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Part I 6. The Gnostic Way One of the most potent forces operating in the Church's environment, particularly in the second and third centuries, was Gnosticism. This is the name applied to an amorphous group of sects or schools of thought about which theologians like Irenaeus, Tertullian and Hippolytus inform us. They treat it simply as a Christian heresy, an aberration brought about by the adulte..

Even more important, however, and certainly more generally applicable, is the argument from queerness. 어쩌면 더욱 중요하고 그리고 확실히 더 일반적으로 적용가능한 것이 기이성 논증(논변)이다. If there were objective values, then would be entities or qualities or relations of a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe. 만일 객관적 가치가 있다면, 그것은 매우 특이한, 즉 우주의 어떤 것과도 완전히 다른 종류의 실체이거나 성질 또는 관계일 것이다.

2015-2. ‘Moral judgements commit us to the existence of irreducibly non-natural, mind-independent moral facts. But on our best understanding of the world, such facts do not exist. Therefore, all moral judgements are false.’ Is this a sound argument? The text enclosed in quotation marks in the body of this question paraphrases (without quoting directly) one of J.L. Mackie’s most famous arguments ..

The classic response by identity theorists to the problem that phenomenal consciousness appears to pose to physicalism is that we shouldn’t take qualia-talk at face value. Place and Smart suggested that instead of puzzling over sentences like 'I see an orange after-image', which seemingly commit us to the existence of irreducible mental properties, we should rephrase such reports in topic-neutra..