issues
| Quote:there is no necessity for an advocate of Option 3 to say that "We know God is good because God is good".
Here you go, I have put in bold the entire statement that I made.
You somehow seem to th... |
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January 4, 2011 at 7:35 pm |
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Thread: Is evidentialism justified?
Post: RE: Is evidentialism justified?
| (January 4, 2011 at 12:11 pm)Chuck Wrote: Indeed I doubt my skepticism about my skepticism so much that I no longer take my skepticism about my skepticism seriously.That's nice for you.
Quote:It is... |
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January 4, 2011 at 2:22 pm |
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Thread: Is evidentialism justified?
Post: RE: Is evidentialism justified?
| (January 4, 2011 at 12:11 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: I don't expect justification because it leads to fallacy and I do doubt my skepticism, in the sense I question it (and I doubt my doubts all the tim... |
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January 4, 2011 at 1:53 pm |
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Thread: Is evidentialism justified?
Post: RE: Is evidentialism justified?
| (January 4, 2011 at 10:25 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: I don't see how any belief can be justified without the infinite regress of the question begging fallacy.If only you would doubt your skepticism in t... |
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January 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm |
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Thread: Is evidentialism justified?
Post: Is evidentialism justified?
| In this thread, "evidentialism" is defined to be the view that:
"Person S is justified in believing proposition p at time t if and only if S’s evidence for p at t supports believing p."[1]
The quest... |
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January 4, 2011 at 10:03 am |
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Thread: God and Morality: Separate Issues
Post: RE: God and Morality: Separate Issues
| (January 3, 2011 at 11:19 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Can you answer my earlier question as to why an advocate for a position doesn't need to explain what they mean by a position?I don't think I claimed ... |
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January 3, 2011 at 10:44 pm |
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Thread: God and Morality: Separate Issues
Post: RE: God and Morality: Separate Issues
| (January 3, 2011 at 9:33 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: So you're distinguishing the nature of being side of this argument with the nature of our knowledge side? I'm just trying to follow your thinking her... |
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January 3, 2011 at 10:10 am |
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Thread: Stempy Signing In
Post: RE: Stempy Signing In
| Just to say: a big thanks to everyone who has welcomed me. I've really enjoyed reading and participating in the threads thus far.
Also, I'm not sure whether this belongs here or somewhere else: but ... |
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January 2, 2011 at 9:21 pm |
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Thread: Why am I an agnostic atheist? I don't know!
Post: RE: Why am I an agnostic atheist? I don't know!
| (January 2, 2011 at 11:08 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: If I was a gnostic atheist on the other hand, I'd base my belief that God doesn't exist on some other belief and then maybe that belief on something ... |
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January 2, 2011 at 11:17 am |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (January 1, 2011 at 8:01 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Not if it's literal or a metaphor that is - literally - in an accepted dictionary. The meaning is only vague if the meaning is being made up on the sp... |
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January 1, 2011 at 5:58 pm |
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Thread: God and Morality: Separate Issues
Post: RE: God and Morality: Separate Issues
| (January 1, 2011 at 2:24 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (January 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm)Stempy Wrote: "God is morality"...I've never heard anyone make that statement before. What I have heard presented is th... |
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January 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm |
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Thread: God and Morality: Separate Issues
Post: RE: God and Morality: Separate Issues
| (January 1, 2011 at 1:24 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Option 3: God is morality
This touchy-feeley explanation is often used by apologists when they're presented with the first two options. This argument... |
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January 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (January 1, 2011 at 7:42 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: You should interpret it by its literal and objective meaning only if you think that what he is saying is literal and objective and not metaphorical... |
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January 1, 2011 at 7:56 am |
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Thread: Atheist/Agnostic here, Hello!
Post: RE: Atheist/Agnostic here, Hello!
| (December 31, 2010 at 5:40 pm)Reese Wrote: The goal I have struggled with since then was finding something besides this to believe in. Not an easy task to say the least. Because we should be honest,... |
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December 31, 2010 at 10:06 pm |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (December 31, 2010 at 6:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (December 31, 2010 at 1:58 am)Stempy Wrote: (December 31, 2010 at 1:31 am)Minimalist Wrote: Primitive men, it would seem, had no trouble inventing... |
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December 31, 2010 at 9:19 pm |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (December 31, 2010 at 3:08 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Please point out in the bible what parts are meant to be taken literally and which ones are metaphorical.To start with, why the need to be quite so... |
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December 31, 2010 at 4:19 pm |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (December 31, 2010 at 12:33 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Its literal meaning is objective. And its metaphorical meaning is objectively whatever the metaphor is defined to mean.
So to simplify it I wou... |
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December 31, 2010 at 12:56 pm |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (December 31, 2010 at 12:27 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I agree with Chuck. The literal meaning is always the same. That's why it's literal.
Metaphorical meanings are metaphorical.... but they are, t... |
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December 31, 2010 at 12:31 pm |
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Thread: The Bible
Post: RE: The Bible
| (December 31, 2010 at 12:10 pm)Chuck Wrote: No, "A piece of shit" means "a piece of shit". It doesn't make any difference what i meant when I said "a piece of shit". If I meant to say "a insigh... |
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December 31, 2010 at 12:26 pm |
