Compatibilism and related approaches (e.g. some strains of libertarianism) deal with these questions as axiological issues that are largely decoupled ...
It's not as simple as that. Experimental philosophers and social psychologists have done quite a bit of research over the last couple of decades to tr...
That's not Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that's an obvious fact. Your example is too ambiguous. You need to decide whether you want to talk about legal prac...
@"aletheist" will be along shortly, I am sure, invoking the ghost of Charles Sanders Peirce and insisting that Euclid's line is not a collection of po...
There was a blackbird who used to sing right outside my window some time ago (I spotted him a few times). That was very cool. Birds are quieter now, b...
Well, "the number line" in its usual sense is just a visual metaphor for the real numbers (it will do for the rationals as well, though see above abou...
It's funny how ubiquitous the delta function still is in physical and engineering mathematics, and yet it is completely non-kosher from the point of v...
The situation with surreals vs. reals is a little different than that with reals vs. rationals. Though it may seem as if rationals completely fill the...
It breaks down in the sense that in a dynamic, curved and possibly infinite spacetime there is no uniquely correct way of calculating and keeping trac...
Lancet just published a large observational study of chloroquine-based treatmenets of COVID patients. It found that all treatments that are widely use...
The Spanish Flu most likely was never eradicated, in the sense of going completely extinct - more likely, it mutated into less dangerous forms and may...
Those symbols are just Unicode characters that you can copy/paste from anywhere (e.g. the first Google hit for "set symbols"). But this site also supp...
Oh so that's what surgical masks are for? To make those notoriously smoke-filled, asbestos-lined hospitals more safe for medical personnel? Who would'...
I'll go with the quotational approach - that's the opposite of disquotational, as in the disquotational theory of truth. The answer to this question i...
There is no such scientific consensus. The evidence is mixed, but the consensus, if anything, is that masks are somewhat effective, some more than oth...
I don't see what logic could imply that {{a}, {b}, {c},...} is the same as {a, b, c, ...} You keep making the same mistake over and over again: No! Th...
That's an interesting discussion there. Most of us here are non-mathematicians, and among mathematicians only a small fraction are working in or at le...
Just discovered this early piece by György Ligeti, a beautiful cello sonata: https://youtu.be/-qRn8UyHogA Bartok's influence, of course, but also very...
You need to understand the difference between being a member of and being a subset of. Set X = {A, B, C} = { {a, w}, {a, x}, {a, y} } a is a member of...
Who ever said that Russel's Paradox "undermines mathematics"? It undermines what is now known as "naive set theory" (an early attempt at an axiomatic ...
The normal Trump strategy is to double down on the bullshit when he is called out on it. And he is perfectly capable of believing his own bullshit aft...
I am not sure why you think this fits into consequentialism. You don't offer much of an argument, but your last sentence hints at a traditional deonto...
Why? If you like the 1000wordphilosophy project, why not just put a link in Resources section? What would be the point of attempting to reproduce the ...
This banana is the only banana in the world that is this and not any other. What's so hard about this? Yes, I know that you want to work the self-sele...
Rather, you are asking: why this banana is this banana. This means that this banana is somehow special, compared to the others, because it has the pro...
I disagree, I think there is a difference in usage between "the same" and "alike." In any case, technical or not, this is more than a stripped-down la...
Then you are in trouble, because in a symmetric structure, such as the one with the two spheres, you still can't individuate an isolated part, even us...
You might instead want to say "they are alike in every way," making it clear that you mean "internal", or "qualitative" properties. Ah, but unless you...
No, I meant numerically distinct, as in the example of two spheres. If you are allowed to predicate anything by way of specifying a property, up to an...
It all hinges on what is understood by 'property'. The only sense that makes PII true is the most inclusive (and deflationary): a property of a thing ...
That may be so, but I don't see the relevance of bringing up the fact that some philosophers did not write well as an objection to an admonition for p...
"Many famous philosophers were miserable communicators" is not an argument against good writing tips (unless you want to argue that they were great be...
Ancient cosmogonies were not overly constrained by empirical observations, the way (we like to think) our modern cosmology is; ancient people gave a l...
I am not sure what you are asking. What do the designations mean? You can read the links and follow the references inside, but I think you already kno...
The terms of art for this topic are Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism, the latter being a stronger form of the former. These theses are...
I don't think that our esthetic preferences, habits of thought or limits of imagination should dictate what we believe about the world. On the other h...
The reason for saying that there is no center of the universe is the observation/assumption of symmetry, or homogeneity of cosmos. If, on a large scal...
Yes, though it doesn't pay to run too far with that idea (as was the fashion at one time). Still, there's a lot of fun, unexpected things that we have...
Nah, you are exaggerating. He was perhaps self-centered, but not uncommonly so. (You should see what a really self-obsessed flake looks like. There's ...
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