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2,995 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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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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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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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In The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, is it allowed for necessary being to have alternatives(like different versions of that category)?
In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that if something could have been diffferent then that thing can not be necessary. My question is can a simultaneosly ...
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Aristotle definition of irony
Several internet sources quote Aristotle describing irony as “dissembling toward the inner core of truth.” I wonder if this is an elegantly worded butchery of Nicomachean Ethics 1108a20. But it ...
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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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Have there been computer searches for Quine's permutations?
In "Word and Object", Quine describes what are effectively automorphisms of languages:
"The infinite totality of sentences of any given speaker's language can be so permuted, or mapped ...
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Relations without Relata?
Ladyman’s ontic structural realism posits to the world is comprised of relations without relata. Can somebody please explain what this means conceptually? What are the reasons someone would have for ...
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Objection to indirect proof in Intuitionism
From my understanding, Brouwer's conception of intuitionism is that mathematical objects only exist in the mind once they have been constructed. And we can create constructions using computable ...
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Is freedom of the mind incompatible with freedom of the body?
Before gravity was known, people could imagine having a super power to fly in the sky, which is a kind of freedom of thought, our minds do not have to be bound by knowledge.
But the real realization ...
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Aristotle and "Every X is every Y" falsity
I am currently reading "On Interpretation" by Aristotle, and in the section 7 there is the following statement:
If, however, both predicate and subject are distributed, the proposition thus ...
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Does higher order vagueness offers challenges to continuous accounts of changes to vague predicates?
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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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