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Ontological and metaphysical questions about the study of existence, being and the structure of reality.
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How can someone infer something does not exist?
Descriptions of objects can be just sets of individual properties. Like it has 4 legs, it is made of wood, it fits through a door. Such properties can freely be combined to sets. They just remain sets …
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If everything ends one day why don't we end it today?
Obviously all major religions claim that life has a meaning, typically the purpose of gaining benefits after this life from doing good deeds. Typically the rewards are for all eternity in paradise, so …
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Existence, Stating/Proving in Logic
Universals are typically proven by contradiction, e.g. assuming some premise (x exists, or x without some property exists), some contradiction would occur, so the premise is wrong.
But real world reas …
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How is the beginning of something determined?
This seems like just yet another variant off the problem of identity over time. Same as the ship of Theseus paradox. The beginning of anything is just a matter of subjective definitions.
Humans celebr …
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Under what circumstances is the observation of X proof of the existence of X?
An observation is evidence but not proof, nor definition. There can be all kinds of errors involved (illusions), and even if not, the thing that was observed may not be the thing we think it is (e.g. …
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