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Could 'cogito ergo sum' possibly be false?

What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology?

Is First Order Logic (FOL) the only fundamental logic?

What are the major research programmes in contemporary logic?

What is Philosophy? [closed]

Is mathematics truth? As in the sense of that which is manifest or possible in reality?

Motivations for dialetheism?

Why did the mid-19th century and earlier thinkers fixate on one-place predicates?

What is the difference between Law of Excluded Middle and Principle of Bivalence?

Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?

What are the retorts to Searle's Chinese Room?

What is the philosophical status of category theory?

When and why do we say that two things are the same?

Is there a name for the fallacy whereby the other party to the debate only suggests, does not articulate, what their point is?

Using the Duck-Typing method in scientific context [closed]

If you used intuitionistic logic in real life, would you not sound absurd?

Why did we define vacuous statements as true rather than false?

How does Putnam's twin earth thought experiment disprove functionalism?

What is hard about the “hard problem of consciousness”?

Has quantum mechanics destroyed the fundaments of logical reasoning?

Is there a sheaf-theoretic description of para-consistent logics?

What is the difference between depth and surface information?

Why does the material conditional have the truth table it does?

On Wittgenstein's family resemblance and machine learning

Logical consequence and material conditional - Are they the same?

Does Popper's theory of falsification apply to mathematics?

What is the difference between intensional and extensional logic?

Why is the darapti syllogism invalid?

Validity of mathematical induction

Is free will compatible with determinism? (Ramsey theorem)