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I won't talk about possibility as that is clearly beyond our scope here. We are nor physicists. Time being a circular path is possible
August 28, 2019 at 11:35
Entropy increases with time but if time is a circular path, does that cause entropy to decrease at the starting point.
August 28, 2019 at 09:33
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...
August 28, 2019 at 09:31
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...
August 28, 2019 at 05:53
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...
August 28, 2019 at 05:49
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...
August 26, 2019 at 03:43
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...
August 25, 2019 at 21:52
Haha, lmao. :lol: But credit goes to you for capturing the spirit of every philosophical debate. :rofl:
August 25, 2019 at 17:07
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...
August 25, 2019 at 14:18
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...
August 25, 2019 at 14:12
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...
August 25, 2019 at 13:35
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 ...
August 25, 2019 at 05:27
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...
August 25, 2019 at 05:12
Is this explanation valid or have l got it wrong. It can be hard to interpret wittgenstein sometimes
August 23, 2019 at 07:17
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...
August 23, 2019 at 07:09
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...
August 23, 2019 at 06:17
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...
August 22, 2019 at 21:36
I would agree with you if you could replace retarded imbecciles with right wing islamophobes who watch fox news 24/7 .
August 22, 2019 at 13:58
Both of you are right according to your viewpoint and l don't think you guys will solve it here . Lets call it a day.
August 22, 2019 at 13:49
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...
August 22, 2019 at 12:06
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...
August 22, 2019 at 11:46
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...
August 22, 2019 at 11:38
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...
August 22, 2019 at 11:29
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...
August 22, 2019 at 11:21
Would you allow a speech act which states " Let's ban free speech " and if it gets implemented, you won't have free speech anymore.
August 22, 2019 at 11:16
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...
August 22, 2019 at 11:13
I have been screaming this along the whole thread. People are really paranoid on losing their free speech by banning hate speech.
August 22, 2019 at 11:07
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...
August 22, 2019 at 07:49
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...
August 22, 2019 at 07:31
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...
August 22, 2019 at 05:31
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...
August 22, 2019 at 05:30
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...
August 22, 2019 at 05:30
The influence Wittgenstein had on Russell was partially due to the how wittgenstein approached problems. Russell wanted philosophy to be build into so...
August 22, 2019 at 05:05
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...
August 22, 2019 at 04:29
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...
August 22, 2019 at 04:25
There was a recent philosopher who vouched for the validity of religious experience. His reasoning was along simple lines. We cannot even comprehend t...
August 19, 2019 at 05:35
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...
August 19, 2019 at 05:15
Yes, absolutely. I hope that l don't sound like l am preaching.
August 19, 2019 at 05:06
I don't think you will ever understand what l said unless you see for yourself.
August 19, 2019 at 05:03
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...
August 19, 2019 at 05:00
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 ...
August 19, 2019 at 04:53
The debate wittgenstein had with turing was really interesting since both of them were at cambridge teaching foundation of mathematics. The content tu...
August 18, 2019 at 06:58
Logical positivist used the verificationism principle to regard metaphysical statements as meaningless, would you go along that belief ? Ironically, t...
August 17, 2019 at 18:06
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, ...
August 17, 2019 at 15:52
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...
August 17, 2019 at 15:40
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...
August 17, 2019 at 15:19
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...
August 17, 2019 at 14:31
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...
August 17, 2019 at 14:29
I would go with that too . :smile: What is your take on the free will debate ?
August 17, 2019 at 14:20
People often connect determinism and causality but l think they are not that interlinked, we can have a indeterminate system ( if indeterminate system...
August 17, 2019 at 13:56