If time is a closed circle, then we can get to a stage where the entropy reaches the maximum value possible and suddenly it becomes ordered. The quest...
If someone yelled in a crowded closed place with bottleneck type entrance and they cause death, it will have consequences in the court when the case i...
Hey, I'm back. I have to admire your consistency but l think you have used a disanalogy here, Video games, movies which include violence generally wit...
I don't know what OP is talking about, couldn't get my head around it . I thought it was related to logical paradoxes since those were the exact state...
The following statement is false The previous statement is true Is that logically possible ? :meh: It can be possible if we drop law of the excluded m...
Philosophy falls under liberal arts and all liberal arts tend to express the obvious in new ways or perspective. Science on the other hand tries to ex...
Before getting to the density of the infinite sets, l would like to comment on the following remark Consider the people in simulation to be set of nat...
I hope that you won't mind my questions as l am confused by your term, " consequential truth ". . T+con(N) would rule out any statements like " this i...
If rules are arbitrary, would you allow contradictions in it. Will a system have logically interlinked rules such that they have to be consistent and ...
Can you list your complete set of axioms for arithmetic in a system where godels theorem doesn't apply. ( it cannot be recursively innumerable ) I wou...
I have two questions for you regarding this statement. Choatic system are deterministic but does it say in theory ( not practise ) that it is impossib...
You should try to refute AUP, even though it seems wrong intuitively. Maybe it is talking about lack of information causing the unpredictability and w...
That guy is in mentioned in the article you posted, l think he hasn't checked it out yet. :smile: I will try break down the article in some basic poin...
I take back my argument if it undermined your stance but l do see a problem with your idea that the sole deciding power of morality lies in the genera...
Why is free speech an important human right, and above the right to life ? In my opinion, both views are okay as long as the society works well and if...
Let's take this thought experiment for clearing the problem on gun control. If the USA government suddenly turns into a fascist regime or a dictatorsh...
So nazi Germany beliefs and ideas were okay because all of them thought so. People in the past, agreed on a global level that slavery was okay. We don...
What is wrong with violence and murder, despite the fact that we don't like to be involved in it. We have created such social constructs to be safe bu...
If we claim that words don't influence action, we can allow a teacher to have indecent conversation with underage students and if they end up having s...
As long as industrial units support and allow cultivation of ideas and our general well being, they can be an indicator of development but on their ow...
When robots are developed to the extend that they can perform common labour and have set of skills that can replace low skill labourers, that will not...
In the present day and age, artists can struggle to make a decent living. In the past, the emperors and the elites in the society gave patronage to th...
In the present day and age, artists can struggle to make a decent living. In the past, the emperors and the elites in the society gave patronage to th...
In the present day and age, artists can struggle to make a decent living. In the past, the emperors and the elites in the society gave patronage to th...
The influence Wittgenstein had on Russell was partially due to the how wittgenstein approached problems. Russell wanted philosophy to be build into so...
In my opinion, it has got to do with the semantics as in propositional logic , inserting f(x) into f(x) can cause us to have meaningless statements wh...
Yes, it is quite often used in mathematics and computer science, like the iterative function f(x)=x , hence f(f(x))=x and so on. I don't think wittgen...
There was a recent philosopher who vouched for the validity of religious experience. His reasoning was along simple lines. We cannot even comprehend t...
I was on their side once and l can understand their sentiments but most people in the world and by most l mean 98 percent people who believe in God do...
The problems with atheist is that they never have met a real mystic. By mystic l mean someone who has devoted his whole life searching for God and gon...
The belief in God is trancendental, it is not even in the field of empiricism or logical systems. God is beyond space and time and asking for a prove ...
The debate wittgenstein had with turing was really interesting since both of them were at cambridge teaching foundation of mathematics. The content tu...
Logical positivist used the verificationism principle to regard metaphysical statements as meaningless, would you go along that belief ? Ironically, t...
This reminds me of the opening lines of tractatus logico philosophicus. 1. The world is all that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, ...
Since we are constrained by the world, how does that interfere with our freedom ? Can you explain objective reality and subjective reality as a concep...
What do you mean by " freedom " in freedom to act ? :wink: :wink: :ok: l agree that it works in only one way but what is that way ? I never implied th...
Those who believe that we do not have free will should have problems explaining something that doesn't exit according to them. Similarly those who bel...
How would you explain free will and what does it mean to have a free will ? Absolute freedom is absurd since everyone interacts with the sense data pr...
People often connect determinism and causality but l think they are not that interlinked, we can have a indeterminate system ( if indeterminate system...
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