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If you think a proposition P is meaningless, then you cannot believe(P), so you do not-believe(P). That's different from if you believe(not-P), which,...

Thank you both for your responses! "Philosophy of philosophy", pretty much. (Some take it to mean a separate field which studies the field of philosop...

I don't understand what you're trying to say. These two sentences to me sound like they're contradicting each other. In the first one you say what all...

I don't completely understand what you're saying, but it sounds to me like that's all aiming to answer the question about the meaning of descriptive s...

Thanks for elaborating. The questions about reality and knowledge are all about that. Meaning asks what the content of a thought or belief is, Subject...

Weak atheism just is non-theism, that's its definition. And "don't believe there are any" is distinguished from "believe there are none"; that's the m...

I'm not sure I understand this question. Can you elaborate?

Thanks. So your only criteria for judging the truth is a description proposition is that it's not self-contradictory? Every self-consistent descriptiv...

Evolution isn't impossible without DNA. I posted about this upthread, let me quote myself:

I used to think that, but now I have to disagree. For the past year I've been finding my thinking at the mercy of a rollercoaster of emotions the like...

Sorry, I'm being a bit ahistorical in my terminology. I was thinking of things like Nietzsche contra Wagner, and thinking of Wagner in terms of "Nazi ...

I'm happy to hear that, that's exactly what I hoped for. :-) I look forward to seeing them when you feel they're worth sharing; meanwhile, discussion ...

That huge difference between high and low figures is exactly what I'm talking about, and what makes it the case that the vast majority of people would...

Inferential knowledge is still knowledge though, so would you not still say that you know that God exists? Like, if someone claimed that he did not, w...

You'll note that I didn't impute anything antisemitic into my impression of Nietzsche, specifically because I know he tried to distance himself from N...

There is not a huge bulk of middle class. That was my point. About 75% of people make less than the mean income. About 50% of people make less than HA...

That depends on what they believe about the situation. If they agree that he has not been harmed (which, again, seems like a stretch given the most li...

Oh okay, thanks then. Your historical account sounds accurate enough to me, but doesn't really say anything against what I was saying before, except i...

Hurray, discussion is being generated. :-) Philosophy is done not so much by solving problems, but by dissolving them: showing apparent paradoxes and ...

That would then entail that some kind of socialism should dominate in an open democracy, whether under that name or not, since the thing that most peo...

Thanks for the continuing replies! I'm surprised to find myself continuing to agree with you as much as I do; I expected our views to have diverged a ...

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Same answer: depending on how the situation is really fleshed out (or how I believe it to be fleshed out), I might suffer, but the masked man hasn’t h...

Nietzsche would be an MRA railing against how feminism has made untermensch of all the men of glorious European blood allowing even the Oriental savag...

No I don't think I'd be harmed. Depending on how the details of the scenario flesh out, I might suffer some empathically, but that's not really the ma...

If he truly will not ever experience any of the consequences of the actions, then no. In this example scenario though... well, a lot more details woul...

Thank you for your continued responses! I guess enough people have said enough about their philosophies that I can start offering my own answers to my...

I was saying that I hope that it generates some interesting discussion. The point of this thread is for people to share their philosophies and discuss...

The main philosophical angle of this thought is the existentialist interpretation of that part of Genesis. That the story can be taken as a metaphor f...

I’m not favoring Genesis over any other myths, I just had a thought about that one. And as I said, Genesis claims that women are cursed with difficult...

Congratulations on being the first person to answer all questions! I hope you enjoyed writing that and it generates some interesting discussion.

There is no agreed upon complete explanation for the evolution of DNA because molecules don’t exactly leave fossils so it’s hard to work out the parti...

DingoJones already said that it wasn’t his thread.

The list of problems I have here were devised as the questions that are inevitably raised by any other kind of endeavor. As I frame it, every kind of ...

Ideally, people would not have the emotional holes that need filling by other people's caring and esteem, but would be healthy and capable of self-car...

Sounds great, I look forward to it. :-)

Here's a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

Six replies in a moderator already said "nah" to this idea, and it's a pretty ridiculous notion that such a traditionally major area of philosophy wou...

I have noticed that my general counterargument to regressive or otherwise cynical arguments for nihilism of any sort does resemble Pascal's Wager, if ...

May I suggest on this note a thing I've seen other forums do: when a post is deleted or moderated or something, a clear note is left in its place that...

Your argument shows that we cannot know if realism is true or not. But that does not entail that realism is not true. That just leaves us stuck having...

I was not hypothesizing that language suddenly evolved, and I'm not making any particular claims about human evolution at all. I'm just noting that ce...

Thanks for the continuing responses! I don't understand this acronym. Basically how should the social endeavor of finding and spreading knowledge be "...

The important thing is, you've found a way to feel superior to even them. :wink: (Seriously it's just a joke, and not even an original one, so more li...

May I suggest an alternative (that someone may suggest to the software developers): a user-by-user ability to unsubscribe some subforums from the main...

Thanks for continuing your responses! I'm seeing an interesting kind of yin and yang between you and @"180 Proof" so far. I notice that you skipped a ...

I think it's interesting how the poll results have leveled out over time. Early on the answers were mostly "No" or else "Analytic" with no "Continenta...

For most of my life I found the question of "what is the meaning of life?" paradoxically meaningless, in that I couldn't for the life of my figure out...

I don’t derive “is” from “ought”, or vice versa. I was suggesting that maybe you (or Wittgenstein, or someone answering these questions) might want to...

I saw someone recently characterize the difference between left-wing populism (which is a thing) and right-wing populism something like this: both are...