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What did David Hume mean when he said that “reason is a slave to the passions”?

What is the difference between knowledge and belief?

What is the difference between Philosophy and Theology?

How can one not believe in god as the root cause of the universe?

What does Kant mean by “Existence is not a predicate”?

Is atheism just another form of dogma?

Does a negative claimant have a burden of proof?

Why is scientism philosophically wrong?

Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions

How to get started with philosophy without getting overwhelmed quickly?

Since words are defined in terms of other words in dictionaries, leading to infinite loops, does it mean natural languages are meaningless?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

If everything is possible, is it possible for something to be impossible?

Why is there something instead of nothing?

What is the symbolism of Piraeus in The Republic?

Did Nietzsche actually say or write, “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

If Satan punishes bad people, doesn't that make him a good person? [closed]

How is Philosophy related to Science?

Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?

How is a priori synthetic knowledge possible?

What makes a basic belief a properly basic belief?

Is Nothing actually imaginable?

What exactly is the CTMU?

When it is correct to use Tarski's undefinability theorem versus Gödel's incompleteness theorem?

Are all paradoxes reducible to one “fundamental” paradox?

What formal logical systems “resolve” the Liar Paradox?

Does omniscience negate free will?

Why can't I doubt that I am doubting?

What is the opposite of me (i.e., my consciousness)?

Did Plato say “In order to argue, you must express your opponents argument better than they could?”