@"T Clark" already pointed out that it may be due to the fact that the evolutionary stage is already saturated with complex self-sustaining life and t...
The designation can be attached to many other notions implicitly present in the context. The color designation can allude to whatever statistical corr...
People in developed nations want to keep their standards from being floored, which I can understand. The solution would require intricate maneuvers, b...
@"TiredThinker" In review of some of the other responses, I want to clarify. Misuse of the term can always create the impression that it is a pejorati...
Skin color is the result of melanin production. It is a real genetic trait and has long evolutionary history. There is nothing inherently insulting ab...
My personal view differs from the conventional in that I don't believe that free will should be concerned with the possibility of non-determinism, be ...
I have to be honest. If I start to respond with inquiries on that paragraph, I will first ask what "freedom" is and how is it different from having yo...
Don't get me wrong. I relate to your suggestion as a feeling, but I believe that we are making projection of our ethical considerations into the world...
By simplified, I mean that distinct in appearance phenomena were consequently accounted for by interrelated causes, which reduced the number of cases ...
I know that we should better agree to disagree. But I am a curious person. I try to understand or provoke different arguments and have always failed t...
I don't want to drag you back into a dispute. We can agree to disagree. I'll be fine with any compatible definition, proviso the ideas for its proper ...
Exactly, nomenclature or not. Not all philosophical differences translate to definitions and definitions are merely conventions. That is, there is alw...
Even if the Minkowski space were Euclidean, because there is room for disagreement on definitions (edit: its inner product is not suitable, so it shou...
No. In fact, it is one of the few places which concurs with the manner in which I was taught to think of analytic geometry. Not as working with number...
I agree. It was lame of me not to offer link, but it was from the same page that I referred to previously and it is the main article for Euclidean spa...
How are you detaching from the use of preferred origin and axial orientation then? Since, obviously, you are defining some point to be (0, 0), and som...
I should also say, that if I was having a practical problem, I would probably never deal with underlying vector spaces explicitly. I would only think ...
I'm all for contrarian thought, but I don't think I can help. Distances in the Euclidean geometry, where the theorem applies, are supposed to have uni...
I don't doubt that such sources are authoritative in their own right. I think that such treatment is a little outdated in style, because the mathemati...
I agree with the fact that we can define the dot product as you specify, but we need inner product as well, or we are just manipulating unitless numbe...
I still want to be certain that you concur with me on the definition of Cartesian coordinate systems. A Cartesian coordinate system is an assignment o...
I know that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven with constructive geometry, with only areas of aligned triangles. This is however not about Cartesia...
I say that the Pythagorean theorem applies to affine spaces over inner product spaces, because in affine spaces any two points from the underlying poi...
My point is that you need to have the concepts of "angles" (so that they can be equal), "directions" (so that you can make the points on your lines al...
The whole point is that the 2D Cartesian coordinate system is not a picture. It is ascription of coordinates to some plane of points, which points cor...
Why should theism be limited to the description of deity in the Western world? The pantheistic description specifies a deity that is omnipotent, omnip...
How did you come to the realization that the angle is perpendicular when constructing your mathematical model of the problem domain? What property in ...
Xenophobia and ingroup mentalities run strong in our genes. Religion is another trigger that we might not have otherwise had, but we would have found ...
I wish I wrote that. Even someone like Jordan Peterson, who is a hardliner cultural and religious conservative describes a lot of the religious texts ...
I could have made better case. The advantages of organized religion: Social currency Religions provide people with notions that they can use to relate...
In contrast, I was brought up in undecided environment. I remained self-determined Christian till I was in my middle teens, with little encouragement ...
This statement presumes that success in interactions is bilateral. In actuality, we compete for reasons such as attention and control. For example, yo...
I would like to give a little clarification on the answer provided by @"tim wood". The application of the Pythagorean theorem is intended for spaces e...
It seems to me that the idea of truth you subscribe to ultimately requires simultaneous conviction in the same interpretation of sensory experience an...
I am not saying that propositions are inferred from example instances for each specific proposition, but by dividing the instances of experience into ...
I was concerned with the possibility of solving the issue as specified and wanted to propose that we break it down into aspects of smaller complexity....
The definition of truth is complex and it will be useful to tackle it separately. It raises questions beyond the above dichotomy, such as to what does...
Thanks for starting this thread. I agree with pretty much everything you said. Philosophy aside, we routinely apply the idea that appearing human indi...
I ranted a lot in my previous post. My written English is not great, so it came out a little confused. I have edited it, but I'll summarize. We suppos...
In a recent thread I started arguing that solipsism is incompatible with ontic materialism. My interlocutor described solipsistic materialism to me as...
I think that you suggest that the relationship between B and C (and therefore the entire existence of B) happens in complete physical transparency. Th...
Does your mind say that it makes no sense to wonder about (derive by contemplation itself) its sensible properties, or that it makes no sense to witne...
"Exist" is just another word for having a form. But the only way we define the idea of form is through the account of our interactions, through phenom...
It makes no sense to ask it as unaided self-reflection, but that doesn't mean that through some assisted view (externally) your mind could not see its...
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