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Can we please undelete a question?
Here is my question asked 10 years ago: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/6319/how-belief-in-own-specialness-called
How belief in own specialness called?
Solipsism is a belief that ...
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Attempt at a "sociology of knowledge" based on SE experience
Based on a comment received on a recent PhilSE post I'm interested in discussing some "trends" in the way the two different populations act on SE.
The said post has been asked the same day ...
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Inappropriate conversion of answer to comment
I recently posted a pithy answer to this question Does the "gradual brain replacement" thought experiment prove consciousness is independent of substrate?
The answer was entirely apropos the ...
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Wikimedia Charter “community engagement”: April 2nd - 30th [closed]
I personally find this roughly “on-topic”.
Philosophy Stack Exchange is kind of a “free knowledge repository” or “free knowledge community”. In some ways, there are parallels or similarities between ...
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Are poorly thought-out posts helpful?
The Stack Exchange prides itself on hosting a community of experts who volunteer their time and knowledge to assist others in understanding concepts they are inquiring about. In this, and other online ...
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Anyone want to defend Philosophy SE, against upbraidments at r/AskPhilosophy?
Our Frank Hubeny referred to https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhilosophy, but they are upbraiding Philosophy S.E. Anyone keen to responding to these upbraidments?
I don't want to focus on the formality ...
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Mysteriously deleted comments
In this answer ScottRowe and I had an on-topic comment exchange that was mysteriously deleted. As best I recall, this is what it contained:
Scott asked about the chance that a God hypothesis would be ...
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Has the idea of splitting the philosophy stackexchange ever been discussed?
This stackexchange has been stormed by non-philosopher (in the academical sense). To some extent, this can be a great source of naïve and yet profound questions.
However, as it is way easier to write ...
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References required vs Ism-dodges
In this (old) question on Was Math invented or discovered
The accepted and highest rated answer says:
"Intuitionists" believe that mathematics is just a creation of the human mind. In that ...
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Request to Enable MathJax/LaTeX Rendering on Philosophy Stack Exchange [duplicate]
I am ready to formally propose we enable this on this site to whoever has the power to enable it. I actually could not find information about that with a little Googling. Can a moderator please ...
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Recurrent Question Type (RQT): “Is X valid?”
1. Compile links to all known examples of such questions.
Is this mathematical proof that moral relativism is contradictory valid?
The validity of the definition of a valid argument
Is this argument ...
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Do we have a genAI content policy? Should we have one?
Contrary to some sites and groups of people being quite openly hostile to the general use of generative AI to ask and answer questions, I have found philosophy SE refreshingly silent on that topic. I ...
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Recurrent Question Type (RQT): “Is X ethical?”
Compile all known examples of such questions as links in a community wiki answer to this post.
Offer an analysis in paragraph or bullet form about what you think the questions have in common. Suggest ...
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Can I search for a user name? Cannot find them
I think their name was 'Olivia' or sjmilar? Can anyone link to the questions and answers? I can't recall exactly any question I can find that they answered.
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The leaderboard should reflect the best contributors
I’m not sure if there’s a word for something so obvious it’s almost tautological, and yet, it for some reason should still be explicitly said. Maybe a “truism”.
I do like the “users” leaderboard as a ...
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