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How do analytic philosophers ground analytic philosophy?

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Any argument against determinism?

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Are the concepts of omniscience and omnipotence contradictory? [duplicate]

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What principle protects the objective nature of the prior and the conclusion in Bayes’s theorem?

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Is non-cognitivism self-undermining?

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Can we study scientifically the set of facts and behaviors if we have no scientific explanation for the source, origin or underlying mechanism of it? [closed]

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How many academic research papers were devoted to the study of Aristotle's intellectual inheritance? [closed]

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Are Good and Evil relative or absolute?

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Why is modal logic not focused more on strict implication?

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How to save oneself from this particular angst?

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Defeasible reasoning

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How is asymmetry of metaphor an important part of object-oriented ontology?

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deductive reasoning and first principle

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Benjamin Libet Free Will Experiment

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Topdown bottom up reductionism emergentism

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Are the concepts of reductionism and first principles the same?

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Can God transcend human logic and reasoning?

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Is it fair to say truth is used more in logic than in math? If so, what are the reasons for doing so?

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Does the PSR fail only at the atomic level in quantum mechanics or also for groups of atoms?

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Can every kind of object perform actions?

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Relation between Unity of Apperception and judgements in Kant

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Is there an alternative to substance or idea?

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Are there logical facts absolutely necessary in modal logic across possible and impossible worlds?

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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?

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Spinoza's Ethics. He didn't explain why substance has infinite attributes

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Preferred Translation of Plato's *Laws*?

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Simulation hypothesis and solipsism

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Is there a paradox in the proof of Godel's incompleteness theorem?

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Does the denial of free will necessarily imply determinism?

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What does "You go to women? Do not forget the whip!" mean?

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Was Nietzsche an amoralist?

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Does pragmatic encroachment imply that mood and psychology are relevant for knowledge?

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Can moral dilemmas be resolved in an amoral way?

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Can loops/cycles (in a temporal sense) exist without beginnings?

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Is there a quantitative model of Bentham's Hedonic Calculus?

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Carl Polanyi's fictitious commodities

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Who, if anyone did say it, was the first to say that because no qualia exist it is meaningless to say what I call "red" could be what you call "blue"?

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Does a definite description such as "the train" or "the student" always signal uniqueness of the referent?

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Is anyone now writing philosophy in the style of Plato - the Dialogue?

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Reductionism from a philosophical viewpoint

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Is the existence of free will falsifiable?

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Testing Free Will

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What is the meaning of this Zaman Ali quote? [closed]

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How to distinguish philosophical works from self-help books?

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