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Question posted on March 7, 2013; 1 response
Can we know for sure that the external world exists? I was wondering about it for a while, and yesterday I thought that it must. You see, when I drink alcohol, it is an empirically experienced factor that affects my...
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Question posted on February 28, 2013; 1 response
Is knowledge based on memories? ...
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Question posted on February 14, 2013; 1 response
How do you know that you are sure that your parent are your parents?...
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Question posted on February 14, 2013; 1 response
Is there any way we can be sure that reality is as we perceive it through our senses, or that it is not an illusion that some third party imposes on us? I know that this subject was solved by...
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Question posted on January 2, 2013; 1 response
In philosophy there's supposed to be a "problem of other minds". But sometimes our own minds are problems. Is it possible for others, say my friends and family, to know me "better" than I know myself? Might I...
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Question posted on December 20, 2012; 1 response
I have a question that relates to the french language. The word savoir (to know something) is generally accepted as a verb that expresses a certain knowledge of something. Savoir is used more often than the word connaître...
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Question posted on November 25, 2012; 1 response
What part does emotion play in the acquisition of knowledge? Does the role of emotion vary across the different areas of knowledge (Natural Science, Human Science, History, The arts, Ethics and Maths) ? Thanks a lot for responses...
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Question posted on November 17, 2012; 1 response
I have a question about empiricism. If I was an empiricist how would I know that the country of New Zealand exist if I had never been there to experience it with my senses? I have seen it on tv,...
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Question posted on September 26, 2012; 1 response
In many answers, here, philosophers talk about justified beliefs. I would like to ask if there is any difference between a justified belief and a rational belief....
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Question posted on September 22, 2012; 1 response
In a classic episode of "Batman: the Animated Series" (called "Perchance to Dream"), Bruce Wayne discovers (spoiler alert) he is in a dream because he in unable to read a newspaper he picks up. At first there are some...
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Question posted on August 9, 2012; 1 response
Last week, I read a book called "Sophie's World" about a young woman who receives philosophy lessons in the mail from a secret source. Toward the end of the book, Sophie (the young woman) realizes that she is a character...
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Question posted on August 2, 2012; 1 response
I am a 16 year old and i have been asking myself the same question for a very long time but only recently was able to finally word the question.. Isnt it true that there can not be a certainty of anything...
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Question posted on July 26, 2012; 1 response
There seems to be a common intuition that parts of a system can't understand the system they are in without stepping outside of it. This is mostly applied to ideological and political issues ("Ideology is everywhere, so you can't...
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Question posted on July 5, 2012; 1 response
is reason infallible? can reason alone help us understand everything about all aspects of humanity and life? ...
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Question posted on June 14, 2012; 3 responses
Even if there is overwhelming evidence in opposition of solipsism, it still cannot be disproven to 100% certainty. Is it just the nature of any conscious entity to have to have faith in their surroundings being external and objective to...
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Question posted on June 14, 2012; 1 response
Our understanding of the physical universe is better than say, what it was a few thousands of years ago. We may continue to understand it better as time progresses. My question is, would it at all be possible, at some...
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Question posted on May 10, 2012; 1 response
The thing about physical science is that it seems likes it doesn't tell you anything that couldn't be simulated by a virtual reality device of some sort. Am I wrong? Can science test that hypothesis in a reasonable way? It...
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Question posted on May 10, 2012; 1 response
In December of 2011, I was invited to speak to the police concerning a former roommate of mine who has been accused of murder (and posted a question concerning that here on the site). Just this week, I received...
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Question posted on April 26, 2012; 2 responses
I'm attending a lecture on the philosophy of science, and our professor told us yesterday that "we constantly rely on inductive reasoning all the time in our lives, such as when we assume that the floor won't suddenly collapse beneath...
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Question posted on March 31, 2012; 1 response
Would a materialist and reductionist have to reject the phenomena/noumena distinction? I saw a clip of a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson in which Hitchens seems to claim that one could reject the supernatural without rejecting the noumenal....
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