Yep, no gods in any logic courses that I recall. — jorndoe
So, still not substantiated. — jorndoe
The classic example: all events must have a cause. Is that statement true or false? — 3017amen
That is a presupposition of Kant's thinking. If you wish to affirm it otherwise, then I ask you what a cause is. Do you wan to go there? What is a cause? — tim wood
And sure. I yield God as an idea, and in some ways a good and useful one. Is that the ambit of your argument, that you possess an idea of God? — tim wood
And the obvious question here is, what? — tim wood
Had I lived in the first half of the last century (and, who knows?), I probably would have been a Theosophist. — Wayfarer
I joined the thread because there seemed to be a bunch of atheists bashing a theist. I just thought I would point out that philosophy can't do that, it is toothless in this regard. Theology might be able to help, but that is treated as archaic (vestigial) around here. So what are we left with atheists and theists bashing each other over the head with blow up unicorns and hippopotami.My bad if I misread or misunderstood. I suspect that even he, @3017amen, does not know where he is coming from. If it's beliefs, that's not on the card. "Debate EOG," is what he said. Assuming the E is for "existence," that's the matter up for discussion.
joined the thread because there seemed to be a bunch of atheists bashing a theist. — Punshhh
Whereas from the religious perspective there really is something at stake - something of ultimate importance. — Wayfarer
The religious answer, put in philosophical terms, is realization of an identity that is not subject to death. I take that to be the meaning of what Christianity calls the ‘eternal life’. (For an in-depth discussion see Alan Watts The Supreme Identity.) — Wayfarer
God as regulative idea
— tim wood
I'm not following that. Can you explain a regulative idea within one's consciousness? — 3017amen
What is a cause?
— tim wood
Metaphysical Will. — 3017amen
In opposing this, I claim God does not exist because of a) lack of evidence , and b) in the nature of most folks' understandings of God are supernatural aspects that cannot exist. — tim wood
which is it? Agreement or disagreement?
A — tim wood
1. In consciousness what kind of knowledge causes such a judgment about causation? In other words, why/how is synthetic a priori knowledge possible? — 3017amen
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