(2019-01-28, 04:01 AM)malf Wrote: How is that easier, and for whom?
Easier b/c it's in line with the global use of the term -> People using the word God (with capital G) are talking about an entity that at the least ordered the primordial chaos to make the universe, though people disagree about the existence of this being's current status.
When people talk about gods like Athena or Thoth, using the lower case "g", they see them as entities in plural with dominion over different domains (Knowledge, War, Death, etc).
Quote:Despite the shared arguments
Sure, but skeptics often share many of the same arguments as the nihilists who say materialism means human existence is completely worthless. (Of course the nihilist are correct [about materialism], unless there's something serious in "compatibilitism"...but I believe that's the kind of torturous semantic gaming you dislike about philosophy?)
Heck many proponents and skeptics share baseline assumptions, for example physics says something relevant about our experienced reality is assumed by both sides - the difference being how much about reality is captured.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(This post was last modified: 2019-01-28, 06:10 AM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
- Bertrand Russell
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