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The statement "Lions live in Africa" is true. Therefore, believing it qualifies as knowledge, but not believing it is does not. The statement "Lions live in Norway" is false. Therefore, neither ...

Knowledge is commonly defined as the the intersection of truth and justified belief. But people also have lots of false ideas in their heads. Is there a philosophical term for the sum total of ...

Do you think the explanation for the universe could be something physical or does it have to be metaphysical?

Do you think one of them would be more open to these Christian doctrines than the other?

What is the difference between the private and the public use of freedom according to Kant ?

Are the following listed statements equivalent? 1: (1) is in a disjunction with (1) 1: (1) is in a disjunction with (1) OR 1: (1) is in a disjunction with (1) (the intended meaning of (1) is '...

If we consider the statement to be true, assumedly the predicate "happy" is contained within the subject "I", and would therefore be analytic. Would this also make all subjective statements analytic?

It seems that the answer would be yes, especially when we think about the example of the preface paradox (authors stating in prefaces "the errors that are found herein are mine alone", i.e. believing ...

Defining concepts used in an argument is the most important step of that argument as it determines our question and makes it objective. However, what is the definition of this act of definition? Can ...

Frege proposed that the meaning of a sentence is its truth value in "Über Sinn und Bedeutung" (close to "On Name and Meaning"). This is not correct because some (many) English sentences do not have ...

Question: Does a good being, also have to be just/fair? Side Question: What philosophers/resources would be recommended to research such an idea?

I see some people say that life/existence is meaningless. However, I assign existence with meaning, therefore it's NOT meaningless. Yes?

The Scientific method purportedly achieves the deriving of objective truth by removing the unavoidably subjective nature of human knowledge from the loop. This system claims that by following ...

He defines 'mode' in this way: By mode I understand the affections of a substance, or that which is in another through which it is also conceived. But it's not clear to me what this means. Could ...

Has any philosopher, perhaps from antiquity, talked about different sorts of enjoyment or happiness, aside from moral and immoral ones? My question is life based, not from reading philosophy. But ...

In: Epistemic Logic and Epistemology. Author: Wesley H. Holliday (University of California, Berkeley)

Does modern science, especially HeLa cells, prove that immortality (in the classic sense) is real (for these cells) or possible in the future?

So I'm writing an essay on the Sorites paradox and how it relates to the abortion debate. One resolution to the paradox I was reading about came from supervaluationism, but I'm not entirely sure if or ...

I am interested in reading about ways to evaluate art that are done solely by computers (computer generated art) or otherwise by the help of computers or by the usage of computers such as in digital ...

This was a test question in my class I thought I had the right answer to, but apparently got wrong. How would you answer this? If experimental sciences demonstrate that empiricism has "won the day", ...

In some western countries some government agencies and intelligence services withdraw information from the general public on the pretext of "national security" or "public safety". eg. 1: The American ...

Einstein asked this question originally : What really interests me is whether God could have created the world any differently; in other words, whether the requirement of logical simplicity admits ...

I have already read Nichomachean Ethics 2 times and loved it. I especially like Arisotles prose style and especially his sense of humor. It is said that his other two works on ethics cover ...

Since physicist Hideki Yukawa was somewhat influenced by Oriental and Buddhist philosophy, he had some ideas about the complementarity of opposite things. In fact, when Niels Bohr published his ...

In an academic paper I am trying to argue that there is a stark difference between neoliberal capitalism and traditional religions (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism etc.). Do you know of any philosopher ...

Premise: ∃𝑥𝐹(𝑥)→∃𝑥𝐺(𝑥) Desired Conclusion: ∃𝑥(𝐹(𝑥)→𝐺(𝑥))

Truth-functionally valid: there is no truth value assignment for which the premises (of an argument) are true yet the conclusion is false. I am told that there are arguments which are logically valid ...

LOGIC and PHILOSOPHY A reasonable believer is one whose beliefs include Q if they also include both P and (If P, then Q), and who trusts the results of her reasoning while remaining introspective ...

Do we have a right to know some things? Obviously you don't have a moral right to know what I had for breakfast today -- though you might be able to find out [it was pizza]. And we have a right to ...

An addict argues that he or she would rather die "happy" than struggle with quitting... is this a logical fallacy? And if they consider their existence to be meaningful, is it ethical to insist that ...

I've read that in the sun-dance, a religious ceremony carried by the Lakotan Indians, the hands and feet are painted red; and the shoulders are painted blue. The latter is to signify the spirit of the ...

I can not find the original quote in Chinese. It may be so difficult because the original text is probably very far from "When I let go of what I am...". Does anyone know what the original Chinese ...

The three main ways of reasoning are Pathos, Ethos, and Logos. I have tended to see Pathos as inferior to Ethos and Logos because it appears to rely more on emotions than on facts. But does it really ?...

Is there a set of sentences Γ with no predicates besides "=" with the property that an interpretation is a model of Γ iff the size of the domain is a finite multiple of three?

I am wondering, for example, why do we think that maximum efficiency is a social good?

To me, given my limited religious understanding, it is really probable for Islam to be true, but I am not 100% sure. I just don't know the truth. However, I see this to be problematic: this not being ...

What are the points of you or me? I don't want an answer. Banish me.

Was there any well renowned and Nobel laureate physicist from the last century who believed that multiple universes/realities existed and at the same time liked Birkhoff's/von Neumann's quantum logic ...

Did Schrödinger believe that contradictory or inconsistent things could exist in reality? Was Schrödinger some kind of dialetheist?

My question is: is there a mathematical or philosophical basis for rejecting any of the following rules of inference? If yes, then what is the argument for rejecting any of them? I am asking this ...

In Full Predicate Calculus, some variable assignment q satisfies a disjunction under interpretation U if q satisfies one or both disjuncts under U, it satisfies a conjunction under interpretation U if ...

I have been asked a question in class where we would need to pick out the false statement from a given set of options. The problem is that I am not really sure why my answer was wrong? Here is the ...

I am trying to read Bruno Latour's paper "A cautious Prometheus? A few steps towards philosophy of design" but have no background in philosophy and so would be happy if someone could help me out ...

I want to analyse some thermodynamical theories, i.e. theories that are concerned with temperature, heat, pressure, volume, states, systems etc. etc. These theories obviously differ in many ways. ...

If Joe was envenomated by a black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) and received no anti-venom, then Joe will die. Joe was envenomated by a black mamba and didn't receive anti-venom. Hence, Joe will die.

In the first Critique, Kant presents a "problematical" concept of the ideation of reason, e.g. he talks about a focus imaginarium or something at one point. And his discourse on noumena as not "...

During a social situation in which one observes the race of a person, I have heard the argument that it is racist to refer to that person by his or her race. Let's say that I have "hypothetically" ...

So I was reading about resolutions to the Sorites paradox, and I got most of them, but I didn't understand the one labelled supervaluationism. Would someone explain it to me in very basic terms please?...

Sellars's argument against "the myth of the given" is a powerful argument defeating fundamentalism in epistemology. Edmund Husserl considered "the given" to be "unconditionally/absolutely(?) given", ...

Some classification schemes don't list logic as a separate branch of philosophy. I assume they regard logic as a component of epistemology. Of course, others regard logic as a separate branch. The ...