TheMadFool

Please draw a Venn diagram. I'm talking about ALL fools

But... A fool is both a ''good'' friend and a foe. A fool is both at the same time. That's not possible because no friends are foes.

But the matter of insults, the response to them, are vague. Vagueness comes with the territory. I don't know how precise we can make the perception of...

You said statement 1 based on ''all'' men being labelled fools. I showed that statement 2 is also about ''all'' men. You didn't reply after that. How ...

A friend is not a foe and the converse is true. So, when a fool is both a "good" friend and foe, there's a paradox because friend and foe are mutually...

Yes, but friend and foe are contradictory.

I think human relationship is a spectrum between love(friend) and hate(foe). A fool has to constantly live with the contradiction: friend AND foe to a...

Ok but it's still not clear which statement's your choice and why.

Well, what do you suggest? What criteria do you think works here?

Thank you. You created another paradox but you didn't solve the fool's predicament.

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Existence is a property. One simple reason can be drawn from science. Entities are theorized, predicted and then sought for. Imagine a hypohetical par...

Ok. Morality is vague and ambiguous enough to preclude any definitive solution to my problem. Thanks for clearing that up. Can you think of another me...

Well, quantity is inherent in the statements, both of which contain ''ALL''. So, asking the question which is a bigger insult seems natural. Most peop...

Well, I too think my grasp of Russell's paradox isn't up to mark to continue the discussion into anything fruitful. As for time being involved in logi...

You're wrong. Sentential logic is ''stuck'' at one instant in time or else the law of noncontradiction doesn't make sense. Russell's paradox is totall...

:D I knew I was sailing into unknown territory. Anyway, be lenient. A: The set of all sets that don't contain itself. Does A contain itself? Yes/No? Y...

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(Y) Thanks for the inspiring poem.

(Y) Well, looks like we need a different metric to answer my question. Can you think of another way to decide which is more insulting, 1 or 2?

Imagine yourself an American. Take the two statements below: 1. All Americans are pedophiles 2. All pedophiles are Americans According to you, 1 is mo...

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IF you assume that ''set contains itself'' and ''the set doesn't contain itself'' imply each other THEN we have a contradiction. But contradictions ar...

Another way to look at it. Yes.

Diversity breeds conflict. Look at the natural word. Diversity: prey - predator. I think there's a good reason why birds of a feather flock together. ...

Exactly. But the liar statement can't be false, because if it is, then it's true. So, it can't be a contradiction, because contradictions are false.

The same reasoning applies to Russell's paradox. A) The set of all sets that doesn't contain itself. B) If it contains itself, then it doesn't contain...

Can you make it clearer. Thanks.

It does. The statements ''I'm hungry'' and ''I'm not hungry'' contradict each other if made at the same time. However, as we all know, everyday, at di...

Sorry, I made the correction but it does apply to Russell's paradox too (I think).

How then are you going to set your goals in Prutopia?

Goodness doesn't require misfortune/badness. If you insist it does, can you explain a bit more?

It's ok. Thanks

To me, both statements insult ALL men. ''All men are fools'' insults ALL men directly. It's like calling your entire family foolish. ''All fools are m...

Yes, I know right.

:) Sorry. There's truth in what you said. There are many sides to an issue. You were right in saying that my moral take on the issue doesn't provide a...

1)Do you feel insulted if I call you a fool? Yes. 2)Do you feel insulted if I call your mother a fool? Yes. Which is a bigger insult? Similarly... A)A...

This is what I was referring to but this is only partially relevant. Your Prutopia must be sustainable on some basis. Your objective is happiness. Wha...

If everything can be read both ways, there's nothing to pin decision on. In a way, my OP is similar. We can't decide. Paralysis ensues and no thought/...

(Y) Drink but don't Drive. Your analysis is too, let's say, poetic. It's good - makes sense but it's romantic - impractical. I learned something new t...

Here's my problem. To me, both statements are equally insulting. Statement 1 does it directly to ALL men (doesn't require the feeling of belonging or ...

Well, I don't know where philosophy comes in. Perhaps its more about psychology, decision theory, morality. Anyway... 1. All men are fools is insultin...

I think we need to rethink the notion of Utopia or Prutopia. Is it really about happiness? Me thinks the heirarchy of needs is still not clear enough ...

Well... Free Will Free will is inseparably tied to the notion of choice. Remove choice and free will is meaningless. Since choice-making is programmab...

I see. But ''all fools are men'' say that the entire class of fools is included in the class of men. I don't know how to word this but what if I were ...

Ok, but I'd like you to look at the problem as a man, a class, not as an individual.

Ok but that still leaves the door wide open for personal bias to creep in, shaping the uncertainty that you mention into well-formed beliefs.

Indeed, our whole lives are predicated on free will - we're responsible for our actions. That's why the justice system, and morality as a whole exist....

Is that a categorically true statement? No, because it's impossible to know we aren't programmed. Think of God as the programmer and the human mind as...

The point is choice-making is programmable. That nullifies the discriminating power of human ability to choose to make the distinction free will as op...