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| About Me: | I'm a pyrrhonean skeptic , an omnivorous reader, a humble epistomophile/ philomath, traditional and classical gentleman. I embrace ignorance and impermanence. |
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| Books: | Cosmos - Carl Sagan, God is not great - Christopher Hitchens, The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris, Ideas and Opinions - A.Einstein, The Grand Design - STephen Hawkings, Odes Less Travelled - Stephen Fry, Seeds of Genius - Alan Watts, |
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Epistemic Justification is possible
So I've finally decided to have my third debate so I may start voting on others. My goal is to show, as an indirect skeptic, that all dogmatists lack justifications for their beliefs and are inconsistent in their pursuit for objective truths. Definitions: (1) Pyrrhonism - a school of scepticism based on the suspension of belief (2) Gettier Problem - a philosophical question on whether justified true belief is sufficient for knowledge (3) Knowledge - Certain Justified True Belief The to...
The Kalaam Cosmological Argument is Unsound
Rounds: 1. Acceptance (agreeing with everything stated in the first round) 2. Opening arguments 3. Rebuttals/Refutations to opponent's opening arguments 4. Defence of your opening arguments (no new arguments) Kalaam Cosmological Argument- An argument for the existence of a theistic God that is generally framed as follows: P1: Everything we know (from experience, intuition or rationale) which comes into being ex nihilo has an efficient cause P2: The Universe began to exist C1: Ergo, T...
Agnostic Atheism is more rational than an Agnostic Monotheist
I am very intrigued to hear some rational arguments for God as I am very familiar with most of them. Definitions: (1) Agnostic theism, also called atheistic agnosticism, is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity and agnostic because they claim that the existence of a deity is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact. The agnostic atheist may be...
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 3 |
| Lost: | 0 |
| Tied: | 1 |
| Won: | 2 |
| Win Ratio: | 100.00% |
| Percentile: | 91.07% |
| Elo Ranking: | 2,256 |
| Statistics based on completed debates. | |
| Activity Statistics | |
| Forum Posts: | 67 |
| Votes Cast: | 2 |
| Opinion Arguments: | 1 |
| Opinion Questions: | 1 |
| Poll Votes: | 4 |
| Poll Topics: | 1 |
| • | Abortion | Pro |
| • | Affirmative Action | Pro |
| • | Animal Rights | Pro |
| • | Barack Obama | N/O |
| • | Border Fence | Pro |
| • | Capitalism | Con |
| • | Civil Unions | N/O |
| • | Death Penalty | Con |
| • | Drug Legalization | Con |
| • | Electoral College | N/O |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | N/O |
| • | European Union | N/O |
| • | Euthanasia | N/S |
| • | Federal Reserve | Con |
| • | Flat Tax | N/S |
| • | Free Trade | N/S |
| • | Gay Marriage | Pro |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Und |
| • | Globalization | Pro |
| • | Gold Standard | N/O |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Homeschooling | Pro |
| • | Internet Censorship | Pro |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | Con |
| • | Labor Union | N/S |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | Pro |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Pro |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Military Intervention | Pro |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | National Health Care | Pro |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Pro |
| • | Occupy Movement | N/O |
| • | Progressive Tax | N/O |
| • | Racial Profiling | Pro |
| • | Redistribution | Pro |
| • | Smoking Ban | Pro |
| • | Social Programs | Pro |
| • | Social Security | Pro |
| • | Socialism | Pro |
| • | Stimulus Spending | N/O |
| • | Term Limits | N/O |
| • | Torture | Con |
| • | United Nations | Pro |
| • | War in Afghanistan | N/O |
| • | War on Terror | N/O |
| • | Welfare | N/O |
