(September 3, 2026 at 3:02 pm)Jal Wrote:(September 3, 2026 at 12:43 pm)Angrboda Wrote: My dismissal of it was justified by Hume's reasoning in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, already given. It was many things, hand-waving wasn't one of them. It was fully justified. You are simply telling lies now.The only reason philosophers will try to exempt the brain from billiard-ball collision is because it contradicts their assumptions.
I've shown plenty example of idiocy in traditional theology, among brilliant scholars. Now here you're just showing me an example of idiocy among professional philosophers.
Sorry I ain't buying this nonsense. I don't believe in magic - a material object can be impacted only in a billiard-ball collision.
Enjoy your delusions
None of this is showing an argument for a specific belief. It is showing how your analogy, the only support you've given, is flawed. Complaints about philosophers don't fix that. You provided one support for your principle, an analogy. I've shown that the analogy that you've used is insufficient. That leaves your principle with no defense other than a litany of appeals to the stone. That means that your principle about intangible forces, as it sits, is no better off than something you pulled from your ass. It can be dismissed without support until and unless you provide some support for it. Until you do so, you have given me just reason to dismiss your whole set of beliefs based upon parsimony and the fact that they are just speculation that is, from the point of evidence, no better off than the standard story.
You can either think up better support for this principle of yours, or keep making fallacious appeals to the stone in a vain attempt to deny your lost argument.
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