Agent Smith

Contraceptive failure rates are negligible and most pregnancies that are aborted are not due to this reason. It shows (some) women have no respect for...

The availability of cheap contraceptives implies that abortion isn't necessary for responsible women of child-bearing age. If I don't want an omelette...

I was simply amazed at why women would not care about being thought of as murderers (even if that were to be false) when they could easily nip the pro...

The quashed Roe vs. Wade ruling doesn't prohibit contraception. So, oddly, I can stop a person's mom and dad from having sex (fertilization of the ovu...

:snicker: So it was you all along!

Antinatalism & Time travel. Travel to the future and ask X "do you wish you weren't born?" If the answer is "yes", go back to X's parents and inform '...

So Charles is insane! Aren't we all...in our own little ways? There's a woman out there who won't eat ice cream without wearing bright red lipstick an...

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Then (p & Kp) (only) \to ?K(p & Kp). How do we get to K(p & ~Kp) \to Kp & ~Kp? :brow:

There's a problem: The knowability principle: p \to Kp. 1. K = Knowable p is true and p is unknown: p & ~Kp We know that p is true and p is unknown: K...

The question, it seems, is rather easy to answer because it's asking about essences (necessary conditions) without saying anything about completeness ...

Truth is intuition maybe an alternative pathway to truth - it's a feeling rather than a thought - and, guessing hereon, some intuitions of great minds...

@god must be atheist Made the necessary corrections. I'm not a 100%. Apologies. So, tell me, why is it that a theory that explains everything explains...

I believe you've missed the point of my post or are focusing on the incidental rather than the essential. Can you show me where exactly I picked cherr...

:brow: A theory that proves everything.

Threats, no matter how remote, must be assumed to exist Opportunities, no matter how attractive, must be assumed not to exist. God is both an opportun...

@Art48. Taking hints/cues from math, we could say that abstractions are generalities aka patterns - there's a brief back and forth between two posters...

Summary of the OP's argument. 1. An evolutionary account for the belief that there are reasons (to believe/do x) doesn't require there be actual reaso...

I see. Idealism = Everything is mind-dependent. Is this not a proposition? It feels like one to me. Prove to me that idealism is nonpropositional.

At first, I thought there was something paradoxical in that the warning shot (Algos/Hell) is more dangerous/terrifying than taking a bullet (Thanatos/...

The endpoint of philosophy is confusion aka aporia. We could call that progress if we consider the alternative which is pseudo-knowledge.

@OP If you have anything against reason, you're not allowed to use reason. Simple. :snicker:

It is a claim, oui? The question of its decidability arises quite naturally as far as I can tell. Why would we argue the point otherwise?

He was well-fed and well-rested...he had time to ruminate.

The OP mentions intuition and yet crafts an argument! He/She is committing suicide!

Ok, so you are...with a little help from God. Explain how God \to Reason. No, I'm not a goldfish! :snicker:

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Infinity is then some kinda test for impossibility, at least in this case. We need infinity to demarcate the boundary of what's doable and what's not....

I see. Can't rule out metempsychosis now, can we? Danke! Please carry on with your discussion with other posters.

Is it possible to disprove idealism? No according to science; yes according to Laozi! :snicker:

I wonder how we could explain talent/gift without resorting to woo-woo like reincarnation/metempyschosis (the child prodigy simply recalls lessons he ...

This is what I find most intriguing. There are 2 kindsa artists, oui? One has inborn talent and the other has to, well, trudge through art school. Can...

Were there any cases of suicides during the holocaust? I don't recall reading of mass suicides among those interned in Nazi concentration camps. Too t...

Keep it coming! :clap:

The aether is a medium for waves, both these concepts have links to the physical (water waves/ripples).

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Deserving/undeserving are simply extensions/corollaries of causality. Say you till the soil, water it, plant high quality corn seeds and stockpiled pe...

Good points, worth pondering upon. Let's back up a little for my sake. Is there a finite number (Nmax) such that no calculations ever in physics will ...

@"Gnomon" @"Bartricks" Looks like, as is common, the word "holism" has different meanings - from the tenor of our discussions we're already aware of t...

I'm sorry.

My oversight, apologies. Algos hunts with the hounds and runs with the hares. O horror of horrors! Do you see any light at the end of this tunnel? I'm...

Well, as far as I can tell, suicide is usually/always the last option. In other words, it's forced upon the suicider. To that extent, the person who t...

Self-referential paradox results. You're offering us a reason why there are no reasons. You just killed yourself! Even so, most intriguing

Why? There you're likely mistaken. Who am I though to speak for @"Gnomon". If you have any issues, take it up with the man himself. Expand and elabora...

Why? Explain with examples. Danke in advance. :Ok: Perhaps Art48 can clear up thd matter. Please wait...

Abstract objects, last I checked, have been, at the very least, more closely associated with the mind than the physical world. So, taking this simple ...

Technique: A certain way of accomplishing a task, How does a musician play a given piece? How does a particular artist execute a painting? Quirks/Idio...

@Bartricks I have this feeling you're conflating debunking with unnecessary. True that as per evolution, there needn't be actual reasons (to believe/d...

@Art48 It seems I do have something more to say about so-called abstract objects. Can you give me an example, one will do, of a pure abstract object a...