June 2016 – Page 12 – Uncommon Descent

WJM on Arguing with Subjectivists

Zeroseven said: “Hi Vivid, I’m not much of a logician. Just give your practical example and we can explore it.” If you are not going to explore a practical example logically, what use is exploring it at all? To share your personal feelings? Here’s the problem in for those that wish to interact with Aleta, Read More…

Intelligent Design language News

How human language has (not) evolved

From Mark Pagel at New Scientist: If H. sapiens has always had language, could other extinct human species have had it too? Some believe that Neanderthals did – which would imply we both inherited it from our common ancestor some 500,000 or more years ago. This theory is consistent with the discovery that FOXP2, a Read More…

Atheism Darwinist rhetorical tactics Evolutionary materialism's amorality FYI-FTR Geo-strategic issues Politics/policy and origins issues Science, worldview issues/foundations and society

FYI-FTR: CF and Mark Victor Tushne on “victory” in the culture wars

In WJM’s still very active Subjectivism privilege thread — and in response to my citing Plato’s warning on radical relativist amorality, factionalism and nihilism in The Laws Bk X, CF has recently gloated (cf 417): “Frankly, I am glad that the type of prurient, judgemental morality that you worship [–> yes, we catch the implicit, Read More…

Viola Lee ET writes, "Viola and JVL are talking about one thing and the rest are talking about something else." Yes, this... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Karen McMannus We can count units of time from a point in time. In order for infinite past to have meaning, you'd... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
William J Murray EDTA said: What I need is direct, personal evidence that only MRT could explain. That would be sufficient motivation to... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
ET Isn't the point how can we get here, now if the past was infinite? And that we wouldn't be here... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
ET The similarities are due to a common design and the differences are due to different design requirements required for differing... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID
ET I told you why I think the earth has been and is being visited by beings with technology we don't... – Researchers: We might find extraterrestrial life...
Viola Lee I can assure you Viola Lee is a full-grown adult. – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Sandy BA77 I guess ViolaLee is a boy. Not that it would matter. – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
bornagain77 VL claims that "No point in the past is an infinite distance from now." Why is she talking about distance... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
kairosfocus BA, observe how I discuss the current causal-temporal stage of the cosmos. That is the way cosmology looks at the... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
kairosfocus JVL, the US is the linchpin. Especially once relevant actors are on the other side. Start with, what navy holds... – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Seversky Concerning WJM's MRT, I think we agree that the world we all inhabit is created in our minds. Where we... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
JVL Kairosfocus: See the finitude of what we can count to, k, and the onward traverse in the ellipsis we CANNOT... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Viola Lee Yes, that's the point. No point in the past is an infinite distance from now. – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
AndyClue @Bornagain77: If I may take liberty to explain your argument to you, “in order to explain how the present moment... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
EDTA VL @ 91, >1. I’m not sure why you use the qualifying phrase “write down with numerals,” and why you... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
bornagain77 JVL claims that, "you clearly do not understand" (our argument) But alas, I understand it all too well. If I... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
kairosfocus JVL, your latest buzzword for hyperskeptical dismissiveness fails. Try, 0,1,2, . . . then extend: 0,1,2 . . . k,k+1,k+2... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
jerry However, all negative numbers (moments in the past in this model) have a predecessor, so the moment t(n-1) came before... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Viola Lee Thanks, EDTA. We are in agreement about everything up to this statement: "Any day for which we can actually write... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
JVL In consequence to say the past is a potential transfinite is to evade the import of the need to complete... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...