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Can the same arguments used to reject metaphysical solipsism also support accepting the existence of God?
Why do most people reject metaphysical solipsism and instead accept the reality of an external world? There are two primary reasons:
The perception of having repeated conscious experiences of an ...
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Determinism and Spinoza
Spinoza argues that no two substances can share attributes. This is the way I understand it: modes can be fully explained via attributes. So, if we had two substances with the same attributes, they ...
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What is the use in arguing for or against the existence of metaphysical things?
It seems to me that we ought to be rather indifferent to their existence. Take free will, for example. By the nature of how it's defined, and its incompatibility with science, it can't be proven nor ...
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What determines a need for explanation?
This is a question that has been bugging me that came up on a debate about the Kalam cosmological argument between Graham Oppy and Andrew Loke, both philosophers as far as I am aware: https://www....
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Please criticize my argument for a first cause
Salaamualykum, I would like this argument to be strengthened by criticism: Everything has a cause, by cause I mean mean something that "therefores it" regardless of your definition. if ...
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What is the best/most convincing objection to the Ontological Argument?
In A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell says (p. 568)
Kant countered this argument by maintaining that “existence” is not a
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Why is the universe too big for us to explore? [closed]
It almost seems like a cruel joke that the universe would birth creatures with extremely curious minds and a sense of exploration and make the distances between stars too far for reasonable ...
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Is the claim that a non conscious entity cannot create a conscious entity valid?
In a debate I watched online, the theist person claimed that conscious creatures, such as humans, can only be created by a conscious being, because a non conscious being isn't able to give this ...
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If Non-existence is nonexistent, then does that mean a Supernatural Exists?
Ok, what I am asking is bascially, if non-existence (which I use synonymously with the word 'nothing' - this is my defintion of 'nothing' in this piece - non-existence, so please no dcitionary ...
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