Recent content by dschou

fine. to avoid clouding the real issue, i shall henceforth use the term "fundamental assumption from which one's worldview progresses" yet you must live your life. each day you are faced with decisions, and ultimately, those decisions are made (even if they are not made, a decision not to make...

sick. what twisted minds, so very far from the truth. i think i feel more pity than scorn. you know not what you say.

the examples are flawed. firstly, 1+1 = 2 is not an axiom. the axiom employed is more general and is related to the closure of integers under addition as well as the definition of the number system. secondly, that the rationality of the square root of two is not an axiom depends not at all on...

again, your honor, relevance? i quote once more: "Where is the morality in bringing an unwanted child into the world? It's like a toss-up between quick or slow death." the issue is the cancer patient's life and quick/slow death juxtaposed against the child's life and quick/slow death, not...

i can't say that this is an imaginative solution to the problem. your modus operandus: when faced with a moral dilemna, simply state that morals do not exist and continue the killing. likewise, as i plummet to my death, i can simply follow suit with wile-coyote and deny that gravity exists...

firstly, attributing to God a nature assumes his existence. secondly, since the existence of God is assumptive, as you have stated explicitly, and since one's worldview is entirely shaped by acceptance/rejection of this assumption, it is axiomatic. finally, as the existence of God as yet...

following this reasoning we should chop up all the cancer patients as well.

Allow me to reiterate the words of our esteemed colleague m. Royce: "Objective reality is an assumption. You said this yourself, heusden." this is correct in a magnitude as yet unparallelled in this discussion. i too believe that i exist OBJECTIVELY and independent of other's thoughts. but...

no. that is quite wrong. i have not missed the thrust of your argument. i have dealt with it head on by stating that there is some truth regarding God's existence and that regardless of the (in)consistencies of one's worldview, he either exists or doesn't, but not both. he cannot be relegated to...

the word is independent. note the 't'. our assumption implies me and i have assumed no such thing. on the contrary, as has already been explicitly stated, i contend that awareness of the world through sensation is purely subjective and further, that there is no methodology which can elevate...

this is obviously inconsistent with the argument proposed in a previous correspondance, as i have acknowledged the fallacy of that reasoning in my most recent posting (see above) "...you got it. And hence the existence of you is an axiom as it is an undisputed assumption, while God, being a...

---------------------------------------------- quote: "You got it. And hence the existence of you is an axiom as it is an undisputed assumption, while God, being a disputed assumption can not be considered proven or absolutely existent - except with the belief system of the believer. QED."...

zeno will finish the race quite quickly since the calculator he uses to determine the length of each step has limited precision and will quickly underflow (after about 330 steps for a TI-83). thus an age-old paradox is unraveled with the advent of the semiconductor. :)

quote: "Prove me wrong, it's the only way I will ever learn "John Stuart Mill... argued that silencing an opinion is 'a peculiar evill.' If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the 'opportunity of exchanging error for truth'; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding...

Quote: "Well, it seems more arbitrary to me to call a lump of cells smaller than a grape a human being..." ------------------------------------------------------------------- no it doesn't. rather, it is much less arbitrary when there is no transition from non-human to human...