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Is Christianity testable?

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Is "that nose is fake" nonsense?

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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?

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Can a definition be true/false?

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How is AI changing our view of consciousness? [closed]

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Can I know something but not be able to justify it to anyone else?

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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?

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Can reason be precisely defined?

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How does wealth corrupt someone?

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What's the difference between "iff" and "=df"?

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Does the law of large numbers explain why quantum mechanics leads to statistical regularities?

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Can concepts exist without animals or human beings?

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Are we lost in the details?

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What's the name of a fallacy when a debater selectively picks facts and ignores others?

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What is the reason for a god to create the world? [closed]

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Exploring the Concept of "No Mind" in Eastern Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Foundations and Implications

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Falsifiability of Assumptions

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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"? [closed]

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Are laws separate “objects” or are they inextricably part of the universe?

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Can disputes over what is reasonable or unreasonable to believe be resolved objectively?

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Should religiously significant coincidences be seen as miracles?

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The arc of history is long but it bends toward justice. Is justice coming? [closed]

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Do some philosophical questions tend to entertain vacuous ideas?

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What is metaphilosophy? Who is qualified to practice it?

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"Unround circles don't exist." Is it nonsense?

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Why is the identity predicate needed?

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Consciousness and Understanding of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy

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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?

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If we don't know anything for certain, how do we know that?

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Is a non-existent apple not an apple? [duplicate]

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Is Fermat's last theorem a logical necessity or a different kind of necessary truth?

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Can anything that God claims to explain be explained without God?

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Can an extraordinary hypothesis ever be the best explanation for a set of historical facts?

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What does "unqualified notion of truth" mean in this passage?

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Without good and evil, are we left with mediocrity only?

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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?

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Could Laplace's Demon be the universe itself?

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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?

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Are there any philosophical implications to slow light? [closed]

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When is war justified? Is defence of national sovereignty a sufficient moral justification? [closed]

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What is the difference between a reason and sufficient reason?


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