Ok, let's agree that the definition of the word "religion" is stipulative, but that's not anything to worry about is it? As long as you agree that wor...
As far as I can tell, this: When we closely examine certain things, similarities and differences will be noticed. We can use the former to construct g...
Cries of pain are usually high-pitched (yelping dogs) and, from what I know, infants of most animals tend to vocalize in that acoustic frequency range...
I must stress on the fact that we don't, as you seem to believe, stipulate definitions. We examine certain objects (physical/mental) and look for simi...
If it were upto me, I'd not compromise with my definition, which as I said is based on observed shared features, for to do so would wreak havoc in phi...
When you identify a category/class, you do so by observing a motif/pattern/commonality among the members of that category/class. i.e. this is not arbi...
The word "woman" is as old as the hills. Perhaps we should look into what kinda data our ancestors were using to define "woman". My hunch is that to t...
Well, the truth is, we can develop a criterion for philosophy of religion and utilize it to guide threads and dicussions. It's just that questions tha...
The OP provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the boundaries of religion. Much like how philosophers of science and scientists did with scie...
The information processor is, to my reckoning, generic i.e. nothing about it identifies an individual as distinct from another. If we all think logica...
Here's another way of approaching the Christian Trinity. I call it the credit/blame theory and it goes something like this: If something good is Chris...
what is a book? Doesn't it amount to uploading one's thoughts onto the worldwide booknet? A mind is identified with its contents (ideas, weltanschauun...
I recall making an argument that the fact that people think it's possible for reality as we know it to be an illusion (simulation) implies that the re...
Good question? Clinically depressed individuals (Buddha may have been one) probably swing to the other extreme - from unbearable suffering to an unqen...
It is possible (to transcend the hedonism trap); so, why not? People do it, at a much smaller scale, in the form of sacrificing short-term pleasure fo...
There have been no reports of a feminine interpretation of texts nor of womanly solutions to problems. This could, of course, be a personal shortcomin...
So, a mind-generated illusion it all is? Sounds plausible; only it seems to deny reality as it appears to us. Do we have a good reason to reject/doubt...
Perhaps there are enough white balls and enough black balls in this bag we call life to justify both claims of whiteness and blackness. As usual, it d...
We can make educated guesses: Worms probably have touch/pressure/pain receptors just like us. It's usually easier to get an idea of how lower life-for...
Why not, instead of a view from nowhere, a view from everywhere? So, instead of kvetching about how inadequate any particular perspective is, we could...
What about if we look at it through a moral, hedonically moral, lens? Shouldn't the world ought to have been in a way that's pleasing to us? Why are w...
Funny, I wanted to ask a question along the same lines: Which is better, that there are no objective truths or that there are? In other words, is obje...
I dunno! I see no reason why it can't unless, of course, there's a limit to memory and computational power. There must be, ja? :chin: I'm sure someone...
Who knows what things like rejection/acceptance, suffering/joy will do to you. I believe all those positive spins people give to misery are just attem...
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