OK. What was your argument in support of your claim that will is free and not determined? I don't remember seeing one, just that that is what you believe.
On the other hand, I've argued that neither possibility can be ruled in or out at this time. You haven't offered a counterargument. You...
That wasn't her claim. She didn't refer to sneezing with a mask, nor did she refer to the person behind the sneezer, although everybody in the room with the sneezer benefits by covering it (see below).
The difference to which she referred was the difference between sneezing uncovered and...
Yes. For Trumpers, if it's Trump, it's OK.
I don't really understand that kind of thinking. It's not like he's family that one stands by right or wrong. This is pure tribalism - support the leader of the tribe and attack his detractors whatever either says or does, like a swarming hive.
Jimmy...
I see no evidence of that, but what difference would that make even if correct if you don't rebut? I've already explained that since you don't make arguments (claims are not arguments, although they can be the conclusions of arguments) or refute the arguments of others, no further progress is...
Wouldn't you agree that at the subatomic scale, our predictions are statistical? I don't think that cause and effect apply to a process like radioactive decay.
But yes, if we congregate a great number of events, their collective behavior becomes increasingly deterministic. I don't know what...
That would be the case whether the will is free or determined.
The issue is whether a person chooses what to want. He will act on his wants whether they are determined for him by unconscious neural mechanism or whether they are uncaused and he chooses them.
It has everything to do with free...
I've never argued otherwise.
I don't think you understand my argument. Making a correct prediction about a person's choice doesn't tell us whether that choice could have been otherwise or not just as correctly predicting the outcome of a coin flip doesn't help us distinguish between a coin...
Yes.
OK, but that doesn't matter to critically thinking empiricists if you can't make a compelling argument in support of that belief. What you believe isn't interesting or useful to such a person.
Knowledge is, and apart from mathematics and logic, which are generated by pure reason divorced...
That doesn't matter. Their arguments do. Yes, you are convinced that you are right and I am wrong, but can't reasons why you think that. I, on the other hand can explain why each of us believes what he does. We use radically different methods for deciding what's true. Your beliefsmeet your...
In order for that account to not be invented, three men had to walk to and identify a specific manger using a star as a guide, where they encountered a woman who was a virgin and a mother. That's simply not believable to a critically thinking empiricist.
Think about the star part. Stars move...
I don't think you can. For starters, if it could be rebutted, I'd be one of the ones doing it. All you've done is dissent. You disagree, but don't explain why you think you're right and I'm wrong. On the other hand, I've done just that. I've explained how you're wrong and also why you hold that...
That's not a rebuttal, but it is consistent with this:
"It's only Abrahamists that argue that a god can know the future perfectly yet mans will is not determined. It's an incoherent position - internally self-contradictory, but one he is forced to hold if he's to have an omniscient, just god...
Most have urges and desires. Most want to have pleasant experiences (the upper levels of Maslow's pyramid) and mitigate unpleasant ones (the base).
Then they won't do them.
It evolved through a series of undirected genetic changes and was selected by nature for obvious reasons. Those with the...
It's only Abrahamists that argue that a god can know the future perfectly yet mans will is not determined. It's an incoherent position - internally self-contradictory, but one he is forced to hold if he's to have an omniscient, just god that punishes for choices made (moral responsibility). They...
Nor need he to reject the claims of theists that a god does exist. We also don't need to show that vampires and leprechauns don't exist to reject claims that they do. Many people need a good reason to believe something, without which, they don't. Others need nothing more than the will to...
You seem to consider that meaningful. Science is tentative. The pathways of evolution are understood in the main, but not in detail. Human evolution is a good example of that. We have an assortment of extinct primate fossils, but it isn't clear which are ancestors and which have no living...
Little is proven in science. And yes, there is a correlation. I can't think of a reason that would be the case if HSV wasn't a cause of Alzheimer dementia:
Overwhelming Evidence for a Major Role for Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV1) in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); Underwhelming Evidence against...
Not a very good argument from a so-called scholar. If that were the case, Biden could claim that he reclassified them once he became president. Guilty again.
It's as poor an argument as the presidential immunity claim. Trump argues that a president needs that power to do his job effectively. If...