You think it's about prayer? You think there's no connection between a Christian family praying and their less fortunate brothers and sisters starving?
Oh...I've met people like that before...switch sides when they see that the other team is winning...
But ... (he said, thinking deeply and pausing slightly for effect) ... how does God know who won if she isn't keeping score?
A statement of fact must be true...if it is not true to say "it is raining" then it is not a fact that it is raining...the fact has not become false, it just is not a fact...but the fact itself is just a fact... a fact cannot possibly be false, therefore it makes no sense to speak of the fact...
The fact that it is raining is just a fact - it makes no sense to speak of a fact being true (or false) - it just is
But if I make the statement "it is raining" the statement may be true (or false)...it only makes sense to speak of truth in regard to statements.
So if we say "it is a fact that...
I think these are getting close to how I see it...
A fact just is, regardless of whether it is recognized or not, whereas truth is a quality of statements...I think.
I said that but was it in this thread? Anyway, like it or not, you are a fish and an ape...and why not bacteria...my several billion times great grandfather was a bacterium...
...and we most certainly are at least partly bacteria to this day...latest estimates about 38 trillion of them inhabit...
All that makes sense to me...
...unless we ARE the interface for understanding it???!!! (He said in a wild speculative tone).
I think (I actually do think sometimes) its because to get the universe, or even the weather for that matter, with great precision requires that we know the initial...
What you did was post an argument in a debate forum...I rejected your argument because - for the reasons I have clearly detailed previously, your argument does not (in my opinion) meet the requirements of sound logical argumentation...I did not present any "preconceived biases" I presented...
It matters if matter is all there is, matter is not only what matters but what matter does and all that matters is matter and that matters whether we think it matters or not - as far as it matters in this matter, that's the end of the matter. :confounded::emojconfused::)
Well OK but that's not what "deterministic" means in the context of a discussion about free will - in that context, in the context of a scientific objective realist materialist view of the universe, the future trajectory of all events in the universe is fully determined by its past - there is...