I would say a statement has the property of truth if it refers to/conforms to the world (specifically, the way things are at some time). Related: Cris...
The critical aspect of philosophy in regard to religion, and in general, has been helpful but to what end? I think ancient philosophies had a more gen...
I don't think we can say someone's experience is not what they experienced. Who is in a position to do that? Your conclusion that adherents in the sam...
From the outside, it is. I can't really say someone else's experience isn't valid. If the Buddhist tells me they have experienced Nirvana, I can't rej...
Religious exclusivism is the view that the various religions are ultimately incompatible. I would say it is some form of informal fallacy (fallacy of ...
I understand Descartes' circular reasoning to be, not the Cogito itself, but the argument that God can be proven by clear and distinct ideas since God...
I wouldn't say struggle and difficulty are good for people; therefore, we should construct opportunities for struggle in order to benefit people. I wo...
So the idea is to not bring children into the world so they won't have to learn how to navigate an existence that entails struggle and suffering? I ca...
Yes, I suppose there can be a boundary crossed when we presume struggle is needed and so we create struggle. Let's say I decide to cut holes in the bo...
I think it's fine to cause a burden that can be endured without undue harm for the sake of nurturing the kind of character that can endure greater bur...
I think this is often the case. Epistemic humility is hard to maintain when you flee one thing looking for truth and find another that, at the least, ...
I think we're more human the better we are at working together and less human when we work against each other. We're political beings in the best sens...
I don't think a perfect system is possible. I'm going to say it's probably some combination of the candidates highlighted in (1). I think human justic...
There's seems to be two experiences that keep me cognizant of the passage of time: 1) the constant change of entities (taken broadly as everything emp...
I don't think science will replace religion, but I think science has had a positive effect on religion for reasons already mentioned in this thread. I...
Don't forget empirical experience. The problem with religious faith is that it can be experiential, and in that case, it is hard to argue against it. ...
"The unconditioned necessity of judgments, however, is not an absolute necessity of things" Immanuel Kant Critique (A593/B621). I took that from a rec...
I agree with this if we're thinking in terms of epistemic contextualism,, e.g. Keith DeRose. In our everyday context it doesn't make sense, or have mu...
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