The choice isn't good or bad, it's bad or worse! Choose the lesser of two evils (betwixt Scylla & Charybdis we will forever remain until...<inconceiva...
Humans can be roughly divided into 3 groups: 1. Thinkers (IQ) 2. Feelers (EQ) 3. Workers (PQ) Group 3 is most susceptible to being replaced/augmented ...
There are some beliefs that people won't act on or if they do their actions are not proportionate to their beliefs. Some believe in ghosts/poltergeist...
The other question, to wit why is there nothing rather than something? is ~? to ask! To ask the question a conscious being, not just something, hasta ...
Which branch of math do you suppose is most apt for decoding the Big Bang (13.8 × 109 suns ago)? We already tried calculus, arithmetic part & parcel o...
A = Antinatalism S = Life is suffering P = Life is predominantly suffering. The Argument from Suffering for Antinatalism 1. (S \lor P) \to A 2. S \lor...
The butler was visiting a friend. The maid was with the wife. Ergo, The murder was committed by someone else, a third person was in the house! :snicke...
Now we're talking! So expect, on average, global temperatures to soar, in keeping with climate change'a alias global warming, That's a prediction that...
Merci for reminding me I can google this stuff. I did and all I found were rather simplistic experiments involving lab jars, some CO2, sunlight and a ...
True, for some branches of science, astronomy being one, experiments are technologically impossible. However this doesn't imply that the scientists in...
The only prediction I'm aware of that climate change makes is extreme weather and, as far as I can tell, that's too vague; almost as if they had an as...
My 2 denarii... Ex nihilo nihil fit (nothing comes from nothing) and ergo, Creatio ex nihilo (something from nothing) is a bona fide miracle and a sin...
Good one! You seem to be on the right track - take the smallest physically meaningful quantity and check how many of 'em fit in the (observable) unive...
I dunno how to say this but \infty erects an opaque wall between the equations and the stuff they (are supposed) to describe. My suggestion to physici...
@"Benj96" Physical = matter & energy are physical. Matter = Mass + volume Energy = Can do work Nonphysical = Neither matter nor energy (apophatic defi...
I only meant to point out the fact that the words "exist" and "physical" are synonyms and ergo, any attempt to discuss the nonphysical is going to be ...
I do recall reading the identity laws in an introductory text on logic. As you said, identity is about individuals rather than propositions. If it's n...
My own take is rather simple but in line with the intuitions of Aristotle et al in that the PSR (the principle of sufficient reason) warrants a primum...
The problem is deceptively simple. Physical = Existence. These two terms have the exact same definition and that implies nonphysical = nonexistence! :...
@Moliere I can only applaud a man - Kuhn - who can see his own blind spots! This superpower has been on my wish list since god knows when! It hasn't b...
Look, I wouldn't dare to say I understood your EnFormation thesis or its auxiliary idea BothAnd. I've always had (major) issues with logic - I think I...
:up: We must figure out the secrets of gravity propulsion - that's the only force that's found in abundance in outer space. Can we focus it (gravity "...
What is love? What is a p-zombie? Double trouble! Both are huge topics, with lotsa unexplored territory, and information on them is exasperatingly ske...
Spectacular events like these pics of billions of years old galaxies are few and far in between (the JWST took a decade + years). I don't begrudge peo...
Suppose, arguendo, that a group of people formulate a law and you fully understand that law + you're a stickler for rules/laws. How would you behave? ...
Is religious morality nothing more than the Hawthorne effect? Google definition of Hawthorne effect (noun): The alteration of behaviour by the subject...
Liebniz's law of identity 1. Identity of Indiscernibles Law of equivalence 2. Equivalence of indiscernibles It's obvious that the OP's question can't ...
What about Gödel's incompleteness theorems? Within a given system that we can do math with, there are some propositions that are true but not provable...
Basically Fideism: Belief sans Evidence (witnesses). We can argue the point i.e. we can craft an argument to prove fideism as a live option in re beli...
Climate change (due to CO2 emissions), is it falsifiable? What predictions have been made by climate scientists in re climate change? "Extreme weather...
Theories (Newton's & Einstein's) contradict Putnam, oui monsieur? Newtonian relative velocity is a limiting case of Einstein's: Einsteinian relative v...
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