Re: [FRIAM] just faith

2012-09-18 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Like Glen (Ropella) I too intuit that there is no such absolute as fact. From this review, it seems that Mr. Platinga's system is based on warranted facts .. and he has previously published a 3 part series on what warranted facts.are. Mr Platinga's system seems similar to an Indic system called

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-18 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Trying to be a sophisticated Nick: Faith doesn't underlies reality, but it underlies all experience. And by experience, I mean it underlies all the way you act and react towards reality. This doesn't give you a theory of everything, but it might give you a theory of everything psychological.

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-18 Thread glen
ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 09/18/2012 07:46 AM: Trying to be a sophisticated Nick: Faith doesn't underlies reality, but it underlies all experience. And by experience, I mean it underlies all the way you act and react towards reality. This doesn't give you a theory of everything, but it might

Re: [FRIAM] One more, I'm afraid. Who started this, anyhow?

2012-09-18 Thread glen
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 09/17/2012 05:07 PM: In this way, tolerance can be mapped to organizational rules. If the abuse is described by shared rules there's a mechanism to stop the abuse. If it is not described by shared rules, the (silent) bullied individuals need to work to make their

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-18 Thread Arlo Barnes
It's something else ... perhaps a type of action distinguishable from other types of action ... perhaps something called state, which is distinguishable from process? Well, if we are being literalists, it could be construed as the chemical actions taking place in a brain, or perhaps

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-18 Thread glen
Arlo Barnes wrote at 09/18/2012 10:45 AM: It's something else ... perhaps a type of action distinguishable from other types of action ... perhaps something called state, which is distinguishable from process? Well, if we are being literalists, it could be construed as the chemical actions