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Nerevar

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Couldn't the Cogito be rephrased as something like: "I exist and I think, therefore I exist"? For if the 'I' doesn't exist, then it cannot think. In t...
April 26, 2017 at 05:05
There are good arguments for panpsychism, one of them being that since humans have consciousness and humans evolved from non-human animals, these non-...
March 09, 2017 at 04:36
Wosret is right, in that Zeno was uninterested in the mathematics of infinity. There is a correct solution to the problem mathematically, but this onl...
February 18, 2017 at 11:01
I don't believe that ultimate meaning is unattainable. I'm just saying that the complete meaning of life, or complete Truth, is dependent on being awa...
January 19, 2017 at 06:25
The full meaning of life is unchangeable and static, but full knowledge of this meaning involves full knowledge of all experience, which is infinite a...
January 16, 2017 at 19:35
Life has inherent (permanent and essential) meaning (definition, explanation, connotation). However, meaning is not always known. In fact, life begins...
January 16, 2017 at 07:23
If someone lives who is ignorant of the potential for great pain, and they live well, isn't their quality of life far better than someone who is acute...
December 24, 2016 at 16:32
Minds and bodies are not separate. Nor is your body separate from the bodies of others. Your body arose from the matter of your parents and the matter...
December 02, 2016 at 06:05
Yes, people here tend to use big words when short ones will do. Some of that is unavoidable, since the history of philosophy is littered with arcane w...
December 01, 2016 at 06:24
I believe that the argument for the world as a dream isn't to say that the world is identical to a single human dream, but rather that since it is pos...
November 29, 2016 at 18:49
What is this nonexistence that a person can go into and come out of? One must first decide what actually exists. If the universe is all that exists, t...
November 06, 2016 at 07:16