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Positive and Negative statements: 1. Positive statement: G = God exists. To assert that something is a fact (a part of reality). It is possible that o...

Each person's set of preferences is mutually inconsistent. I, for example, like everyone else I suppose, fear the specter of cancer (a death sentence ...

I'll get back to you later.

Mathematical chaos is a misnomer. In math, it simply means that a purported "chaotic" system diverges wildly even when the changes made to initial con...

Allow me to rephrase my question. How do we know that a given proposition is true? It can't be justification of course; why mention truth separately? ...

Yet, a curved line is longer than a straight line (irrational/free will). It doesn't make mathematical sense to meander, travel on a curve, when we ca...

Yep, that's what I was getting at. The upshot of it is that justification doesn't establish veracity. The natural question is what does?

There is no point arguing fellow forum members. The JTB definition is such that justification doesn't imply truth. What is the criterion for truth, if...

Determinism is about the absence of choice (mathematical laws don't give you options). Humans, it appears, can defy mathematical laws/principles. If I...

Here's another way (Dostoevsky logic) to bring some sense of sanity/reasonableness to the finite offense - infinite punishment asymmetry: If God (does...

To attain nirvana is to die (permanently) Now don't get all riled up Buddhists. To die (for good) doesn't mean you stop existing; it's just that death...

Can you show us how?

Methodology of knowledge? Socrates possessed a methodology of knowledge. He knows (that he knows nothing). Whatever methodology Socrates utilized, it ...

I'm uncomfortable with pure chance as an explanation (for the origins of the universe or anything else for that matter) for the simple reason that pro...

Direct & Indirect means. Math says something, humans say something totally different. Free will?

Then you can't be omniscient. :chin:

Any economic system that encourages or provides a favorable environment for greed (insatiable want) is doomed from the get go. We're part of nature an...

The internet & democracy? The key to a healthy democracy is, inter alia, transparency and that, in my humble opinion, means access to information and ...

I wouldn't say not all thinking is philosophy. How would we know unless we do the appropriate analysis? Thinking philosophically occurs in two modes: ...

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Change is a property, ok! Taking a page out of Buddhism, things are transient/ephemeral.

Methinks you're trying to eat the cake and have it to.

Color: Red, Green, etc. Shape: Circle, Rectangle, Triangle, etc. Classes of of properties (shape, color) and individual properties (red, green, circle...

There's something fundamentally wrong about so-called order and attempts to impose it on the world. It's, well, unnatural and any man-made order is go...

I like where Michael Graziano's going with this. In truth, knowledge is, on the whole, guesswork. We make a lot of assumptions, half or more of them c...

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Asfar as I'm concerned change happens to properties (colors, shapes, temperature, weight, etc.)

Change is what happens to properties. Yes, that's what I wanted to say from the very beginning. As far as I can see, change isn't a property. However,...

The first sentence of your post is false.

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The more chaotic a locality (town, city, etc.), the more inefficiently done the public works are, the more free the people are. Has anyone been to the...

Interestintgly, when we feel the cold or have the chills, we roll up into a ball (fetal position). Makes sense physics-wise: reducing the surface area...

I noticed something only today: I was walking around my mom's house. it has a few steps leading up to it. I could take the shortest route down these s...

That went over my teensy-weensy head, señor! Being has (always) been contextualized in time. Parmenides, the father of ontology, however, didn't do so...

Big Pharma, I'm sorry to say, isn't a conglomerate of benevolent business entities. Profits matter, existentially that is and so much of their rationa...

It appears that being is temporal (time). For example, Heidegger's being lasted from 1889 (born) to 1976 (died). Hence Being and Time. It'd be interes...

I'm facing problems treating change as a property. As far as I know, change is defined in terms of properties: an apple is green at one time, red at a...

Wonderful post. :up: The OP seems mostly concerned by the internet itself and its impact on democracy. My own views on the matter is the internet make...

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Well, when you put it that way, imagination does have merit; nevertheless, I feel it's more trouble than it's worth. As for science needing imaginatio...

Consistency is cut from the same cloth as rules and we all know our attitude on that score - rules apply to others and not to ourselves but, get this,...

I did what I could to parse your question. I still feel a scientific approach (empiricism + logic) is the best option we have: simple & least likely t...

I'm more into auto-omniscience (temet nosce) than allo-omniscience (knowing the other); it feels doable and what's amazing is that they might be the s...

A metaphysics for agency, huh? Logic, empirically constrained (axiology + epistemology)...a bit (too) scientific for my taste but is there a choice?

The issue, it seems, is that democracies advertize themselves as champions of freedom but, as you yourself have pointed out, democracy isn't that; fre...

Well here's what I recalled about metaphysics with great difficulty I must say: Metaphysics 1. Causality 2. Ontology 3. Identity & Change 4. Necessity...

I'm afraid you're confusing true solipsism from false solipsism. We can't know if other minds exist and not that we know other minds don't exist - eno...

I know I exist. I know how I am to other people is exactly how they are to me. Yet, there's the possibility that other people are figments of my imagi...

:up: Well said!