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Here's how the physicist David Deutsch (2011) describes qualia:
Consider the following thought experiment. You are a biochemist with the misfortune to have been born with a genetic defect that ...
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My question is simple - can a true statement be a lie - that is, can the pragmatics of use of a true sentence (context, intension, effects, etc) make a true statement into a lie? Intuitively it seems ...
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I've been trying to recall a thought experiment, which I very vaguely remember to have come across either in Davidson or Dennett, that considers the following scenario: A hound is chasing its quarry ...
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Often it is claimed that a country or group can't judge others due to similar mistakes made in the past by the group which is criticizing.
For example, I have seen people claiming that the UK can't ...
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Free will can be seen as freedom "to" and freedom "from". What is it freedom from?
Is free will free of logic?
Is free will free of cause and effect?
What is free will free from?
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We intuitively believe that everything must have a cause. If that is true, does it mean that causation itelf must have a cause? To be clear, I do NOT mean "does the cause of a cause have a ...
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First, I came across the Penrose triangle and then a variety of impossible objects. I understand that an object might not exist in a specific domain. For example, Penrose triangle does not exist in 3 ...
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When people discuss the human rights and natural rights, there seems to be a distinction between the two, where standard interpretations of human rights (such as the Universal Declaration of Human ...
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Medieval logicians memorized this most famous logic mnemonic:
Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferio ← direct first figure
Baralipton, Celantes, Dabitis, Fapesmo, Frisesomorum ← indirect first figure
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Based on the definitions given by Wikipedia , Rule Utilitarianism and Act Utilitarianism both seems to imply the same meaning
Rule Utilitarianism
Action is right as it conforms to a rule that ...
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I was raised Catholic, and part of my motivation for leaving Catholicism was my dislike of any kind of enforced structure. However, to my surprise, it seems like Atheism is also dogmatic. Is this ...
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I'm trying to locate the source of an Alan Watts quote/audio clip that has been used in numerous YouTube edits. It is referenced in some places as the 'Falling Into Love' lecture, but there is no such ...
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Sometimes I hear arguments that seem to appeal to the fact that something is morally permissible because it is legally permitted. For example:
Abortion is moral because it's legally permitted. ...
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How does one know one is not dreaming? How could one logically demonstrate to a skeptic that one is "really" there, awake and not just dreaming the entire situation/world around him?
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Can you answer these questions?
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In A Teacher's Introduction to Postmodernism by R. Linn, it says:
Whereas Kant argued that the concept of a "thing", as opposed to en "event", was produced in consciousness as a ...
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Arthur schopenhauer comments on Spinoza's God accordingly:
For the word God, honestly used, means a cause such as this of the world, with the addition of personality. An impersonal God is, on the ...
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