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    Argument from Intentionality Contra Materialism

    Not at all.
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    Argument from Intentionality Contra Materialism

    This is muddleheaded; if materialism is true, then, by definition, there are no such things as immaterial things and thus no such things as abstractions or abstract objects, etc. for these are just immaterial by virtue of their being abstract. Materialism, at any rate, at least seems to imply...
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    Argument from Intentionality Contra Materialism

    Materialism is the claim that only the material exists; that the immaterial does not exist, etc. On materialism, then, there are no such thing as abstract objects for such things are immaterial.
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Mestemia, I've given various reasons for that in this thread. I've mentioned, for example, that the position of the supporter of same-sex marriage is either incoherent or absurd. I've mentioned that, if marriage really exists to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to one another...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Couple comments: I'm not sure what you mean by "false equivalence." Also, as I wrote, accusing this argument of being a "slippery slope argument" is simply to assume that I haven't given reasons to think that the accepting of a on the grounds b will lead to c. You haven't so much as attempted...
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    Argument from Intentionality Contra Materialism

    Take materialism to be the claim that only the physical world exists; that everything that exists is material (i.e. has a given spatio-temporal location, etc.). If materialism is true, then thoughts are just neurons firing in x-manner and neurons firing in x-manner are just an interaction of...
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    Why are you an atheist?

    What?
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Mestemia, I've spent pages giving reasons as to why we ought not accept same-sex marriage. But, to be sure, are you asking me something akin to: "how will same-sex marriage affect you?" If you decide, however, to respond to this with more useless smart-assery, then don't be surprised when I...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Suppose that marriage really is just people who are "in love" with one another or simply individuals who are lovingly committed to one another. One can say a couple of things if this were the case. Can't any conceivable configuration of individuals be "lovingly committed" to one another? If so...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    You got me. Thanks for devolving what could have been a fruitful conversation into a middle-school drama.
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Is this is trite "how does, like, same-sex marriage affect you, man?" nonsense?
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Uh, did you miss the part that said "analogy"? Or are you just that daft?
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Congratulations :clap Be sure to add this to your reading list: Logic For Dummies: Mark Zegarelli: 9780471799412: Amazon.com: Books
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    This is tantamount to claiming that my argument is logically invalid, i.e. that the premises do not deductively guarantee their conclusion. You probably have no idea what this means in the first place. But since you are charging that my argument is in fact logically invalid, then I press you to...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Glorious rebuttal. Crushing objection. I render to your unmatched wisdom and intellect.
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    What if I told you that I already have and that your not noticing it is you problem, not mine?
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    This is too vague; might not the government pursue "stability among its citizens" by establishing a very powerful police presence in every street corner? Might not the government pursue "stability among its citizens" by mandating that they live in special government housing to keep an eye on...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    The obvious ones that should come to anybody's mind and that I need not repeat here. But, of course, I really do need to repeat them here because the vast majority of people's intuitions seem to be hopelessly corrupted. Having an African American marry a Caucasian doesn’t impact the essential...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    Again, why individuals get married is irrelevant; an individual could have an innumerable amount of reasons as to why he marries. These would just be private reasons which would not add up to any one public purpose of marriage. What is relevant, then, is the essential public purpose of...
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    Argument from Consistency Contra Same-Sex Marriage

    This is just what I elaborated on the Restroom Analogy. If marriage really just is people having fuzzy feelings for one another, then there are no grounds for denying, say, two men or three women or 988 people to "marry" for such couplings can all meet the sufficient condition for marriage...
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