Conifold

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Which fallacy: "If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?"

Nov 5, 2019

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What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?

Apr 25, 2018

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What fallacy in Pascal's Wager allows replacing God with the devil?

Jul 18, 2017

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Why do I accept some inconsequential claims as "obviously true" without evidence? E.g. "Most people don't like to be hit on the head with a hammer."

Feb 19, 2020

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What do you call the fallacy of thinking that some action A will guarantee some outcome B, when in reality B depends on multiple other conditions?

Sep 29, 2019

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Is God either immoral or not omnipotent?

Sep 30, 2014

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How can the physical world be an abstract mathematical structure a la Tegmark?

Feb 19, 2016

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Can philosophy overcome "the two cultures" divide?

Oct 23, 2014

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What is the philosophy behind the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics?

Nov 19, 2014

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Why do modern materialists tend to favor determinism?

Dec 14, 2015

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How might a decision be defined if it is to be defined as something other than an act (a 'thing done')?

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Nietzsche doesn't believe in free will nor in "non-free will". How come?

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Are there any established logical symbols for merely possible and contingently true?

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Must time flow?

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How does Husserl's "bracketing" secure a truly presuppositionless study?

Dec 22, 2015

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Was there a Kantian influence on Hilbert's formalist programme?

Sep 15, 2015

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Is there a theory of time consistent with Heraclitus?

Sep 14, 2015

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Granted Hume's psychological perspective regarding impressions and ideas, doesn't this make his epistemology obscure?

Jan 23, 2016

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Is the unobserved universe quantum mechanical?

Dec 16, 2015

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