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When asked to 'have one' from a basket of plums, people often choose one without looking closely at them (doing so is considered impolite for a number...

He tested three hypotheses that couldn't explain a particular fact. Picking up the reasoning where he dropped it, another set of hypotheses is require...

Whether or not the donkey is correct in its appreciations of its options is not the point. The point is that in life, one frequently encounters a cert...

Thanks for the succinct and precise overview. It helps clarify. Why yes: what changes in those rules would or could account for our capacity to unders...

( note to self: the Buridan’s ass paradox is only understandable by people who have some familiarity with actual donkeys and with how they behave, eg ...

You must not have spent much time with donkeys in your life.. Any donkey out there is able to chose between two equivalent options in a nanosecond, es...

So agreement does happen on this site, once in a long while. That’s good news. :-)

You should publish this.

You crack me up.... Best nerd jokes I ever read. :rofl:

He turned his life Upside down To know if existence Made sense He asked a lot of people Quite happy Happy happy To give their opinion on la vie He wal...

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The point is, even if it was possible, the donkey would chose immediately with no hesitation whatsoever. No donkey in this world will ever let itself ...

Break On Through (To The Other Side) - The Doors https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-r679Hhs9Zs

Lilly Wood & The Prick - Prayer In C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF45J4PFWy0 Jah, you never said a word You didn't send me no letter Don't think I...

It's an old thought experiment. What would happen to a donkey (Buridan's ass) asked to chose between two equally desirable options, such as two equal ...

What if the person has no preference? How can she possibly chose then?

:chin:

Well, I called Alice over the phone to ask whether she did think something about the rain or not, and she referred me to the {expletive} weather chann...

One example would be chosing between two equally inconsequential options, like in some experiments where one is asked to chose between a red and a gre...

When children die, they become angels. When they live, they become demons. -- Mohamed Choukri

You should keep it and publish, this is great stuff.

Yes, rhetoric can be overdone, but there's no possible way to avoid some of it so I would encourage people to use rhetorical effects at a small dose, ...

I don't know anyone called Hobson. Intersubjectivity is a very simple and useful concept, allowing to bridge subjectivity and objectivity somewhat. Wh...

Several people sharing what each perceives subjectively = intersubjectivity. The principle of repeatability is basically saying that several people sh...

I would rather say that objectivity is an ideal which we can approach through repeatability (aka intersubjectivity) but never reach.

Well, the truth is that replication of observation is not generally considered a good way to increase certainty in arts. Just because they all love Be...

I think yours is a good argument for free will. It's the (or a) compatibilist argument, if not mistaken.

A few additional issues: - O is too vague. Certain phenomena are more subjective than others. Like if it's a change in the lighting (O="the lights wen...

There is a simple statistical answer to the OP, which is that the procedure you use, multiplying the odds of discrete events to obtain the odds of a c...

I'll go with ill-founded. One important methodological issue here is this: under what conditions is the activity of philosophical analysis logically w...

Meh... He just says that they assume unconsciously the concepts that they critique, and thus that their critique is ill-founded.

And Jersey as well then.

I doubt anyone can productively analyse the concept of truth, because as pointed out by Jersey, one needs the concept of truth to analyse anything. It...

I'd rather be obvious than illogical. Pretentious thinkers who play with words and never make any sense often THINK that they are subtle but in fact t...

I couldn't care less about Davidson. I was just stating a broad generalisation: when a guy tells you that truth does not exist, he often think it's tr...

Yes, and philosophers like Aristotle or Newton developed tools while practicing their science.

Yes, and the scientific method itself is a product of philosophy.

What's so wrong with this guy? Yes of course, Nietzsche is a case in point. Derida too in my view, in the sense that his particularly terrorist (Fouca...

In other words, our sense of truth may not be translatable into words, but that doesn't make it any less domineering in our mind's workings. It's a fu...

Well, a democracy is a set of methods to decide who’s boss and for how long, so yes it’s about methods. Democracy is a governance technique, a mean to...

Exactly. Who said that thoughts can’t be things?

At the least, it’s reasonable to ask that philosophers try not to do too much harm, I think.

A bit of a mouthful, language wise. But these things are aquired tastes, maybe I should have kept up with the style a little more to get used to it.

Could not finish it. :(

You mean the fancy, and ultimately useless collapsible javelin used dogmatically as a metaphor for formal academic philosophy à la AP? And the hand-ma...

He does refute historicism. But yes, Popper was always a socialist, in fact a theorist of social democracy and advocate of social enginering.

That's basically the thesis of Popper's "Open Society": philosophers since antiquity have taken side. He starts with Aristotle, teacher of Alexandre a...

In theory, all philosophy is political. Philosophers speak from somewhere, they have political inclinations like everybody else, and they often act on...

Err, Heidegger was politically engaged in the 30s and 40s...