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What is lost upon death?
If something at the moment of death contains the same matter as that something when alive, what is lost?
How does physicalism (physical monism) explain what that loss is?
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What framework or tool solves the Barber Paradox?
The Barber Paradox is usually phrased as follows:
I know a barber whose policy is to shave everyone who doesn't shave
himself.
If a person shaves himself, the barber does not shave that
person.
If the person does not shave himself, then the barber…
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
It is a common line of argumentation against religion that it includes dogmatic claims without evidence and that the resistance to change that is peculiar to religion and stems from its dogmatism forestalls all progress towards truth. Religion is,…
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How do we know that the mind is not a physical entity?
Most people believe that the mind is separate from the physical world. But how do we actually know that? Maybe the mind is a physical object. Of course, to answer this question, we need a rigorous definition of "physical". Anyway, has any…
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Why are Objectivists against Socialism?
From what I understand, Objectivism advocates rational selfishness - to put yourself before the masses, unless you don't want to - essentially to do what you want instead of blind altruism.
In the case of rich people, it would clearly make more…
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Is transgenderism a radical rejection of feminism?
A woman can be an engineer; a man can be a nurse. A woman can be aggressive; a man can let a woman take the lead. A little girl can play with toy trucks; a little boy can play with dolls; A woman can have sex with another woman; a man can have sex…
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What's the word for anything is true if the antecedent is false?
(1) If A then B.
(2) A is false.
Then B can be anything (true or false) and (1) remains true.
So B is true by __.
What's the word or words in the blank?
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Why can't an algorithm understand incompleteness?
I've heard a lot of people say that Gödel's proof shows that human intelligence somehow goes beyond what a computer could ever do. It's only ever been articulated to me very badly, though not for want of trying. I agree with the conclusion for other…
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How do the meanings of *to exist*, *to be*, and *real* differ?
What definition of to exist, of to be, and of real preponderates contemporary philosophy?
How do the terms differ from one another?
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On the claim that science is an offspring of Christian thought?
The claim that science is an offspring of Christian thought is often made in Christian-atheist debates. Theists argue that Christianity provided the necessary foundation for science to develop, such as the belief in a rational and orderly universe…
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Can findings in one science contradict those in another?
I'm new to philosophy and recently started reading some books on the field. I came across a statement that somehow I understood as saying the following propositions:
Truth is single and indivisible.
Sciences busy themselves with achieving truth…
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Why have philosophers historically defined God as omni-benevolent?
Whenever I read philosophy throughout history regarding God, I notice something I have issue with: Philosophers in most cases define god to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent.
The first two conditions are obvious: I can see where being…
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Does the incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity imply that we will never have a final theory of everything?
The Kolmogorov Complexity is the size of the simplest program that produces a specific output. By the Curry-Howard Correspondence, "programs" are isomorphic to "axiomatic systems" and "outputs" are isomorphic to "entailments". Since the size of the…
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Is scientific method entirely based on statistics (statistical inference)?
If I am correct the scientific method is an application of induction to science.
Is the scientific method entirely based on statistics (statistical inference)? (I guess so, because it makes use of sampling and experimental design, which fall into…
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When does simulating something produce a real effect of that thing?
I was just listening to an interview with David Chalmers where he opined that if one could accurately simulate the brain, consciousness would arise in the simulation. Are there any other instances where that happens or anyone expects it to happen?…
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