As for me, sophistry has to be differentiated from rhetoric. The former is deception - a Pandora's box - the latter is beautification - beauty/aesthet...
That's like summarizing the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in one paragraph! The Gateway to Marvels, you are, kind sir/madam as the case may be. You'r...
:brow: Intriguing questions. If you want to prove that such events couldn't have/can't occur, you might wanna check whether it makes for a side-splitt...
A tad defeatist. Immanuel Kant, who once said that science isn't your run-of-the-mill question & answer session, but actually an interrogation of natu...
What (I think) I know: Entropy gives time direction. The rule looks to be rather simple: If you're told the entropy is x at time T1, y at time T2 and ...
Have you come across Ietsism/Somethingism - it's just acknowledging one's vague feelings that this (the world as physical) can't be it, there's gotta ...
There are arguments whose conclusions are paradoxes. Check out Wikipedia or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, etc. That's all of us Philosophim...
Why shoulldn't the Biblia Sacra be considered a(n) (unsually long) Zen koan? If I were a Zen master ( :smile: ), I would tell my pupils/disciples/stud...
Paradoxes, real ones (p & ~p), are a problem iff disjunction introduction/addition is allowed (ex falso quodlibet). That is to say, classical logic ha...
:smile: Good day. I just learned that word, about 2 hours ago (technical term in medicine it is). You got it right! Kudos. I managed to make some prog...
Who are we kidding? We're monkeys I mean apes! Tutankhamen, Megan Fox, Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Ted Bundy, Jack ...
Why isn't there a REWIND button? We can do it with TV remotes for movies, but it sorta looks funny if you know what I mean. That is to say, we can qui...
It's complicated, huh? I'm particularly intrigued by you bringing up idealism and naïvety into the discussion. Says a lot. Speaking for myself, I real...
A fantastic question! See how, my dear OP, consequentialism requires the ability to prognosticate and prognosticate accurately the effects of our acti...
Yaay! :smile: I want to pick your brains on something. Why did you bring up negative self-reference? Do you have a specific reason for doing so? Are y...
Above my pay grade, mate! Self reference + Denial/Negation = Paradox. I don't speak English! Oh, I just did! The only possibility, post elimination of...
Sad but true. If the products of the mind (rockets, spaceships, the James Webb Space Telescope) are so marvelous, imagine how amazing the mind must be...
You're right. Again a part of (recent) history that I failed to take into account. Nevertheless, sanctions on smaller countries are usually imposed wh...
:up: Escaped my notice. Thanks! I recall reading about how the assets of Russian oligarchs and government officials were (allegedly) frozen. That's th...
:fire: Ideas, philosophies, outlooks, etc. are pretty prisons - gilded cages. Why would anyone want to be incarcerated? I'm myself in jail, we all are...
Thanks for reminding me of Zen and its rather (unconventional) methods: the aim is to attain the so-called mushin no shin (mind without mind) state. T...
Vague! Imprecise! How does one measure/define happiness in a way we could differentiate greater/higher happiness from lesser/lower happiness? ...outer...
Update Paradoxes break (classical) logic. Question: I'm told that any system of logic in which every sentence can be proven true is trivial. I know wh...
I like the notion of pragmatic truth. In my book, it's synonomous, loosely, with what's called a working hypothesis - making do with what's available ...
Finishing each other's sentences: https://youtu.be/ORglSD9DPWU Also, there's this scene in The Matrix film in which 3 agents finish each other's sente...
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