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Is it possible to be 100% certain of the existence of reality?
I don't really understand why some philosophers claim that it's impossible to be absolutely certain of anything except my own consciousness. Isn't that absurd? Personally I believe that this kind of ...
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Can we logically prove that anything exists?
Suppose I want to prove that negative numbers exist. Well, I could easily do that using a mathematical proof. However, all I would be doing is adding another logical object to a list of known logical ...
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For Husserl, how can we know things in themselves?
I don't quite understand the nature of "going back to things themselves". How does Husserl break away from Kant?
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Does anything exist outside present experience?
Is there any identifiable attribute to truth other than EXPERIENCE of it appearing to be true ?
Is there any more ' truth ' to it ?
Things we've believed to be true for millennia have been provided ...
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Descartes' Demon
This week I've been given to study from my highschool teacher Descartes' Demon argument but I have several doubts I fully understand it ,but let me put this in clear order :
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Is it possible that I'm "God" or a special being/deity?
I know the first thing you may be thinking upon reading this, but there's more to this than you may have assumed. This is not one of those crazy questions where ego-driven maniacs simply call ...
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What are the counterexamples to Kant's argument that existence is not a predicate?
Kant argued that considering existence as a predicate is wrong. A predicate is a feature or characteristic of an object. But logically, existence adds nothing to the characteristics of that object, ...
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Are we all living in a "Black Box" and may we ever be able to make the world to serve our purpose?
This world is a "Black Box" in essence. If we want to know how it works, we will be lost. We can only find our way if we strive how to use the world to serve our purpose. The very same notion is true ...
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Does the fact that economists cannot fully explain where money for macroeconomic profits and interest comes from support a belief in anti-realism? [closed]
Given that a basic question about money flow in such an important science as economics is unsettled to this day, can basic questions about objective reality be resolved in economics (or any subject)? ...
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Hypothetically observable
Question: When is it appropriate to assign the property "hypothetically observable" to a thing?
The set up is that someone is discussing an object that they claim has some sort of existence. Maybe ...
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How does mind discover its own existence?
By mind I mean the observer, the self, something that perceives. I hope that you understand because I can't find the right word.
So, your mind can observe the external existence, and can observe its ...
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Is there a philosophical categorization of mindsets?
This question is about personality and mindsets. I'm interested in categories of opinions, something more than left vs. right, conservative vs. liberal. Is there a set of basic questions that once ...
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Absolute Truth - Is there existence?
I restate the question in a simpler and more specific way; is there a proof or has a philosopher proved, that things can be absolute and observed by each in the same way? Are there like conserved ...
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Why do some philosophers argue that we do not know, a priori, that something thinks?
The Cartesian argument seems to explicate the fact that I necessarily know that something thinks, and that I necessarily know that something thinks even if I don't checking the world to verify whether ...
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How can we prove something exists?
As someone who likes a lengthy argument with many different points put across and many points shot down in the process, I was posed with this question which has made me struggle so far. My friend said ...
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