For me, I'd say that the biggest problem facing the United States is how it's rapidly turning into an increasingly totalitarian one-party state. By...
I've always leaned towards scientific realism myself. I'm reasonably well convinced that things like electrons really exist in physical reality. (I'm...
While endosymbiosis is pretty clearly (in my estimation anyway) a major part of the story of the origin of eukaryotic cells, it isn't the whole...
Yeah, I guess that I'd say sometimes, in a way. JamesR's point about models is a good one and I'd guess that physics' beloved mathematical formulae...
Ok, Sarkus makes a reasonable point. So lets interpret 'UAP' to mean Unidentified (Allegedly/Apparently/Ostensibly/Seemingly) Aerial Phenomenon. Of...
Is the brain a computer? I'll say that I believe that it is, in the broader sense that it's an information-processing system. But its architecture...
I think that I'd prefer to say that complete lack of signs of fakery leaves open the possibility of it being genuine. Suggestions that it might be...
The pilot was Kenneth Collins, who later lived close to Linda Sheffield at Beale Air Force Base in northern California, where her father was another...
I haven't thought long and hard about this, but I think that I would go with Russell in saying that while empiricism might not be self-contradictory...
Yes. That's why I often define faith as 'commitment'. When Christians say that they have 'faith in Christ', oftentimes they seem to mean that they...
I'm an American so I'm sort of out-of-line telling Britons how to run their country. But seeing as how Britons never tire of telling Americans like...
Moving back to the original issue: Perhaps one could argue that faith arises whenever somebody makes knowledge claims. And science, along with the...
My thinking on all this is a work in progress and it changes by the day. But right now, I'm inclined to think that this is a distinction without a...
Yes, I agree. I'd go so far as to suggest that all of our knowledge claims ultimately reduce to faith: to committment to assumptions about which we...
If we are just talking about belief in God, I guess that we could call such a person 'Somebody who has no opinion on the matter'. (I would not call...
Yes. I think that it is. I'd say (paraphrasing the Oxford Guide to Philosophy) that 'belief' is a mental state, with a proposition as its object, in...
How MR's questions are answered probably depends on whether we are talking about propositional knowledge or 'knowing how'. My reply below will...
I have questions about "discernment of right vs wrong". Is there really anything objective to be discerned? If so, how is it discerned? It isn't...
I just tried it and I don't think that I "see" or "hear" the numbers at all. But 'hearing' is a lot closer than 'seeing' and maybe I should have...
One thing that this thread has purposely and by design failed to discuss is the fact that the fighting in Gaza and the undoubted suffering that...
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