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"He who is destined to be hanged will not drown." Can we treat folk wisdom as philosophy? [closed]
It is not about religion, it is definitely not science. But folk wisdom often carries some truth confirmed by experience of generations.
Can it be part of philosophical understanding?
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Can natural decreasing temperatures in the world create energy to power it? [closed]
When the compound water experiences a drop in ambient temperature it freezes and becomes a solid.
When water freezes it expands.
Can you harness the energy in this expansion to produce energy such as ...
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Would a sentient program have an afterlife when it has been deleted? [closed]
With the premise that what we experience is a base reality.
If we created a simulation inhabited with sentient programs.
Would we be responsible for that programs experience after it was deleted?
Or ...
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Does higher order vagueness offers challenges to continuous accounts of changes to vague predicates?
A random quote follows:
looks like the degree theory has
accommodated only one part of the intuitive story about the vague predicates, namely the
intuition that they are first-order vague, but has ...
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relation of metaphor, analogy, with categorification/classification
Continuing relation of metaphor, analogy, with symmetry my third question is what is the relation between metaphor/analogy with categorification/classification .Please provide examples
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Is philosophy science or humanities?
Is philosophy a branch of science, a branch of the humanities, both, or neither? Personally, I think philosophy is neither a branch of science nor a branch of the humanities, it is in its own category....
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Julia Kristeva's Black Sun/exteriorless passion
I am not a professional philosopher. Can you please explain this sentence or the idea that a writer or an artist is locked in an exteriorless passion? It is from Julia Kristeva's Black Sun in relation ...
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Is pluralism the correct philosophical interpretation of probability?
There are many philosophical interpretations of probability. Is pluralism the correct one? That is, are different interpretations of probability correct for different purposes? In other words, there ...
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Has anyone ever studied which proof types are feasible for which theorems in mathematics? If not, why not?
For instance, when asked to prove that sqrt(2) is irrational, we go straight for the proof by contradiction where we assume it’s equal to a/b in lowest terms and end up with a and b not being in ...
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Gramsci and his hegemonic block
Since a few weeks I'am reading Antonio Gramsci to learn more about his concept of historical or hegemonic block.
But the liturature is quite obscure. It is either boring or extremly abstract so that I ...
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The cause of evil [closed]
Any evil would be just a motion of atoms. All the universe would be just a beautiful process. Unless we suffer from certain things.
So is this true that the ultimate cause of all evil is the ability ...
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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole) [closed]
My question considers what our definition of right and wrong is (i.e. what's the basis of deciding what right and wrong), along with the origin of right and wrong.
In other words, what is the most ...
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Is evolution anti-entropic?
Evolution seems to be the tendency for a system to gradually increase in order. Even if the universe globally tends towards disorder (like the ���inevitable heat death of the universe”), can we say that ...
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Is Anselm's argument supposed to be understood in terms of hyperintensionality?
Hyperintensionality is something to do with e.g. the difference between, "I believe that Dean is Dean," vs., "I believe that Dean is Ackles." Generally, an operation X on A and B ...
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Alternatives to a Philosophy degree?
I am interested in Mathematics and Philosophy but I am unable to pursue a philosophical education. I would like to not only learn basic philosophy and logic but to also be able to put it on a resume ...
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