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A worthy challenge for an educator worth his salt, don't you think? :grin:
October 02, 2020 at 10:02
More or less, yes. Pessimism, in fact it's actually being realistic, is an underlying message in Buddhism. All philosophies that recommend making chan...
October 02, 2020 at 10:01
That's precisely the problem. I once drew analogy between the belief that more observers increase the likelihood of an observation being real and a gr...
October 02, 2020 at 04:55
To the three of you: I'll attempt a simple proof of why we should be pessimists and why life is suffering. Happiness is, by and large, associated with...
October 02, 2020 at 04:34
It's not that there's failure in categorization of possible and impossible. You're using human logic to try and comprehend this particular aspect of d...
October 01, 2020 at 01:50
:ok: Good question. The law of noncontradiction is the right choice if the objective is to do something impossible. 1. If there is omnipotence then th...
October 01, 2020 at 00:59
There are more ways to suffer than there are ways to be happy. All things being equal, you're likely to experience more suffering than happiness. All ...
October 01, 2020 at 00:45
A Hobson's choice then. The issue is about observations, whether they're real or not. Hypothesizing comes much later on. If one must talk of hypothesi...
October 01, 2020 at 00:21
ask @"180 Proof" about how pessimism is the only realistic attitude to adopt. Hint: entropy. Always indebted to you 180 Proof. As I mentioned in a pre...
October 01, 2020 at 00:11
The essence of Buddhism is rational analysis and in that it resembles science.
September 30, 2020 at 22:28
If you'll allow me to reframe the question: Which of the existing religions is closest to the spirit of philosophy? Perhaps the star of Buddhism's phi...
September 30, 2020 at 22:23
Possible. Very possible.
September 30, 2020 at 22:18
Intersubjectivity? :chin:
September 30, 2020 at 22:15
The 4 noble truths: 1. Life is suffering 2. Craving is the cause of suffering Ergo, 3. To end suffering, one must end craving 4. The 8-fold path is a ...
September 30, 2020 at 22:13
How do we define philosophy and religion? The heart of philosophy is critical thinking and Buddhism meets that condition in being both based on facts ...
September 30, 2020 at 21:23
That would be the wrong thing to do. Landing on a side is more likely.
September 30, 2020 at 21:06
I'm mainly concerned about objectivity and how there's the principle of repeatability that lies at its foundation.
September 30, 2020 at 20:47
I don't know the probability values for the outcomes. How did you get that number?
September 30, 2020 at 20:45
Me to not be is to not suffer, see And to be is to suffer, me Yet to suffer is to death fear To ask not to be To be suffering free Is to ask for water...
September 30, 2020 at 20:35
There are two sides and one edge.
September 30, 2020 at 20:07
You've gone past a checkpoint without completimg the necessary formalities. The first and foremost concern is whether an observation is real or not. U...
September 30, 2020 at 19:19
Pleasant, love and compassion Unpleasant, anger, hate, envy and depression Look around and it's clear to see Much to anger, hate, and envy Try hard an...
September 30, 2020 at 18:46
I think it's safe to say that when we talk of god's omnipotence the gold standard for that should be the ability to defy the law of non-contradiction ...
September 30, 2020 at 17:39
As you rightly pointed out, if you flip a real coin the chance that it'll land on its edge is not zero. The edge of a coin is part of the probability ...
September 30, 2020 at 17:19
This is not how probability calculus works. As far as I can tell there's no edge (third option) between real and not real. Good response! However, thi...
September 30, 2020 at 16:30
The word "this" suggests it is; after all, "this" is the post itself. However, that the sentence is an interrogative is interesting because it breathe...
September 30, 2020 at 14:54
A case can be made that it might simplify things.
September 30, 2020 at 09:55
To tell you the truth, calligraphy evolved only after the basics of writing was mastered. Rhetoric is an embellishment, a decorative touch, added to w...
September 30, 2020 at 09:35
Who won't fall in love with digital characters?
September 30, 2020 at 09:18
I don't know. It's too early to tell whether it's true that all falsehoods are bad and that all truths are good, good and bad in re survival that is b...
September 30, 2020 at 09:16
Roy Davies' Fallacy or The Analogical Fallacy: This fallacy is committed when one sees something in common between two things and concluding both must...
September 30, 2020 at 09:10
By true ideas I mean those that are aligned to truths/facts about our world. As an example germ theory is an idea that's true in the sense it seems to...
September 30, 2020 at 08:53
It makes sense to contextualize ideas in evolutionary terms. After all, ideas either make or break us and that being the case ideas would naturally al...
September 30, 2020 at 07:16
The suicidal premise: All living things that commit suicide are humans This implies, if nothing else, that taking one's own life has something to do w...
September 29, 2020 at 09:58
Where is evolution in all this? In my humble opinion, evolution is the real mastermind behind all this manipulation - social media being merely the ti...
September 29, 2020 at 09:43
] Too bad. Thanks!
September 29, 2020 at 09:28
There are two truths to consider: 1. All living things that commit suicide are humans 2. Some humans are not living things that commit suicide Maybe t...
September 29, 2020 at 07:13
That's quite an elaborate description of how brain function has been studied. Thanks. My problem is this: the brain is a chinese room for just as the ...
September 29, 2020 at 05:26
Yes, it's not a complete refutation of Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles. As I said, it's a special case. @"tim wood" said something along those li...
September 29, 2020 at 04:55
:up: You're missing the point. It's not the practical impossibility of two objects possessing the exact same attributes that's the issue. What needs t...
September 29, 2020 at 03:17
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September 29, 2020 at 02:54
Mind if I pick your brain a little bit on this matter because what you say doesn't jibe with facts as they stand? There's the general impression peopl...
September 29, 2020 at 02:43
I think it would be weirder if you weren't afraid . It's probably unlikely that we're the only ones capable of snuffing out all life on earth but we'r...
September 28, 2020 at 16:33
That's something to chew on. Thanks.
September 28, 2020 at 16:15
Death is deeply linked to justice. Apart from the fact that the death penalty is legal entity still in force in many parts of the world, religion is a...
September 28, 2020 at 15:35
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I'm afraid there is no real world other than this world no matter how deeply flawed it is. Also, philosophers are people too.
September 28, 2020 at 14:27
You have a point but you do know that love triangles are abstractions - it's a pattern in the many kinds of relationships between men and women. The t...
September 28, 2020 at 14:17
It doesn't work like that. All that's true of X must also be true of Y and only then is 2. the identity of indiscernibles applies. The rest of what yo...
September 28, 2020 at 14:12
I'm no linguist but I believe there are syntactic rules that govern all languages - these are computable i.e. can be reduced to an algorithm. Semantic...
September 28, 2020 at 13:31
I've been relying on the wisdom of the crowd all along. It's no secret that people have the notion of premature death or untimely death. Some of us, p...
September 28, 2020 at 13:10