TheMadFool

I thought I might just update my relationship status with revelation.

So it would seem...so it would seem. I follow, more accurately try to follow (I'm not sure) in the footsteps of (is that the right expression?) Pyrrho...

Is velocity a true physical quantity? If time is unreal what are colors and sounds, these phenomena being defined in terms of time (Hertz)? In a Timel...

What's the speed of a car that travels a distance of 45 km? Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Answer: The electron is negatively charged. ...

Perhaps God suffers from multiple personality disorder and quite possibly it isn't a disorder. Check out how one actor plays many parts over a lifetim...

Here's what I think is going on. Kurt Gödel (mathematician, logician) was supposed to have confided to Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist) that th...

Best introductory philosophy book?

Methinks the relation between metaphysics and epistemology has all to do with the correspondence theory of truth, the dominant idea on what truth is. ...

Recruitment Officer: Mr. Forester… you’ve been elevated to Active-2 status. Forester: What? Recruitment Officer: You meet all requirements for conscri...

Update Ludwig Wittgenstein: Meaning is use. Check. Therefore, I can use words as signs to refer to things, their essences. In other words, philosophy ...

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@"T Clark" Why are metaphysics and epistemology grouped together?

I classify thinking in the following way: 1. Logical (consistent) 2. Illogical (inconsistent) 2. Alogical (neither consistent nor inconsistent) A stat...

:up: Righteous anger! :chin: If everything has a reason (the principle of sufficient reason), then so-called negative emotions, our dark side in gener...

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:chin: So, in what sense do you accept metaphysical claims. I have some idea of what that would look like :point: You'll have to explain what you mean...

Metaphysical claims can't be true or false, you say. Scientific antirealism is the view that science should refrain from making metaphysical claims, i...

I can't seem to parse this sentence. What do you mean "faith in god is unassailable by logic"? In my book it means "faith in god" is illogical and tha...

Something unscientific and illogical about God perhaps. That is to say what is unscientific is illogical and that which is illogical is unscientific. ...

Ah! I should've pressed the icon and dug a little deeper into the feature. So, Digital Wellbeing basically provides an overview of how you've used the...

You're espousing scientific antirealism - that science doesn't/shouldn't resort to making metaphysical claims which would be the case if scientists sa...

I don't quite understand your point. What exactly do you mean by '"Good" and "Evil" aren't things"? As far as I can tell they're qualities. I recall l...

Does the "fact" that good and evil are just concepts have any consequences that I/we should be worried about? Since these are just concepts, am I now ...

How does that make reifying relevant? Where did I go wrong?

So, God's just a concept! :ok:

I like Yuval Noah Harari's (Israeli historian) views on monotheism. It, simply put, makes zero sense. How can one entity (God) be the source of , grab...

Some times we must give up our freedom for life. Sometimes we must give up our life for freedom. Tough call! Don't expect an easy answer.

I was exploring the features of my uncle's smartphone and happened to come across Digital Wellbeing! Anyone know what that means?

@"Benj96" With respect to Kant's phenomena, yes but in re noumena, I don't know.

There is nothing money or power can't buy or acquire and that includes "love" but @"tim wood" would caution caveat emptor. There's a reason I suppose ...

@"Ash Abadear" Complex question fallacy. What if all this which we call something is actually nothing? :point: ??nyat? For everything there is somebod...

Recruitment officer: We need soldiers! Draftee: What's the qualification? A heartbeat?

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:ok: I defer to your better judgment!

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Update Wittgenstein's Ladder Dsp skzliwl wqstm qpiterd! I feel like a...

Update The Rule-Following Paradox 1. There's a rule: Anything goes (the rule is never violated) 2. There's no rule: Anything goes (there is no rule to...

Private Language Argument (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy). Somewhere in that article is a very important sentence that states that no one really...

I've been outed. :blush:

@"Antony Nickles" @"Banno" By grammar, my hunch is, Wittgenstein is talking about the rules of a given language game. However none of the articles I r...

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If you're right people should be saying things like "I have a headache" or "I have a stomachache" even when they don't. After all, according to you, n...

Iraq WMD \rightarrowIraq War Is there a pattern here or is it just me?

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Where the universe = c, The universe exists = (\exists x)(Ux \wedge x = c) The universe does not exist = (\forall x) \neg(Ux \wedge x = c)

Where Ux = x is a universe, C = A universe exists = (\exists x)(Ux) ~C = No universes exist = (\forall x)(\neg Ux)

@"Wayfarer" This, I suspect, is your interpretation. From what I read from SEP, no one seems to have a handle on what Wittgenstein really meant to con...