Thanks for the comments. I'm headed in a different direction. (Descartes was just an example.) Identity can be the propositional tautology or ontologi...
(I've been tricked into North American spelling. Neighbour without the 'u'.) :) Your impressions of your neighbor is, or is derived from, your experie...
Consider the following dichotomy, a common categorization of experiences: Non-identity: Say I have a chat my neighbor. My experiences of my neighbor ?...
I agree, to an extent at least. It is, however, a philosophical problem, regardless of Descartes. That said, I think there are some other conundrums t...
It is - being trained to think in some specific way. And, in absence of other training, it can engender narrow-mindedness, which emphasizes the gain f...
Right, sometimes they can be like a street-sign giving some directions, or maps giving some context. Other times they can be like refreshers, for some...
This class of arguments (prime/unmoved mover, first cause, kalam, cosmological, ...) seems the most commonly used for justifying such belief out there...
Addendum So, what about reasoning then? Useless posturing? No, of course not. It's not to abandon reasoning, or throw hands in the air in futility, ra...
I've been "diagnosed" with a tendency to stress out. Be it worrying about deforestation, or how well my better half's speech/presentation is going, or...
That many people suddenly moving around is bound to invite problems. At least it's not exclusively horror stories. Here are some tired, thirsty, worn ...
Hmm.. At least the numbers have utf super/sub-script characters.. And some other characters.. Which..isn't quite the same.. superscript 0 ? superscrip...
- Hear! Didn't Wittgenstein think philosophy is an activity? (Pardon if my memory failed me.) There's a "living" aspect to philosophy, more than readi...
Attaching a small snippet of html which has mathjax in it, did seem to work, albeit a slightly more cumbersome way to share formulae. Clicking the att...
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