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isacvale (41)in #politics • 8 years ago
A consequence of not voting
You might not be aware of it, but on October 2nd Brazilians had to vote for mayors and city counsellors. On the grand scheme of things, a fairly minor event quite unworthy of…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
A corollary to Occam's Razor
The law of parsimony, otherwise known as Occam's Razor, tells us that “among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected”. In other words, if…
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isacvale (41)in #morality • 8 years ago
Disputing the Golden Rule
When advocating a system of morality based on reason and logic, many respected thinkers like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens offer us an ancient and simple moral rule…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Arguments against objective morality
In a place such as SteemIt , where many libertarians freely exchange ideas, objective morality seems to be a given, while relativistic morality is considered a mental flaw. But…
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isacvale (41)in #phylosophy • 8 years ago
Why is Hamza Tzortzis wrong? The miracle of Koran.
Post 6 Tzortzis argues that the Koran is so superbly crafted that it cannot be the work of a human. He doesn't mean the actual message or the poetical beauty, but rather that…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Why is Hamza Tzortzis wrong? Atheist clichés.
Post 5 of 6 Again a fallacy. Tzortzis is creating a straw man while simultaneously suggesting atheists have no real arguments. He cites two 'clichés', the first being that…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Why is Hamza Tzortzis wrong? Fallacies.
Post 4 There are tools debaters use to throw their opponents off guard in order to win arguments without being right. When Tzortzis uses the name of his opponent in meaningless…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Why is Hamza Tzortzis wrong? The attributes of god.
Post 3 After attempting to prove god created the universe, Tzortzis believes he can deduce some attributes of the divine. He believes these qualities matches that of Allah and…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Why is Hamza Tzortzis wrong? The origins of the universe.
Post 2 The argument is that Islam makes sense of the origins of the universe. Because infinite regressions are irrational, the universe can't have an infinite past and so it…
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isacvale (41)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Why is Hamza Tzortzis wrong? Deductive vs inductive arguments.
This series of posts is meant to denounce flaws in the discourse of an influential figure. It analyses the opening speech of Islamic apologist Hamza Tzortzis in a debate with…
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