A Seagull

'Self evident' is a tag used by an author to indicate that they are unable to justify or rationalise their conclusion.

Biased criteria written by someone trying to maintain the pseudo elitism of professional philosophy.

One really can't argue with the wisdom of Australian bush philosophers, especially when they are holding a medium to large knife.

You just don't get it, do you!

I wouldn't know. :(

It is not impossible!! I just factored 10**1000 as 10**500 x 10**500 in my head.

Yeah, but shame it doesn't include some info on how to throw a boomerang.

If you want to have laws then you have to have enforcement. So do you prefer anarchy or some form of retribution?

I do think that Lewis Carroll is under appreciated as a philosopher. Perhaps this is because his writings are more a satire of philosophy than a philo...

Maybe it was just an echo.

Liar!

That's none of your business.

You are repeating yourself. Presumably you can do this endlessly.

So far as I can recall astronomers have searched for the same object they see in one part of the sky in the opposite part of the sky, but have not fou...

Words are labels. They are not things in themselves, nor emotions. Though they can be labels for both.

Or perhaps you are just too old?

The barter system.

As I have pointed out before happiness is. End of story. Your idea of infini9ty of causes or at least an infinity of questions can be applied to any i...

Me too. It is totally fascinating. Which is why I keep doing it.

If you want to have a god, then nature is good. But then learn about nature.

Well is there ANYTHING that cannot be made into an infinity in this way? Give me an example.

By living it to the fullest extent of your ability.

An individual life is what is experienced between birth and death. One cannot lose a life, one can only shorten it.

My take on Gödel's incompleteness theorems is that they start with an initial assumption of completeness - ie that every statement that relates to a s...

And why does posting that post make you happy?

Well that would be simplest, and probably undeniable too.

So what? What do you conclude from that? It certainly does not mean that pleasure is infinite, nor even infinitely reducible.

Just because you can ask an infinity of questions, that doesn't make hedonism either infinite or looped. What makes you think that it does? You can as...

I remember seeing a cartoon long ago of Golda Meir and Indira Ghandi, each with a machine gun in her hands, with the by-line : "Women's work is never ...

Yes well that is tragic. People need to fix themselves. But following flawed philosophies and believing lies is not going to help.

Philosophy is like sex, if you are not enjoying it, its 'cos you're not doing it right.

Just shows you shouldn't believe everything you read on fb, in fact you shouldn't even take any of it seriously.

As I said, but perhaps somewhat ambiguously: 'When people convince other people of the truth of their lies, their (The other peoples) model of the wor...

Well yes I like this quote too. My only suggestion for a 'solution' - if there is one - (and worth no more than 2p I expect), is that people at least ...

Solipsism in a nutshell.

'Obvious'? How so?

The OP is like a recipe for an omelette that insists that no eggs must be broken in the process.

Communism is a lie.

Who knows? Everyone is entitled to their dreams.

There is no flaw; I am entirely convinced. ;)

Well that is entirely illogical.

So how come you apply (in the other thread) truth to the 3 laws of logic, which are unproven?

Well in that case you are referring to an artificial truth, You can 'define' what you like, but then it is only applicable to the system to which you ...

. To claim that the three laws are 'self-evident' does not constitute a proof. At best you can claim that they are axiomatic for the logical system fo...

But you have used that claim to further claim that the world is determined. If the 'laws of physics' are merely a description, which they are, then an...

It comes down to the fact that truth is not contained within most logical systems. If you are going to incorporate truth into a logical system then it...

Well that is an interesting theory. But not one that I would subscribe to. Logically speaking, your ascription of truth to such propositions is entire...

It is a fallacy to think that things 'obey the laws of physics'. The laws of physics are merely a description of how matter behaves.. and a rather app...

Well what do you mean by 'truth'? What has it got to do with the 'laws of logic'?

The reason one cannot be certain that the 3 'laws of logic' are 'true' is that they are unproven. They are hypotheses, It is not even clear over what ...