I'd like to suggest that there's two layers to being a victim. There is a societal aspect and a personal aspect. 1. The societal aspect of being a vic...
1. We're not sure if our universe is an isolated system. The second law of thermodynamics may not apply as it is. 2. If our universe is an isolated sy...
I think it's undeniable that we know too little about the universe to make any statement that we can be certain about. It's not just antimatter - ther...
You literally used doubt to define skepticism, then go on to say they are different. I get what you're trying to say - skepticism is a searching posit...
What is a true right? And more importantly, what does it mean to have a true right? If I have a true right to live, will that prevent anyone from kill...
That does not seem true to me. Rather, it seems that people believe that a human-benevolent god exists. If we are to assume an omnibenevolent god and ...
Every field in philosophy suffers from this. More precisely, any concept of the mind, anything that can not be touched physically - metaphysics, ontol...
I don't think so. Supposedly Siddhartha Gautama was a prince, with a lifestyle to show for it. Pretty clothes, good food, servants and guardians, all ...
I do not think eternity is self-evident. Possible but not evident. It's the God question all over again. Just like a God entity would be, eternity is ...
Common Sense How does language work? As children we attain a level of (practical) knowledge that we may partake in the communication method known as l...
The greatest pitfall of social media, especially for young individuals, seems to be how it conditions humans towards instant gratification. One click ...
Principally, the purpose of religion was to explain the world, just like science does today. Polytheistic world views are all very similar in their ap...
This defines the quality of G. "This statement" could be any statement - but if it isn't unprovable, it's not G because we defined it as being unprova...
I have a very different understanding of the story. The apple is not an apple at all. The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is just that - knowl...
Does IQ have any place in epistemology? I think it's a silly measure. IQ tests were originally invented to get a relative comparison of the mental dev...
Amen. @"Bartricks" It's clear to me that you derive your ideas from the abrahamic concept of god. That is: 1. There is one God. 2. God is all powerful...
For the most part, both free-will and determinism appear to me as little more than word games. Do I experience such things? Yes. Constantly. Do I expe...
I think fiction is basically "hard-capped" by the reality we know. This goes for Sci-Fi, fantasy, anything really. Personally, I am a great fan of the...
Which again showcases what Wittgenstein is trying to say about philosophical discussion. There is a great deal of disagreement about any topic concern...
I haven't really familiarized myself with Wittgenstein in detail but from what I've gathered, I basically agree with everything he says about language...
I agree that there's a lot to be talked about in the field of programming. I think though, due to how distinctive a field of knowledge programming is,...
Why do people get into psychology in the first place? Because of money? I have a hard time imagining that. Where I'm from, psychology doesn't exactly ...
Complete confidence blinds you. No confidence cripples you. How do we make decisions? We evaluate our situation and mentally run through our options b...
I think when claiming "mind can not be understood" you should clarify what would be deemed as a "necessary diagnostic of mind to dismiss your query". ...
I can see the idea of equating language with perception, language being the method of human communication, perception being the method of bodily commu...
I think this basically explains it. Both social interaction as well as living in isolation are things that are learned and mastered with experience. T...
No. Yes. Certain original meanings of certain words, sentences and phrases likely are misunderstood for this reason. I don't see the content of a book...
This is not adopting a more complicated writing system. I think it's actually more simplistic than our way of writing. What it's lacking is detail, wh...
I've given you the example of the K-T-B root in Hebrew. If that doesn't help illustrate how the whole concept works, I don't know how to help you. Aga...
It worked to some degree. Not perfectly though - that's why in this day and age most of these languages use some form of indication for what vowel goe...
This was basically the standard some thousand years ago. The Greek changed this system because apparently, the words they were using would have been t...
The process of both "null" and "total" appears to me as the exact same one. In the case of null, you will still follow a chain of associations the sam...
The definition of tidal flat is "essentially horizontal and commonly muddy or marshy land that is covered and uncovered by the rise and fall of tides"...
And that is, as @"TheMadFool" pointed out an issue of definition. Language is a framework shared amongst all humans. Somewhere humanity agreed upon so...
You have a bit of a misconception here. Boolean logic is not used to answer questions but to validify statements - the answers to the questions. Epist...
I'll correct myself here after reading an article. It looks like much less is needed. Facebook platforms being down caused 30x more traffick on one of...
Before the common peasants employed the term gentleman, it was exclusively used by nobility. The theme of the gentleman always was superiority. Origin...
I don't think so. Surely the US economics have a big impact on global economics but it doesn't compare to the whole internet shutting down for a day. ...
There are 13 DNS root servers that map the internet. If those are gone it's Bye-Bye internet. Other than that everything else is quite replaceable. Th...
I'm not gonna repeat myself forever. If we were to talk in hypotheticals: Sensation We already have this. Association We don't have this yet, hence I ...
Well, we're talking about understanding and you made your premise experience. I've argued that it's absolutely possible for an AI to have the same exp...
It's hard to picture an artificial brain because we don't even fully understand how our brains work. It's a matter of complexity. Our understanding of...
The physical principles behind these sensors and the senses of our body are literally the same. The difference is in the signal that is sent thereafte...
It's not unlike what we humans do. Our "translation memory" simply is the mental act of association. I take input/sensation A (I see, feel or taste an...
I think the point of the OP is that our current society despite libertarian appearances entails more of the latter than the former. The argument for c...
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