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Are transcendental and indispensability arguments reciprocally structured?
I can understand where the idea came from that the two argument forms are opposites in some sense, because they are similar and usually presented in opposite ways:
indispensability positive: Our best ...
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Is my analysis of Dawkins' fallacies correct?
It is not necessary for Dawkins to argue against God. If someone argues for the existence of God, or any particular god or belief, it is for that person to prove this. If, however, they merely assert ...
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Viciously circular arguments against philosophy
We should remember that science developed from philosophy. Philosophy has a toolbox containing logic, principles, razors etc. Modern philosophy has been described as the leftover over bit after the ...
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What constitutes evidence in philosophy?
When it comes to philosophical conceptual analysis, a common practice is to advance a general/universal definition and then "test" the definition by trying to come up with particular ...
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What constitutes evidence in philosophy?
I was once a science student taking philosophy courses. I suspect your challenge isn't in understanding what "evidence" is, but in understanding what is going on in philosophy discussions.
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What constitutes evidence in philosophy?
I think of philosophy as the primordial soup in which other fields of human endeavour are formed. The end goal of a philosophical discipline is to "graduate" to be its own field.
Science, ...
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What constitutes evidence in philosophy?
In philosophy, every thought can be evidence, and every evidence can be questioned by thought.
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What constitutes evidence in philosophy?
The short answer: It is the feeling to be familiar with the question at hand and to know the answer by intuition.
Evidence and intuition - as the corresponding capability to recognize matters of fact ...
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What constitutes evidence in philosophy?
There is no canonical answer to this question, because the question of what constitutes evidence is an open question with multiple metaphysical positions. Evidentialism as an epistemological theory, ...
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What does the IBE argument (the best explanation argument) look like in favor of the existence of other minds?
The word "official" is not a philosophical term. You also said "formal". Did you mean an argument in formal logic? I prefer arguments in natural language. As regards this ...
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Do some philosophical questions tend to entertain vacuous ideas?
Maybe. But perhaps it is analogous to panning for gold, in which a lot of time and effort is spent manipulating valueless stuff but occasionally something worthwhile is exposed. Or perhaps it is like ...
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Do some philosophical questions tend to entertain vacuous ideas?
This is no new complaint of philosophical discourse. Metaphysical speculation can range from highly productive to highly absurd. WP has an entry How many angels can dance on the head of a pin which ...
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Do some philosophical questions tend to entertain vacuous ideas?
Not all questions here are equally "sensible" as you put it, but one cannot rule out a priori that an issue that superficially seems "empty, inane, devoid of value" is necessarily ...
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Is reason under challenge?
Let's be clear that the only sense in which 'reason was preeminent' over the last few centuries is that a particular brand of rational empiricism made tremendous inroads into society and politics. ...
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Is reason under challenge?
By identifying phenomena like anti-vax, Trumpism, Islamism as a threat to reason is like saying that YOU know what is true or not. Because reason has the aim of seeking the truth.
Understanding ...
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Is reason under challenge?
Is reason under challenge?
Throughout history, the attacks against reason have been recurrent enough to preclude the term "resurgence" merely on the basis of current trends. Your mention of ...
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Is reason under challenge?
We should rather say that relatively particular theories of reason were preeminent in various parts of the world over the preceding millennia, but even this statement would miss out on many details. ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
The burden of proof is on the proposer of the argument. There is no false equivalence. Principles are tools. It is pointless to discuss their "reality".
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
It's useful to ask the question outside the realm of theology. We accept many things on the basis of trust: for example, the fact that a hydrogen atom has one proton and one electron, or the fact that ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
I think burden of proof should be understood in a context of a claimant versus a skeptic. The claimant, taking initiative, says X is necessarily true. The skeptic says that X may possibly be true, but ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
The burden of proof falls on the one who makes the claim because, usually, they don't make this claim in a vacuum, without any goal in mind: they want other people to accept their claim and adjust ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
The burden of proof is merely the result of trying to figure out what beliefs we should start with and what should be proven from there.
It stops you from believing anything and everything without ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
Let us take an interesting example , suppose your neighbour claims he is your Dad ,then where does the burden of proof lies? On your neighbour ,or your mother ,or on you ,or your present Dad ? The ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
The "burden of proof" is the principle that if you have a good reason to believe what you believe, and you want me to believe what you believe, you ought to say your good reason to believe ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
The rule of onus probandi states that the burden of proof lies with the speaker, not with the one who negates, see the OP's question.
The three other principles mentioned in the OP’s question are ...
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What is the burden of proof? Has this principle ever been challenged?
The burden of proof is the fundamental tenet of skepticism. It insists that there is a burden to prove, and that is not accepted by many people.
I have seen no convincing argument against this ...
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Is it plausible to believe in the existence of other minds if all arguments have been criticized?
It is reasonable to infer that other minds exist from behaviour. The burden of proof lies with arguments against other minds. To argue that other minds do not exist is similar to Russell's Teapot. ...
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