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Can two things be different and the same at the same time? For example, a chair (white) does not have one leg and another (black) has all the legs. As in question 2 things with different properties ...

Are there any major philosophies that postulates the non locality of consciousness? I have tried searching for them but could not find anything...thank you very much.

I am wondering if the rejection of the positivism movement in philosophy lead to any major discoveries in mathematics and natural sciences? I am thinking it might have been able to contribute to those ...

Assume population x differs from population y by characteristic z. One group of scholars argues that x and y belong to the same class and that z is incidental and irrelevant to the classification. ...

How did Heidegger argue for the certainty of death? I gather that's a component of one characteristic of death, that it's "not to be outstripped". The other component being its indefiniteness, that I ...

What philosophers have been trashed by those that they influenced or followed? By trashed I mean something like the relation between Marx and Hegel. Or Nietzsche and Schopenhauer or Kant ("that giant ...

Forms are Plato’s substances, for everything derives its existence from Forms. In this sense of ‘substance’ any realist philosophical system acknowledges the existence of substances. Probably the ...

Can our misbehavior towards an individual or group of individuals be ever evaluated, and if so, how much of it should be acceptable? There are examples in mythological texts & scriptures of ...

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science Does this refer to the demarcation problem (what is natural science) or occam's razor (what is the best explanation)? Or is it meant ...

Need help with this question for my philosophy test

This is a question based on section 2.5.6 from the book Logic, laws of truth, by Nicholas J.J Smith, page 48. What does Nicholas mean when he says: Note that we can further specify exactly what we ...

What is wrong with the following argument? The more you study, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know....

In this entry in the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, it is stated that the theory of nominalist formalism deals with the metatheory problem of formalism as follows: Commendably, Goodman and ...

"But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness." The Gay Science, Fourth Book, 325 How ...

Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis is very interesting (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis) but it has virtually no support among physicists because it is too ...

Including inductive, formal and mathematical. I find them separated a lot and I don't know if I have the ability to sit through all the Handbook of the History of Logic series.

In his 1936 paper, Turing explains that humans compute by manipulating symbols that are external to the human brain (humans compute with pen and paper). Electronic digital computers do the same thing -...

I am having troubles understanding utilitarianism a little bit, and have posed this question to a number of people and been met mostly with bafflement about how I cannot see the error in my proposed ...

Are current Millenials making more concessions or giving up more financially or job preference wise or space wise for the purpose of home ownership? Has it become a social norm or standard now? I ...

. Write an essay in which you outline the conflict Rowe sees between God’s foreknowledge and human free will and then argue whether or not any ONE of his solutions to the problem is adequate.

I'm interested in learning about schools of ethics that discuss the value of Sons vs daughters. The most I know so far is that Darwinist Ethics says a White Man is objectively morally obligated to ...

What does this Jacques Hadamard quote mean? The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. Is this a philosophical statement? what is its mathematical ...

If someone could give examples of applying these virtuous would be appreciated.

I have to study a case where I take any moral dilemma or situation I want to and apply virtue ethics on it but I can't really seem to find anything.

There are a few physicists that propose that the universe is a hypercomputer. One example is Roger Penrose, who, basing in his quantum interpretation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I read a quote once that this is done as a grocer would hold back the knowledge of the second half of a punnet of strawberries being mouldy. I have my theories but was there a specific knowledge set ...

Thus I ask a different question - barring legal requirements, is my question a reasonable one? By the bye, has any philosophers published on the ethics of suicide in a war? Original Question on ...

Dennett frequently talks about consciousness as if it has already been solved and that we're just inventing new problems because of some innate fear of naturalism. In his (now rather old) book ...

Can philosophy ask questions about what is moral or immoral without deriving the answer from a meta-ethical theory like deontology? So can e.g. philosophy say that murder is wrong, even argue for it, ...

I'm reading Edward Feser's book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. On pages 32-33 he introduces the principle of proportionate causality (PPC). I'm having trouble understanding what precisely ...

Mike has a genetic kidney disease, which caused his kidney to fail at the age of 7. Mike has a biological child named John, who Mike knew would have a 100% chance of getting the disease. Now John is 7 ...

I am having a discussion wether 'some' can also imply 'all'. The definition for some, 'an unspecified number or amount of people or things' seems to leave room for this interpretation. Discussion ...

Is quoting an authoritative source a useful or effective way to demonstrate that an assertion is correct?

I am reading this book: There's A Word For It! and the author Charles Harrington Elster claims that a particular excerpt was written by an ancient Greek philosopher Lexiphagoras of Alphasia. I did ...

Why is the anecdotal fallacy a fallacy? I want to know why personal testimony is important in a court of law but in a debate it is considered invalid? And why is the claim of seeing a spirit met ...

Nicolas Malebranche was a rationalist philosopher, theologian and French priest. Much of his philosophical views were based on St Augustine, a Roman African philosopher. To what extent has he ...

Odds are against us. eg: If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed. The sentence paints a picture of the word odds as something which is ...

If interest rates go down, then I will buy a house. If I buy a house, I will need a loan. Therefore, I will not need a loan if I do not buy a house. Is this argument valid?

I am trying to analyze the following argument by Hume in his Treatise of Human Nature: But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we ...

I have trouble understanding the justification Kant gives for his moral philosphy. My main problem is: Why is practical reason the way humans can figure out the morality of an action? Why is it ...

I have serious doubts about the reliability of the thesis raised by the philosopher Nick Bostrom in his paper Are you Living in a Computer Simulation? Even in its weakest version, where two or more ...

Might Marx's argument in Das Kapital be less about justice and exploitation than it is about disenfranchisment? I specifically mean his analysis of work, the falling rate of profit, and movement of '...

I personally believe in determinism and understand the basics of quantum mechanics, but don't see how any of it disproves that the universe is deterministic. Electrons cannot move change momentum or ...

This question got me thinking. If deontology and virtue ethics are not reconcilable but in direct competition with each other, does that mean that in arguing for one we are arguing against the other? ...

Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: Fortune's Web By N. Athanassoulis, p64 I've not read Aristotle's Ethics, but am intrigued by whether we can have a virtue without an action that has that ...

Trivialism is a system that proposes that literally every proposition is true and false at the same time blatantly breaking the principle of no contradiction and triggering the principle of explosion (...

Is "cultural appropriation", in the unethical or problematic sense, the consumption or just the production of culture by outsiders? Does any philosopher claim that the former isn't, and, if so, how ...

No philosophers has justified that consciousnesses can be measured. Many philosophers have tried to describe the mind, but are there any specific scholars who describe justified methods to describe ...

I want to know what can be consider as foreknowledge. Because Christian often claim that the bible is scientific but when you read the verses they are sometime vague and sound a bit similar to the ...

Person A: HIV is a disease created by the illuminati 2000 to eliminate 50% of the world population and in 2017 a scientist find a cure to HIV and the illuminati killed him Person B: that doesn't ...