:up: This, in my humble opinion, boils down to gambling (à la Pascal's wager). The stake: This life (low value). The prize: Heaven (high value). Many ...
Joseph Rouse' take is intriguing to say the least. There's a sense in which science is subsumed by culture; science was at different times the definin...
If, a big if, there did exist a finite number Nmax that could stand in for, salva veritate, \infty, we could prove/disprove all mathematical conjectur...
Not on topic, but related. You are a slave to your programming which is your master. --- Your programming (that determines your thoughts/words/actions...
:up: --- The point to logic seems to be to come up with, to use a mathematical analogy, functions (argument forms) such that if the inputs are truths ...
Great question. Well, if science could speak, it would say "I would looove to find truths!" Science's ultimate goal is to figure out, as some say, the...
Logic of truth How does a system of logic handle truth/falsity? 1. Consistency: The law of noncontradiction (LNC). A truth may not entail a contradict...
What I fail to understand is why is it necessary for at least one (I'm told this is {1, 2, 3, ... } , the set of natural numbers, probably the foot in...
I skimmed through the linked article. Personally, I'd say there's no issue as regards trying out new perspectives but ... with the proviso that they y...
The distinction makes sense if we approach numbers as entities generated by a process, an algorithm. An instruction set that generates the natural num...
Philosophy of science (any errors can be faulted to my poor recall) 1. Realism: Science shows you reality as it is. Mass actually does warp space-time...
:up: That's the million dollar question! How do/should I participate in the causal web such that I maximize the positives and minimize the negatives. ...
Doesn't it present itself as a way of handling paradoxes? If I say p & ~p, p goes "this town ain't big enough for both of us" to ~p and vice versa - o...
:up: Yep, we can start from axioms but then that would be merely exploratory (of possibilities) rather than determinative (of actualities/facts). Reme...
On point señor! What about the fact that when Lawrence Krauss' book A Universe from Nothing came out philosophers wasted no time in distancing themsel...
I suppose the human journey can be summed up as a struggle against nihilism. Some might even say it is the most dangerous idea to come out of the huma...
I don't know about you but to my reckoning this thread is a one giant word salad. How did we get from a philosophical issue to reptiles? :chin: Maybe ...
Fighter pilots are being made obsolete by drones. :snicker: Humans are definitely being replaced albeit slowly by AI. It's interesting to look at what...
:lol: Did I write that? :snicker: It is a humorous question given the contrast between a vegetable and what we believe is a supreme intelligence. What...
Agreed, vagueness & ambiguity are the defining features of oracular utterances. Like we were discussing Jack, something Rorschach testish about the wh...
I'm uncertain how good my analysis is, but here it is for what it's worth. I'll present the short version of the argument. 1. Apophatic theology: neti...
Interesting! Quite obviously you're using a different definition for nothing. We're allowed to do that. Create worlds of our own, with unique rules & ...
On the topic of sleep (quasi-death) & wakefulness some further points people might find worthwhile ... A few things that wake a person up 1. Pain 2. C...
@"GLEN willows" :up: You missed the point mon ami! Perhaps if you can think of an example of something that is immaterial and try to distinguish that ...
Good points! I've always been suspicious of claims of so-called quantum weirdness, an interpretation that can trace it roots to the Schrödinger's cat ...
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