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Arguments against "The good life is a happy one"?
In a previous question I have referred to eudaimonia and mentioned that, I guess at least in hellenistic tradition the good life is a happy one.
However, now I wonder whether there is a counter to ...
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To what degree are we expected to identify/fix others' mistakes?
If someone makes a mistake and they appear to be unaware of it, it seems that there are some situations where we would be expected to point it out, or even directly intercede to fix it.
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I'm ...
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How would the dynamics of discourse change if your interlocutor were a superintelligent being?
The problems I see here:
The super-smart being might know so much more that humans feel they can't add anything useful to the talk. This being might find it hard to explain things simply, making it ...
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a Solution to The Problem Of Casuality and Thing-in-Themselves (Problem of Affection)
i have been interested in "the problem of affection" in Transcendental Idealism for a while now and a possible solution came to my mind,
Kant says that TIT Causes our Phenomena as if TIT (...
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If something sounds like jazz, does that make it jazz? [closed]
Are things identifiable with a collection of properties characterizing them, or is there a difference between what a thing is vs. what it is like?
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What is more important: simplicity or induction?
An argument by analogy is an inductive argument for the existence of other minds. An argument by analogy is enough to justify the belief in the existence of other minds.
But Occam's Razor offers a ...
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Theism's secondary causation vs Simulation Theory
One persistent worry about the sole-source thesis has its roots in the
medieval debate over whether there is secondary causation (i.e.,
genuine causation by created things). Suppose that created ...
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what is the definition of a necessary fact in the contingency argument?
how can we define a necessary fact in the contingency argument in a way which does not lead us to the ontological argument? (exists in all possible worlds)
the contingency argument is:
A contingent ...
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What is the relation between the individual and the collective? [closed]
What is the relation between the individual and the collective? What is the most popular contemporary view, especially Marxist one?
Naively, I think that no individual matters at all (including me), ...
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Was Tarski the first to discuss the logically of the truth predicate?
Tarski famously discussed, formally, the logically of the truth predicate, in The Concept of Truth in Formalised Languages (1935).
Was he the first to do so?
Thank you for any scholarly reference.
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Did Aristotle think that essence and existence are the same thing or that they are different things?
What did Aristotle think about this distinction?
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Is the epicurean problem of evil, not so much a problem?
The epicurean problem of evil is a problem that makes it difficult to conclude the truth of a supernatural being that is onibenevolent and omnipotent.
If God is onibenevolent and omnipotent how does ...
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Is maths and computation anything other than addition? [closed]
This question may have been best answered on the mathematics site or the computer science site but however I think there is an argument to it being a philosophical question aswell.
Quantity is a ...
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Are the concepts of omniscience and omnipotence contradictory? [duplicate]
Theistic religions believe in a God or Gods.
Do religions that claim their God is omniscient and omnipotent face a contradiction in this conception?
I'll explain my reasoning.
If God is omniscient, he ...
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Where do we go if we gain knowledge of the absolute truth? [closed]
One of the fundamental questions that humans since the dawn of time have asked themselves is why are we here?, or how are we here?, how did all this happen to be?
Philosophers try to answer these ...
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