TheMadFool

The bias is still prevalent so no, not "ancient" but very much alive and kicking two-thirds of the world still hates lefties dated 2013

I guess an explanation for Zeno's paradox would apply here. A convergent infinite series.

If we take time to be on a number line how many points of time are there between 1976 and 2019? Infinite, unless you want to invoke Planck time?

I wonder what Leibniz meant. I read the wikipedia article on the PSR and Leibniz claims that necessary truths are those whose denial leads to a contra...

Sorry if my OP is poorly constructed. I posted it in The Lounge for a reason. It wasn't meant as a joke and I did a little bit of research. Here's a l...

That could be it. How do you then account for the following: Mr x (1976 to 2019). x has to first reach 1997 and before that he has to reach 1986 and b...

You should be happy your "relative" wins the race and puts the Greeks to shame. :smile: Anyway do you have any idea where I f***ed up in my reasoning?...

I was talking about the tortoise and Achilles paradox and a cousin responded. Coincidence! Strange.

Strangely Terrapin is a type of turtle.

Ok. That's really weird. Anyway what is ineffable in my post?

You're right unless time as we experience it is simply a subset of something even bigger.

Thanks a lot. I ask because in the wikipedia article on the philosophical investigations they say that Wittgenstein was inspired by Piero Saffra. Howe...

Hi. What do you think? Was the seed of Wittgenstein's language game present in Frege's CP? It looks very similar and to me the latter can be understoo...

A very good question. I personally felt that anitnatalism was too hardline a position. It ignores a good chunk of people who are "happy". It turns out...

Once there's a community, whether in dreams or reality, there is no private language. As defined, a private language has only ONE user. If wikipedia i...

1) It is possible for an omniscient being to know other minds exist. So omniscience doesn't lead to solipsism. 2) Solipsism arises from doubt and so s...

But it's not necessary for there to be no other minds. An omniscient being may come to know other minds exist.

How's omniscience related to solipsism? From what I can see solipsism is born from not knowing rather than knowing. You may be referring to hardline s...

As you can see the solipsist view stems from doubt that the question "do other minds exist?" clearly demonstrates. I don't see how that questioning mi...

I guess it's like going shopping. There are a lot of items in the market and, for instance, you can buy shoes from your local store or from an outlet ...

What other method would you choose to describe how a heap of sand stops being a heap? Isn't it the number of sand grains in a collection that determin...

Why can't a solipsist doubt? The answer to that question is crucial to your argument, right?

Thanks for the reply. I haven't read any philosophical work on humor but one thing I find relevant to your question is that some (most/all???) people ...

Heraclitus (weeping philosopher) (535 BCE - 475 BCE) Democritus (laughing philosopher) (460 BCE - 370 BCE) Can you tell me why two philosophers from t...

An interesting aspect of the heap paradox is that, as all you have pointed out, is incommensurability is an issue. The term ''heap'' in common usage d...

This is a good point. Clarity or precision may ease the pain of argumentation but it may be impossible or even undesirable to remove vagueness from di...

Oh I get it. As you rightly pointed out we could study the issue statistically and average the answer but what is unambiguous to ALL is the starting p...

Can you expand on that? Kindly rephrase this. I couldn't understand. Also can you comment on the multiple observations requirement for objectivity vis...

Thank you very much for the Andrei Linde video. I'm still trying to understand the content but very thought provoking. I agree with what you said. I w...

This is very deep and disturbing. Deep because why then should we favor one theory over the other since the criteria for discrimination can't be truth...

Ok. Thanks. :smile:

That makes sense but the definition of "heap" in this case would be private and others will probably disagree with you.

So, the necessity of multiple observations for objective is in the domain of fuzzy logic? Can you explain further? My problem is how can a bunch of li...

Two sides to the coin. Heads: The laughing philosopher Democritus Tails: The weeping philosopher Heraclitus Seriously speaking there's so much pain in...

May be :smile:

Sorry for quoting you without permission. Your comparison of psychoanalysis and science is very illuminating. The former is much like a self-sealing t...

https://youtu.be/UOLBTRazZpM :razz:

These aren't last on a to-do list. To be fair though I think people differ from each other quite significantly so that no two to-do lists will ever ma...

I don't know how to explain this but all cases of suicide are a last resort i.e. people who take their own lives are left with no choice. If everyone ...

Sorry it seems like I swung to the other extreme. It isn't murder per se. What I meant was suicide has an external cause and to focus only on the self...

I thought identifying the true cause of a problem leads to a better solution. Much of the discussions on suicide are about the apparent paradox of sel...

\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}i=-\frac{1}{12} edit (fdrake): \sum, it's a command.

I think one needs to look more closely into the issue. I'm especially concerned about the word "suicide" which means killing oneself . Why is this imp...

Correct. I was just pointing out the flaw in the OP argument which is that the finite can't explain itself; it's an open question that has no satisfac...

1+2+3+4+...= -\frac{1}{12} \frac{1}{12}

Your main argument is: 1. A finite entity can't explain itself So, 2. There exists an infinite entity (God) that explains all finite entities I though...

What you say is very important. Everything humans do, from sex to rarified thoughts, can be reduced (sorry @"Bitter Crank") to the pleasure principle....

Thinking alone can be done by machines. What is important is a heart that tempers thinking in the right direction. This is probably a naive outlook an...

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