TheMadFool

I'll wait for Wayfarer to edify me.

:chin: What that?

Suppose God exists. You ask him "why God did you make the world as it is?" He responds "I was just playing." What's going to be your reaction? 1. :rof...

The OP's a mathematical question about odds/chances/probability of in general hot wars and in particular a sino-US military engagement. I know basic p...

:up: for the qualification! Doesn't do anything for you? :chin:

There's not much of a difference, is there?, between naïve and foolish (ignorant and/or illogical). Cartesian systematic doubt (Deus deceptor) & Harma...

Why not? It doesn't seem like we can craft a reductio ad absurdum from such an assumption. I suppose you're referring to paradigm shifts and I see one...

A. Suicide/Murder 1. Killing a human is wrong. 2. Killing yourself is killing a human being. Ergo, 3. Suicide is wrong B. Rights/Suicide 1. I have ful...

I believe the two inform each other and what we get is a synergy between them: what I understand boosts the way I understand and vice versa and if we ...

I'm not sure how this works but passion provides the drive to study/practice reason and while reason's preliminary findings suggest that passion is a ...

Hadn't though of it that way. :up:

The word "this" is not a self-referencing word, is it? Typically, it's used to denote spatial proximity. in contrast to the word "that" which expresse...

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Update 11% is the more than enough: Save the girl. https://youtu.be/v__qBmkuqF0

Major O'Hara: Let’s just say our goals are temporarily aligned. Baroness: Just for tonight.

Homo homini lupus.

That a private language is impossible (incoherent) means that some areas of our experience are not language-apt i.e. we can't talk about them neither ...

It's ok. Thanks.

@"TiredThinker" Insofar as the current model of life - the theory of evolution - is concerned, all that matters is: Birth \rightarrow Childhood \right...

How should I correct my post?

Anthony Kenny in his book The History of Western Philosophy says that, for Aristotle, the soul is the form of an organic body. Everything psychologica...

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Third person?

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I don't understand one thing with so-called self-referential sentences. Let me explain. Human self-reference Sarah says: 1. I am a bad, bad girl! (1st...

:fire: :fire: :fire: Good one! Give me your surname if you don't mind and you can have a rule of thumb named after you. You'll join the likes of Willi...

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The first cause couldn't have been something for that something would itself need a cause. Ergo, the first cause is nothing (0). Nothing can't cause a...

Questions 1. What is x? can be rephrased as 2. x is p OR x is q OR x is r OR x is... Metaphysical statements An example: 3. God exists Or God doesn't ...

That's exactly what the doctor ordered! :up:

Gettier problem, kind courtesy of Edmund Gettier. How do we know that all we know are not Gettier cases?

If one can demonstrate that change, any and all kinds of change, involves going from nothing (Unbeing) to something (Being), change is impossible. Ex ...

The opposite of that would be a nosey parker. We might wanna use the expresssion "mind your own business". Are you wishing for a celestial dictator? T...

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Epicurus was not completely right and he's becoming less and less right as time flies but, I fear, he'll be right on the money all at once again.

Still true but the previous statement was truer if I may say so. Still :confused: though. Nothing that you need to be concerned about, yet. Good day!

This does make a whole lot of sense! :confused:

What's the difference between a genius and a time traveler? One term for stupid people is troglodyte.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend (Arthashastra). I'm bad. Does this mean the Buddha is my friend? WTF?! :chin:

Was the K-Pg extinction event a mass suicide? Iridium layer at the K-Pg boundary is the smoking gun as regards dinsoaur extinction. Iridium has applic...

It seems Laozi was uninformed about geometric progressions: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,... Maybe he was talking about the exponents and not the terms.

Cartoonists/artists can make anything into a cartoon, including and not limited to Mohammed the prophet (PBUH); this at the risk of a fatwa from the g...

1. Panopticon 2. Closed-circuit television (CCTV) 3. Weeping Angels (Dr. Who). Ergo, 4. There's something immoral/bad about waves. The electron, which...

:up: Adam & Eve were evicted from the, ooooh!, garden of eden for disobeying. Yeah, gravity! We can fly of course but sooner or later we have to land ...

The word "thing" is, 1. A universal referent i.e. if the universe, universe in the broadest sense, is a set, the word "thing" refers to any and all me...

Argument from (personal) incredulity.. It's a short read.

The format for monisms: Everything is x You see some apples, apples! You see some apples & bananas, fruits! You see some apples, bananas and meat, foo...

A novel thought/idea!

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I play with a toy. I play with a Roy. I play. I slay.