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Identifying a Logical Fallacy (written by Bertrand Russell?)
I will defend what is right even if it's an unpopular opinion.
You are obstinate and won't listen to reason.
This is a personal attack (ad hominem) fallacy.
The second person resorts to a character ...
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Identifying a Logical Fallacy (written by Bertrand Russell?)
That's not what equivocation means. Here's an example of equivocation:
Nothing is better than God. A half-eaten jelly donut is better than nothing. Thus, a half-eaten jelly donut is better than God.
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Is there an ethical difference between taking away and withholding?
Is there an ethical difference between taking away and withholding?
The difference is in ownership and action:
A is taking away from B -> B owns and A is "stealing".
A is withholding ...
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Books and articles on explanation
Conifold's list is a good start. My Blackwell's Companion to the Philosophy of Science has a good essay on 'Scientific Explanation'. I haven't read any books directly devoted to answering the question,...
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Does the incomputability of kolmogorov complexity imply that we will never have a final theory of everything?
No, the incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity merely means that we probably won't know for sure if we have the right TOE. We may indeed one day have a theory that explains the whole universe in a ...
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Does the incomputability of kolmogorov complexity imply that we will never have a final theory of everything?
Let's start with some comments. You say:
I'm putting this question here and not in computer science or math because the incomputability of Komlogorov Complexity and the validity of the Curry-Howard ...
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What philosophers have touched upon the inability to qualify data as being representative of evidence in support of a scientific theory?
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It appears that in any effort to qualify data that has been experimentally collected as evidence in order to support or refute a scientific theory, there is the possibility that the ...
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What is the definition of "abstract"?
The SEP article on the topic lists seven positive demarcations, and caps the list off with a variety of negative opinions. To quote sec. 3.8 in full:
We come finally to proposals that reject the ...
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Is there any “stability metric” for scientific fields?
Paradigm shifts are Kuhn's model of such change, as JD has referenced. His picture of a power struggle and a kind of 'democracy' of most popular ideas or frameworks taking over, is highly disputed. ...
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Is there any “stability metric” for scientific fields?
Yes. As far as my limited knowledge permits, there are two domains where you might search for this related to the idea that comes from the Kuhnian attack on the objectivity and linearity of scientific ...
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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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A series and B series of time
You may find this helpful: What is McTaggart's vicious circle problem with the A series?
In the comments Conifold says: "McTaggart was an objective idealist, all subject bound constructs were &...
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A series and B series of time
It's simply that in one conception of time, a particular event, let's call it E, is at one "point" in the future, then in the present, and "later", in the past and in the other ...
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How to write a philosophical work? As a beginner
In academic philosophical writing, you start by identifying a topic of interest to you, and a philosopher who has written on that topic. In general, the academic expectation is to make your focus ...
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How to write a philosophical work? As a beginner
Welcome, Ankita,
A philosophy paper isn't fundamentally different than other forms of papers such as research papers and essays depending on your goals. The topic of course is different. For instance, ...
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Did Socrates say: "Strong minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; weak minds discuss people."?
Attributions to Socrates, Aristotle, etc. are too wide of the mark as even a cursory study of history of philosophy might suggest.
The Quote Investigator points out that the earliest adage that would ...
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Is there a name for this philosophy?
Ascetism may be what you are looking for. Your attitude also seems to have aspects of stoicism (which very roughly teaches that you never "had" anything in the first place) and of nihilism, ...
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Is there such a thing as the philosophy of romance?
Romance is subsidiary to the concept of love. To introductory articles are:
Philosophy of Love (IEP)
Love (SEP)
The IEP has a short subsection devoted to the concept:
Romantic love is deemed to be ...
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