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Does Alvin Plantinga's book Knowledge and Christian Belief offer any substantial updates to Warranted Christian Belief?
The stated primary goal of Plantinga's Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015) was to condense the content of Warranted Christian Belief (2000) into a shorter and more accessible book.
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Malthus's argument on population - Test 1, Q14, by Mark Shepherd
I took a practice test for a law exam and am having difficulty with understanding the logic behind a question. Apologies for the length, but I included the whole question and details for completeness.
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Per Kant's theory of radical evil/religion, is belief in individual saviors the result of a corrupt subconscious process?
Early enough on in the Religion, he does say:
Now there appeared at a certain time among these very people, when they were feeling in full measure all the ills of an hierarchical constitution, and ...
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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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Does direct realism rely on colour realism?
It seems to me that, to avoid the idea that the 'colouring' of the data one receives is in the mental representation of it, one would have to say that colours exist in the real world, so the data is ...
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Does second order integrity matter?
I was googling/thinking about 'integrity', and wondered if, similar to second order desires, when one desires that one desires certain goods, and second order virtue, abstract concepts of e.g. ...
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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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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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What is the first recorded use of the conditional form in human history?
The conditional form, ⟨ IF ϕ, THEN ψ ⟩, seems to have always been with us, but we don't really know.
So, what is the first attested use of the conditional form in human history?
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Does hylomorphism have anything to do with the extremely broad use of "form" in scholasticism?
Introductions to the Aristotelian concept of form always begin with hylomorphism: everyday objects (like horses) are composed of matter and form. The form is the intelligibility of the thing (e.g., ...
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Contradictory unprovable statements in Tarski's "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
In Tarski's "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages", he glosses over the proof of a difficult lemma. I am looking for help writing a proof of it. In Tarski's notation, it is:
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Would an erotetic operator be equivalent to its own demi-operator?
"Recap": demi-operations are e.g. "the square root of negation" in experimental(?) logic. (The association of demi-negation with using imaginary numbers as truth values is a little ...
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Position on postmodern philosophy in modern society
Let's say, there's some author. Baudrillard or Deleuze or whatever. A lot of people read them. Some of them more or less can understand what they write about.
And there's a university system that ...
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"Ought" as different from "must," and/or, "Why is there no deontic counterpart of the actuality operator?"
In the SEP article on deontic logic, they say:
Another way to put this is that the “can” of permissibility seems to be the dual of “must” not the dual of “ought”. This yields a dilemma: either ...
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How can Weber's approach be compatible with evolutionism?
Weber's epistemology is synthesized in one paragraph in Economy and Society (1921):
Sociology (in the sense in which this-highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science concerning itself with the ...
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