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Zosito

['Member']Joined: August 08, 2016 at 02:29Last active: February 12, 2024 at 07:121 discussions17 comments

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In: Laissez faire promotes social strength by rewarding the strong and punishing the weak  — view comment
"In Roman stoicism..." Can you please cite your sources for this affirmation?
June 12, 2019 at 06:57
In: The Blind Spot of Science and the Neglect of Lived Experience  — view comment
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June 11, 2019 at 02:03
In: Recommendations of logic text books  — view comment
Introduction to Formal Logic by Peter Smith. Covers the basics, from propositional logic to first order logic. Instead of using natural deduction, it ...
May 27, 2019 at 00:15
In: What are the tenets of Kierkegaard's philosophy? How can he improve our lives?  — view comment
I agree with you. That is why I asked Terrapin Station to clarify his position, for it seems to me he asserted that the purpose of Philosophy is to ga...
May 12, 2019 at 04:50
In: What are the tenets of Kierkegaard's philosophy? How can he improve our lives?  — view comment
Philosophy helps you acquire facts about the world? i.e it helps you see "what the world is like factually"?
May 12, 2019 at 01:22
In: Is 2 + 2 = 4 universally true?  — view comment
It could well be that " 2+2 =4" is true for all humans, if not " universally true", whatever that would mean. Such relations are just presupposed in o...
March 06, 2019 at 21:50
In: Do you think you can prove that 1+1=2?  — view comment
Slightly different proof: 1- Fx' ? ?y(Fy ? y=x') Existential instantiation (P1) 2- Gy' ? ?y(Gy ? y=y') Existential instantiation (P2) 3- Fx' Simplific...
March 02, 2019 at 00:47
In: Do you think you can prove that 1+1=2?  — view comment
I re expressed some of the formulas. Proving the conclusion using the 3 premises would be equivalent to proving that the initial implication is true. ...
March 01, 2019 at 22:37
In: Do you think you can prove that 1+1=2?  — view comment
Hi. You could try breaking the implication into smaller expressions and treating them as an argument. You have 3 main conjuncts in the antecedent; tre...
March 01, 2019 at 22:15
In: Do you think you can prove that 1+1=2?  — view comment
Hello. Can you please state what you understand to be a tautology? If someone asks a mathematician or logician to prove "1+1=2", they will do so using...
March 01, 2019 at 22:08
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
People do not exist in vacuums. Z entrepreneur is not solely responsible for starting "massive industrial production". He is relying on existing socie...
November 21, 2017 at 02:51
In: Is Misanthropy right?  — view comment
"And which of you, by being anxious, can add even one hour to their lifespan?" Even if a whole society is dysfunctional (which is most probably not th...
August 11, 2017 at 01:22
In: Is giving grades in school or giving salary immoral or dangerous to the stability of society?  — view comment
We have been put to sleep, as it were, by the mass-media wielding masters of mankind, so that they can more easily go about their business. At least t...
August 07, 2017 at 03:39
In: What is self-esteem?  — view comment
It is obvious, you've said it on multiple previous occasions, that you don't believe in there being truth or falsity in judgements concerning such thi...
December 27, 2016 at 02:34
In: The Brothers Karamazov Discussion  — view comment
I'm curious as to how you perceived that chapter in which Alyosha dreams about the marriage at Cana. Well, maybe not how you perceived it, but how did...
December 27, 2016 at 02:07
In: What is self-esteem?  — view comment
I wonder, is this condition of yours a result of some sort of hyper-normalization of the (I'm assuming) 1st World around you? Not often being aware of...
December 20, 2016 at 16:41
In: Idiots get consolation from the fine arts, he said.  — view comment
The scene that most stuns me from his films is the ending of Zerkalo. I don't feel at all apt to describe it, but how would you do it?
September 16, 2016 at 04:02
In: Philosophical Pessimism vs. Stoicism  — view comment
You cannot stop life. Even if all humans stopped reproducing and went extinct, there would remain most of the animals, which would probably flourish u...
September 04, 2016 at 15:03
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