tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post3290493793594989707..comments2023-05-10T08:55:47.701-07:00Comments on Richard Carrier Blogs: Defining Naturalism IIRichard Carrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-90779204395490968132010-07-29T08:56:13.719-07:002010-07-29T08:56:13.719-07:00Thank you for replying. I think your treatment of ...Thank you for replying. I think your treatment of my carpet example is consistent with your previous definitions and examples. The questions that seem at least somewhat open are:<br /><br />A: Whether your definition of 'supernatural' is the most useful one there is.<br /><br />B: How well your definition corresponds to the way people normally use the word.<br /><br />For A I'll say &Haukurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17669738332175762658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-41002440665232379362010-07-28T12:46:50.248-07:002010-07-28T12:46:50.248-07:00Haukur said... I don't see anything necessari...<b>Haukur said...</b> <i> I don't see anything necessarily mental about flying horses and flying carpets.</i><br /><br />Examples can be iterated infinitely. Thus you need to look at the paradigmatic examples I discuss in my blog answering exactly that question (<a href="http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/01/defining-supernatural.html" rel="nofollow">Defining the Supernatural</a>), and Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-847015839210627162010-07-28T12:42:45.355-07:002010-07-28T12:42:45.355-07:00AIGBusted said... I was just wondering if you had ...<b>AIGBusted said...</b> <i>I was just wondering if you had read "The Six Ways of Atheism" by Geoffrey Berg? It's a pretty good book on atheism, although I certainly don't agree with some of the arguments. It's worth a look.</i><br /><br />Why?<br /><br />(That's not a rhetorical question. There are some twenty or thirty new books on atheism, and dozens coming every yearRichard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-51340710338838512762010-04-06T16:56:15.617-07:002010-04-06T16:56:15.617-07:00Richard - I started reading and ... to be honest I...Richard - I started reading and ... to be honest I hate epistemology. To me it is seriously the study of knowledge to the point you become stupid. I have yet to meet a single epist lune that I can even discuss if either of us really know anything. They drive me crazy. I usually end up name calling, and just trying to get them to go away. lol<br /><br />You have more will power than me. :)Semi-sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09365054062343087590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-72493740639614086422010-04-02T08:30:18.253-07:002010-04-02T08:30:18.253-07:00Hey Dr. Carrier. Thanks again for the lively discu...Hey Dr. Carrier. Thanks again for the lively discussion. I think that much of our disagreement at this point is reducing to semantics, though I'm still not sure that I've properly communicated the intent of my example about karma. I'll be away this weekend so I won't have time to properly respond until after Sunday, I just wanted to drop by and thank you for taking the time to GoodNewsAtheismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310461244791040681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-54852423469068860422010-04-02T07:25:18.527-07:002010-04-02T07:25:18.527-07:00Hi Rich,
OFFTOPIC: I was just wondering if you ha...Hi Rich,<br /><br />OFFTOPIC: I was just wondering if you had read "The Six Ways of Atheism" by Geoffrey Berg? It's a pretty good book on atheism, although I certainly don't agree with some of the arguments. It's worth a look.<br /><br />Also, I sent you an email concerning my book (atheism and naturalism) sometime ago, I wondered if you had gotten it, or maybe if your AIGBustedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03232781356086767207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-25334234035573530762010-04-01T11:20:35.783-07:002010-04-01T11:20:35.783-07:00If I understand the original blog post correctly, ...If I understand the original blog post correctly, then the magic carpet (assuming it did not respond to mental phenomena but only physical ones) would be an example of what Richard would call "paranormal", not currently explainable by known science or reasonable extrapolation therefrom.<br /><br />(Obviously, if such an item were available for examination and experiment, there would be Andrew G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12284971176688746388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-81158459193008208142010-04-01T08:43:17.061-07:002010-04-01T08:43:17.061-07:00Maybe I missed it somewhere along the way but do y...Maybe I missed it somewhere along the way but do you ever treat things like magical flying horses or flying carpets? If I tell you I have a flying horse/carpet in my garden, most people would call that a supernatural claim and I think James Randi would be happy to award me a million dollars if I've got the goods. But I don't see anything necessarily mental about flying horses and flying Haukurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17669738332175762658noreply@blogger.com