TheMadFool

Yes.

Yes, I agree. Questions needn't be symbolized. Do you think non-symbolic (non-linguistic) inquiry is better/worse than having language-based questions...

But a game can't be played before we've learned the rules.

Hi, I need help with this argument. The explicit form of the argument is given below: 1. God is the greatest being imaginable 2. If God is the greates...

(Y) sorry. No offence intended. There's a thin line between fact and insult.

(Y) Their sharp fangs made me think of other things.

Choice is prior to rationality. Step 1: We want x Step 2: We use rationality to acquire/achieve x Rationality isn't against choice/free will. We use r...

Rationality needs motivation. You have your likes and only after do you use rationality to acquire what you like. You liked this forum. Sure you had y...

This is a very good question. I have to say I was very close to asking this question myself but it wasn't as clear to me as it is to you. Rationality ...

There may not be a destination. That's frightening isn't it? To realize that all one's beliefs amount to zero.

I wish I had your conviction. I was and always was in a perpetual state of doubt. Even things like 2+2=4 is to me simply an allegation needing some ki...

Please do. Thank you

My doubt is whether or not we understand nonexistence. My emotional response to it can be construed in two ways. 1. I understood it because what one d...

We do. We use variations of the existing 7 questions to form new questions daily. However, I'm looking for an entirely new type of question - somethin...

You're right. War was an option in the past - expansionism and colonialism happened and were maintained through war. Now, war is a last resort.

Sorry, no.

Very interesting.

But you will agree there's a difference of degrees between animal and human thinking. Human reasoning is more abstract than animals. Animals make infe...

It's not about infinite steps. You can't make the first step. To move a distance of 1 meter you must first move .5 meters. To move .5 meters you have ...

A reason in the logical sense. Are the seven questions we know enough to make sense of reality? Can another door to knowledge be opened by adding anot...

Please explain how Zeno's paradox is solved.

Give me one example of an animal asking the question ''why?'' I'm looking for constructive criticism. Something that'll throw some light into matter. ...

Help me phrase it better.

It's not the case that ALL animals are self-aware. I've never seen an animal ask ''why?''

I did say one reason could be linguistic convenience or ease of communication. However, you can't deny that questions like ''who?'' and ''why?'' requi...

I presented my views on the matter. I could be wrong of course. As @"StreetlightX" said we may not be able to untangle the questions into distinct evo...

I call upon Newton's third law and Locard's principle of exchange. Any interaction between two objects, people in your case, involves an exchange. It ...

Nothing is nonexistence and so there's nothing to change. Right. You're making sense to me. However, I don't understand how nothing can exist.

How are you dividing human history? If you do it in small chunks then it's quite obvious you'll see periods of peace and war. Do it in large sections ...

It looks quite complex. There seems to be certain other factors in the fray. Anyway, as you said and I agree, questions like ''where?'', ''who?'' have...

:D...that's funny.

The paradox hasn't be resolved. Contradictions are worse than contraries.

But ''where?'' can be reduced to ''what is the location?'' It doesn't work the other way does it? If that's important to you can you frame a question ...

Actually, if a miracle is defined as a suspension of natural law as we understand it then there isn't a good reason that their occurrence is impossibl...

A book on logic I read says that there isn't such a thing as a circular argument. According to the book, an argument requires at least two different s...

It's my understanding that any logical system developed must be useful in the sense that it can find truths about the world. I agree that we can arbit...

I just wanted to show the OP that contradictions aren't impossible.

Zeno's paradoxes Theism vs Atheism...Materialism vs Idealism...etc. Yes, the current state of logic doesn't allow contradictions but people have devel...

Speaking for myself, I think logic is derived from the world outside. I've read a few books on logic and all of them make a similar point - that logic...

I only want to point to the NOTHINGness of the time before we were born. Perhaps contemplating that state of NOTHING will give us insight into what NO...

That's it. An axiom that mustn't lead to contradictions can't be "ad hoc".

I like to think of sentience as having two components. I don't know if they're related but, to me, they deserve separate categories. They are: 1. Self...

We defy logic all the time. See Zeno's paradox. Moving between two points is logically impossible but we do it without a batting an eye. Another thing...

Google definition of Axiom (emphasis mine): a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true. So, a...

Well, everything can be taken to be a game. Doesn't that make ''logic is a game'' a pointless expression?

Good point. Look at it this way. We have the word ''gravity''. It points to a physical phenomenon which I will approximate as an attractive force betw...

Axioms are, by definition, without logical support BUT they have to be obviously true. ''Ad hoc'' sounds too much like a game and logic, as enjoyable ...

The definition of delusion is so framed as to exclude religion from being a mental illness. I don't know how justified that is but it is clear that th...

Well, the axiomatic approach is a foundation of logic and mathematics I think. It works. Can you rephrase this. I didn't understand. Think of it. In a...

Isn't this altruism?