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Does Intelligent Design fulfill the necessary criteria to be recognized as a scientific theory?
I am seeking a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the concept of Intelligent Design (ID) in order to determine whether it meets the essential requirements to be considered a scientific theory. I am particularly interested in gathering insights…
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Is there a system of logic which denies DNI?
From what I know, the law of double negation is often simplified as p <=> ~~p. Intuitionist logic splits the biconditional into DNI and DNE.
DNI: p -> ~~p
DNE: ~~p -> p
and denies DNE while affirming DNI. My question is whether there is a similar…
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If Hegel was so hard to read, how did he become so popular?
I find that it is a popular/fashionable opinion that Hegel is a difficult to read writer. See eg. If this is the case, then how did his writings become mainstream/gain popularity at all?
It's quite unimaginable to me because in these days, quality…
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Is life the root cause of all suffering?
According to Buddhism,
"There is suffering in this world; suffering has a cause; and the cause is desire."
So, the desire to stay alive, forces us to work which causes suffering in the form of depression.
Does this mean that life is the root cause…
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Why does division take a lot more mental effort than multiplication?
It is mentally more difficult to divide 2 numbers than it is to multiply them. If you ask me what is 3 * 27, i will immediately tell you 'a little less than 90'.
However, I really have no idea what is 3 / 27. It is much harder to do this operation,…
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What did Russell mean when he wrote that the null-class, the class having no members, did not exist?
I am not quite sure I interpret the following sentence correctly in Bertrand Russell's paper on existential import:
and among classes there is just one which does not exist, namely, the class having no members, which is called the null-class.
This…
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Is indifference to ethical dicussion by definition unethical?
Eg.
Person A: Do you think abortion is morally wrong?
Person B has two morally acceptable answers to this question, they can either say "Yes, I believe abortion is morally wrong" or "No, I don't believe abortion is morally wrong." Both of these…
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What kind of a logical fallacy is giving an example from the past - in order to justify present unjustice?
I was wondering what kind of fallacy is giving an example that occurred in the past, and thus saying we don't need to worry about the present as the same or worse happened in the past. I would like to know if there's a known name for this fallacy…
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The Turing-Asimov Dilemma
The Turing Test is a simple test devised by Alan Turing to check for AI. If a machine is able to fool a human into believing it's a human then that machine is AI.
The 3 Laws of Robotics were laid down by sci-fi author Isaac Asimov.
As per The 3 Laws…
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What is the name of this phenomenon?
If you don't know anything about trees and plants, all you see in the forest is a bunch of trees. But if you know the names and appearances of different plants, you might see oaks, elms, pines etc. Similarly, when you hear a foreign language, you…
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Scientific stance on 'life from non-life, naturally'?
As far as I'm aware, almost everyone (from Dawkins to Lennox to Hovind) agrees that at some point in the past there was no life in our universe, and currently there is. Therefore life somehow arose in an environment of non-life.
What does current…
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Is there such a thing as N-valued logic?
Is there such a thing as N-valued logic, N being above 5 since there exist 3-valued and 4-valued logic. I am asking, because after true, false and neither, the additional truth value basically don't make any sense. I am not sure if these truth…
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Why do we prohibit consensual incestuous relationships?
When talking about sexual relationships between brothers and sisters, our initial intuition might be, “Well that’s just wrong. There’s something immoral about that”. Now, to examine the logic, I want to discount that intuition; but we need to…
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Is the argument that a claim is "too strange to be made up" an appeal to logos or pathos?
When someone tries to persuade you of the truth of something they said and they use the argument that it is too strange to be made up (or any variations of this, such as "too complicated to be fiction"), is that person making an appeal to your…
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Should one consider it a 'miracle' that the world exists?
Miracles are used generally in theological/religious contexts. Outside of them they're seen as either rationally explicable as signifiers of theological truths that are uncovered by hermeneutics of various kinds.
I want to see whether there are…
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