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What are some theories attacking postmodernism preserving objective truth and morality without assuming a God?
From my simplified understanding postmodernism claims ?:
there is no objective truth, only interpretation
there is no objective morality, morality usually represent the interest of the powers that be
From what I understand these positions were…
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Does claiming something exists imply that the number 1 exists?
The number 1 is used in language when we make claims of existence concerning distinct well-defined objects. It seems then that to say the number 1 does not exist would imply that nothing exists at all. Is this reasoning faulty? If I need a concept…
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How can I develop my critical thinking skills?
I am a freshman engineering student going to college. I want to learn how to think critically and to become a critical thinker and a sharp arguer. I am interested in philosophy, because I am curious about the world, creationism, and everything, and…
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If the "right to life" is denied in abortion, isn't it also denied in the use of the death penalty?
Many people who support death penalty are also against abortion, and vice-versa.
What is the moral difference between the two? In both cases, isn't the "right to life" of another being violated?
What are the major ethical or philosophical positions…
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Are all concepts polar ?
Do all concepts operate in pairs such that in order to define one member of the pair we need to specify its opposite ? For instance, we cannot define 'nothing' without understanding - being able to specify - 'something' and vice versa.
It is clear…
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How can we overcome the challenge of the anti statistical philosopher?
Conventional statistical inference has been strongly challenged by the anti statistical philosopher who uses the following example:
Imagine a man. Imagine that every time a man opens his front door and steps outside a red 1965 Corvette with the…
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Is watching an amputated limb regrow proof of the supernatural?
A typical challenge skeptics present when confronted with claims of alleged miracles is "why won't God Heal amputees?". But, would that do the job? Consider the following thought experiment: Let's suppose that God grants the miracle and multiple…
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What does Nietzsche mean when he says "God is dead"?
What does German Philosopher Nietzsche mean when he says : "God is dead"? In one of the books of an Indian Mystic Osho, I read this reply from Osho: "Nietzsche is wrong because God has never been born". What is Nietzsche trying to imply from his…
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Quantum Mechanics and Logic
I heard several times that the results of quantum mechanics (double-slit experiment for instance ) challenge our logic. One example of that is the famous physicist Lawrence Krauss.
He keeps saying that after our discoveries of quantum…
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In Gödels Incompleteness theorem what is the notion of truth?
The entry on Gödels Incompletenss theorem in Wikipedia says:
Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory…
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Are there any philosophical works consisting entirely in conditional propositions?
Related, I suppose, to this question.
In mathematics most theorems are of the form:
If we have a [type of object] with [property 1] then it also has [property 2]
That is, they are conditional statements on classes of objects. Traditionally…
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The difference between soundness and completeness
Is anyone able to articulate the difference between the properties of soundness and completeness insofar as they relate to the validity of the truth tree/semantic tableau?
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Is it ethical for governments to compel their citizens to lead healthy lives?
Dr Peter Agre(MD) recently said this at the Lindau Meeting (Original full text from Ars Technica)
Agre also noted that many of the
biggest public health problems are a
result of lifestyle choices. Cigarette
smoking is a major cause of
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What makes Humans different from a chemical computer?
Are we all robots? Is our DNA the 0's and 1's of computer code? Are we an advanced computer system, with instead of keyboard and mouse input... input from our senses. Our database being our brain to process all the information. Our offspring…
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Why does statistics work?
Statistics deals with probability, where even an extremely unlikely event has some chance of happening. What if there's a series of these unlikely events going on for thousands of year. I mean it could happen, there is some chance. For example, what…
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