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Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th December 2018, 09:58 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
The goal posts are as follows: Physical...

The goal posts are as follows:

Physical facts.
Social facts(biology as culture).
Moral facts(biological behavior in and between humans).
Metaphysics(the holy grain of what reality really...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th December 2018, 08:31 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-emp...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/#Empi

So how do you know that I am wrong, translates to: What are your sense experiences?
Please state those. You know, give evidence for...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th December 2018, 05:40 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Because I can't see facts! I have experiences of...

Because I can't see facts! I have experiences of the "outside", but if I call that facts, that is a rule in my mind.
All cases of epistemology are in effect different rules of how to understand...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th December 2018, 04:54 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
There are no facts outside your mind, because all...

There are no facts outside your mind, because all facts are based on rules. So say that I am factually wrong in the strong sense mean that I can't do something. But I can, I can thinking differently...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th December 2018, 03:20 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Here is a university educated person about being...

Here is a university educated person about being right:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shift-mind/201103/why-is-it-so-important-be-right



Now here is how it works down to 2...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 14th December 2018, 04:49 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Science as a methodology can detect feelings, but...

Science as a methodology can detect feelings, but science as a methodology can't do feelings. To do feelings as a human is not science as a methodology.
You can learn about feelings by studying,...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 10:43 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
You do know as certain you are that it is wrong,...

You do know as certain you are that it is wrong, as certain I am that it is a fact.
So what now?
With reason, logic and what not you know there are no gods and I know with reason, logic and what...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 10:38 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Well, I am an atheist, so I don't believe in...

Well, I am an atheist, so I don't believe in gods. But in the end some versions of a god are metaphysical and that is unknown.
If something is truly and really independent of the mind it is unknown....
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 10:36 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Explain how 2 or more experts can either claim...

Explain how 2 or more experts can either claim that the universe came from nothing OR a multiverse. With logic one is false as a contradiction.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 09:00 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Or give us answer we don't like! ...

Or give us answer we don't like!

https://www.iep.utm.edu/cog-rel/#H3
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 08:55 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
You don't have to believe in the Big Bang to have...

You don't have to believe in the Big Bang to have a life. If that was so, there would be no humans as pre-science humans knew nothing of the Big Bang, so you can live fine without it and that is the...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 08:26 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Or 2+2=11 or 2+2=5. Ask JayUtah if you have to,...

Or 2+2=11 or 2+2=5. Ask JayUtah if you have to, he is better at it than me.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 07:46 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Yes, but not only these examples. Here is one...

Yes, but not only these examples.
Here is one related to math:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/#RedNonRedPhy

Also check out supervenience on the page and then compare if all...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 07:26 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Yeah, and some of the words you use to describe...

Yeah, and some of the words you use to describe different reactions have no objective referent. E.g. I feel hungry or I see a beautiful human.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th December 2018, 03:44 AM
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Views: 110,804
Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Hi Myriad. ...

Hi Myriad.


https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2012.0123

That is also learning and tests have shown differences in different humans in the ability to do that. Now that is...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 10:33 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
That is your opinion. Here is mine: What...

That is your opinion.
Here is mine: What matters to me is how we treat each other as for similarities and differences and how we understand the possibilities and limitations of the shared universe. ...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 09:27 AM
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Views: 11,685
Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Du bist ein Mensch! Yiddish proverb. Ich...

Du bist ein Mensch! Yiddish proverb.

Ich lebe in Dänemark. :) Try something else.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 09:04 AM
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Views: 11,685
Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Yes and that is how I can answer; I am not real,...

Yes and that is how I can answer; I am not real, yet I communicate with you. Go figure. :D
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 07:43 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Yes and that works both ways. :) I am...

Yes and that works both ways. :)

I am critical of your claim of authority to knowledge and you claim I have none. Yet I do know something. For certain aspects of reality we are different and that...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 07:02 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
I could never be better than you, because you are...

I could never be better than you, because you are better than me living your life. And so in reverse.
But of course there are difference as to how we understand that in general when it comes to...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 06:45 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Accepted. Now I notice that some of you want to...

Accepted.
Now I notice that some of you want to learn me something and other resent that I want to teach them something. So it seems it goes both ways both for willingness to learn oneself and...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 04:40 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Forget you and I. Go general, someone and someone...

Forget you and I. Go general, someone and someone else.
Now look at that in general, someone and someone else share the similarities of the natural world, but even that has a limit. E.g. if the one...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th December 2018, 01:58 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Yes, what is "beyond" time and space is unknown....

Yes, what is "beyond" time and space is unknown. Either for "nothing" or a "multiverse" or any other version, yet it is science in exactly the same sense as all other science.
The joke is that is...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 03:05 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/27/there-was-no-big-bang-singularity/#33d413c07d81



For those, who understand science, please explain the text in the link and the science...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 02:50 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Nor do you. We don't become like you, just...

Nor do you. We don't become like you, just because you want it, even if you think it would be better for us. You overlook the individuality and project your subjective version of better on everybody...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 02:31 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
No, I am the victim of something for which I am...

No, I am the victim of something for which I am not responsible. As for the parts, where we can change; politics, morality, some parts of psychology and so on, that requires work. You don't have to...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 02:12 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
I am unreflected(wrong), I share that with all...

I am unreflected(wrong), I share that with all humans, who make contradictions and we ought to stop that, because we are wrong(our arguments, which make us wrong) and it would be...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 01:17 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
You know what I am and I don't know what you are....

You know what I am and I don't know what you are.

It never happens that some atheists using science says something about other humans. Not in this thread or in any others. All atheists only state...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 12:59 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Try living outside "normal" society, because to...

Try living outside "normal" society, because to some humans, I am responsible for something I am not responsible for. They judge me, just like some atheists and theists judge people for being...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 12:28 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Here what I know. I don't know that you are...

Here what I know. I don't know that you are thinking, because you said so yourself and I don't know that we are thinking differently. Since I am not able to say anything about your thinking, I...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 12:00 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Any deduction is a form of thinking, the thinking...

Any deduction is a form of thinking, the thinking may be correct/logical/reasonable, but that says nothing about the rest of the world. That requires observation.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 11:52 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
A deduction in science is still logical. You said...

A deduction in science is still logical. You said so yourself. The result is valid(reason your words), but that says nothing about soundness. That is observation/test/experiment, but your claim has...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 11:43 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
https://www.iep.utm.edu/val-snd/ You...

https://www.iep.utm.edu/val-snd/


You can't show that all premises are true and thus your deduction is unsound.
One of your premises is, that you can trust logic to say something about...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 11:24 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Epistemological rationalism doesn't work outside...

Epistemological rationalism doesn't work outside the brain. Start reading the deconstruction of that. All logic are tautological in itself and only says something about thinking. You can't use...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 11:23 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
I accept that; i.e. that you don't accept that....

I accept that; i.e. that you don't accept that. And I get that you are an expert on thinking for everybody because you say so for a "we"; yet that is not everybody. That is the end game. A human with...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 10:34 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Epistemological rationalism doesn't work outside...

Epistemological rationalism doesn't work outside the brain. Start reading the deconstruction of that. All logic are tautological in itself and only says something about thinking. You can't use...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 10:29 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
The fun part is this: The sub-title to this...

The fun part is this: The sub-title to this sub-forum is: "Because who could have an opinion on these two topics?" :D

All strong positive claims, on the ontological status of what reality is, are...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th December 2018, 04:57 AM
Replies: 351
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Within philosophy it pops up even within 2...

Within philosophy it pops up even within 2 non-supernatural models of ontological reductive monism versus the ontological merging of dualism and supervenience in that the mental is not in the strong...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 7th December 2018, 03:05 AM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Okay, you are a scientist and a skeptic. That is...

Okay, you are a scientist and a skeptic. That is a good start.
Now strip away metaphysics in any sense other than:
I am not the only "thing".
I am a part of a lot of "things"
Some of these...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 03:35 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Your claim about the singularity rests on...

Your claim about the singularity rests on deduction as you claimed about something you can't check; i.e. the singularity, so it is not experimental science.
It rests on the assumption that universe...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 03:31 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
No, because I can have gotten it wrong, but so...

No, because I can have gotten it wrong, but so can you. If there is something you have overlooked and I point it out, then that reverses it.

Science is authoritative, because it tells us how...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 03:18 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Hi JoeMorgue and JayUtah No, if you...

Hi JoeMorgue and JayUtah



No, if you claim knowledge about creator gods, you claim knowledge for all humans, who care, because whether there is a creator or not, or whether it can be known,...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:39 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
You speak with the authority of science, when you...

You speak with the authority of science, when you say you know that there are no gods. That says something universal about knowledge, because it speaks as knowledge for all humans also theists and...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:25 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Did that one get to you? I can only tell if you...

Did that one get to you? I can only tell if you answer with reason, logic and so on? Do you consider science authoritative for all of the universe or does science have a limit?
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:22 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
JayUtah, if we deconstruct morality and look at...

JayUtah, if we deconstruct morality and look at its parts, there is no objective morality.
Sometimes deconstruction destroys the belief you held and replaces it with a new one.

This is relevant...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:18 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
And you say nothing personal when you say that...

And you say nothing personal when you say that you know that there is no gods, yet you speak as an authority for all mankind.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:15 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
So you know nothing about morality?

So you know nothing about morality?
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:14 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
So you are not a metaphysical realist?

So you are not a metaphysical realist?
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:13 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
So how does morality work?

So how does morality work?
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th December 2018, 02:10 PM
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Posted By Tommy Jeppesen
Go for the kill! The dirt secret is that some...

Go for the kill! The dirt secret is that some scientists don't have knowledge as you believe in it. They know to much. They believe in a natural world, but some of them are actually metaphysical...
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