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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 can an Absurdist be moral?
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What exactly is a first-order logic?
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"Reality is a social construct" -- fair characterization or not?
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
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Paradoxes never exist in nature, so why does the grandfather's paradox make sense in physics?
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Can loops/cycles (in a temporal sense) exist without beginnings?
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Is there an alternative canon for Western modern philosophy?
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Why do “subject” and “object” not have opposite meaning?
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Is Russell's Paradox a semantic paradox or a syntactic paradox?
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What are the arguments against agnosticism and for gnostic atheism?
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Is philosophy science or humanities?
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Is evolution anti-entropic?
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Where do we go if we gain knowledge of the absolute truth? [closed]
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Russell's Paradox and the Law of Non-Contradiction
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Is this argument about abortion being both right and wrong valid or invalid?
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Is there a clear cut distinction between Philosophy and Philology?
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Is suffering unfair in life?
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How was Descartes sure that his doubt was his own?
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Any philosophical works that explicitly address the heat death of the Universe and its philosophical implications?
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Would it be logically possible that the Universe has a beginning in time but an infinite amount of time has elapsed since this beginning?
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Is there another state besides existence and nonexistence?
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Does physical reality exist without an observer?
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What's Good for the Goose is Almost Never Good for the Gander
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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
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Is infinity a number?
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Mathematical Realism and 0=1
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Are there different types of randomness?
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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?
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What are book recommendations on Philosophy of Consciousness by contemporary authors?
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Is intuitionistic mathematics situated in time?
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Is Absolute Idealism like Shankara's Advaita Vedanta of Hindu philosophy?
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What is evidence?
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What's wrong with "playing god"?
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Are neopagan religious views taken seriously by academic philosophers?
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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?
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Why is "the problem of criterion" problematic?
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Why is completeness (as in Gödel completeness theorem) a desirable feature?
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How well does the following argument work as a counter towards unfalsifiable supernatural claims?
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What is the name of this logical fallacy: Why should your god be the one?
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If each of our thoughts is entirely determined by the brain, can there be free will or a soul?
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Can a language be learned from a dictionary?
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If most numbers are uncomputable, in what sense do they exist?
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How can we denote objects that no longer exist?
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Is it morally permissible to jump the queue? Can we prove that it's morally permissible?
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Are Good and Evil relative or absolute?
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What is a question?
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Can God transcend human logic and reasoning?
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Is there a logical fallacy for applying fallacies to everything?
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What is the difference between depth and surface information?
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Rejecting a proposition because there are other similar propositions
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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 there a category even more general than "thing"?
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Virtue and Vices associated with Pleasures in daily life?
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Why is "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" considered meaningless?
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Why is the Newcomb problem confusing?
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Is it a "shifting of the burden of proof" if I show evidence in favor of a position, and ask the audience to debate that evidence if they disagree?
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What are philosophers doing when they are discussing free will?
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What is the use in arguing for or against the existence of metaphysical things?
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Are there good examples of regular life being theory-laden?
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