ClassicalLiberal.Theist
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ClassicalLiberal.Theist replied to Are logical conclusions in economics examples of synthetic apriori?in PhilosophyJeremy Taylor For example, lets say that there was a price ceiling set on product X, such that the price ceiling would lower the price of X by half. It... -
ClassicalLiberal.Theist started a topic Are logical conclusions in economics examples of synthetic apriori?in PhilosophyAre logical conclusions in economics examples of synthetic apriori?
This really hinges on whether or not discovering that man would most likely act in her self-interest is empirical evidence or not. It doesn't seem to... -
Book suggestion(s) about divine simplicity?
I understand the basics of divine simplicity, and how one would come to the conclusion that God must be ulitmately simple, but that is about the extent... -
Creation Ex Nihilo
The argument goes, that a thing can only be created by something that pre-eixsts it, because how could you make nothing, something? So, how could God... -
He has recently on his blog here: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019...entailing.html...Leave a comment:
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Right now I am reading Laurence Bonjour's In Defense of Pure Reason. I am not that far in, but it is good up until the point where I've gotten.
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Calhoun
So for example, I am composed of (if A=Atom) A1, A2,... An. Eventually, A1, is replaced by some atom that comprised some other structure....Leave a comment:
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I suppose one objection, would be that nothing actually "persists". For example, the atoms in some object are constantly being replaced by others,...Leave a comment:
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Thomas Nagels Mind and Cosmos (A new theory of evolution?)
Recently, I have been reading Thomas Nagels Mind and Cosmos, and although I haven't finished it quite yet (I am a little over half way) he brings up an... -
I probably couldn't give you any positive reasons to think something other than God might be necessary, there is just nothing obviously wrong to me about...Leave a comment:
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RomanJoe
To be metaphysically necessary is to say that your nonexistence would be contradictory. I was arguing that the skeptic would introduce...Leave a comment:
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The PSR and Necessary Truths
The skeptic of the PSR is forced into a position, where virtually all discovery of knowledge, whether it be scientific or historical, is no longer an... -
An efficient cause is not a "mechanism" and final causes aren't "reasons" for things. Although, he is right in saying that they have...Leave a comment:
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Funny things Sean Carroll says
"For our limited purposes here, it should suffice to distinguish between how the universe came to be and what mechanism (if any) might have brought... -
ClassicalLiberal.Theist started a topic The Problems with Democratically Guided Central Planning (according to F.A. Hayek)in Off-TopicThe Problems with Democratically Guided Central Planning (according to F.A. Hayek)
I have recently begun reading F.A. Hayeks Road to Serfdom, because for one, it involves a topic that interests me as a libertarian, and two, I don't know... -
Calhoun
My argument was essentially that if sufficient means entails, and the PSR (or atleast some version of it) is true, and we exclude a necessary...Leave a comment:
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Modal Collapse and Contingent things
It seems to me that Inwagens argument that the PSR entails Modal Fatalism rests on the idea that a "sufficient reason" means entails (I am getting... -
Modal Argument for the WPSR Entailing the PSR
This is what I took away from one of Pruss' argument for the PSR.
Let p be contingent and have no explanation. Let p* be the contingent... -
Quantum Mechanics and Existing Contradictions?
I keep hearing this idea that our logic is flawed, or that pure reason cannot be trust (for example, in the comment section of this book on amazon: In...
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