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What are the important questions about pre-socratic philosophy?
I am self-studying pre-socratic philosophy. I want to know what are the relevant questions that I need to ask to myself. The idea is to ensure that I understood the important parts of this period in ...
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Where does Aristotle say it's impossible to do philosophy and its methodology simultaneously?
In which of Aristotle's works does he say it's impossible to do philosophy and its methodology simultaneously?
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Syntactic VS Semantic Provability
Consider a new Conjecture C. The task is to determine whether the conjecture is true or false. Now let us suppose, after working very hard, we are finally able to establish the truth or falsehood of C....
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Problematize and building a paradox over the repression drug use, its debates and issues
At the extraordinary session held from 19 to 21 April 2016, the UN General Assembly acknowledged the failure of the "war on drugs". I wanted to find a paradox to create a philosophical ...
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Understanding Hintikka's scandal of deduction (as depicted by D'Agostino)
I am having trouble understanding Hintikka's Scandal of Deduction, as depicted in D'Agostino's article. According to this account, the problem stems from the fact that, while first order logic is ...
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What properties does "intuition" need in order to be counted as philosophical evidence?
Timothy Williamson (2008) has argued that we should not construe
philosophical evidence as consisting of intuitions.
Do intuitions generate philosophical evidence? And, if so, what sort of evidence ...
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Can other than natural phenomena be facts?
Can other than natural phenomena be facts?
def. ideal of fact:
a thing that's consistent among all participants, i.e. a thing that appears intersubjectively "the same". And that has empirical/...
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Is there any correlation between Quine’s underdetermination and bayesian issues of old evidence and new theories?
Bayesianism has some faults some of which involve the problem of old evidence and the issue of new theories. Are these two problems linked to Quine’s underdetermination? Or are they contrasting it? ...
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Making an irrelevant generalization that dilutes the original argument — what's this fallacy?
Let's consider the following dialogue:
A: People should be respectful to X.
B: No, people should be respectful to Y.
Now Y is a broader class than X. In the above example, say, X = "their ...
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Views on identity of an individual [closed]
I have been wondering for a while that I technically have specific traits of specific people around and have known the fact that humans tend to emulate other people.
My question is that is it alright ...
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What is a good joke, for Bergson?
What is a good joke, especially for philosophers who agree with Bergson?
I understand he felt there were three rules of humour, but I wondered what made something a good joke, rather than just funny. ...
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Is there an Abstract/Concrete Gray Area?
In natural language and daily life, it has become prevalent there is a class of entities which do not follow the abstract concrete distinction. Many people refer to abstractions that exist in time. (...
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What's the meaning of this quote of Pythagoras on the good and bad principle?
Simone de Beauvoir attributed the following quote on the good and bad principles to Pythagoras in The Second Sex, page 114 :
There is a good principle that created order, light, and man and a bad ...
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An Argument that Knowledge is a Matter of Choice
I have met someone who argues as follows:
What I know depends on what axioms I take. As these axioms are left unjustified, I have as much justification for them as for their negations, so I could ...
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Structure of an if and only if proof
I am trying to get this proof to work out and so far I feel like I have the first part right but I'm stuck on how to get the A→B part.
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