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Can loops/cycles (in a temporal sense) exist without beginnings?
I know this might seem like a question that might belong in a Computer Science forum but I wanted a more philosophical explanation and example.
When programming, I sometimes write poor implementations ...
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Have there been computer searches for Quine's permutations?
In "Word and Object", Quine describes what are effectively automorphisms of languages:
"The infinite totality of sentences of any given speaker's language can be so permuted, or mapped ...
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Relations without Relata?
Ladyman’s ontic structural realism posits to the world is comprised of relations without relata. Can somebody please explain what this means conceptually? What are the reasons someone would have for ...
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Are there any philosophers who clearly define the word "consciousness" in their arguments?
My view of consciousness lies somewhere in the illusionist camp, i.e. more or less with the likes of Daniel Dennett. However, while reading through the literature, I am frustrated by the fact that it ...
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If someone doesn't believe in "the" theory of category mistakes
There are actually a bunch of these theories (per the SEP entry).1 But so suppose that one believed in no "ontological categories" at all. Or suppose someone were a skeptic about ontological ...
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Objection to indirect proof in Intuitionism
From my understanding, Brouwer's conception of intuitionism is that mathematical objects only exist in the mind once they have been constructed. And we can create constructions using computable ...
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Is Philosophy decaying into an antiquated subject? [closed]
Is Philosophy decaying into an antiquated Subject in 21st Century whereas lots of questions could be answered within modern Science?
Yes or No? Explain Why for your answer.
I have longed for asking ...
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Is freedom of the mind incompatible with freedom of the body?
Before gravity was known, people could imagine having a super power to fly in the sky, which is a kind of freedom of thought, our minds do not have to be bound by knowledge.
But the real realization ...
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Which WILL is right or most important?
Will to Power (Nietzsche):
Proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche, this concept suggests that the primary driving force in humans is the will to power, which goes beyond mere survival or pleasure. It ...
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Aristotle and "Every X is every Y" falsity
I am currently reading "On Interpretation" by Aristotle, and in the section 7 there is the following statement:
If, however, both predicate and subject are distributed, the proposition thus ...
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In a very specific sense, what are the precise reasons why someone would not be able to verify whether or not their judgment is delusional?
I'm thinking of how people with dementia may not be aware that they have dementia, for example.
I'm also thinking about psychiatric syndromes associated with delusionality.
It seems like someone who ...
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Why does the Curry paradox require a separate solution in dialetheism?
On the Dialetheism entry on SEP, it is stated that, although dialetheism can offer a solution to the Liar Paradox (by accepting the Liar sentence as a true dialetheia), dialetheists need a separate ...
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Most Widely Held Theories of How "Moral Sense" Arises in a Culture [duplicate]
I am the kind of person who is slow to really "get" some of my fellow citizens moral sense (often codified in rules of thumb in proverbial sayings). I almost prefer the hard way of a ...
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Does set-theoretic pluralism, about axiom systems, inevitably become an invitation to non-axiomatic systems of set theory?
Per Hamkins[[11][12]] (see also his [22]), if no individual axiom is too sacred to be denied in some possible world,Q and so if no collection of such axioms is so sacred either, yet then:
The ...
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Would an identical copy of me have the same thoughts as me?
Scenario:
You are placed within a sensory deprivation tank.
Unbeknownst to you, a perfectly identical copy of your current self has been placed in an identical tank, there are no differences in ...
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