TheMadFool

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What if 4. is changed to "I don't believe in free will"? We would then be forced to conclude that we don't have free will. Whatever we believe seems t...

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One of Kant's moral maxims is to never treat another person solely as a means to an end or to treat other people, just as you consider yourself to be,...

Indeed, it may seem the rot can be traced back to the radix; fanatics are known to recite verses word for word from the holy books to justify their at...

Needs and wants - to the extent that the wants of some are satisfied by using others as a means to that end, in the process preventing the needs of th...

Mine's just a shot in the dark.

From the perspective of a high school physics 20 years old and odd bits of physics knowledge, this is an insightful remark. The gravity of even superm...

Forget that I asked. Thank you.

Oh. :rofl: it's great to know someone who values truth and consistency.

I wonder if the answers actually differ as they appear to in our eyes. Is one true and the other false or are they just different points of view? Thus...

Is it a conspiracy theory? No truth? Not even a teensy weensy bit? You needn't answer.

I don'tt believe, or perhaps am reluctant to accept, that the "unobservable, ineffable and supernatural causes" is "only accessible by faith". If one ...

I have no idea. Nevertheles, if Godel was right, it exists, waiting to be discovered by a person who means business as far as making faerself an absol...

Well, I was hoping you'd say the error in the answer was less important than the question itself.

Perhaps if we come at this from a Q & A perspective, it'll leave us with a different impression. The Q, the question, is simply, "whence all this?" Th...

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Yes, one's preferences do decide what are needs and what are wants but the list of needs in your OP represents a universal truth insofar as needs are ...

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Sorry. I'm too ignorant to make a sensible comment on the US constitution and the Bill of Rights. All I know is Kurt Godel, the mathematician, is beli...

As far as I can tell, naturalism seems the most reasonable point of view for anyone to assume as a worldview. Why? You may ask. For the simple reason ...

I'm relying on your ability to discern a difference between statements like "ants bite" and "ants swarm" for you to see my point. "Ants bite" means th...

The problem I see re corruption and religion is that the latter is about submission to a higher power and this acts as a magnet to politicians and sta...

Would you agree that certain aspects of a belief system, like associated claims of exclusive rights to the truth and infallibility make them easier to...

Ok. Thanks.

Absolutely, I don't deny that needs come before wants. All I'm trying to get across is that they differ only in degree and not in kind. Basically, wan...

I don't know how a person changes between living in a small hut and living in 300 bedroom mansion? Both are shelter, right?

I don't know why people ask for more. It just dawned on me that there really is no difference between wants and needs, not at least in ways that would...

I'm not the right person to answer this question. Sorry.

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I need some air.

I thought the idea behind no self was that there is nothing that endures, both in life and also beyond death, especially in the sense of a self that's...

These are contradictions and should prompt you to trace it back to some premise(s) in your argument. I did that with my argument and it went back to t...

Why is it nonsensical? The reason why will lead you to the conclusion that nothing, that which is nothingness, is impossible.

I seem to have overlooked the dark side of atheism but I don't think atheism per se flips a switch inside our heads that make us go from peace loving,...

This is true but, in my humble opinion, the good work done in these cases stand in stark contrast to and is sadly undone by what religion did later on...

:rofl: I'm the dumbest there is.

How about if I put it this way: Set E = set of existing things If I say that existing things exist then it's a tautology alright for existing things m...

Well, some values, once established to be worthy, may need to be preserved for the next generation, no? For example, the value of a life seems, despit...

Well, there's the definition of existence and then there are existing things. Existence, to my knowledge means perceivable by the senses and all thing...

Well, I'm just a novice so bear with me. The whole idea of avoiding the situation thall all propositions are true is to avoid the truth of contradicti...

No, I don't believe religion should be banned but what worries me is that if philosophy has discovered anything, it's is that there's no such thing as...

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I assume, with good reason, that you're more knowledgeable than me on this issue. You were kind enough to point out whether the statement "all things ...

Happiness has two aspects viz. 1. Pleasure and our desire to seek it 2. Pain and our desire to avoid it *Relatively speaking, pleasure is a want and a...

I'll go with your example ~D = It's false that I'm currently in Indonesia So, you're saying ~D is true or that D is false Consider now paraconsistent ...

How would you demonstrate that not all propositions are true? Anyway why did you say: ???:chin:

Well, since you don't think every proposition is true then suppose you think proposition P is false. Then ~P would be true, right? What do you then ma...

You're ignoring an essential part of the definition of happiness viz. the avoidance of pain. This isn't something you can apply your method to, for it...