Linked Questions
18 questions linked to/from "Why ask why" and its scions
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What is information?
I am fascinated with information theory, as put together by Claude Shannon in the 1940s. It is amazing to me that this concept arose from analysing letters in the alphabet and then was later ...
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Why doesn't philosophy of philosophy exist?
It seems like for anything (not literally, of course) 'philosophy name of this anything' exists. Philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of logic, etc.; but... philosophy of ...
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How does the Buddhist pursue meaning?
So I don't think positions like existentialism exist in Buddhist philosophy. I say this because the whole framing of causality is fundamentally different in Nagarjuna's treatise of dependent ...
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What is "what is"?
A lot of questions we ask have the form: "What is ..."
Some examples would be :
What is love?
What is the square root of 34?
What is this object?
But what is the answer to the ...
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What causes problems?
Here, I am not talking about any or all specific problem's subject's cause(s). I am instead asking about what causes problems themselves.
I was once told "Your problems are only problems because you ...
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Why does Man ask Why questions? [closed]
I am not a particularly educated or intelligent individual. If this question is easily answered, forgive me. As I can think of no answer, I am compelled to ask. I'm afraid this line of questioning ...
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What is a complete understanding?
In a comment to this recent question of mine, somebody used the phrase, "complete understanding."
Without necessarily answering the linked question (i.e. without defining "understanding&...
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Reformulating "Who am I" in a relational sense?
In self inquiry meditation one asks himself "who am I?"
Or Instead of “Who am I?” you may prefer asking, “Who is thinking this
thought? Who is seeing through these eyes right now?” These ...
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When philosophers argue about "definitional questions," what exactly are they arguing about?
By "definitional question," I mean questions like what is knowledge, what is justice, what is love, etc - questions that relate to the definition of certain abstract concepts.
Take the ...
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How to ask a good question?
How do I ask a good question?
Imagine that I walked up to you and asked you this question without any context. I believe that the above question is not a really good question, because the scope of the ...
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Is there no such thing as rigorous and formal in philosophy?
I once asked a question on a rigorous and formal definition of conceivable, and was told that there is no such thing as rigorous and formal in philosophy or science. Is this really true? I thought ...
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Is the epistemic regress infinite or finite?
Is the epistemic regress infinite or finite? It is often assumed to be infinite, but was there any discussion about how some epistemic regress may not be infinite in certain cases, or a endpoint where ...
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How do I know what I don't know?
I am not looking for a straight answer to this question but some references on how I should further investigate this problem.
Problem
Let us consider a person bob
When Bob makes a statement, he ...
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Why are there problems we don’t know how to solve?
For example, there is a simple deterministic algorithm for determining whether any given number is a perfect square. But why don’t we know how to solve things like the p vs np problem or the collatz ...
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A word that encapsulates the strongest aspects of "model" and "theory" (and perhaps "hypothesis")?
I saw What is the difference between a "model" and a "theory"?, where it says, like Wikipedia says, that a scientific theory is a well-tested and thoroughly researched explanation ...
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