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- 19:29, 9 November 2024 diff hist +580 Philosophical zombie →Objections: reorganizing article; objections in this section still aren't great, and a quick search finds me no examples of people using p-zombies to argue for the existence of souls even in popular contexts
- 19:17, 9 November 2024 diff hist +1,284 Philosophical zombie →Chalmers' p-zombies: punctuation fix; adding brief subsection on objections to Chalmers' argument
- 23:01, 7 November 2024 diff hist -168 Rationalism name of the encyclopedia; see talk page - 2 years later, I have gained no evidence that these terms are commonly used current
- 22:56, 7 November 2024 diff hist -29 Rationalism this is misleading and is not supported by the cited source
- 22:55, 7 November 2024 diff hist -476 Rationalism →Historical rationalism: typically, the term 'rationalism' is reserved for the Early Modern era and not used for Antiquity; these terms don't need to be capitalized; empiricism isn't characterized by accepting "only what is known to be true"
- 22:48, 7 November 2024 diff hist -4,715 Rationalism →Empiricism versus Rationalism: this was taken verbatim from the SEP, and makes no sense here - the Innate Knowledge Argument has not been mentioned elsewhere in this article
- 22:45, 7 November 2024 diff hist +328 User talk:Serene →Since you seem to be our expert on epistemology.: you are correct about the article current
- 22:09, 7 November 2024 diff hist -204 Philosophical zombie →Objections: this is misleading; taking the zombie argument seriously does not require taking substance dualism seriously. Nobody is invoking souls.
- 21:59, 7 November 2024 diff hist +2,451 Philosophical zombie adding new section giving (very) brief account of Chalmers zombie argument, which is to my knowledge the most important by far; much of the rest of the article seems to be responding to a caricature based on the false notion that the argument posits physical zombies in the real world
- 01:42, 6 November 2024 diff hist +187 RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Jesus myth theory →Delete: nothing to add to the reasons already given
- 17:38, 30 June 2024 diff hist +641 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →A thought I had about Timeline Theory
- 02:28, 21 June 2024 diff hist -179 Self-refuting idea →Statements or concepts involving explicit or implicit absolutes/universals: something can be, for instance, physically necessary but metaphysically contingent
- 02:26, 21 June 2024 diff hist -256 Self-refuting idea →Statements or concepts involving explicit or implicit absolutes/universals: I can have a concept even if nothing in the world fits that concept. That I have a concept of certainty does not entail that anything is (epistemically) certain; arguably, it would be unreasonable to take anything to be (epistemically) certain, since this effectively entails ignoring all future evidence respecting it.
- 02:24, 21 June 2024 diff hist -198 Self-refuting idea →Statements or concepts involving explicit or implicit absolutes/universals: language could be for many things besides communicating knowledge - asserting, emoting, demanding, declaiming, etc. It could be useful even if knowledge were impossible.
- 02:21, 21 June 2024 diff hist -173 Self-refuting idea →Statements or concepts involving explicit or implicit absolutes/universals: "whatever exists, exists" is not a statement about any particular existing thing (it would be true even if nothing existed), and so does not indicate that this is self-refuting
- 02:19, 21 June 2024 diff hist -1,661 Self-refuting idea →Ethical egoism: neither ethical egoism nor psychological egoism is self-refuting
- 02:13, 21 June 2024 diff hist -448 Objectivism →Ethics: for single play and for many cases of repeated play, game theory recommends betrayal in the prisoner's dilemma; this is an erroneous objection
- 22:34, 19 June 2024 diff hist -1,053 Fact →Facts vs. concepts: facts can be contingent on opinion (e.g. prices), and the passage is implicitly self-contradictory current
- 22:20, 19 June 2024 diff hist +92 Fact →The factual/counterfactual distinction: there is no need for the article to be written in this style; adding example to clarify the distinction being drawn
- 01:09, 20 February 2024 diff hist +3,863 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Institutional Science Communication as a Fundamental Injustice: thoughts?: my poorly-organized thoughts after a quick read; most salient concerns about sites like Wikipedia
- 19:19, 19 February 2024 diff hist +1 m Donald Trump →Downfall into fascism: lost a period
- 19:18, 19 February 2024 diff hist -188 Donald Trump →Downfall into fascism: rephrasing
- 19:09, 19 February 2024 diff hist -60 Donald Trump →Indictment and arrest: removing non-snark; perfect opportunity for sarcasm
- 19:05, 19 February 2024 diff hist -120 Donald Trump →NFT, WTF?: minor rephrasing; sometimes less is more
- 18:20, 19 February 2024 diff hist -101 Shockofgod →So why are you an atheist?: more silliness; it is not generally true that you can't prove a negative
- 18:18, 19 February 2024 diff hist +69 Shockofgod →Evidence for God: atheists can and do present evidence for the claim "God does not exist"; the problem has nothing to do with 'burden of proof', but with setting reasonable evidential standards. Atheists need only show that the weight of the evidence is against God's existence, not that God's existence is categorically impossible..
- 18:08, 19 February 2024 diff hist -1,651 Shockofgod →What proof or evidence do you have that atheism is true and correct?: removing burden of proof nonsense - as I've noted on other pages, it's always fair to ask a person to justify their position, and negative existential claims have no special logical or evidential status
- 01:33, 19 February 2024 diff hist +1,055 RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/VenomFangX →Delete: this article has no substance, because its subject is insubstantial
- 00:02, 19 February 2024 diff hist +248 RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Amino acid/List of amino acids →Delete: redundant, except for its inferiority
- 23:43, 18 February 2024 diff hist +2 m Talk:Reciprocal altruism →Scott Alexander on Nice Guys: indenting
- 23:42, 18 February 2024 diff hist +2,643 Talk:Reciprocal altruism →Scott Alexander on Nice Guys: citing a handful of blogs, Google trends, and an imaginary conversation is a totally inadequate way to establish the conclusions the author seeks to draw
- 17:00, 17 February 2024 diff hist +3,286 Talk:LessWrong →EA orgs praising AI pseudoscience charity. Is it useful?: I could go on; Yudkowsky is neither original nor a good writer, and the effect of his parochialisms and mixings of fact and opinion has been to create a cult-like insularity
- 00:11, 15 February 2024 diff hist +1 Elon Musk word that goes better with "beliefs"
- 00:05, 15 February 2024 diff hist -3 Elon Musk →Natalism: link was to wrong Ehrlich; better characterized as alarmist about overpopulation than as antinatalist - does not think it is better never to have been, does not appear to advocate human extinction
- 19:23, 13 February 2024 diff hist +1,696 RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/NephilimFree →Goat: regardless of notability, this article has little substance and no potential to be more than a redundant treatment of things we already have articles on.
- 18:38, 13 February 2024 diff hist +555 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Is there something that explains the "watching thoughts/mind" that you hear in meditation a lot
- 18:45, 11 February 2024 diff hist +202 RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/NephilimFree →Delete
- 02:27, 8 February 2024 diff hist +1,957 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Do beliefs create emotions (or rather if they do then HOW)?
- 01:48, 8 February 2024 diff hist +672 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Is there something that explains the "watching thoughts/mind" that you hear in meditation a lot
- 01:28, 7 February 2024 diff hist +222 RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/AprilStudios →Delete
- 01:26, 7 February 2024 diff hist +185 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Is there something that explains the "watching thoughts/mind" that you hear in meditation a lot: forgot to sign
- 01:26, 7 February 2024 diff hist +2,198 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Is there something that explains the "watching thoughts/mind" that you hear in meditation a lot: learning the worst arguments for something and refuting them is a waste of time
- 00:55, 7 February 2024 diff hist +2,147 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Do beliefs create emotions (or rather if they do then HOW)?: likely, their position is difficult to approach because they haven't expressed it clearly
- 03:09, 5 February 2024 diff hist +980 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Do beliefs create emotions (or rather if they do then HOW)?
- 21:57, 28 January 2024 diff hist -306 Thomas Aquinas →The Argument from Contingency: this objection again ignores numerous subsequent sections of the Summa. One cannot object to Aquinas's arguments by claiming, falsely, that he doesn't make them.
- 21:56, 28 January 2024 diff hist -292 Thomas Aquinas →The Argument of the First Cause: Aquinas follows Aristotle in thinking that it is impossible for there to be no motion; the second criticism is free-floating without a justification for drawing the "in-universe" line for efficient causation, which Aquinas would presumably reject
- 21:51, 28 January 2024 diff hist -610 Thomas Aquinas →The Argument of the Unmoved Mover: this criticism is misleading. Aquinas offers arguments for God's attributes later in the Summa, and this does not engage with those arguments or refute them.
- 21:48, 28 January 2024 diff hist +357 Thomas Aquinas →Quinque viae: revising section header; Aquinas is not trying to show in Question 2 that God has the features traditionally ascribed by Christianity, he does so later on. The arguments are also abbreviated, because the Summa is for seminary students, who presumably already believe in God
- 15:52, 14 January 2024 diff hist +1,712 RationalWiki:Saloon bar →Does free will exist or not? (I'm inclined to say no)
- 20:10, 13 January 2024 diff hist +1,009 Talk:Thomas Aquinas →Misrepresentation: new section current