reasonable doubt — Bartricks
Now which premise in his oh so dated argument are you disputing? — Bartricks
just go in for the attack — Bartricks
Descartes has got my back. — Bartricks
And you should read Descartes. Then you'd understand him better and wouldn't think he thought your neurology has nothing to do with your decision to go and have a meal. — Bartricks
The other things being equal clause is important, for it is easy to conceive of circumstances under which a rational intuition would not constitute good evidence. — Bartricks
The problem, however, is that the principle they do have to affirm still has to give rational intuitions probative force and the fact they have decided only to give their own any probative force is clearly arbitrary and prejudiced. — Bartricks
for they have given their own rational intuitions privileged status on an arbitrary basis. — Bartricks
I do not understand your point about divisibility — Bartricks
Here's a fourth piece of evidence that my mind is an immaterial soul. — Bartricks
That is, 3 is necessarily true if 1 and 2 are. — Bartricks
"my evidence is that our minds are material objects and so everything that they are and that goes on in them is determined by prior causes" for that is question begging. — Bartricks
If I am not a material object, then I must be an immaterial one, for that's the only alternative. — Bartricks
if you think you can make someone blameworthy by blaming them, you're nuts. — Bartricks
appear — Bartricks
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