This resonates with what I consider an impossible requirement to demonstrate/falsify free will viz. the necessity for omniscience. Since we need to kn...
Perhaps the comment reflects my ignorance. Nevertheless what I've noticed is there's "progress" in the discussions I see around here. People seem to g...
Isn't that why philosophers demand that we define our terms from the get go? I think the errors that lead to confusion are mostly committed by novices...
The point is there has to be some form of correspondence or agreement just as in in your example we see colors differently BUT the difference is unifo...
You're saying a perfect language is impossible but your argument actually implies language itself is impossible due to varibility of actual inner expe...
As someone already mentioned, the law of identity is not a metaphysical claim of absence of change because, as you rightly said, change is inescapable...
How do you account for the fact that the GR was independently and simultaneously developed by many cultures worldwide? A common thread must be uniting...
How do you know it's wrong? First of all the ''proof'' seems to have been reviewed and accepted by mathematicians. Second the result is useful in phys...
Of the many possible ways to approach your question, I'd like to point out that lies (shadows) can't add up to the truth (form). Another thing is Plat...
What are your views on the golden rule (GR)? It's supposedly universal in appeal, arising simultaneously or thereabouts in all cultures without any co...
You must be aware of the Holy Trinity paradox. The claim is that 1. Jesus is God and also 2. Jesus is NOT god If you accept 1 then ''Jesus is god'' is...
That could be but what is this overlapping common ground between various moral theories? I thought the main philosophical moral theories are mutually ...
Whichever one you prefer. I just want to find out which moral theory is ''most'' consistent IF consistency can be described in terms of having the lea...
You should watch the youtube proof of 1+2+3+4+...= -1/12. The above series is called divergent meaning it tends towards infinity. Yet using the Grandi...
I don't if this makes sense. It was once ''normal'' to think the Earth was flat. It was also ''normal'' to believe in witches. These are, as everyone ...
Indeed. Language can be a mode of self-analysis or just simply trying to express the ineffable. In such form semantics and syntax is less rigorous and...
Yes, you're right. Fear in itself isn't bad BUT what if you knew that a person was being good only because s/he didn't want to go to hell or prison? I...
That's a prescription and needs a theory to stand on. If I were to hazard a guess then one moral theory among the many has the least number of excepti...
Thanks. So computer languages are close to perfect languages in some sense. Lack of ambiguity in computer languages imply that we need more words but ...
So peace as we know it is empty of any moral content. It's all got to do with fear. Perhaps true and so much sadder. Humans are animals after all. Thi...
I remember you mentioning the Grandi series Grandi series: 1-1+1-1+1-1+... It's used to prove that 1+2+3+4+...= -1/12. Does the above have anything to...
Are we the standard by which we measure infinity? Isn't this like saying tortoises that live upto 300 years don't exist because humans only live upto ...
This is the flaw in our moral theories. Yet there's no global warfare. What keeps people from getting at each other's throats? Is it akin to nuclear d...
Thanks. I completely forgot about efficiency and the related cost. To have an efficient language that evolves naturally there'll be costs (errors) but...
I was trying to explain WHY there's peace, an indication of good moral principles, rather than chaos, an obvious consequence of a lack of morals. Isn'...
I think what you're saying is closely linked to the "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" idea. I think there's a parallel in Buddhist thou...
Probability (YOUR birth in year x)= P(you) = (Y or all births that can be identified as YOU)÷(T or total number of births) = Y/T T is increasing expon...
Peace is hard to maintain. Don't you think? Even on a place as big as Earth we have wars. What horrors could unfold in the confines of a spaceship? I'...
We all know how teaching/education fails even at the most basic levels. Isn't the world's problems not attributable to our failure to educate everyone...
The children of such travelers didn't choose to be space voyagers. In addition they may lack the skills necessary for the mission and that would be a ...
You say you can't conceive of a better design for the universe than we have but then you do - utopia/heaven. I'll accept your position only if you can...
The article openly declares Kant as an idealist, a label that's good in essence but has the negative connotation of impractical. One idealistic system...
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