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I know Hume argued against dividing finite space into infinitely many regions, but I can't seem to find anything regarding his thoughts on infinity itself. From his Enquiry you sort of get that he ...

No right or wrong answer. Just curious about how different everyone’s response will be. (Questions aren’t in relation with “identity”/American Identity) 1) How do you define what an American? Or in ...

I am not at all educated in philosophy, but was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I am looking for something that explores the relationship between the description of a thing, ...

It's typically used in an attempt to convince people to switch to a healthy diet but in my opinion it does a very poor job because: no-one literally lives to eat, but it's one of the many small ...

If I remember correctly, there was a problem illustrating the paradox of compromise (and to some extent democracy?) where there are two neighbours that want to paint their houses. They both want ...

Did the passing of time come before everything else? As in, how long was there "nothing"? And if we can put a time on that, wouldn't time itself be something? And if so, is time the thing that "...

In the modern world, especially in Western nations, knowledge has been treated as something that can be owned. Therefore, the same property rights one has toward other persons and objects also apply ...

Would Socrates agree or disagree with Protagoras' statement, "Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not."? Why or why ...

Hilary Putnam is known for having proposed a radical change in our thinking about the physical universe: He proposed that the universe was fundamentally based on Quantum Logic, and not in Classical ...

Kant's universalizability principle (theory), which he set out in 18th century, tells us that if a course of action cannot be universally adopted it must be morally impermissible. So in that case ...

In computer programming, it has become fashionable for compilers (processors of computer language) to apply the following form of reasoning: A language standard would permit a compiler to assume that ...

Kant says that we should treat sentient beings as ends in themselves. Dead human beings are not sentient. So, what would be his view on treating corpses as means, to be used by medical students, for ...

How closely is deconstruction tied to the plurality of meaning? the instability and plurality of meaning Derrida on Heidegger: the break with the horizon of communication as the communication ...

Consider this argument: I saw him hit the lady with a stone in the head. The lady will likely die. For me this is inductive argument. But I got impression some places define inductive argument such ...

I have the following, rather naive question: To what extent can the a priori existence of mathematical objects be reasonably compared with the seemingly a posteriori existence of objects established ...

I have friends who request certain gender pronouns are used, which I do not believe to be correct. I have thought about this topic at some length and concluded that while using these pronouns would be ...

Can rudeness be seen as a form of selfishness? If so, how? and under what circumstances would it not be considered selfish? If someone is rude to another human being without any reason, could that be ...

To keep within the guidelines of only asking questions that have a definite answer, I will stipulate that I am asking about cases where the question has been considered in an academically respectable ...

Suppose person a has a view that x is better than y. But person b thinks y is better than x for z group of people. Therefore person b decides that person a hates z group of people. Example: A: ...

What exactly is acknowledgement here?

A common interpretation of the relation of Substance to it's modes in Spinozas states that modes are properties of the Substance [1]. Let's assume this for now: Modes are properties of Substance. I ...

Both the following sentences are true: On January 22, 2020, the earth is orbiting the sun. On January 21, 2020, Trump was the 45th president of the United States of America. So did any ...

"A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. … no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more ...

Sellars refuted "given" and Quine spoke of the "the indeterminacy of translation".In Quine's case,a linguist could not translate or get the meaning of the word exactly even by pointing out the thing ...

Can we explain in hallucinations what specific things we will percept given some certain condition? Can we perceive when will it happen? Can we control and produce some certain kinds of it? I think ...

In logic we can't make any deductions without rules of inference, predicates, and formulas. In probability/statistic we can't make any inferences without assuming some probabilistic model which might ...

How do I prove, :((A ⊃ B) ⊃ C) ⊃ (B ⊃ C), using symbolic logic derivations where ⊃ represents a conditional i.e. A ⊃ B = A implies B? The first line of my derivations is the assumption, (A ⊃ B) ⊃ C)....

I googled a a deductive logical inference https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=a+deductive+logical+inference%3F and couldn't understand a thing. But I presume it's because if 2+2 ...

Does there exist a "valid" application of Gödel's incompleteness to "logical natural language statements"? It can be found to sometimes be naively applied that way, even when the incompleteness ...

Has any philosopher written about how we experience dreams, especially their visual aspect? Are a dream's visible features three dimensional, like waking life? Or does the fact that none of it ...

Could the beetle in the box not play any role in our…?Or will the similar neurological constituents and the same physical input provide some supports to the "pain",in a (Kantian) way that each person ...

Some programming languages use Duck Typing to determine types of Objects, based on their methods and properties and not their declared type. Simplified, it goes down to the premise "If it walks ...

Eating is vital for survival. Nature seems to have made this universal across all creature to look for food. But why (human) mothers spend so much time in feeding babies. Why they never like food?

From what I understand atomism subscribes that an individual atom is the "indivisible" fundamental component of all physical things. Ever since the atom was split, and even more "base" non-atomic ...

In my mind - pun intended - a/the theory of mind refers to some proposed solution to the mind body problem, e.g. Cartesian Dualism is a theory of mind, Functionalism is a theory of mind, etc... This ...

Most sources I can find about Gödel's incompleteness theorems summarize the result as "there exist true arithmetical statements that have no proof." It seems coherent to say that there exist ...

Do inconsistent premises in an argument hurt a person's case while they try to defend something they believe in because their statements contradict each other?

I have read a lot of times the definition of Humean Supervenience and the usual quote by Lewis according to which Humean supervenience is “ It is the doctrine that all there is to the world is a vast ...

This is taken from the lecture Wittgenstein delivered on ethics. Wittgenstein proceeds to establish a controversial position in ethics. Although all judgments of relative value can be shown to be ...

From my perspective Kierkegaard and Nietzsche both tried to answer the same question to found out what is morality and ethic. Why is Nietzsche so popular today, and Kierkegaard is almost forgotten? ...

I am a student in a French university in pure mathematics. I recently came across modal logic and more particularly doxastic logic. But, the only masters of logic offered are reserved for students of ...

Why does Wittgenstein have a problem with logical statements saying nothing ? (5.5303) . How would Wittgenstein want us to interpret f(a,a) ? He also mentions axiom of infinity from which Russell ...

Necessary introduction. Pierre  Teilhard de Chardin's  Omega Point Theory is a belief system related to convergence towards divine unification. Tippler's version of this theory relies on ...

If you put a piece of human tissue under an electron microscope, one could argue that you're no longer looking at a human. You're looking at something that makes up a human, but a single oxygen ...

Do we experience the future before, or after, the time it occurs: given these assumptions? The assumptions are: We experience psychologically an illusion of continuity Reality itself is ...

Retroactive means making a change to the past with effects in present. Time travel means replaying events till the specific outcome.

If our world is a fake world (Simulation, computer game, matrix، holographic or whatever). It means that my existence is fake, but in a way that looks real. So I'm a victim, Because somebody has faked ...

Does there exist a formal definition for (what I would say is) a logically fallacy that would fit to the following structure of statements: "X has not happened (with potential time constraint Y), so ...

Before Gödel, was the issue raised that there may be undecidable statements within axiomatic systems of thought? Gödel managed to answer affirmatively by proving that the assumption of the ...

Sellars refuted the claim we can reason from our "fundamental" experience, since all the words we use to report our experience must be affected by our conceptual schema. But Quine's seems to give "...