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How can universal truths lead to particular truths?
The question is a mix of multiple notions.
Universals and particulars: although the idea has an historical value for the philosophical approach, it is not considered valid nowadays. The idea suggests ...
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How can universal truths lead to particular truths?
One way to resolve your difficulty is to consider particulars to be real in a concrete sense and universals to represent attributes common to sets of particulars. Viewed that way, particulars are in ...
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Can we determine if a logic system is incomplete?
The meaning of completeness I'm familiar with is that, for a system of logic, if a proposition is true then it is provable in that system.
The star of the show is ol' faithful modus ponens (the method ...
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Can we determine if a logic system is incomplete?
In the context of formal logic, completeness has more than one meaning, and from your example I'm not sure which is closest to what you mean. These are the main ones:
Functional completeness. In the ...
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Can we determine if a logic system is incomplete?
The simplest definition of system completeness is that any question asked within that system has an answer that lies within that system. So for example, the question of what is x if x^2 = 1 has an ...
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Is it possible to simulate a reality like ours using other logic than classical logic?
Let's raise to the top a claim that Bumble makes: Simulation is modeling using computation. Both mathematics and logic are forms of computation, and in computer science, we are interested not just in ...
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Please criticize my argument for a first cause
This is essentially a cosmological argument, and subject to all of the criticisms thereof.
What you are describing is essentially a type of Cosmological Argument. Your argument is therefore subject ...
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Please criticize my argument for a first cause
I see a number of problems with this approach. First, you are inserting your own definition of “cause” into your argument, rather than using the generally accepted definition of “cause.” I think that ...
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Is it possible to simulate a reality like ours using other logic than classical logic?
Just to expand a little on Conifold's comments. Logic is not reality, it is something we use to help us describe reality and form representations of it. Logic helps us to organise information and ...
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Is it possible to simulate a reality like ours using other logic than classical logic?
Is it possible to simulate a reality like ours using other logic than classical logic?
If by "classical logic" you mean so-called mathematical logic, then it does not "simulate" ...
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If nothing is preventing something from existing, must it exist?
As usual, what do you mean by 'exist'?
If you mean 'material existence', as in, made of particles from the Standard Model and being part of physical reality as studied by Physics, then... you should ...
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If nothing is preventing something from existing, must it exist?
There are infinitely many things that don't seem to be specifically precluded from existing, yet do not exist, as best we can tell.
As such, the answer to whether such things "must" exist ...
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If nothing is preventing something from existing, must it exist?
No. You are assuming that for a thing not to exist there must be a factor that prevents it from existing, which is an unnecessary assumption. There is nothing to prevent me from creating a passible ...
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If nothing is preventing something from existing, must it exist?
Exists no Y such that if Y, not X, therefore X... is a valid inference.
Note that for us to move from internally consistent logic (connecting an arbitrary premise to a conclusion that need not be ...
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If nothing is preventing something from existing, must it exist?
If there is no existent precluding factor (whatsoever) for the existence of some x, must such a x exist?
The way this is worded is interesting, because any case that quickly comes to mind to try and ...
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Can you achieve the same level of 'consistency' or similar if you remove or modify the law of identity in a logical system?
Off the top of my head, the closest thing I can imagine along the indicated lines is to suspend A → A on the propositional level, but even so, this would be on pragmatic, not semantic, grounds (i.e. &...
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Where is it that I go when I dream? Part 2
Going with the example of hypnagogic/ hypnic jerks, these were the brain's way of giving us one last chance to adjust our position, reducing the risk of falling out of the tree branches we were ...
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Are sensations mind dependent?
What do you mean by sensations?
There are no bodily sensations without living bodies, no sensations of seeing without eyes and consciousness, no sense of touch without incarnation. But colours may be ...
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Correspondence between chapters and Bekker numbers in Metaphysics
The general format to cite Aristotle's works using Bekker numbers is as follow (there may be some minor stylistic variations):
[title,][book number.][chapter number,][page number][column letter][line ...
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Can a mathematician create free will, rigour, etc etc?
Here’s a small sampling of math “causing”free will I’m aware of:
Tegmark and his Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. Free will as a subjective belief/experience and all other subjective experiences are ...
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Can a mathematician create free will, rigour, etc etc?
Mathematics is the antithesis of free will. Thw will has no effect on mathematics. As far as mortality, it's a big problem for statistics. Statistics depends on probability being neither 0% or 100%, ...
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How could we get over a seeming contradiction in first cause causality without jumping to anything impossible?
It also seems to expose a contradiction in logic and reasoning itself, as there has to be a first cause,
First, there cannot be a contradiction is logic itself, for it would mean that logic is ...
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Did Nietzsche “believe” in causality?
I quote from Beyond Good and Evil section 21:
It is we alone who have fabricated causes, succession, relativity, purpose. When we speak of something of 'in itself', we speak mythologically.
This ...
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Are all things the forms they have?
You talk about the Law of Identity, which is definitional in classical logic, and mathematics. But in the world, consider Heraclitus' point that we can never step in the same river twice, or the Ship ...
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Has brain-to-brain communication been addressed in the literature, and if so, is there a fundamental reorganization of philosophy required?
This poses an interesting question. Philosophy has long grappled with the ineffable—those aspects of human experience and existence that seem beyond the reach of language. With brain-to-brain ...
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Has brain-to-brain communication been addressed in the literature, and if so, is there a fundamental reorganization of philosophy required?
Has brain-to-brain communication been addressed in the literature, and if so, is there a fundamental reorganization of philosophy required?
There is not a fundamental reorganization of philosophy ...
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Has brain-to-brain communication been addressed in the literature, and if so, is there a fundamental reorganization of philosophy required?
What exactly do we mean by "brain-to-brain communication"?
I can already communicate with other brains in a variety of ways - speech, signs, demeanour, and so on.
Even if there were a new ...
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Tautological Many Worlds?
The idea of a multiverse is just a lame attempt to support the idea of a deterministic universe. The problem with determinism as a worldview is that it doesn't answer the big question:
Why exactly ...
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Difference between how a physicist and mathematician approach science?
Looking at Dyson's quote in context (from the talk "Missed opportunities", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 1972), it appears he thought that the divorce had happened as early as the 1860s. One of ...
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Difference between how a physicist and mathematician approach science?
It is similar to the difference between a designer and a mechanical engineer working on a merry-go-round. The designer (or physicist) is concerned ultimately with some observable phenomena and general ...
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Quid Accidit? Quid Non Accidit?
First of all, trivially in order to understand what it means for something to happen, we need to be able to distinguish what happens from what does not. It is the ability to distinguish these that ...
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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
Apologies if this meta-question comment/critique is not appropriate here. I'm not certain if it is appropriate because, in a way, the critique may apply to all questions in this forum. That said...
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Please criticize my argument for a first cause
Your argument contains a number of steps to which a nit-picker might object.
You say that time cannot be infinite, and you seem to be basing that claim on the view that if time were infinite then we ...
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