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2,995 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is gratitude intentional?
Does gratitude always have an intentional object? I am often grateful for something, e.g. for a good meal or a sunset, but I think I know there's some debate about whether e.g. pain has an intentional ...
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Philosophy of Action 101
I am looking for a concise introductory work to the philosophy of action, to use as a background text from which to start for a work in the field of social sciences.
After extense review, I haven't ...
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Is Aquinas's "act is the principle of action" a tautology?
In Summa Contra Gentiles II.6.7, Aquinas suddenly claims that "act is the principle of action" (actus autem actionis principium est).
Is this phrase supposed to be a definition of act? Or a ...
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What does it mean to say that two theorems (provable statements) are 'equivalent'?
sometimes one sees/reads assertions such as "[the bounded inverse theorem] is equivalent to both the open mapping theorem and the closed graph theorem", but taken formally and literally this ...
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Problem of Induction in Methodology of History?
Has there been any work done in exploring how the problem of induction applies to the study of history?
It seems to me that many historical inferences might require a sort of uniformity of human/...
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Is emergent property basically a subsystem?
I've been thinking about the relationships between systems, subsystems, and emergent properties, and I would appreciate your insights on this concept.
My notion is that subsystems can be viewed not ...
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How much philosophy is about terminology and human conceptions?
I see a lot of sentences like "If a tree fell and nobody hears it did it really fall", or many questions related to infinity. But each of this questions can be true or false according to ...
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Why do particles need a signal to travel to another to affect it?
I was reading up on quantum entanglement, non locality, and how people interpret QM to still be local in the sense that it does not allow for faster than light communication signals.
I have two ...
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A confliction on Univocity of Being by Deleuze between DR and LS
In Logic of Sense, Deleuze asserted:
Neither active or passive, univocal being is neutral.
But in Difference and Repetition,(LS,180) he puts advance of spinoza than Scotus as:
Instead of ...
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How do panpsychists explain death?
If mindlike features are a fundamental part of reality, what exactly happens during death? What exactly is changing at death?
From a physical perspective, we know what changes after death. We know ...
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Does Kant anywhere "rationalize" noumena on, say, moral grounds?
I ask in the context of reading various "new realists" or "objective oriented ontologists”. To my reading, many of these thinkers would like to return to Kant's attempt to unify both ...
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Is it even possible to know, from the outside, whether a physical system is conscious?
I take it for granted that other humans, and other higher animals like chimpanzees and dogs and cats, are conscious. But is it even possible to know, from the outside, whether a physical system is ...
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Is the conceptual possibility of amorphous infinite sets "evidence against" countabilism?
Countabilism is, roughly, a family of standpoints inclusive of:
There is one infinite proper set, of size ℵ0, and one infinite proper class, ℵ0ℵ0. (See about e.g. "pocket-sized" and ...
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Positive well-being or the absence of values: does it matter what to choose?
In his paper, “If Nothing Matters” (2016), Guy Kahane discusses evaluative nihilism, which is plainly described by him as:
“Nothing is good or bad. All evaluative propositions are false.”
Prof. ...
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Can there be nested possible worlds semantics?
Fairly straightforward question, I'd think: Usually, when we do Modal Logic, we think of propositions as sort of embedded within a framework of possible worlds. What, then, do we make of propositions ...
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