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Is the Turing test a legitimate test to compare Robots to Human?
The Turing Test has been followed as a test that robots need to complete in order to be termed "Human-Like". But to what extent is this test justified? I mean, whatever the test maybe, the robot/ computer only understands machine code. If we were to…
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Does punishment from god contradict the idea of free will?
In various religions it is often preached that god has given humans free will. But at the same time those religions preach that there is punishment for sinning.
Assuming a god does exist, and god does punish people for sinning, doesn't that…
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Plato and the knowledge of the forms
Suppose Plato finally has knowledge of the "forms"* he set out to find after some time (remember knowledge). One day his soul departs to for the soul realm. When he reaches, the "forms" welcome his senses (please assume that we maintain our senses…
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Is the Münchhausen trilemma really a trilemma?
It claims there are three options of which none of them are satisfying.
Circular argument doesn't prove anything because it's just when the premise is the same as the conclusion.
x ∵ x
Infinite Regress isn't clear on why we'd need to do this let…
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Is virtue necessary to achieve eudaimonia?
Stoics believe that virtue (ἀρετή) is necessary and sufficient to achieve happiness (εὐδαιμονία). It was the "sufficient" portion that marked Stoics out from other ancient philosophy, but I suspect that modern philosophy finds problems even with the…
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How do we separate rules of logic from non-logical constraints?
I think that very often the idea of 'constraint' appears in mathematics.
For example, when a triangle is considered, 3 points are constrained not to be co-linear,
and then we try to discover the implications of this initial constraint,
when the…
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Is there a One True Set Theory?
From the description of Category Theory in nlab:
Category theory is a structural approach to mathematics that can (through such methods as Lawvere's ETCS) provide foundations of mathematics and (through algebraic set theory) reproduce all the…
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What did Wittgenstein mean by saying that the belief in the causal nexus is a superstition?
In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittenstein says:
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The events of the future cannot be inferred from those of the present.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
I'm not quite sure what is meant by "superstition" in this…
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How to answer people who would claim that "philosophy is useless"?
How to answer people who would claim that "philosophy is useless"?
My take:
"Philosophy, since it by def. considers fundamental matters, such as existence, cannot be rationally neglected, because the whole existence of the subject (you) is itself a…
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Does going from a singular to existential statement make it non-scientific for Popper?
In "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" (section 15) Popper argues that
an 'isolated' (a term he introduced in the English translation, which seems to be used in a very vague way) purely existential statement is not falsifiable, since its negation…
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Meaning in use and naturalisation of intentionality
What is the relation between pragmatism and intentionality?
Two different enterprises in philosophy seem to be well established and yet contradicting:
Inferential Pragmatism: from Wittgenstein and Sellars to Rorty, Brandom and Mcdowell, There's an…
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Does hiding a truth constitute lying?
I am expected to tell the truth if asked. But sometimes I hide the truth. For example once , although I have diabetes, I ate sweet in a shop and then I withdrew money from atm. My wife called me and asked me what am I doing outside ? I said I am…
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Does philosophy belong to empirical science or formal science?
According to Wikipedia, science
can be divided into empirical
science (such as natural science and
social science) and formal
science (such as mathematics,
logic, statistics). I was wondering
if philosophy belongs to empirical
science or formal…
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How does Gödel's incompleteness theorem apply to materialism and the mind
Assertion 1: Humans use some logical system to understand the universe
Assertion 2: Gödel proved through a formal logic what is provable about a logical system is a subset of what is true about it, unless a meta-logical system is used
In materialist…
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What are the criteria for existence?
What are the criteria for existence, i.e. the answer to "what exists and what doesn't exist?" in modern schools of philosophy?
My trial: Something exists if and only if it can affect our senses, either directly or indirectly. For example, magnetic…
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