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Month: August 2020

“Very” Is Not So Very Wrong

Mark Twain famously quipped that a writer who cannot think of a word to substitute for the word “very” should substitute “damn,” so as to form phrases like “damn beautiful” and “damn important.”  The writer’s editor will delete “damn” and … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 28, 2020September 28, 2020Tags Writing

I Am Beginning to Believe That Morality is Bunk

Before I discuss why the Argument from Moral Knowledge has pushed me in the direction of moral non-realism—the view that there are no objective more facts but only preferences, folkways, and the like—I want to discuss one of a family … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Morality, Philosophy

Gettier Cases and Moral Knowledge

              I’ve said that probabilistic arguments for God don’t do much to convince a committed atheist.  But the Argument from Moral Knowledge can be reformulated so that it is not merely probabilistic.  In other words, the standard atheist picture (humans … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 4, 2020August 12, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Buddhism, Philosophy

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