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Relation between epistemology and ontology?
Which comes first epistemology or ontology ? do we built epistemology then try to find ontology or vice versa ? Please explain
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How to explain an orderly universe without the existence of God?
How to explain an orderly universe without the existence of God? The existence of an orderly universe is considered one of the strongest proofs of God among many philosophers and theologians who can't ...
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In Aristotle's Prior Analytics, Why does Barbara APA require a proof through impossibility?
In A15 of the Prior Analytics (34a, 34-40, Robin Smith's translation), Aristotle resorts to a proof through impossibility to deduce that from the premises 'let A belong to every B, and let it be ...
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Help with "modern philosophy" [closed]
I tried recently, once more, to read some modern (20th century) philosophers: I find it interesting reading old philosophers, when they still spoke in human language, but modern philosophy becomes ...
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How Can I Propose The Concept Of METAPhilosophy @ StackExchange? [closed]
Proposing a New Perspective on Meta Philosophy
The concept of meta philosophy remains a subject of ongoing debate, more so than the broader field of philosophy itself. This opens up a space for ...
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Is the present Conclave similar to Plato's idea that a select few learned people should select their rulers? [closed]
Is theCatholic Church Conclave similar to Plato's idea that a select few learned people should select the rulers? the reason I point out here is that the Catholic Church is based on three elements ...
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If Kantian radical evil is universal (for human beings), why isn't the maxim of inverted priorities universalizable without contradiction?
In the Religion, Kant declares that inverting the priority of duty/virtue over happiness is radically evil. Now sometimes he mentions imperatives like, "Act according to the truth," and, &...
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From a philosophical point of view, if a supreme court judge does an opposite interpretation of the constitution, did he violate the law? [closed]
In most countries supreme court judges interpret the constitution, and they can do it in a way that even contradicts the original meaning of the constitution. But they arent removed unless a special ...
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Why is the problem of consciousness a problem? [closed]
The hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how subjective experiences of the world can exist. I do not understand how is this a problem in the first place, given that:
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The “ending”of the universe [closed]
I’m 15 and very interested in the idea of the ending of the universe. If the idea of the big rip was true, and all the atoms were pulled apart for an infinite amount of time, can we ever say that ...
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AI Mind Body solution?
Apologies if this has been asked before, but to be fully conscious, does AI need not just a "brain", but a body? …And not just a body, but a world to move in, and others to move with? ...
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How can objective morality exist in Christianity? [closed]
In Genesis, Adam and Eve eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and gain the ability to discern what is good and what is evil. In Genesis 3:22, God explicitly proclaims that this ability ...
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Philosophy of feminism primary sources
Some areas of philosophy seem to have a standard list of primary sources to read, to trace through the arguments to roughly the present (e.g. the Locke / Berkeley / Hume / Kant train in the theory of ...
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Is the name "Determinism" a misnomer? [closed]
I'm not a philosopher or even aspiring to be one, just someone who got (unfortunately) caught in the Free will vs Determinism/Indeterminism debate.
But something has been bugging me about the ...
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Can a term serve as a metaphysical foundation if its meaning contradicts itself across contexts?
In metaphysics, certain terms like 'exist' and 'real' are often teated as foundational. But many of these terms seem to carry dramatically different meanings dependeing on context:
Santa exists in ...
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