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  1. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    Lots of good stuff, obv; the whole post. This part here though is philosophical in nature and not strictly speaking computer science or engineering anymore; and it is contentious within the philosophical literature. A very reasonable definition of intelligence among these professionals, is...
  2. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    Oh absolutely. You can see right away from my link that ontology would be a category of metaphysics, where metaphysics includes all substances, topics, or themes that do not change, and that do not fall under other philosophical categories like ethics and epistemology. This includes of course...
  3. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    You said: “ It isn't that complicated. Metaphysical refers to things that do not exist ontologically¹. The earth exists ontologically². Time does not³. The former is physical, the later is metaphysical. The physical refers to the material world and everything that can be observed, measured, and...
  4. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics/#WordMetaConcMeta “ ... [Aristotle's] Metaphysics is about things that do not change. In one place, Aristotle identifies the subject-matter of first philosophy as “being as such”, and, in another as “first causes”. ... [but] One might almost say...
  5. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    So is God physical or metaphysical Clete? I need an answer.
  6. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    Ontology and metaphysics are synonyms. If time does not exist, it does not exist ontologically or metaphysically. I agree with that, except that the physical is a category of the metaphysical.
  7. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    It's really more of a philosophical word, here's a more appropriate source: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics/#BeinSuchFirsCausUnchThin " If metaphysics now considers a wider range of problems than those studied in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, those original problems continue to...
  8. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    Which is something that could not be done metaphysically before, and now it can be done. Ever since the computer was invented, A.I. became metaphysically possible. Computers enabled the metaphysical possibility of A.I. It was always logically possible, but it became metaphysically possible...
  9. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    obv what you say here is untrue, otherwise everyone would agree with you. I mean they'd all already agree with you, like my example about the Sun's angle in the sky changing with the seasons, that's why I used that example, because there's zero dispute. There's dispute with the Euthyphro...
  10. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    I know. But it does things like this: https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/09/science/nobel-prize-chemistry-proteins-baker-hassabis-jumper-intl/index.html Which was my point. It's a new tool for us, never ever had one of these before. So the things that are now metaphysically possible to do (A.I...
  11. Idolater

    Lifting & Fasting

    Say your daily basal metabolic rate is 1965 calories. If you eat 150 grams of protein from skinless chicken breast every day, you'd also consume c. 20 grams of chicken fat also, so that's c. 780 calories. If you just ate that (with like some salt or mustard or vinegar or something basically...
  12. Idolater

    Kackling Kamala

    We need Trump and Vance. Four more years.
  13. Idolater

    On the omniscience of God

    We know how atoms work. They are 100% determinist until the Planck scale, and then it's statistical, like rolling dice or flipping coins. Meaning we can't discern cause-and-effect anymore, not saying there's not cause-and-effect, just saying that we ... Actually hold on. We do now know that...
  14. Idolater

    Guns!

    It's never the guns at all. If we don't want Iran or North Korea to have the biggest guns for example, nuclear armed ballistic missiles, then it's still not the guns, and we should whenever we can afford to do it, invade, subdue and destroy their regimes and take over the countries and occupy...
  15. Idolater

    Lifting & Fasting

    So start with about 120 grams of protein a day. 160 grams is better but 120 grams is a good start. And it has to be discounted, according to how well your body digests it, which means your age (because your body digests protein worse as you get older) and the source. Protein powders are...
  16. Idolater

    Trump News

    Well they both make my skin crawl when they talk, so there's that. :/
  17. Idolater

    Trump News

    Well she's just one of J.D. Vance's kids then.
  18. Idolater

    Lifting & Fasting

    How old are you? Asking because it affects the answer.
  19. Idolater

    Engaged Perfection: : The Relational Nature of God

    Sometimes Aristotelian categories or predicaments help to clarify disputes like this. A substance or a nature is what a subject is (I mean a subject in the sense that a sentence is a subject plus a predicate), so God is God, He is His substance or nature, and Jesus is God, so He has always been...
  20. Idolater

    A little comedy break....

    Seems about right.
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