Knowability principle: p \to ?Kp where the epistemic operator K = know Non-O: There's an unknown truth = p & ~Kp Substituting (p & ~Kp) in the knowabi...
My pensées on the matter (the value od human life). 1. Life, in and of itself, is valuable. It stands out from the vast cold & dead universe. Life is ...
I think my argument from overpopulation for antinatalism can be refuted with math. Suppose there are only 2 cells (x, y) reproducing via mitosis. If t...
Progress in Philosophy, all said and done, is (traditionally) measured epistemologically: Ignoramus \to Sage. Clearly if we use this metric, philosoph...
We must assume that the fetus has a soul and that abortion is nothing less than murder. Err on the side of caution, oui monsieur? I dunno what came ov...
Evolution's prime directive is survival, not (reason-supported) truth, but @"Bartricks", (reason-based) truth is what keeps one alive unless...you're ...
When faced with the unknown one is forced to approach it from a threat-opportunity standpoint with threat, the reduction/elimination/avoidance of it b...
I quite like where the OP is going with habit instead of law - using a different word can sometimes clear up a whole lot of confusion. A habit is auto...
The idea behind subjectivity-objectivity is bias and how to obviate/avoid it lest we distort the truth/fact and fool ourselves and others in the proce...
The problem isn't me, mon ami - if a particular topic is conducive to wild claims then something's wrong with the topic. I have no truck with people w...
If it's an argument, the only requirement is that it be valid. Semantics is irrelevant and hence definitions are unnecessary and are stumbling blocks ...
:fire: @"Bartricks" claims that, evolutionarily speaking, there needn't be any real reasons for beliefs though we think/feel there are. We are surviva...
I'm being realistic mon ami! You, on the other hand, don't seem to realize the full import of your statements - they're dangerous and you should be ce...
Point made, point taken. What I wanted to call people's attention to was that antinatalism isn't such a bad idea - it's a philosophy whose time will c...
Perhaps this is as good a time as any other to mention The Value Paradox. Water is essential for life, diamonds aren't and yet the former is dirt chea...
Do the math. 1. There's a certain limit to the number of peeps the Earth can support which is a polite way of saying if we don't act soon we'll become...
:up: No philosophical debate has been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties - there's theism and there's atheism, both thrive and this, quite ob...
My hunch is that antinatalism will make complete sense in about 3 - 5 decades. Antinatalists just wait it out...natalists will be hunted down and hang...
I see fatalism as the belief that no matter what you do, a given outcome will, like it or not, occur. So, it matters not how many choices you're given...
A. Heart-Mind (Xin) 1. Mind (Thinkers) 2. Heart (Feelers) B. Body 3. Body (Workers). We've managed to offload most physical work, part of our minds (b...
Well, it feels right to say that opposites make sense i.e. are imbued with meaning only with respect to each other (one can't exist without the other)...
Well, if suffering is self-caused (karma/east and you sow what you reap/west) then death (Algos' alterego Thanatos) must be too, oui? We're all commit...
Tintin was just a bottle of wine for Captain Haddock, the incorrigible alcoholic, to be "uncorked" and drunk! (re The Cigars of the Pharaoh). Jokes as...
That's it! Effort spent then is exactly what people intuit it to be - an investment - and it goes without saying everyone most expect a return (break ...
It's quite a paradox that the Saudi ethos, by extension the entire Middle Eastern Islamic mindset, can be both so open-minded (witchcraft) and so narr...
All I can say is this: The perfect-imperfect distinction feels relevant. Even if it's the case that no abstract object exists that has no association ...
As always, much obliged for the informative reply. The classical physics of the macroworld is inexplicable in terms of the quantum physics of the micr...
Ok, ok. Let me summmarize, as best as I can, your argument. Evolutionarily speaking, there doesn't havta be real reasons for believing/doing something...
Good call! I prefer chemical means (noninvasive) over surgical ones (invasive). The late Alan Turing was chemically castrated for his homosexuality. H...
I'm sorry to hear that. Nevertheless, it appears that some women are piggybacking on rape victims, shooting from their shoulders as it were, to make a...
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