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Agent Smith

['Member']Joined: December 08, 2021 at 01:59Last active: February 23, 2026 at 14:26132 discussions9331 comments
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:fire: OM VISHWAKARMANE NAMAH! :fire:

:fire: SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM! :fire:

The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)

1. If x exists, there's a sufficient explanation why x exists.
2. If e happens, there's a sufficient explanation why e happens.
3. If p is true, there's a sufficient explanation why p is true.

Gorgias:
1. Nothing exists.

2. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it.

3. Even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

4. Even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood.


Gy?dai:Leaves fall
Leaves pile up;
Rain ... beats on rain.


n({ }) = 0

Favourite Philosopher

Cratylus, the finger wriggler

Favourite Quotations

Cratylus::zip: Wriggle finger.


Numerius Negedius:Shhh...no one cares!


Audi, Vide, Tace (hear, see, be silent).

Socrates:I neither know nor think I know.


Peter Parker:Hey Strange, you know what's cooler than magic? Math!


Maxwell Dillon:Don't worry, I'm all tapped out. Back to being a nobody.


Christopher Hitchens:I'll give you all the miracles but you'll still be left exactly where you are now - holding an empty sack.


Joe Wong:Hypocrisy is the best we can hope for. In hypocrisy people acknowledge something is nice and pretend to be that.


Ubi amor, ibi dolor (Where love, there pain)


Lao Tzu:
1. Wu wei.

2. Those who speak do not know. Those who know do not speak.


Michel de Montaigne:Que sais-je (What do I know)?


William Kingdon Clifford (Clifford's Principle):It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.


Richard Dawkins:The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.


Galileo Galilei:Eppur si muove.


Philip K. Dick:Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.


Blaise Pascal:The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.


Sarah Connor:When are you from?


Bertrand Russell:If you are certain, you are most certainly wrong.


Tertullian:Certum est, quia impossibile (It is certain, because it is impossible).

Credo quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd)


Carl Sagan (The Sagan standard):Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


Ibn Sina:Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.


Albert Camus:There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.


Friedrich Nietzsche:A man's maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.


David Hilbert:Wir müssen wissen - Wir werden wissen (We must know - we will know).


Numerius Negedius (comment on Leonhard Euler's Tentamen novae theorae musicae):Too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians.


H. L. Mencken:For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.


J. P. Morgan:A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.


Zhuangzi:Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.


Bhart?hari:Sarvam mithy? brav?mi (Everything I'm saying is false).


Sir Robert Hutchison:From inability to let well alone, from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old, from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense, from treating patients as cases and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, good Lord deliver us.


Kurt Patrick Wise:As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turns against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate.


Parmenides:Ex nihilo nihil fit.


Heraclitus:Panta rhei.


Thomas Jefferson:Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.


KDT:I'm fed up with your questions.


Robert J. Hanlon (Hanlon's Razor):Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.


James Patterson:Assume nothing, question everything.


Linji Yixuan:If you meet the Buddha, kill him.


François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire):Le meglio è l'inimico del bene (The perfect is the enemy of the good).


KCT:It's better not to understand.


Numerius Negedius:Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

Discussions (132)

Arche

February 11, 2023 at 10:04 140 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

AMOR

January 06, 2023 at 14:20 4 comments The Lounge

LMFAO

January 04, 2023 at 14:03 0 comments The Lounge

Truths, Existence

December 31, 2022 at 18:19 63 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Multialiusism

December 25, 2022 at 17:49 29 comments The Lounge

Eureka!

November 30, 2022 at 02:37 21 comments The Lounge

Luck

October 10, 2022 at 10:16 20 comments The Lounge

The Reminder

September 13, 2022 at 15:10 6 comments The Lounge

What matters

September 11, 2022 at 05:10 4 comments The Lounge

Agrippa's Trilemma

September 09, 2022 at 20:44 36 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Errorology

September 08, 2022 at 06:49 16 comments The Lounge

Trust

September 02, 2022 at 04:13 9 comments The Lounge

Sophia

August 27, 2022 at 01:35 0 comments The Lounge

Al-Haqq

August 05, 2022 at 08:47 7 comments The Lounge

Lemonics

August 04, 2022 at 09:35 21 comments General Philosophy

Monkeypox

May 24, 2022 at 09:06 21 comments Politics and Current Affairs

Autarky

May 18, 2022 at 05:26 16 comments The Lounge

Where are they?

May 16, 2022 at 02:37 96 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Choices

April 28, 2022 at 19:56 47 comments General Philosophy

God & Existence

April 26, 2022 at 06:29 307 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

PSR & Woo-woo

April 06, 2022 at 08:25 33 comments General Philosophy

Mind Sex

March 31, 2022 at 10:14 13 comments General Philosophy

The Good Life

March 24, 2022 at 21:36 20 comments General Philosophy

Free Will

March 21, 2022 at 05:31 61 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

LNC & Idealism

March 16, 2022 at 01:03 54 comments General Philosophy

Zen & The Bible

March 12, 2022 at 18:02 32 comments Philosophy of Religion

Thumbs Up!

January 31, 2022 at 10:58 10 comments The Lounge

Taxi Paradox

January 28, 2022 at 10:43 25 comments The Lounge

The Holy Ghost

January 11, 2022 at 10:22 46 comments Philosophy of Religion

Mental Fossils

December 24, 2021 at 19:22 10 comments General Philosophy

Is 2 Prime?

December 15, 2021 at 16:22 1 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

The Book!

December 13, 2021 at 19:15 43 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Comments

Si, you said that before and I agree - you hadta philosophize about god to realize that (ex post god is nonphilosophical). However, how do you square ...
February 20, 2023 at 03:46
We're all in the same boat mon ami.
February 20, 2023 at 03:42
:up:
February 20, 2023 at 02:46
:up: I concur. Philosophers are in the business of sussing out how coherent the idea of a god is, whether facts support the existence of such a being,...
February 20, 2023 at 02:44
Allah rahim.
February 20, 2023 at 02:40
February 20, 2023 at 02:37
God is the focus of the philosophy of religion? :chin:
February 20, 2023 at 02:31
In: Arche  — view comment
:up: :up: --- The logos has been hijacked by Christianity in which it's equated with Jesus; this proves how important the idea is, but unfortunately, ...
February 20, 2023 at 02:30
"Where is your car?" is a question that doesn't do justice to the scenario as described. How is Al or Betty supposed to answer it?
February 20, 2023 at 02:18
That's too obvious to state. Pick up an introductory book on philosophy and be informed! @"180 Proof" claims philosophy and god are incompatible. I be...
February 20, 2023 at 02:14
That's the best thing one can do in life! Deepity?
February 20, 2023 at 02:11
Perhaps ...
February 20, 2023 at 01:45
In: Arche  — view comment
I may have misspoken mon ami. Anyway, I'm going with what you hadta say about the arche.
February 19, 2023 at 15:18
The paradox is best visible when we ask a question other than "do you know where your car is, monsieur/mademoiselle?"
February 19, 2023 at 14:01
In: Arche  — view comment
Perhaps ... what is philosophy?
February 19, 2023 at 13:44
The question is moot, it looks like, from an antirealist standpoint.
February 19, 2023 at 13:14
ChatGPT passes bar exam. ChatGPT a better doctor. These are some headlines I believe have been made in the past few months.
February 19, 2023 at 12:55
Si, si sir/madam. That is true.
February 19, 2023 at 11:07
Indeed! Our little project has fallen flat on its face! El Rachum!
February 19, 2023 at 09:45
You hit the nail on the head mon ami! However, what about ChatGPT responses to questions like "who was the POTUS in 1960?" I bet its response is accur...
February 19, 2023 at 08:01
:lol: That's alright. I may have stepped outside the boundary of his belief.
February 19, 2023 at 07:21
I've always had trouble with definitions.
February 19, 2023 at 06:23
Perhaps, my intuition has been off the mark for most of the time I exercised it.
February 19, 2023 at 06:20
Nickolasgaspar was quite clear on what he meant. Perhaps you're looking at it from an ex post standpoint.
February 19, 2023 at 06:18
In: Arche  — view comment
I don't have a private language, if that's what you're implying. It's a reminder in the sense of what's essential to philosophy.
February 19, 2023 at 05:44
That's deep man/woman! :smile:
February 19, 2023 at 05:40
True, there's a place for god in philosophy.
February 19, 2023 at 05:31
I don't think we're as animal as a dog or trout is an animal; something quite artificial about us, but of course this doesn't mean survival of the fit...
February 19, 2023 at 05:29
Very difficult to keep track of all the different paths in this maze, eh mon ami?
February 18, 2023 at 13:59
The reason why both have adherents, are alive as it were, is telling, no?
February 18, 2023 at 12:11
That is one quality, but from what I can gather from the OP's posts, he doubts precisely that.
February 18, 2023 at 12:10
Direct realism, how can it be proven to be better than idealism?
February 18, 2023 at 11:02
:smile: Done by professionals. Do not attempt.
February 18, 2023 at 10:59
I usually light up a cigarette mon ami.
February 18, 2023 at 10:57
Possible. Really, nothing can be ruled out can it?
February 18, 2023 at 10:53
The philosopher is not seeking God and so to say the philosopher will not find god is like saying the doctor will not find the bomb.
February 18, 2023 at 10:50
What you latched onto was more of a personal matter. Anyway, I share your sentiments as regards as religious dogma being inadequate, but as I told you...
February 18, 2023 at 10:48
If civilization progresses in similar ways, aliens, no doubt, will also conceive of god(s). The point is we have different conceptions of god and that...
February 18, 2023 at 09:59
:up:
February 18, 2023 at 09:25
Representations, what more can be/should be said about them?
February 18, 2023 at 09:20
True mon ami, very true. Story-telling (mythology) must've be a really big deal to prephilosophical/prescientific cultures. It was their way of graspi...
February 18, 2023 at 09:08
Nobody seems to know how ChatGPT actually works. The latest reports say it's about statistical predictions of what the next word should be. It has bee...
February 18, 2023 at 08:56
Every possible combination has been tried and none have unlocked the room where God resides ... peacefully.
February 18, 2023 at 08:46
:lol: I thought the OP was trying out different strategies/approaches to his thesis, exploring different aspects of it that is. Perhaps he means to sh...
February 18, 2023 at 05:03
In: Emergence  — view comment
:up:
February 18, 2023 at 03:56
Interesting.
February 18, 2023 at 03:56
Well, we did discuss, in the old thread of yours, the mafia; may be we can find counterexamples thereabouts.
February 18, 2023 at 03:53
I see. Good point.
February 18, 2023 at 03:51
In: The Self  — view comment
Gets my vote if it were a poll.
February 17, 2023 at 21:11
Not all cultural norms are congruent with morality though. That's of course a strawman of your position, but just thought it's a good feedback for you...
February 17, 2023 at 21:07