Unanswered Questions
194 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What's wrong with this question
The question. I've added some details to it after the closure. I'd like to have it reopened, maybe you can point me in the right direction.
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I want to answer a closed question
Why this has been closed at all?
Are there different types of randomness?
I want to answer pointing out the existence of the theories dealing with uncertain probabilities such as possibility theory ...
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Deleting and re-asking the same question
There was this question.
The asker themself deleted it.
And then asked it again.
When I tried to flag it as duplicate, the system said Cannot flag a deleted entity as a duplicate.
Now it seems to me ...
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Why does this comment remain an 'answer'?
It seems that you consider humans a kind of prototype species in the universe...
This 'answer' clearly is not an answer, but a comment. It should be not stand as answer.
Why does it remain an answer?
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Threads disappearing without a trace
I have recently seen a couple of threads disappearing totally even from my inbox and achievement list, as if they never existed. What has happened? Shouldn't deleted posts be still visible in pink to ...
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How identical does a "duplicate" question have to be?
How identical does a "duplicate" question have to be? There are a lot of examples of very similar questions cropping up again (since thinkingman this has been a trend even). e.g. this ...
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Tag for Linguistic Relativity
This question prompted this (meta) question.
I added the tag "linguistic-relativity"
But it could be called a number of other things
Sapir-Whorf
Whorfianism
Linguistic Determinism
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Am I missing active questions
At 23:48 GMT 16/04/24
Am I missing a disappearing (and reappearing) active question?
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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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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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General chat for philosophy SE seems very inactive
Should something be done to improve the responses from chat room?
It could be helpful for friendly discussion or some relief in anxious or confused moment. Unfortunately the room is very non ...
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Check out Codidact, an open source, community oriented variant of Stack Exchange
I have proposed a philosophy site for Codidact here: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290730
I encourage contributors here to also join there as it gives people the freedom to try out new kinds of ...
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What is answerability?
I invite a discussion about what identifiable characteristics an “answerable” question has - which ideally has some level of convergence amongst moderators and editors.
One obvious factor is, how many ...
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The “Is X justified/legitimate/reasonable?” question
Following up on my stated wish to collect recurrent question types, this post aims to focus on the question “Is X a good argument”?
Here is one example, please add more via edits or comments:
Is non-...
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Is it possible to reform the method of downvoting?
I was just downvoted for no apparent reason and I have just about had it with PSE. When I vote to close a post, my name becomes public to a lot of people and, in most instances, I have to give a ...
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