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Truthmakers that keep naturalists up at night
March 26th, 201001:51 PM ETChristians are supernaturalists. That is, they believe that there are things that exist which are neither material (where material is understood to encompass both matter and energy) nor supervenient upon the material. (Definitional aside on supervenience: if x is supervenient upon y then x is irreducible to y (it is a new kind of thing) but is non... -
Atheist faith-heads, naturally
October 22nd, 200911:41 AM ETMost theists are not "plain theists". Rather, they embed their theism within a wider worldview perspective such as Christianity, Islam, or deism. By the same token, most atheists are not plain atheists. Instead they embed their atheism within a wider worldview perspective: that which is commonly called "naturalism". As such, it is worthwhile not on...
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