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Name of the fallacy that "you don't know" implies "the media is hiding it from you"
Awarded 20 hours ago
What sentence convinced Russell that Wittgenstein was not a "complete idiot"?
Awarded May 22 at 18:17
Are humans and other animals machines?
Awarded May 20 at 20:25
Logical fallacy: X is bad, Y is worse, thus X is not bad
Awarded Feb 28 at 20:32
Is the idea that "Everything is energy" even coherent?
Awarded Jan 29 at 10:26
Is there a point to arguing about the meaning of words?
Awarded Dec 21, 2021 at 19:57
Was Kant an Intuitionist about mathematical objects?
Awarded Nov 22, 2021 at 6:00
Are contradictory propositions in the propositional logic still contradictory in the predicate logic?
Awarded Nov 4, 2021 at 21:42
Can logic be without time?
Awarded Nov 3, 2021 at 19:27
If the universe is finite does that nullify Godel's incompleteness, halting problem, and Church-Turing thesis?
Awarded Oct 4, 2021 at 12:04
Is it possible for everything that exists to have a definition?
Awarded Sep 14, 2021 at 9:41
Does an English translation of "Logica ‘ingredientibus’" by Peter Abelard exist?
Awarded Aug 10, 2021 at 21:21
How can I understand references in Seneca's Moral letters to Lucilius?
Awarded Aug 10, 2021 at 21:21
Was Kant anticipating Gödel's incompleteness in his antinomies?
Awarded Aug 10, 2021 at 10:08
What does Nietzsche refer to with the "backworldsmen"?
Awarded Jul 28, 2021 at 19:05
Did Plato say “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow”?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 0:36
Is race a social construct?
Awarded Jul 11, 2021 at 13:48
Can there be logic without the law of identity?
Awarded Jun 4, 2021 at 8:21
Is there any counterexample given against radical skepticism?
Awarded May 24, 2021 at 18:28
Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?
Awarded May 24, 2021 at 6:20
Does Mitosis division break the Leibniz law of Identity?
Awarded Apr 5, 2021 at 6:07
Should we pay for the errors of our ancestors?
Awarded Mar 18, 2021 at 8:01
How do Thomists prove that: "Everything that exists must exist by something."?
Awarded Mar 12, 2021 at 4:15
Term for people who believe God once existed but then disappeared?
Awarded Feb 8, 2021 at 1:06
Can you apply reader-response criticism to Voltaire's, "The better is the enemy of the good"?
Awarded Jan 25, 2021 at 6:43
Can someone identify this school of thought?
Awarded Jan 21, 2021 at 16:21
Why is ancient Asian philosophy so implicit and allegorical compared to the ancient Greek philosophy which seems more explicit and abstract?
Awarded Jan 13, 2021 at 2:21
Is it consistent to say "X is possible but false"?
Awarded Jan 6, 2021 at 10:47
Is 1=2 a logical contradiction, or merely a false statement?
Awarded Dec 16, 2020 at 12:28
Can something come out of nothing or not? Why?
Awarded Dec 13, 2020 at 4:11
What is the decisive point for classifying a certain speech as unacceptable?
Awarded Dec 3, 2020 at 22:31
Why did Marcus Aurelius reproach rhetoric and poetry?
Awarded Dec 1, 2020 at 16:56
How do rationalists justify the scientific method?
Awarded Nov 27, 2020 at 22:06
What's the right term in logic for this phenomenon?
Awarded Oct 27, 2020 at 21:21
If you used intuitionistic logic in real life, would you not sound absurd?
Awarded Oct 4, 2020 at 1:12
Why did the mid-19th century and earlier thinkers fixate on one-place predicates?
Awarded Oct 4, 2020 at 1:12
What is the name behind the concept of believing in God based on this logical deduction?
Awarded Oct 1, 2020 at 17:47
Since words are defined in terms of other words in dictionaries, leading to infinite loops, does it mean natural languages are meaningless?
Awarded Sep 15, 2020 at 6:31
What is the name of this fallacy: 101 is either binary or decimal?
Awarded Sep 10, 2020 at 17:56
What is Nietzsche saying about Physics in Beyond Good and Evil?
Awarded Sep 9, 2020 at 14:52
Is the human mind capable of distinguishing between time running forward and time runing backward?
Awarded Aug 29, 2020 at 16:16
Did Confucius say "Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws"?
Awarded Aug 25, 2020 at 15:33
Why is John Rawls taken more seriously than Ayn Rand?
Awarded Aug 21, 2020 at 2:50
Why is it that the statement "All goblins are yellow" does not contradict the statement "All goblins are pink?"
Awarded Aug 13, 2020 at 2:57
How do you differentiate between At least one X and Exactly one X in predicate logic?
Awarded Aug 10, 2020 at 11:07
Why does Gensler's Star Test not work on some syllogisms?
Awarded Jul 14, 2020 at 22:28
What is the difference between formalism and logicism
Awarded Jun 27, 2020 at 20:33
Best Book(s) to Explain multiple Philosophies
Awarded Jun 22, 2020 at 9:40
Is it better to read Kant in English or Italian?
Awarded May 22, 2020 at 7:50
Why does "Daisy has four legs" not entail "Daisy has more than two legs"?
Awarded May 5, 2020 at 9:51
How valid is Nietzsche's critique of Buddhism?
Awarded Apr 26, 2020 at 3:07
Is it ethical for governments to compel their citizens to lead healthy lives?
Awarded Apr 26, 2020 at 3:07
What is the difference between Law of Excluded Middle and Principle of Bivalence?
Awarded Feb 7, 2020 at 17:45
Using the Duck-Typing method in scientific context
Awarded Jan 22, 2020 at 15:00
Why does Wittgenstein have a problem with writing “f(a, b). a = b"?
Awarded Jan 20, 2020 at 21:20
What did Gödel mean by "positive property" in his ontological argument?
Awarded Jan 2, 2020 at 17:45
What is the difference between depth and surface information?
Awarded Nov 7, 2019 at 18:20
What type of rhetorical device is the offering of a source which is really long and not specifying what part of the source is relevant?
Awarded Nov 7, 2019 at 13:35
Which fallacy: "If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?"
Awarded Nov 5, 2019 at 23:05
What is the fallacy / bias where the sample is taken after the fact?
Awarded Oct 25, 2019 at 22:10
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