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Is infinity a number?

Abhishek Chouhan

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modified Jul 18 at 7:16

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Can God transcend human logic and reasoning?

Apostolos

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answered 16 hours ago

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Is there a category even more general than "thing"?

Marxos

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answered Jun 27 at 20:58

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Evil God Challenge: What if an evil god is just trolling humanity and that explains why there's good in the world?

Geoffrey Thomas♦

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modified Jul 6 at 10:01

7 votes

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If someone clearly believes that he has witnessed something extraordinary very clearly, why is it more reasonable to believe that they hallucinated?

gnasher729

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answered Jul 11 at 23:48

9 votes

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Is evolution anti-entropic?

Idiosyncratic Soul

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modified Jul 16 at 15:16

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

Geoffrey Thomas♦

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modified 3 hours ago

10 votes

9 answers

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How well does the following argument work as a counter towards unfalsifiable supernatural claims?

alanf

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answered Jul 4 at 11:36

1 vote

6 answers

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Does physical reality exist without an observer?

AnoE

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modified Jul 10 at 8:50

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Are there different types of randomness?

Anixx

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modified Jul 13 at 9:43

3 votes

6 answers

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Is philosophy science or humanities?

Chris Degnen

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answered Jul 16 at 18:25

6 votes

4 answers

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Any philosophical works that explicitly address the heat death of the Universe and its philosophical implications?

Dcleve

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modified Jul 12 at 15:06

7 votes

8 answers

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Recommend an essay, article, entry, author, or branch of philosophy that addresses the futility of arguing for or against free will

J D

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modified Jul 9 at 0:29

2 votes

8 answers

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

UnkemptPanda

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modified 20 hours ago

7 votes

8 answers

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

candied_orange

261

modified yesterday

7 votes

11 answers

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Are Good and Evil relative or absolute?

SacrificialEquation

1,220

answered 5 hours ago

3 votes

6 answers

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Where do we go if we gain knowledge of the absolute truth? [closed]

birdpoolcleaner

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modified Jul 17 at 14:37

6 votes

5 answers

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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole) [closed]

Geoffrey Thomas♦

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modified Jul 18 at 9:37

5 votes

5 answers

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Are there any philosophers who clearly define the word "consciousness" in their arguments?

Geoffrey Thomas♦

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modified Jul 18 at 8:45

5 votes

3 answers

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Is intuitionistic mathematics situated in time?

Julio Di Egidio

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answered Jul 3 at 12:47

4 votes

5 answers

379 views

How to save oneself from this particular angst?

Peter - Reinstate Monica

2,538

answered 10 hours ago

4 votes

4 answers

514 views

Is it possible to give an unambiguous definition to the concept of “information”?

J D

29.1k

modified Jun 26 at 19:13

11 votes

2 answers

1k views

Why is completeness (as in Gödel completeness theorem) a desirable feature?

user21820

825

modified Jun 29 at 9:58

5 votes

3 answers

1k views

Mathematical Realism and 0=1

PW_246

1,542

modified Jul 10 at 2:08

4 votes

4 answers

890 views

Mechanistic view of the universe

Simon Crase

730

modified Jun 25 at 22:56

0 votes

3 answers

794 views

Would it be moral for Danish resitance in WW2 to kill collaborators? [closed]

andrós

1,671

modified Jul 7 at 20:05

2 votes

3 answers

519 views

What is more important: simplicity or induction?

Rushi

3,993

modified Jul 12 at 14:08

7 votes

6 answers

281 views

Why do we have problem of concept of set?

Mozibur Ullah

47.9k

answered Jun 30 at 6:53

6 votes

5 answers

478 views

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

Rushi

3,993

modified 17 hours ago

2 votes

8 answers

419 views

Is Philosophy decaying into an antiquated subject? [closed]

Rushi

3,993

modified Jul 17 at 5:40

1 vote

8 answers

227 views

Would an identical copy of me have the same thoughts as me?

Haddock

26

answered 2 days ago

1 vote

2 answers

906 views

"He who is destined to be hanged will not drown." Can we treat folk wisdom as philosophy? [closed]

Rushi

3,993

modified Jul 15 at 4:28

4 votes

2 answers

630 views

Why do many philosophers consider a past-eternal universe to be self-explanatory but not a universe that began with no cause?

Alistair Riddoch

1,680

modified Jun 27 at 19:47

5 votes

2 answers

349 views

If someone doesn't believe in "the" theory of category mistakes

Rushi

3,993

modified 2 days ago

6 votes

4 answers

332 views

Can every kind of object perform actions?

Idiosyncratic Soul

1,574

modified 18 hours ago

2 votes

3 answers

255 views

Are the justifications of an irrational society false?

Noah Schweber

3,342

modified Jul 3 at 19:12

2 votes

8 answers

516 views

Could mathematical truths have been otherwise?

Anixx

610

answered Jul 11 at 4:15

6 votes

3 answers

312 views

Can High Levels of Logical Intelligence Lead to Limit the Evolution of Intelligent Life? [closed]

SacrificialEquation

1,220

answered Jun 22 at 13:40

3 votes

2 answers

237 views

Is my understanding of Quine's Bizet-Verdi counterfactuals correct?

Olivier5

2,310

answered Jun 23 at 8:28

2 votes

2 answers

560 views

Is the atomic sentence “There is something” the starting point for all possible human inquiry about anything at all?

Kristian Berry

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answered Jun 25 at 7:33

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4 answers

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Why is the "where are all the Xs?" argument considered strong when X = "time travelers" but weak when X = "aliens"?

DSKekaha

101

answered Jun 28 at 18:00

9 votes

1 answer

183 views

What is Dummett's narrow/wide scope objection to Kripke's modal argument against descriptivism?

white-hearted

91

modified Jun 26 at 14:06

4 votes

6 answers

173 views

How to engage in radical skeptical pondering for hours on a daily basis and maintain psychological well being?

alanf

8,044

answered Jun 30 at 20:18

3 votes

2 answers

326 views

Most Widely Held Theories of How "Moral Sense" Arises in a Culture [duplicate]

Dcleve

14.6k

modified Jul 15 at 19:36

2 votes

3 answers

119 views

Is it ever rational or justified to believe in a claim X based on eyewitness accounts if X seems to contradict mainstream scientific theories? [duplicate]

Jo Wehler

34.6k

answered Jun 21 at 14:37

5 votes

1 answer

304 views

Implementing stoicism in daily life

J D

29.1k

modified 2 days ago

3 votes

4 answers

181 views

Emergent Behavior: Observer-Constructed or Observer-Independent behavior of systems

J D

29.1k

answered Jul 5 at 13:02

5 votes

5 answers

264 views

Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?

J D

29.1k

modified Jun 28 at 21:14

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