Here are a few reasons: No appeal to highest authority. Legal disputes can be taken to higher courts. In the case of dual systems, there would be two ...
It's easy to get lost in intricate philosophical theology and miss the feel of the problem. On the one hand: If God is all powerful, all knowing, all ...
I would say it is not a fallacy. It is a challenge to show that the options presented are exhaustive. To do that, you need to show that denying both e...
So everyone knows what time is but nobody understands your account of it. It was clear, if (as you say) everyone knows what time is. But it is no long...
They say you can't ask what happened before the big bang and such a question makes no sense. To me that sounds like just dismissing an awkward questio...
Imagine the looks you'd get when you walk into the bar having just proved the Riemann hypothesis is false. Maybe someone has done it, they're just kee...
I think I'll go for the free health care, welfare state and universal education. If I can have all that without military music and wild slogans I'll b...
Cute idea. But how would they set the odds? Free will eleven to two against determinism and all bets off if compatibility is true. On reflection, all ...
I think I can confidently say that philosophy people do not have a reputation. In order to have a reputation one minimum requirement is not to be wide...
I would be in favour of abolishing the police, if there were no crime. It doesn't follow that I'm in favour of abolishing the police. The question at ...
Are you sure that things would be "Just like now" as suggested in the OP? In the OP scenario, there would be no poverty or misery and there would stil...
I'm not a commie but can I join in? OK so far. Oh. I see the owners in place. But I don't see everyone living in houses and being entertained. If I mi...
Sounds better. What this seems to say is that if you take away our brains and nervous systems we will no longer be able to know whether or not we are ...
So thinking is not an illusion - but (according to OP / topic title) consciousness is an illusion, or at least an 'illusion' - which may be something ...
So patting the dog - a physical process if ever there was one - is not, after all, an illusion (when I'm patting the dog). Else, why does your argumen...
By the same argument, digestion is an illusion. We may eat food and feel satisfied. But we do not experience the enzymes at work and the chemical tran...
Yes, I completely agree. The point that kept me awake was the specific challenge - "OK, it's an illusion - now at which step exactly is the fallacy in...
Agreement seems to be breaking out wildly on this thread. So how did it get to be a paradox? It's actually pretty clever and not so simple to pinpoint...
It is sensible to claim "Either p is an unknown truth or not-p is an unknown truth" With this amendment the conclusion of the argument is that we know...
I would say the argument establishes only that the assertion "p is an unknown truth" results in a contradiction. To assert the truth of p is to claim ...
If there is room for a meaningful conversation, then solipsism is false. If this is merely a semblance of a conversation then it is a person's train o...
Ok, pfirefry, if solipsism is true, then either you're a bot or I am. I'm not. How 'bout you? And when you complain of unfairness on behalf of solipsi...
If solipsism is true, then it is an idea that cannot be communicated because there is nobody to communicate it to. So, given solipsism, if you wrote t...
....says the Quora poster (from Opening Post in this thread). If yours is the only mind, then I am not writing this post. I am writing this post. So y...
True. I am talking about the philosophical bases of law and law-making rather than legal practice. But you will find philosophers dealing with legal c...
That is a brilliant idea. I will file my copy next to the Journal of Negative Results. This publishes papers that reach no conclusions at all, not eve...
It's under-determination. For any finite set of observations an infinite number of hypotheses can be generated that will fit the data. For any finite ...
Yes, the law will decide. The link I am making to Descartes is on the question of 'what can be doubted?' Knowing someone's complete physiology, presen...
Sure. They would mean it's not in their pocket. When someone types 'Untied States' by mistake you know what they mean. But 'untied' does not mean 'uni...
Not necessarily. Cats are not tigers. Cats are not lions. But tigers are cats. And lions are cats. My house key is not in my pocket. True. My house ke...
Lucky you. It's dismal. The relevance, I'm arguing, is that as well as all the heat and dust there is a metaphysical question or doubt, although not t...
Private citizen= idiotes -> commoner -> pleb, chav, idiot. Similar derogatory shift in English. I was taught that 'idiotes' meant private citizen and ...
But it's not always a cut-and-dried distinction - the one between questions and pseudo-questions. Wars have been fought over this. In fact a war of a ...
My problem with the anthropic principle so used is that it can be used to explain everything and so explains nothing. Why is the earth 93m miles from ...
I think the idea is that making sense of the universe is not a misguided project - but it is we who are making the sense of it and we are not reading ...
Yes, I am sure you are right. By "So the theory goes" I was referring to the theory which I don't subscribe to - Hermeticus's post near the start of t...
Yes, I'm sure you are right. I was questioning the idea mentioned in a post above that superposition disproves LNC. Even if superposition seems (to so...
According to one view in this thread, no, 1 cannot both equal and not equal 1. But one particle can both be and not be in the same place at the same t...
Why is the lack of a deductive proof a concern? Suppose (a) it's a sound principle (b) we know it (c) we have good reason to rely on it and (d) we don...
I tend to agree - to an extent. Debates on abortion, outside academic philosophy, quickly go to topics such as personal identity, the nature of consci...
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