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Are you planning a Joshua March ?

glorytogod712 — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:54:51 GMT

Are you planning a Joshua march through the world/your country/your city/your village/ your locality/ your workplace, to bring down walls of hostility against

Re: Owens -- judgment of existence -- not estimative

James — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:16:04 GMT

Hello Sorry, I've been busy. To answer your question about the estimative power in regard to the faculty of judgment, it must be keep in mind that the

Re: Owens -- judgment of existence

CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:25:25 GMT

Has this anything to do with what might be called the "estimative power" which appears also to result in an act of judgment? Jude

Owens -- judgment of existence

James — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:20:22 GMT

Earlier it was pointed out that concepts alone cannot give us existence. "Just as the substance of a

Re: Pioneer -- scientifically collecting the data -- hard evidence

James — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:59:29 GMT

Victor, Thank you. The upshot of the Pioneer investigation which I did not finish is that earlier arguments fail to consider the objective hard evidence.

Re: Existence, abduction, inference -- foundations

James Miguez — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:26:25 GMT

Dear Jude Thank you for the response. The questions you bring up here go to the very heart of the foundations of the various philosophies. To try to find a

Re: Existence, abduction, inference

CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:23:36 GMT

Dear james, I found this post of yours veryhelpful, thanks. At the same time, as i read up on abduction, there appears the suggestion that abduction lies on a

Eons without Time

Victor McAllister — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:59:46 GMT

Human societies could not function without a concept of time. By contrast, animals do not make calendars or writes histories. *Solomon wrote that God placed

Re: Creation ex nihlo -- finite and with a beginning

James — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:19:47 GMT

James, Thank you for reiterating and clarifying your claims. All I could do here would be to repeat my last post, the claims of which (I maintain) are as yet

Pope to be

James — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:12:04 GMT

Dear Everyone, The doors have closed and the Pope is to be chosen. May the Cardinals have the right choice. And may the cooperation between the Orthodox and

Existence, abduction, inference

James — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:07:05 GMT

Dear Jude and Ryan, Abduction is a form of logical inference that goes from data description of something to a hypothesis that accounts for the reliable data

Re: Pioneer -- scientifically collecting the data

Victor McAllister — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:28:59 GMT

... James, you have done a wonderful job of presenting the Pioneer Anomaly. John D. Anderson from Jet Propulsion was one who published the discrepant data.

Owens -- the facts please

James — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:26:02 GMT

Joseph Owens in The Interpretation of Existence approaches the fact of existence, proceeding from common viewpoints to discover its meaning as more than fact.

Re: Esse (to be) and Existence -- abduction

James — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:53:51 GMT

Jude, Thank you for the post. I haven't given the term abduction much thought, though I've look a Pierce a little, and clearly William James cannibalized his

Re: Esse (to be) and Existence -- induction

James — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:18:49 GMT

Ryan, The post on esse was to clarify the translation of esse to English. I was not offering abduction as a solution, but simply allowed Jude to stipulate the