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When you say 'valid' do you mean TRUE?
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@DmytroBrazhnyk absolutely, you could make a very coherent argument that some individual communist parties are cults, and are fairly describable as cults while being atheistic. It should be noted, most...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Will I have any impact if I pursue a career in physics?
or am I just going to publish a bunch of irrevelant papers that nobody ever uses? -- I would actually question if perhaps this has more value than you're admitting. There are a LOT of experiment...
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@Howwhye en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation
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@MauroALLEGRANZA the examples in the post are philosophers, physicists, biologists, so yes your examples are quite similar to mine.
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The fact that the people studying the nature of reality are less likely than the average person to believe in a god would certainly be curious if a god actually exists, while it would be entirely...
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"What it might suggest is that a higher IQ, or training in subjects that require the exercise of logical thinking, is more likely to make a person question aspects of their earlier social...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Ref request: Reality objective or subjective
Not an internal site reference, but imo a potentially important reference for this type of conversation:https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/allAs of 2020, about 80% of professional...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is the scientific nature of a result independent from...
I'm going to assume that when you say 'valid', you mean 'true' given the rest of the words you wrote, not in the title.I would say that yes, ideas can be unscientific AND be true. If someone comes up...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is materialism essential to scientific progress?
I'm going to try to take another approach to answering this question:Scientific progress is apparently about two (closely related) things: poking and prodding in order to figure things out, and making...
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There are two ideas, developed by two very different thinkers, which I don't think call themselves necessitarianism, but which I think I could make a coherent argument are necessitarian...
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Point 2 was something I hadn't considered, thank you for answering
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does it matter if certain professions have a lower rate of...
"What reason is there to assume that a more intelligent or better educated person is more likely to have a correct opinion about a disagreement that cannot be settled rationally" - I think I would...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What are theistic responses to Graham Oppy's argument for...
Why are you looking specifically for theistic responses? Don't you already have those?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What are theistic responses to Graham Oppy's argument for...
A + B is always more complex than just A, good thing to point out. And until someone builds an actual working model of B (God), it's hard to argue, I think, that B must be necessary to explain the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on topdown bottomup approach in complex systems
The title of this question is very strange to me. Normally "top down" and "bottom up" are contrasted as two different approaches to understanding something. This question is the first time I've ever...
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I think you're misinterpreting the claim "there is no data that naturalism does not explain at least as well as theism". You're interpreting it to mean "there is no imaginable data", when in fact...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is knowledge non-physical?
"Consider that software and hardware are such a dualism" - I would actually say that's a perfect example of monism. Hardware and software are both encoded in physical forms, and software is implemented...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Trying to prove ¬A ∨ B from A → B, but a bit stuck on how...
@acompletethought does this give any clarity? math.stackexchange.com/questions/3812067/…
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is the fundamental nature of knowledge intimately linked...
What does "knowledge" mean outside of the context of a conscious being? Hell, what does it mean even inside that context?
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