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What is the need to become an achiever in life?
What is the need to do anything beyond plainly living, consuming food and water, and occupying some space?
Is it necessary for someone with the capability to use their intellectual or material skills ...
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At what point should we suspect unfair game?
In probability theory, there are two primary approaches to interpreting events: the frequentist perspective and the Bayesian perspective.
From a frequentist standpoint, each spin of a fair roulette ...
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Questions Regarding Rational Egoism
I was reading this article and I have many questions :
https://iep.utm.edu/egoism/
What does Rand mean by the concept of "selfless selfishness"?
What exactly does rational mean in rational ...
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Is non-cognitivism self-undermining?
Not quite self-defeat, though: by argument:
The version of non-cognitivism we're addressing: generic or "naive," such as in translating, "X is good," into, "Hooray for X!&...
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Why is modal logic not focused more on strict implication?
Modal logic is designed to capture various notions, such as necessity, time, provability, etc. These notions are captured via a box operator or sometimes the letter L.
For example, in systems capable ...
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deductive reasoning and first principle
In continuation of Are the concepts of reductionism and first principles the same? my next question is what is the relationship between first principle thinking and deductive reasoning ?
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Are there logical facts absolutely necessary in modal logic across possible and impossible worlds?
If we consider weird universes or ones in which impossibilia exist alon others. Are there any logical things or laws of thought which have to exist across all types of wild conceptions?
Roujd squares ...
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Spinoza's Ethics. He didn't explain why substance has infinite attributes
My point of reference is up to Proposition 11:
God is defined as a substance of infinite attributes, yet in Ethics, Spinoza didn't prove that substance necessarily has infinite substances. He proved ...
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Benjamin Libet Free Will Experiment
I'm unable to understand this GIF of Benjamin Libet's free will experiment.
Please look at the bottom left of the diagram and you'll see the numbers 1 followed by 2 and then by 3.
What I think is ...
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How to save oneself from this particular angst?
This question relates to the angst depicted in the movie Annie Hall, when the younger version of Woody Allen's character feels demotivated about life when he realizes that the universe is expanding.
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Relation between Unity of Apperception and judgements in Kant
Insofar, what I've got is that for anything to be (in my perception as a subject), it needs to be synthesized into a set that belongs specifically to me, i.e., anything that appears to me should be ...
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Is it fair to say truth is used more in logic than in math? If so, what are the reasons for doing so?
Right out of the gate in logic we see sentences (propositions) like "all men are mortal" and we say both that it is a true proposition (e.g. independent of being a premise) and that in a ...
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Carl Polanyi's fictitious commodities
I really don't understand his concept of fictitious commodities. For example housing. Why is housing, according to Polanyi, a fictitious commodity? Why is it bad to have a housing market according to ...
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How many academic research papers were devoted to the study of Aristotle's intellectual inheritance? [closed]
"The vast range of Aristotle’s contributions to various fields of knowledge, from philosophy and science to arts and politics, makes him a fascinating subject for academic research. "
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I think Im onto something with this contradiction [closed]
Overcoming the contradiction
‘’Nothing is impossible’’ – Bible 1 37
The contradiction is perfectly exemplified by the liar paradox: ‘’This sentence is false’’. We find the opening of a domain, marked ...
