Sure, but then you have the problem of how the .333 repeats forever. It can't already exist on the pain of Platonism, nor can it be generated by a rul...
Aliens we could potentially unite against in a military fight. A disease is a different matter. Interesting though that in the War of the Worlds it wa...
However, since nobody is constructing the sequence ad infinitum, it can't be said to go on forever. So the question becomes how a constructionist can ...
That too. Did you know France demanded that Haiti pay them 150 million francs for Haiti's successful revolution as compensation? How is a small countr...
It would be difficult without force to do so, as history shows. But you would need to convince them that the slaves were human just as much as the sla...
The Gospel of Judas portrays Judas as the only one understanding the teachings of Jesus, and by betraying him, Judas was freeing Jesus from the flesh ...
Social arrangements can and have denied people rights, which doesn't make sense if it's just a shorthand. At best, you get a relativism between social...
That can be used to justify slavery or any form of oppression. The issue is that the needs and wants of the people who make them up are not necessaril...
Maybe Jesus and the Jewish sect he belonged to believed Yahweh was the son of El Elyon. Judaism wasn't a monolith back then as there were different se...
No, but luckily Trump is held in check by other branches of government and the Constitution. Despite all his bluster, he can only do so much. And one ...
Sounds fantastic, but can this be afforded? $50K times the number of adults in the US (rounded down to 200 million) is 10 trillion dollars. The second...
One could argue the various communist countries have attempted this approach, and have noticeably failed on the freedom front. I'm skeptical that free...
Sounds like doublespeak without specifying what sort of exercise and coordination, and why it's necessary. Any group in power is going to be exercisin...
That's true, but Paul wrote as if Jesus was a real person in the 50s AD, and he mentions meeting with Peter and James, Jesus's brother. Mythicists arg...
Reminds of that interesting NY Times article a few years back about how philosophers in general have failed to take the latter Wittgenstein's argument...
That's true. My question is have there been substantial philosophical debates settled by demonstrating that the issue was a misuse of language? Certai...
@"Luke",@"Snakes Alive",@"jkg20" Let's take an example from a real life incident that remains a mystery. The Dyatlov Pass is where nine Russian ski-hi...
Cognitive closure is one possibility that McGinn has put forward for difficult philosophical problems. But it's not a very popular position, because i...
But popular debates usually have a long history with people coming at them from many different angles. We could go back and say, well Chalmers messed ...
If it were just the two of them creating a new thread on here, sure. But it's been an ongoing debate among many philosophers for several decades now. ...
Alright, that sounds reasonable. But let's take the hard problem debate. It's not known whether science can resolve it. Philosophers like Chalmers arg...
Sure, in a sense you're right. But in another, this is missing the point, because debates are usually about things and not the words themselves. Or at...
I think it's worth being able to explore the questions raised. Humans are prone to wax philosophical anyway. But maybe finding resolution is a matter ...
We also have to use our bodies. Does that make the world dependent on our hands, eyes, brains? Then again, this is philosophy and Berkeley thought thi...
If we're going to debate anything, we have to use language. That doesn't mean the thing being debated is dependent on language. Analyzing the language...
My notion is that it a consensus can be reached by professional philosophers. Ongoing debate tells me a consensus has not been reached regarding many ...
You don't need correspondence for realism to be the case. Deflation is another option. But setting aside the question of realism, ancient cosmology ha...
The point is that debating meanings does not resolve debates such as realism/idealism, because the nature of the world does not depend on our language...
It is meaningful when you take into account the cosmology of the ancients who believed in those deities compared to cosmology today. Yahweh literally ...
I'm not interested in substituting discussions of philosophical issues for debating semantics. If that's what philosophy amounted to, then it would be...
We wouldn't because they don't exist and aren't consistent with our universe, but the kind of world we live in is no simple matter to figure out. That...
But It has to play a role because we talk about our subjective experiences. It would be absurd to relate my dream to you if my dream played no role in...
It was for centuries when monotheistic religions dominated culture, but now that people are free to argue against God's existence, and there are lots ...
This is a good point, but the problems still exist even if you reframe the debate, as you mentioned in parentheses. It doesn't make the fundamental is...
It's too bad The Great Whatever and Landru Guide Us no longer post here as they were two of the premier defenders of idealism and would have had somet...
The obvious rejoinder to this is dreams. Our own dreams are the equivalent to a beetle in a box as nobody else can experience a dream we have. And yet...
Their universality, if they have a mind-independent existence. I'm pretty sure numbers being real would entail that nominalism is false. Maybe there a...
So there's an infinite inflation where a finite part had a temporary slowdown? I'm not very satisfied with that idea. I'm not even sure what it could ...
Rearranging words to answer a question either shows the answer to be trivially true or it isn't a meaningful answer. It's just a word game. Compare th...
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