Tom More

@Martina We are a cult of murderers. I used to think we were different from the Nazis.

What an unconscionable law

@PhilosopherJoeC I think God is obvious and modern science sure supports this obvious and obviously personal dimension. AI is always going to be GIGO. My toaster has identical interests.

I don’t think so. Ask any AI.

@CatholicArena Murderers.

BREAKING The House of Lords voted this evening to ALLOW for ABORTION UP TO BIRTH without prosecution in England and Wales The EXTREME law has removed all protections for babies late into pregnancy

@PAHoyeck youtu.be/1BpnDPbxP_8?t=…

“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.” ―Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties

@PAHoyeck edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/06/hume-s…

Does anybody have a good theory for why we're still doing philosophy even though Hume solved it nearly three hundred years ago?

@PAHoyeck youtu.be/ZVkcTejdAOc

POV: You're about to revisit the most annoying philosophy paper you've ever read

@PAHoyeck No video of Montreal is complete without ending at Trenholme Park of course.... youtu.be/32Ue3Teu6xw

Just a lovely spring morning in Montreal 😊 #Montréal #Canada

@Gurdur Its a rising issue but not the yeast of our prolems.

For some odd reason my tweeps quite often get irate about cake, which is not something I myself would do, but then we all have our specialities

@PAHoyeck Ahh.... Montreal... 😘

@PhilosophyOfPhy W. Norris Clarke: Between New York and Montreal is not space filled with farms and people and cars, but just farms and people and cars.

Debate between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is one of the most profound philosophical clashes in the history of science and metaphysics, centered on a simple yet deeply compelling question: What are space and time? In the early 18th century, this disagreement unfolded through a series of letters, most notably in the Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence, where Leibniz challenged Newton’s ideas through Newton’s supporter, Samuel Clarke. Newton believed that space and time were absolute realities. To him, space existed like an invisible stage on which all physical events take place, and time flowed uniformly everywhere, unaffected by anything in the universe. Even in a completely empty universe, space and time would still exist, unchanged and real. Leibniz strongly opposed this view. He argued that space and time are not independent entities but relationships between objects and events. Space is simply the arrangement of things, and time is the sequence in which changes occur. Without objects or events, space and time have no meaning. The debate extended beyond physics into deeper philosophical and theological questions. Leibniz used logical reasoning to argue that absolute space makes little sense because there would be no reason for the universe to exist in one position rather than another. Newton’s side, defended by Clarke, responded that space is real and ultimately grounded in the existence and will of God. This debate remains important even today because it shaped how we think about the universe. Newton’s ideas dominated classical physics for centuries, but later developments, especially relativity, reintroduced a more relational understanding of space and time, bringing modern physics closer to what Leibniz had imagined.

@PhilosophyOfPhy Gotta love St. Augustine in the 4th century. Time is the measurement of motion. Analogue clocks bring this fact home.

@PAHoyeck I once had a lovely raison date. 🤓

English speakers always butcher the French language. It's "raisin date."

@PAHoyeck Are they imputing francophonies ????🤓

I find it so perplexing how English speakers will call French-speakers "French" even when they aren't from France. Are Americans English because they speak English? Are Mexicans Spanish because they speak Spanish?

@JenelopeJohnson @wil_da_beast630 Here's a link to a good short video on the matter of truth , evidence etc. youtu.be/gyrzhVvg3ws

@TomMore9 @wil_da_beast630 I appreciate that. Though my point still stands.

There are a lot of very PRACTICAL problems with religion. For my Buddhists and very trad Christians: the global population has increased from 50M to 8B over just a few years. Where are all these new "souls"......coming from?

@PAHoyeck Best British philosopher in ages! She didn't lose her mind!

"I don't want to do moral philosophy and if you do it's because you suck" --Elisabeth Anscombe

@PhilosopherJoeC @ErrorTheorist Especially when the question of the day is "What is a woman?" We live in mad times.

@TomMore9 @ErrorTheorist I just want to be clear that when I criticize philosophy papers, I'm not saying people shouldn't be working on that kind of philosophy. I work on free will, so I'm in no position to be judging others! But I wonder why some stuff is published and not other stuff.

Here’s a paper arguing that getting tattoos can be immoral. The author argues that altering your body in this way can violate duties you have to your future self.

@PhilosopherJoeC @ErrorTheorist I know.. it was just an irresistible leg pull. I ain't got no character. 🙂

@TomMore9 @ErrorTheorist I asked a question.

@JenelopeJohnson @wil_da_beast630 I've posted some links (Kreeft) with short audios addressing many of your notions and misunderstandings.

@TomMore9 @wil_da_beast630 This one. You can call it the belief of the culture, but if you hold it to be true, it is your belief as well. x.com/i/status/20343…

@JenelopeJohnson @wil_da_beast630 You persist in insisting that I have asserted premises grounded in your notion of what "faith" is . I haven't. Some simple reading online would save a helluvalota time. We spent 6 mos on Plato alone.

@TomMore9 @wil_da_beast630 @tmunkky That's fine, it's an enormous subject. But I will remind you that it cannot be "radically coherent" if it asserts premises that are founded on faith (such as listed above), and that can't be defended by claiming others are ignorant if you can't defend it yourself.