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66	Which fallacy: "If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?"
63	What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?
54	What fallacy in Pascal's Wager allows replacing God with the devil?
48	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."
30	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?

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+10	What is the meaning of "dialectic" in Kant's First Critique?
+10	What are the critiques of the "we might as well assume it" solution to the problem of induction?
+35	Are there scholarly works on philosophy of language treatment of the Gettier problem?
+10	Essential reading list in the philosophy of science

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18	Is God either immoral or not omnipotent?
17	How can the physical world be an abstract mathematical structure a la Tegmark?
15	Why do modern materialists tend to favor determinism?
15	Can philosophy overcome "the two cultures" divide?
15	What is the philosophy behind the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics?

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3	Granted Hume's psychological perspective regarding impressions and ideas, doesn't this make his epistemology obscure?
2	Is the unobserved universe quantum mechanical? [closed]

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