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Is it possible that the laws of nature don't exist?

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Is it true that if you deconstruct Hegel and Heidegger's metaphysical claims into atoms, you end up with absurd statements?

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Do dreams have material reality?

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Is it possible to enumerate metaphysical hypotheses?

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Notion of space and time

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What's the logical basis for Dunne suggesting that there need to be several dimensions of time in order to measure the speed of one's progress?

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What are other elements other than time and space that are said to have dimensions?

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What do you call something that is not a substance in philosophy?

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What's the relationship between physical and logical causation?

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Is there a word for deeper, more abstract, layer of truth?

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How can the physical world be an abstract mathematical structure a la Tegmark?

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Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe

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Understanding philosophy from a mathematicians perspective

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Is there an influence of Buddhist thought in Leibniz's Monadology?

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