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| Question posted on June 13, 2013; no responses |
| I have been reading a recently published book about the existence of all things (e.g. addressing the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"), and am struck by an interesting issue I see in the book and others like... |
| Existence, Mind Show |
| Question posted on June 13, 2013; 1 response |
| Is 0 really a fraction? Because some do not agree that it is not a fraction. But I have a thought Fraction=no. of equal parts considered/total no. of parts So if I divide a chocolate in 4 parts and eat no... |
| Mathematics Show |
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| For a while now there have been controversies about professional sports teams that use Native American characters or tribes as mascots (the Washington Redskins, for example). One point often made by people that support keeping the mascots is that there... |
| Race Show |
| Question posted on June 13, 2013; no responses |
| Wikipedia has an interesting (for me, at least) definition of question: "A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression." This means that there are two senses of... |
| Language Show |
| Question posted on June 13, 2013; 1 response |
| Is it unethical to avoid watching or reading the news?... |
| Ethics Show |
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| Can paradoxes actually happen?... |
| Logic Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| Would it be logically coherent to have a world in which everything that happened was bad or have a world in which everything that happen was good? Can good and evil exist independently of each other? Do we need one... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| Is it rational to believe that some of my beliefs are false? This seems like a reasonable claim. After all, most people have some false beliefs, and I know that I've had plenty of beliefs in the past which I... |
| Rationality Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| Let's say when we measure the brainwaves of someone who is actually deluded and the brainwaves of someone who is fervently religious, they match up to an extraordinary degree. Are we justified to say that the religious person is deluded... |
| Biology, Mind, Religion Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| DESCARTES AND RUSSELL Can anyone please explain how Russell thinks there is an error in saying 'I am a thing that thinks' (Descartes). I understand he talks about language, substance theory etc but his whole argument still remains unclear to me. HERE IS... |
| Philosophers Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| More of an observation than a question, about "compatibilism" in the free will "versus" determinism debate. In the short run, there is a strong correlation between life expectancy tables and the number of people who die in a calendar year. ... |
| Freedom Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| Why is murder (irrespective of special circumstances such as war or self-defense) immoral? Many people consider abortion, euthanasia, and suicide to not be immoral. This would indicate that "the good life" is moral, making "good" an ideal greater than life.... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; no responses |
| Does the amount of suffering in the world that is caused by man's misbehavior towards each other indicative of a failure of philosophy to create meaningful solutions or rather an ignorance of philosophy?... |
| Philosophy Show |
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| Is the only ethical indicator of degrees of moral correctness or wrongness utilitarianism? For instance, how would Kant or Aristotle argue that robbing two people is MORE immoral than robbing one? What if the robber needed that money to feed... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; no responses |
| Not that I would do this, but is murdering five people randomly (e.g. shooting into a crowd) less immoral than planning beforehand to murder persons A, B, C, D, and E? How would a philosopher of law treat this as... |
| Ethics Show |
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| Why doesn't consciousness defeat the determinism argument? If a person consciously decides to order a hamburger instead of a cheeseburger the next time he goes to a restaurant, what force is controlling him to delude himself?... |
| Freedom Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; no responses |
| I'm not sure if this is a question for philosophers or for physicists, but I'll ask it here anyway. Do you think it is possible that there are other universes? I mean "other universe" in a very physical sense: any... |
| Physics Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; no responses |
| Car traffic was recently changed in some streets and avenues in my city, and now it is more inconvenient and it takes more time to drive there. The official purpose is to have less cars in those streets and avenues.... |
| Justice Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| One can say something mixing words from two languages (say, English and Ukrainian), and make good, clear and exact sense. One can even mix parts of words, or structures, and make perfect sense. My problem is that such an invented... |
| Language Show |
| Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response |
| When it comes to relationships between opposite sexes, there is the 'platonic' relationship. Does this have anything to do with Plato? And secondly, after advancing further in life, I find myself more drawn towards this type of relationship.... |
| Love Show |
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