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Is there more evidence for God than for Russell’s teapot? [closed]

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Is consciousness a prerequisite for knowledge?

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Why is notation in logic so different from algebra?

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What is an overview of utilitarian arguments in support of exclusive relationships?

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If a loving God existed, would it be reasonable to expect Him to interact more directly with people than He appears to?

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Were the common people in Germany ("good germans") morally co-responsible of the war crimes of their government? [closed]

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Proof of the principle of explosion

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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved? [closed]

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Is exclusivity optimal from a utilitarian perspective? What's wrong with being non-exclusive? [closed]

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What is the difference between negation-eliminiation ¬E and contradiction-introduction ⊥I?

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Is a stable quantifier-free language really possible?

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How can the strength of evidence (both positive and negative) for a proposition P be assessed and aggregated objectively?

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Is gender identical to sex? [duplicate]

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Is ethics anything other than hand waving and sophistry? [closed]

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What is the proof of that self-application in the λ-calculus is not inconsistent?

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Does the dominant science paradigm imply that we are robots? [duplicate]

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Can the conflict between morality and amorality be resolved? [closed]

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Are there physical cases where we deliberately randomise the events?

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Does human nature begin at conception? [closed]

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Can high intelligence lead to profound ignorance? [closed]

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Do you believe something to be the truth or do you know the truth?

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What do you call people who believe in purpose in life and afterlife reincarnation, but don't believe in God? [closed]

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Is the existence of physical substances, such as organisms, compatible with physicalism?

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How does Plato's theory of forms account for change and abstraction?

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Do you know Names of Contemporary Parmenidean philosophers?

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Are there alternative methods, beyond Bayesian or probabilistic approaches, for modeling the relationship between evidence and hypothesis credibility?

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Finding a word for a thermodynamic process [closed]

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How can illusionists about phenomenology think consciousness is explainable through science when science seemingly inquires into phenomonology?

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Challenging the distinction between a validity and a tautology

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Has anyone come up with a good technical term for a ‘selfie’ yet? [closed]

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The Problem of Commmunication [closed]

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PC as a rebuttal to the Gettier case against JTB definition of knowledge

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Seeking name of method for interpreting reality of phenomena as only a result or emanation of a more meaningful higher system/agent

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Existence-monism and (hard) free will [closed]

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Why did the Christian church had a bigger impact on occidental moral systems and philosophies than any other religion? [closed]

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I there a stasis in democracy? [closed]

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Are there human actions that cannot be (at least partially) explained or made intelligible?

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A world defined in propositional logic

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What is affirmative about Shoul Should climate ethics exist exist beyond Earth [closed]

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Why is the thing-in-itself ideal in Schelling's philosophy

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How would moral responsibility be allocated in existence nihilism/via a "feature-placing language"?

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What are some noteworthy consequences of a deontic logic extended with the axiom “Ob(A) → Ob(◊A)”?

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Are there any formal models of belief-formation processes?

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What is the difference between Epic and Drama in Aristotle's Poetics? [closed]

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Fate of the universe [duplicate]

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