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Thread: Justification for Foundational Belief
Post: RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
| Fair enough, you would like an in depth description of my understanding of my claims. Here we go...
Quote:I'll first dispense with the "existence exists" claim, which will in some way mirror my reply... |
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July 29, 2012 at 5:47 pm |
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Thread: Justification for Foundational Belief
Post: RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
| First, if your objection is true, then.... nothing. Since there is the opposite of nothing... I'm correct.
Secondly, I continue to find it amusing that you assert statements as being true or false, ... |
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July 29, 2012 at 3:23 am |
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Thread: Justification for Foundational Belief
Post: RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
| (July 27, 2012 at 11:35 pm)apophenia Wrote: In response to Skepsis' question about foundationalism, it would seem that foundationalism faces a difficult dilemma. As far as I can see, it can assert ... |
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July 28, 2012 at 12:50 am |
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Thread: Justification for Foundational Belief
Post: RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
| (July 27, 2012 at 10:32 am)Skepsis Wrote: (July 27, 2012 at 10:22 am)Rhythm Wrote: We should constantly question those principles regardless of what reality we may find ourselves in -don't you thi... |
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July 27, 2012 at 1:35 pm |
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Thread: Justification for Foundational Belief
Post: RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
| Perhaps try to analyze your position using rationalism as opposed to trying to validate empiricism with empiricism. If you want to know why you can trust your senses as being accurate (or at least som... |
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July 26, 2012 at 11:27 pm |
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Thread: Member Photos
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| [Image: http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/4272012031425iwsmt.jpeg]
Made my day so I figured I would share it. |
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May 4, 2012 at 12:13 pm |
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Thread: Existence
Post: Existence
| For lack of a better introduction to this topic, I was pondering today the origins of existence, but more specifically the property of existence.
It is true that the property of existence exists, an... |
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April 20, 2012 at 2:48 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 11:21 pm)apophenia Wrote: Let's take this from a different perspective. You assert that mind creates reality, that perception is a requisite of existence. However, one can't exp... |
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April 19, 2012 at 12:49 am |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 6:34 pm)genkaus Wrote: Actually, premise 1, which is accepted by both of us, does invalidate your premise 2. Reality, by definition, is independent of mind.
Your error here, whi... |
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April 18, 2012 at 6:54 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 5:43 pm)genkaus Wrote: (April 18, 2012 at 4:59 pm)Perhaps Wrote: You missed my first premise.
1. The mind (which gives 'me' the ability to have identity) exists in the true mat... |
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April 18, 2012 at 5:58 pm |
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Thread: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent?
Post: RE: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or c...
| Quote:it is said that an actual infinite number of things is an absurdity
It's absurd because the words number and things imply finite, which contradicts the conception of infinite. 'Nothing' would s... |
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April 18, 2012 at 5:45 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 12:18 pm)genkaus Wrote: It seems like you haven't put nay thought into this at all. You are essentially putting forward a circular proposition.
1. I exist in reality.
2. Realit... |
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April 18, 2012 at 4:59 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 12:13 pm)oxymoron Wrote: Beliefs are just noises in your head till you can show the evidence that they are actually the case.
The supposition that reality is created by the mind w... |
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April 18, 2012 at 12:17 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 11:25 am)genkaus Wrote: (April 18, 2012 at 11:18 am)Perhaps Wrote: Correct, that is what the mind allows us - we just call it free will.
So why don't you have the free will to g... |
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April 18, 2012 at 12:10 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 18, 2012 at 1:34 am)genkaus Wrote: My god, we can all become gods then.
Correct, that is what the mind allows us - we just call it free will.
Honestly, your counter-factual of the coma pa... |
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April 18, 2012 at 11:18 am |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 17, 2012 at 1:41 pm)genkaus Wrote: You do realize that you are essentially undercutting your own position here? How can your mental reality create the material and conceptual reality and stil... |
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April 18, 2012 at 12:51 am |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 17, 2012 at 4:53 am)genkaus Wrote: So, you are proposing three categories of metaphysical existence - material, abstract and mental (the one you refer to as "the mind"). You see the third one... |
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April 17, 2012 at 12:08 pm |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| Let's suppose a thought experiment to help clarify some of my justifications...
1. You are the only person in existence in the material world
2. You do not possess, nor can you possess, a mechanism t... |
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April 17, 2012 at 3:00 am |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 16, 2012 at 1:19 pm)genkaus Wrote: I've ignored it so far, but conscience means "awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together". Consciousness means "A sense or awareness o... |
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April 17, 2012 at 2:40 am |
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Thread: Do you believe in free will?
Post: RE: Do you believe in free will?
| (April 16, 2012 at 4:43 am)genkaus Wrote: Under the assertion of law of identity. A thing cannot be what it is and not be what it is at the same time. Without any mechanism for consciousness, a cons... |
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