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Is watching an amputated limb regrow proof of the supernatural?

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Is there anything a supernatural entity (e.g. God) could do to irrefutably prove its existence to humans?

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Can the statement, “Suicide is Murder” be written as S = M? If so, could it then also be written as “Murder is Suicide” or M = S? Are either logical?

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How is a computed existence different from a non-computed existence?

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Are there set-theoretical problems with modal metaphysics?

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Are there philosophical problems for which there's only a trivial solution?

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Is this logical? Topic on death being a black box

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Is there a philosophical agreement that the universe is deterministic?

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A material-constitution model of truth

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What is the axiological basis of the preference of truth to falsity?

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What is the argument posed by Katherine Hayles in “The Condition of Virtuality” as to the relation between matter and virtuality and why?

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Are figures of speech true and false?

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Mathematical universe hypothesis: Why shouldn't all imaginable universes exist?

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