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Is Information considered a genuine concept from physics?
Everybody agrees that the concepts of energy and momentum or the concept of spacetime are genuine concepts from physics. Not only that these concepts are used in physics. They are made precise in physics.
What about the concept of information? The…
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The non-existence of Gettier problems in Indo-Tibetan epistemology
Reading the paper Gettier and Factivity in Indo‐Tibetan Epistemology the author claims at some point early in the paper that
There are two initial problems which make it difficult to compare factive
assessment with true belief and the Gettier…
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Why isn't humanistic logic taught in schools any more?
Specifically, I'm curious about the loci or categories that Agricola and later Ramus used extensively. Were they found to be problematic at a later time? If not, why not use them? They're so helpful in organizing information.
In order to clear up…
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What are some arguments for why lives are valuable?
In ethics, the idea that lives, in and of themselves, are valuable (with a complete disregard of the consequences that followed from that life) is often used to prove some point, but the claim that lives actually are valuable is seemingly an…
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What is put on what (the mayo or the eggs) and why?
What are some branches of philosophy that could be used to analyze the question "did I put mayo on my eggs, or eggs on my mayo?" I understand that the question itself is very weak, but I am just struggling to classify this type of thought. Sort of…
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How can Hegel call philosophy a science?
At the tail end of Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason Gardner discusses Kant's influence on his successors. He claims---and I'm paraphrasing here---Hegel wanted his metaphysics to be scientific, i.e., to all unfold from a single principle. Kant's…
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What are some good books on critical theory for analytic philosophers?
As far as I understand, there are two broad branches of critical theory: one is based on social theory, and the other on literary criticism and hermeneutics. I am more interested in the latter, of the kind that's been taught to a generation of…
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Can there be a valid argument which has a tautology as a conclusion?
Given this definition:
A deduction is valid if and only if its conclusion is true whenever all of its hypotheses are true.
Can an argument be valid if it has a tautology as a conclusion?
An example I can think of is:
A proposition is either a…
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In what way can theism and science co-exist?
Probably the most cliche question ever, but I never got a good answer so I'll ask it anyway:
How can science and theism co-exist? Even if we forget that the two have entirely different ideas about how the universe was created, theism says that…
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Is the axiom of infinity truly an axiom?
I hope I can communicate my concerns effectively, so I can reach an understanding about a topic that I've been reflecting and researching intensely on for a few days. I am thinking about actually infinity in mathematics, specifically set theory with…
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Moral responsibility without free will
Are there any theories of moral responsibility that don't require free will?
Sam Harris rejects the notion of free will and attempts to construct some form of moral calculus, but "The Moral Landscape" didn't sound very convincing to me exactly…
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Is the logical problem of evil still argued?
Mackie (in "The Miracle of Theism" for instance) has argued that the supposed incompatibility between an all-powerful, all-knowing, and morally perfect God and the existence of evil actually demonstrates an internal inconsistency among many theists'…
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What are the arguments for and against "one true arithmetic"?
This question was born out of a discussion Is the real number structure unique? on Math SE, but since it is more philosophical than mathematical I decided to ask here.
From Gödel completeness and incompleteness theorems, assuming the standard axioms…
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What is "intuition" for Kant?
Intuition appears to be a relatively abstract concept, an incomplete cognition, and thus not directly experienceable. Kant says that all knowledge is constituted of two parts: reception of objects external to us through the senses (sensual…
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What's the difference between "not all" and "some" in logic?
We have, not all represented by ~(x) and some represented (∃x) For example if I say,
Not all are animals.
Some are animals.
Because we aren't considering all the animal nor we are disregarding all the animal. What would be difference between the…
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