What is "providing nonsubjective truth-makers"? — ssu

Probably best to think of [metaphysics] as fundamental elements. — I like sushi

Are you saying the issue is undemonstrable or undecidable? — ssu

If God does exist, then that is not God.
— Bishop Whalon

This is such a nonsense claim — Michael

Physicalism is the [paradigm] that is most consistent with everything we do know through science about the mind-body relationship. More significantly: physicalism is consistent with everything else we know about the world - outside of minds. — Relativist

And when you cannot demonstrate that theism is true, you cannot demonstrate it's false. — ssu

The aim of philosophy [metaphysics], abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under 'things in the broadest possible sense' I include such radically different items as not only 'cabbages and kings', but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death.To achieve success in philosophy [metaphysics] would be, to use a contemporary turn of phrase, to 'know one's way around' with respect to all these things, ... — Wilfrid Sellars

When there's a proof [truth-makers], you don't need to have faith [make believe]. — ssu

I argued that metaphysical materialism can be justifiably accepted as true. [@Wayfarer] responds by pointing to the explanatory gap, and he has raised some extreme counter possibilities (e.g. perhaps a thought is ontologically primitive). [Wayfarer] doesn't merely say, "here's why I don't accept materialism" (which would be perfectly fine by me); he insists materialism is demonstrably false. And yet, he has not demonstrated it. I conclude that [Wayfarer] can't, but won't admit it. — Relativist

There needs to be a reason to pluck one from the infinite set of possibilities and see where it leads.

If scientific method is unreliable, how much more so are those practices, such as religion, which are not based on impartiality at all? — Janus

Saying they are “immanent” — Wayfarer

Concepts are real, but not material. — Wayfarer

... not denying an external reality. — Wayfarer

It denies that we can meaningfully speak of a “mind-independent world” in the strong sense— i.e., a world that would exist in the way we understand it to exist even in the absence of any standpoint, any cognitive frame, any lived perspective.

Philosophy can inquire into what lies beyond the limits of objectivity in a way science cannot.

... the world-as-lived, the meaningful, structured world of experience, is constituted through the operations of cognition [ ... ] the world we inhabit is inseparable from [enables-constrains] the activity of consciousness [discursive practices] that renders it intelligible [explicable / computational]. — Wayfarer

I can accept [without a shred of evidence] the notion of hands-off creator-programmer-observer [that doesn't explain anything] ... — Gnomon

Descartes desired certitude and usefulness vis-a-vis the material world. Sextus [Pyrrho] wanted ataraxia. — Leontiskos

Neuroscience tells us how the brain behaves when we think; it cannot tell us what thinking is — — Wayfarer

... "Ultimate reality (Brahman) is infinite, eternal, and beyond time, space, or change, has no shape or qualities, and is the source of everything" ... — Gnomon

Can you rebut the arguments that I provided from Gerson, Feser, Russell? — Wayfarer

There has been eight years of 'MAGA' America, and we see, loud and clear, where the hate, violence and vitriol is coming from. Not. MAGA. — AmadeusD

MAGA, it seems, consists of its bewildered and besotted followers. If that's Conservatism, it's mutated considerably. — Ciceronianus

...upvotes...
— Jamal
@180 Proof will be very happy! — Banno

So it’s Multiverses all the way down then? — Punshhh

↪180 Proof So which one are you? — Punshhh

There is a point though, only an idealist [immaterislist], of some kind, would restrict what is to what can be said, or known by a person. Surely by contrast, a physicalist [materialist] of some kind would allow any of an infinite number of other possibilities and the fact that we cannot observe them directly doesn’t preclude their existence. — Punshhh

Define what you mean by "lefty wokeness"?
— 180 Proof

The left. The not-‘MAGA’. — Fire Ologist

[Is] maga the only evidence of the disease of not thinking post enlightenment? — Fire Ologist

And an illusion is something that only a mind can entertain. — Wayfarer

Or, more to my point, is lefty wokeness a symptom of not thinking too, ...? — Fire Ologist

[C]onsciousness ... appears inexplicable.

That’s not a cognitive failing, it’s a conceptual one. — Wayfarer

[R]eality is what there is. To posit something "beyond reality" is to posit more [than] what there is. "Beyond reality" is not a region; it is a grammatical error. — Banno

What should we[I/you] think about?

Nothing within physics is distinct from philosophical [metaphysical] nothing. — ucarr

If you think the universe was preceded by nothing, then you must explain how nothing transitioned into something. — ucarr

Any one-sentence OP is basically click bait. — Wayfarer