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Thread: Science Poll!
Post: Science Poll!
| Please choose the statement you feel better describes scientific inquiry:
Statement #1: Science is a self-correcting construct through which we discover truths about the universe. Scientific inquiry ... |
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Istvan |
Philosophy
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March 22, 2022 at 11:39 am |
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Thread: Science Poll!
Post: Science Poll!
| Please choose the option you feel better describes scientific inquiry:
1) Science is a self-correcting construct through which we discover truths about the universe. Scientific inquiry is rigorously ... |
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Istvan |
Philosophy
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March 22, 2022 at 11:28 am |
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Thread: Existentialism
Post: RE: Existentialism
| (March 22, 2022 at 10:48 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Interestingly enough, the majority of the atheists here never give a single thought to eradicating religion. That's just a few of us. I think ab... |
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Istvan |
Philosophy
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March 22, 2022 at 11:05 am |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 22, 2022 at 10:14 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Ivory tower or moral sewer.....while you argue over these items I doubt that poly believes that either accurately describes the current state of s... |
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Istvan |
Physical Sciences
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March 22, 2022 at 10:54 am |
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Thread: Existentialism
Post: RE: Existentialism
| (March 22, 2022 at 9:20 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: (March 20, 2022 at 9:42 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Which means of course that once the evil crust has been burned away, we will have peace and a steady happ... |
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Istvan |
Philosophy
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March 22, 2022 at 10:40 am |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 22, 2022 at 9:13 am)polymath257 Wrote: (March 21, 2022 at 4:26 pm)Helios Wrote: They often do but that sort only points out the problem. After all, why would you need to do that if there wa... |
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Physical Sciences
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March 22, 2022 at 10:06 am |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 21, 2022 at 3:14 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (March 21, 2022 at 3:06 pm)Istvan Wrote: As I said, it's wrong to make scientific inquiry synonymous with "reality." We're talking about scientific f... |
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Physical Sciences
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March 21, 2022 at 3:34 pm |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (Deleted duplicate post.) |
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Istvan |
Physical Sciences
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March 21, 2022 at 3:29 pm |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 21, 2022 at 1:59 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (March 21, 2022 at 1:46 pm)Istvan Wrote: Really? If the methods of producing the information were riddled with bias and exclusionary practices, that'... |
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Physical Sciences
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March 21, 2022 at 3:06 pm |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 21, 2022 at 1:10 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: material facts are not any less factual if the process whereby the facts are determined meandered through biases and cultural influences.
It would... |
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Istvan |
Physical Sciences
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March 21, 2022 at 1:46 pm |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 21, 2022 at 7:15 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I doubt that a poll here would bear that one outI'd take that bet.
You count how many times people in these kinds of discussions chant slogans lik... |
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Istvan |
Physical Sciences
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March 21, 2022 at 9:01 am |
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Thread: Existentialism
Post: RE: Existentialism
| (March 21, 2022 at 5:28 am)Belacqua Wrote: (March 19, 2022 at 9:15 am)Istvan Wrote: Existentialism is basically the concept that our actions and encounters throughout life are what define us.
This... |
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Philosophy
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March 21, 2022 at 8:33 am |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 21, 2022 at 6:14 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sure, the people who decided to call them "laws of nature" didn't make the normative/descriptive distinction we do now. They thought they were nor... |
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Physical Sciences
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March 21, 2022 at 7:08 am |
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Thread: The Atheist Forums Playlist
Post: RE: The Atheist Forums Playlist
| Oh, so the Lord hath made folly of the wisdom of this world? Big deal. Most of it was folly in the first place.
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCXGyXa...Ls&index=6] |
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March 20, 2022 at 8:53 pm |
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Thread: Existentialism
Post: RE: Existentialism
| (March 20, 2022 at 6:59 pm)Angrboda Wrote: There's room for both, it could be both reassuring and true. Describing it as comforting doesn't make it untrue. Personally, I suspect the opposite, that... |
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Philosophy
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March 20, 2022 at 8:23 pm |
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Thread: Existentialism
Post: RE: Existentialism
| (March 19, 2022 at 7:44 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: As a quick aside, what is your assessment on the metaphysics of free will? Not to derail your thread or anything-- trust me the risk is there. I was ... |
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Istvan |
Philosophy
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March 20, 2022 at 6:56 pm |
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Thread: What are Laws of Nature?
Post: RE: What are Laws of Nature?
| (March 20, 2022 at 5:48 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: It is this aspect of the laws of nature that I'd like to discuss here. Even if you want to press the point that laws of nature have an undeniably hum... |
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Istvan |
Physical Sciences
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March 20, 2022 at 6:48 pm |
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Thread: Replacement
Post: RE: Replacement
| It's truly diabolical how the right wing has appropriated the language of the marginalized to make it seem like they're being oppressed. The real irony is that they never made it seem like oppression ... |
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Istvan |
Politics
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March 20, 2022 at 1:49 pm |
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Thread: Existentialism
Post: RE: Existentialism
| (March 20, 2022 at 5:42 am)Belacqua Wrote: Now you see why my long posts are unpopular.
No need to apologize, you put a lot of thought into that post and it shows. I wholeheartedly agree that the e... |
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Philosophy
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March 20, 2022 at 8:57 am |
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Thread: New Ahem Music
Post: New Ahem Music
| I'm in my fifties and I only seem to like music that reminds me of what I used to listen to in my younger days, but I've learned to be a lot less apologetic about that.
Here's a German chanteuse who ... |
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The Arts
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March 19, 2022 at 7:21 pm |
