TheMadFool

Thanks!

Thanks! :up:

:rofl: You make me laugh!

I'll leave you with two English adages: 1. The more the merrier! or Two heads are better than one! 2. Too many cooks spoil the broth! Two seems to hit...

It's good to have more choices but sometimes it's better to have fewer choices. There must be a Greek myth that deals with the problem of infinite cho...

:smile: So the rule is if you disagree with someone, that someone is being irrational. I get it! You've missed the point, haven't you?

What do you make of India's multi-party democracy? It seems completely bogged down by communalism, religious intolerance, ethnic & caste differences, ...

:up: There's x and there's what someone could do with x. Both seem critical to justice.

What do you think is wrong with it (what I said)?

Heraclitus wasn't blind to the fact that, for example, in a small stream, the form - the location and size of the wavelets on its surface - doesn't ch...

I'm using reason, you've put your faith in authority (Einstein). I'm 100% certain Einstein would've disapproved.

Suppose something, say x, is possible. Then x becomes actual. There's a transition from the possible to the actual and this, in the existing paradigm,...

Isn't that a problem? If a theory is compatible with "whatever", does it even matter that there's a theory at all? I don't think it's a blunder :point...

How does what I said score on the plausibility scale?

How will/can consequentialists predict the future?

Frankly, I don't understand why the US makes such a big deal of China's one-party system. Like Christopher Hitchens once remarked about monotheism - t...

Anything goes then?

There are only two parties in American democracy for the simple reason that those who created it realized, much to our benefit, that given any issue, ...

The point is that the Doppler effect is unable to tell the difference between galaxies moving and space expanding. You can't claim that the earth is "...

Fine.

You need to go over what you said above carefully, specifically the parts underlined. There's a difference between the two statements: 1. A metaphysic...

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I'm of similar persuasion. It's hard for me to tell whether justice or evil (injustice) - both seem to have the same modus operandi which is to inflic...

What I've noticed about how people in general tackle a problem is that at first they try to solve it by themselves and when that turns out to be too d...

The DNA replication paradox 1. To maintain a good trait, its replication must be hi-fi. 2. To develop a better trait, it's replication must not be hi-...

The self-replicating paradox The DNA molecule copies itself faithfully with probably one error in a billion replication cycles. Yet, children are not ...

Two problems are more than I can handle. I don't want a third or fourth or a fifth...

@"Wayfarer" Does this pain and death then it's real] make sense? I ask because these (pain & death) are the purported distinguishing features of the r...

The difficulty lies in the way existence/real has been defined - in physical terms (detectable with our senses/instruments + causally potent in the ph...

Linguistic analysis of @"T Clark" metaphysics 1. A statement/proposition is a sentence that's either true or false. 2. Not all sentences have to be tr...

@"T Clark" & @"Banno" I guess your point is truth is not the only game in town. So, the natural question is, what else, if not truth, matters? Banno m...

So, the two metaphysical claims below are both true? 1. God exists 2. God doesn't exist ?

Yup! The choices are: 1. Slavery: Do what you're supposed to do. Don't even think about asking questions Or 2. Freedom: Do what you please. Interestin...

You mean true/false, right? Of course if this is some kind of Gödelian move, I'm willing to get on board.

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Indeed! However what's the best course of action when you don't know if a proposition is true or false? Assuming it's false seems more reasonable than...

Who's to say some of us haven't already done so? You wouldn't recognize such people even if they hit you in the face

A realistic scenario "That's impossible! It cannot be Smith who did this." "Then who did it?" "It has to be Brown!"

When it comes to metaphysics, a pulchra mendacium (beautiful lie) is acceptable and maybe even desirable/preferrable à la gennaion pseudos (noble lie)...

What is reality to you? Why didn't Aristotle, the father of metaphysics, not make a Kantian-like distinction between noumena and phenomena?After all i...

Don't forget to include me in your reply after you've thought things through. 1. Non-propositions are neither true nor false. 2. Metaphysical claims a...

I recall my college days - when my professors wanted to cull the herd in a manner of speaking, the exam questions were decidely harder.

I'd rather not! Sorry.

Ne quid nimis (Nothing in excess) & Dosis sola facit venenum (The dose makes the poison) but then there are some things so toxic that botulinum with a...

Insofar as morality is concerned, yes, it's got a lot to do with intuition - that's the only possible explanation why we don't have a logically rigoro...

@"T Clark" Let's, arguendo, agree that you're right and metaphysical claims, for reasons we need to be informed of, can't be true/false. The following...

Philosophy 1. Epistemology 2. Logic 3. Ethics 4. Metaphysics Metaphysics 1. Existence 2. Objects & their properties 3. Space & Time 4. Cause & Effect ...

Good & Evil are, all said and done, joy & sorrow. The scope of morality extends in all directions, like a ripple it expands outwards. In one sense, br...

There are 10 dimensions, dimensions understood as the minimum information required to pinpoint an event. 1. What happened? 2. Where did it happen? (3D...