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I'm the one who can truthfully say 'It's mine' when someone asks 'Whose is this debit card I just found at the checkout?' That is, the self exists ess...
August 03, 2021 at 09:58
OP is a great example of children's negotiating skills. "You talk about what I want you to then I'll eat what you want me to." However
August 03, 2021 at 07:30
In explaining a concept one approach is to look for necessary and sufficient conditions of its application. What is X ('justice' for example)? Let's s...
August 03, 2021 at 06:55
It is because females can bear children and males cannot. Mothers know who their children are but children may not know who their fathers are. Patriar...
August 01, 2021 at 08:32
I always wonder which comes first, peace or international co-operation. Do we set up international organisations because we happen to be at peace; or ...
July 30, 2021 at 15:43
:rofl: Up tails all. I think he is referring to the logical basis of mathematics; a line of thought that culminated in the Hilbert programme. Whom you...
July 30, 2021 at 07:48
The Pope is quite happy to preach the non-literalness of the Bible: https://www.thetrumpet.com/7757-pope-dont-take-bible-literally
July 28, 2021 at 14:39
Isn't it just that #3 is false? "If one doesn't know then enquiry is impossible." I don't know where my keys are. But I can look for them. That's a co...
July 27, 2021 at 10:50
I think that's right. Aristotle addressed the first kind by saying that philosophy (or science) begins with wondering, thaumazein, which I would say r...
July 27, 2021 at 09:30
From 3. it follows that if you don't know where your house keys are then you can't look for them because you don't know where to look. You could try t...
July 27, 2021 at 00:05
I mean we investigate the world with an a priori assumption that we will find regularities. When we don't find them, we assume not that the world is i...
July 26, 2021 at 23:14
When we find an example of physical laws changing then we look for a higher law which both the old and the new observations obey or we revise the old ...
July 26, 2021 at 15:18
I don't generally like slippery slope objections, but antinatalism could be particularly skiddy, best watch out for that.
July 26, 2021 at 14:48
And if the publisher strikes out half of it, make a podcast.
July 26, 2021 at 14:43
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13547-read-over-your-compositions-and-wherever-you-meet-with-a “Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet wi...
July 26, 2021 at 12:19
I think of Amartya Sen when I hear that question. Avoiding doing the obviously wrong thing is a start. E.g. we may not be certain whether working for ...
July 22, 2021 at 15:16
You can't imagine unless you are conscious. But the things you imagine might not be conscious. I can imagine a cup having the quality of roundness, if...
July 22, 2021 at 15:02
I think there are some insightful and committed atheists right here in this thread and also some theists and we seem to be getting along ok. It's poss...
July 22, 2021 at 14:53
Some atheists want us to comprehend that it is mere comforting delusion at best and wicked trickery at worst. It's equally easy for them to comprehend...
July 22, 2021 at 08:15
That's very interesting, Corvus. I think the pre-occupations of theists and atheists tend to be different with regard to faith. For some atheists, the...
July 21, 2021 at 15:00
Not sure how we can get from 'no perception without a perceiver' to 'to be is to be perceived'. Maybe Jo sees the blackbird; and there would be no see...
July 21, 2021 at 00:39
It also teaches us that everything Richard Dawkins had to say about the survival of genes trumping the welfare of individuals has been forgotten. A ra...
July 20, 2021 at 15:37
The experiment teaches us some of the limits to empathy in humans. Empath 1: I want to learn all about human empathy and morality and stuff. Empath 2:...
July 20, 2021 at 12:30
Yes, and I think faith (religious or other) has as much to do with trust and confidence as with belief. Possibly more. I believe that flying is the sa...
July 20, 2021 at 09:38
boss i asked a mosquito about its quiet placid enjoyment of the present moment and its tranquillity of mind as celebrated by schopenhauer but he could...
July 20, 2021 at 08:18
This must be very persuasive to anyone to whom it seems there is no God. But I don't come to believe in God by a leap of faith. I do not need to const...
July 20, 2021 at 07:42
Though I suppose we can see what happens if Euclid's 5th postulate is treated as false and then discover a whole new area of maths. But.... Well, I do...
July 19, 2021 at 09:05
We can stipulate negative interest rates or announce a jubilee cancellation of all mortgage debt or cancel the validity of a currency at will. But we ...
July 19, 2021 at 09:02
I think where philosophy comes in is asking 'does it make sense to suppose these things?' Suppose I get the sack this month - how am I going to pay th...
July 19, 2021 at 08:52
Let's suppose these things are actually so. Suppose we don't know anything and also we cannot tell the difference between sleeping and waking or betwe...
July 19, 2021 at 08:47
In AnCapistan, can something that is property also be something that has interests (i.e. it can experience harm or benefit)? If so, then the good peop...
July 16, 2021 at 17:47
Question 1. I've always known. Question 2. I don't. It's a matter of faith. If it's a delusion, more fool me!
July 16, 2021 at 13:41
The biggest problem with climate change that we have yet to find a way to generate virtue from hand-wringing.
July 16, 2021 at 13:23
Good idea; and like a number of good ideas in philosophy Aristotle had it:
July 16, 2021 at 13:21
I said you might find Venn diagrams useful because it looked in the OP as if you initially believed 'All dogs are animals' and 'All cats are animals' ...
July 14, 2021 at 12:58
Yes. You do not need extra definitions. The original definitions are quite sufficient. Dogs are animals. Cats are animals. Cats are not dogs. Those la...
July 14, 2021 at 10:35
But the conclusion does not follow from the premisses. d->a and c->a does not entail d<->c. All dogs are animals; and all cats are animals; however, n...
July 14, 2021 at 10:23
In late-boomer-speak, it's bad manners. I'm called Cuthbert. You can call me Georgie-porgie if you like but it's not respectful.
July 14, 2021 at 09:30
A good tool is the Venn diagram. Represent animals by a big circle. Dogs is a smaller circle inside the big circle. Cats is another smaller circle ins...
July 14, 2021 at 09:17
If metaphysics is causing society's collapse, then things are worse than I thought. Best get busy on those other threads to sort the problems out. Or ...
July 14, 2021 at 07:57
So if I'm right then it's a case of a premiss being smuggled out of an argument rather than smuggled in. Very neat.
July 13, 2021 at 13:38
I think voters have reason to believe if they rely solely on the two premisses and . But these two premisses do not contain all the relevant backgroun...
July 13, 2021 at 13:29
Ha ha ha! well said
July 11, 2021 at 09:01
Bartricks, I'm referring omniscient subject S rather than 'God' because the aspect I'm addressing is about the concepts of omniscience, belief, knowle...
July 11, 2021 at 09:00
Perhaps the object did go through all that in between space to get to the new position. The dog comes into your room having previously been in the liv...
July 11, 2021 at 08:31
Suppose your conclusion follows - that ominiscient subject S can hold false beliefs. You have given a justification of your conclusion in the OP and y...
July 09, 2021 at 08:31
Unfortunately there are people who interfere with my freedom by undermining the authority of the party on whose stable and firm government all our fre...
July 08, 2021 at 11:50
"Austin sketches a distinction amongst speech act types, between locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts—broadly, the distinctio...
July 08, 2021 at 09:32
Truth of a proposition is not sufficient for knowledge, as you say. But lack of knowledge of a true proposition is sufficient for non-omniscience. Som...
July 08, 2021 at 09:22
If God does not believe 'not p' then he does not know 'not-p'. However, not-p. Therefore he is not omniscient.
July 08, 2021 at 08:47