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Areeb Salim

['Member']Joined: October 20, 2018 at 00:03Last active: May 21, 2025 at 16:041 discussions9 comments

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Peirce’s visceral reaction highlights how deeply realism is tied to meaning-making for some, without universals, the world can seem empty or arbitrary...
May 21, 2025 at 03:02
People often conflate epistemic uncertainty with ontological possibility. The semantics of modal logic distinguishes between what’s true in at least o...
May 21, 2025 at 02:53
For me, cannabis didn’t just help with stress or sleep, it kind of reshaped how I relate to downtime. Like instead of pushing through mental noise, it...
May 18, 2025 at 03:44
Your point about there being no “now” without a conscious observer ties into what’s sometimes called the “specious present” in philosophy. And yes, re...
May 18, 2025 at 02:49
One approach says reality is what’s consistent, testable, and persists independently of perception (empiricism). Another argues everything we know is ...
May 18, 2025 at 02:34
It happens
May 18, 2025 at 02:24
There are times, though, when an intuition feels so internally consistent and repeatedly validated by experience that it gains a kind of personal cert...
May 11, 2025 at 22:11
I really like your approach of looking at how “faith” operates in real discourse instead of locking it into a rigid definition. Words like “faith” are...
May 11, 2025 at 21:59
The infinite regress argument about subjective time requiring itself to change is intriguing, though it leans heavily on a metaphysical notion of the ...
May 11, 2025 at 21:49