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Showmee

['Member']Joined: December 09, 2023 at 12:50Last active: November 22, 2025 at 01:542 discussions22 comments
Location: Athens, Greece

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Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, Camus

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Values usually represent a transition from facts to rights, from what is desired to what is desirable.
—Albert Camus

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—Bertrand Russell

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In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
Regardless of how “human” large language models may appear, they remain far from genuine artificial intelligence. More precisely, LLMs represent a dea...
October 24, 2025 at 07:51
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
Additionally, another problem with ethical naturalism is its non-deterministic nature. In any natural science, the laws or theories established are de...
July 17, 2025 at 09:47
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
Isn’t gravity defined as a force of attraction between masses in Newtonian physics, and the curvature of space-time in general relativity? Why is it n...
July 17, 2025 at 09:46
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
When we pursue “truth,” we typically mean aspects of the world that exist independently of the mind. By independent, I mean it is possible for their t...
July 17, 2025 at 03:29
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
It is partially because I didn't had the time to thoroughly go over non-cognitivism and intuitionism. But you can see "the road to error theory" as a ...
July 15, 2025 at 12:28
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
Just think how and why the following two statements differ: i) Regular exercise is good for me ii) Regular exercise helps prevent various diseases, ai...
July 15, 2025 at 12:17
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
I think that when suffering occurs, our direct conscious experience is pain, which is immediately followed by a strong desire to avoid that pain. Or p...
July 15, 2025 at 12:01
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
Could you elaborate on the "basic level" you are referring to, I am really curious about it. I think this is a misunderstanding. From previous convers...
July 13, 2025 at 18:06
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
I think it is unfair to claim that these cases are facts that can be discovered through empirical sciences. While they strike us as merely descriptive...
July 13, 2025 at 17:32
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
I would say that a value is a prescriptive idea that makes its possessor believe everyone else ought to approve of and adopt it.
July 11, 2025 at 02:50
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
The premise of gender equality is that all humans must be treated equally. From there, it is easy to construct the argument for feminism: All humans m...
July 11, 2025 at 00:37
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
I think there are actually plenty of problems that challenge the soundness of non-cognitivism. One of the most well-known objections is the Frege–Geac...
July 10, 2025 at 16:31
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
I think this has been—and perhaps still is—my intuitive stance: that different cultures develop distinct moral systems, but at the core of every syste...
July 10, 2025 at 16:06
In: Moral-realism vs Moral-antirealism  — view comment
“Meta” is a prefix derived from the ancient Greek word ????, which literally means “after.” In philosophical and broader academic contexts, however, i...
July 10, 2025 at 15:43
In: What are the philosophical perspectives on depression?  — view comment
What is the definition of "meaning" for you? When I use it in the context of "the meaning of suffering" or "the meaninglessness of the universe", I am...
July 07, 2025 at 18:34
In: What are the philosophical perspectives on depression?  — view comment
I think it would be helpful to first identify what exactly the problem is—in this case, determining which specific type of depression you may be exper...
July 07, 2025 at 17:04
In: Ongoing Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus reading group.  — view comment
Hello guys, new to this discussion. I don't know if you have already discussed this but I am having a hard time to understand what a symbol is. All I ...
March 18, 2024 at 10:22
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
I think for me, the problem with idealism is its extremely anthropocentric nature. It seems that this position supports the claim that the material wo...
December 25, 2023 at 23:04
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
So in short, your view is that we are to be content with dwelling within the subjective interpretation we as a species formulated, whilst simultaneous...
December 25, 2023 at 13:09
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
I guess you could say that it is precisely the humanity's inability to comprehend reality which makes it devoid of meaning (though I think reality is ...
December 24, 2023 at 17:04
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
I think the analogical view here does not necessarily stand. Sure, when we say "the sun is bright" and "this colour is bright", the predicate "bright"...
December 24, 2023 at 16:46
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
That is a very valid point worth reflecting. However, religions and other beliefs, in terms of logic, are deductive conclusions (e.g. the Ontological ...
December 24, 2023 at 14:39
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
Could you explain to me which part is antithetical please, thank you.
December 23, 2023 at 19:13
In: The Conjunction of Nihilism and Humanism  — view comment
Only when God actually exists. And even then, yes, I would regard Him irrational in the sense that His essence is beyond the realm of human understand...
December 23, 2023 at 19:12
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