L'éléphant

The OP is a fallacy of false equivalence. Nowhere it mentions the fact that humans have a sense of time, which is a subjective sense of duration. Mach...

I feel so unaccomplished reading this. I've always wanted to build a whole house, Funny, we seem to have the same location of project -- the bedroom. ...

The use of "natural selection" should not be problematic. It means adaptation and change. Phenotype can change. We're in the philosophy forum, that's ...

Or possibly, from service monopoly that wouldn't allow multi-point infrastructure so that there's a kill-switch or a surge protector to limit the area...

I find it amazing how often people fail to see the point of existing. So they think of suicide as an "alternative". Once a person is an adult, their e...

You're applying something like Gödel's theorem to something like modal logic. No wonder we can't understand each other. Logic uses a lot of propositio...

If that happens, we don't judge it as incomplete -- we judge it as contingently false in this system, but not in all possible worlds. A proposition is...

WFF = well formed formula. When you started off in your OP, you wanted to make a statement that is necessarily false. Which is fine. But now I think t...

It's called social fairness. Queuing is still one of the most basic display of equality in society -- especially in places like public services (getti...

Please refer to modal logic. Don't focus on the symbols, rather focus on the explanation provided by the writer for why using the terminology "logical...

Here's an excerpt from a book which I did not purchase: https://www.jstor.org/page-scan-delivery/get-page-scan/2105325/0

Yes, this is one possibility. Observers in another time dimension could see our past, but not us in the same time dimension.

I said it is not recognized in philosophy. Or Philosophy, for the proper name. The words "logically impossible" is never formally accepted as epistemi...

@"PL Olcott" "logically impossible" is not recognized in philosophy. It's either "illogical" or "impossible". The two are used in different contexts. ...

It depends on whose perspective. If ours, then it's gone. We are all traveling on the same speed of light. We are all changing and carrying with us ju...

Historically, humans have turned, from time to time, to inanimate objects for worship -- crop circles, UFOs, the Titanic (that billionaires paid to se...

I think when we search for comfort we search for that -- a simple place.

Are you talking about the purgatory for people who were bad while on Earth? Anyway, my ideal place actually existed years ago. I won't divulge where i...

Okay. But converting 25 cm to inches results in 9.84" in height. This is good for people who don't have the habit of stooping down to this level of th...

People have long thought of the "paradise". Even coming up with drawings and paintings.

@"baker" should be coming to this thread soon.

https://youtu.be/_qLs2K4UXXk

Yes, our math is axiomatic. The initial axioms drive the succeeding mathematical formula.

So, you don't include your own personal choice, no matter what your society's rules are? I mean, your own personhood -- the internal dialogue that goe...

I looked up the synopsis. Not my kind of book. To me an excellent work is engaging (not necessarily entertaining, for others would find gossips entert...

There is a social contract. Living in a society obligates us to respect the social contract. That's why there's morality and the law. I wouldn't want ...

Thank you.

I didn't read the book, but the OP is fulfilling to read. Again, what an insight! I get this. When I'm repulsed at something, it lingers in my mind li...

Conquer that depression -- like you're going to a battle, even if you must crawl. Good luck with the new job.

Yes, I've seen the movie. And your comment about it is on point.

I understand the sentimental value you attach to memory. Memory is a very important part of consciousness. But memory and consciousness are not interc...

That passage you quoted was the starting point. He was trying to make a case -- notice his use of the word "youth" -- of the way he understood things....

No. We can't harvest or store consciousness like the energy. There is no storage for consciousness. Consciousness is a live streaming.

What are you saying then?

I disagree. The one that uses the heart also uses the intellect. No, this is a misrepresentation of metaphysics such as Descartes's meditation. It's n...

First of all, thank you for starting this thread and writing the OP as you have done. I was trying to get comments in this thread https://thephilosoph...

For this question alone, no. To me, surrealism is an ambient atmosphere -- there needs to be the development of the characters themselves in order for...

There is no other task that makes us think in a way that does not involve memorization of equation, procedure, or statistics than metaphysics. Philoso...

I have not read anything from Ken Liu, but your OP makes sense. Yes, good observation. One of the things I learned about fiction is that it is not an ...

I was going to say this until I scrolled down to your comment. Metaphysics also exposes the error in our thinking. So, while that does not count as "k...

This is a good starting point for a new thread because I was trying to discuss with @"schopenhauer1" in the Kit Fine thread about what is existence wi...

Math was created within a closed system. Think of a language written in symbols. We came up with math because we need to describe the physical world p...

"Stuff" is what exists without an observer. Actually, reality would be reduced to two-dimensional world without an observer. Do you agree?

Meaning what?

No! Are you serious? Nietzsche was wrong.

Maybe they do.

You are combining both the questions about whether the world exists (or whether there is existence) and how do we know that the world exists. "How is ...

Yes, and other similar pieces. Another annoyance -- referring to "War and Peace" whenever one means "lengthy" without ever having read the book. It's ...

This is an incorrect formulation of the ontology-epistemology question, which I've seen quite often. With the "How is it that the world exists" you re...

So, if one is doubting whether they're acting, then the doubting itself is an act that they're not sure of. This has a funny consequence -- I'm not su...