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Metaphysical (Hard) Solipsism vs Epistemological (Soft) Solipsism
I’ve seen these terms tossed around as if they are actually different things but it does not appear to me that they are different philosophical positions/beliefs.
Perhaps I am wrong, but here is my ...
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Descartes Statement in Second Meditation is illogical?
In the second paragraph of Meditation Two: Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind: That it is better known than the Body, Descartes writes
“Therefore I suppose that everything I see is false. I ...
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Can causality be translated into logical formalism to analyze it via mathematical logic?
An observation about causality:
It produces state change. It happens via some thing operating on another thing changing it into the effect. A thing happens that's not an invariant.
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How can objects be nonexisting?
A square circle. Obviously, this is contradictory, but i feel odd saying it doesnt exist as well. thats not the bestw ay to say it.
but, then again, whatg do we even mean in mathematics or logic by ...
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Kantian Subjectivism Contradiction?
Kant rendered the judgments of reason as subjective, neither narrating nor accurately reflecting the reality of things.
"We only sense from external objects, thus perception does not express ...
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Ground vs justification?
I'm wondering if there is a technical distinction I've been missing between 'ground' and 'justification' in philosophy. If I say that my true belief is 'grounded', isn't that the same as saying that ...
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Can every idea including mathematical ideas be reduced to a series of simpler idea without information loss?
Can every idea including mathematical ideas be reduced to a series of simpler idea without information loss?
You would naturally think this is the case since most ideas could be explained using a ...
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Is something physical if and only if we can perceive it (directly or indirectly) with our bodily senses?
What is the relationship between the physical and our senses? If something is physical, must it necessarily be the case that we should be able to perceive it, at least in principle, directly with our ...
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What are examples of non-physicalist approaches to acquiring knowledge?
As a follow-up to my previous question Is non-physicalism reasonable?, I would like to know about non-physicalist ways of acquiring knowledge that philosophers have considered. What sorts of knowledge ...
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Is non-physicalism reasonable?
My question has two components:
Reasonableness. What does it mean for a position to be reasonable? What conditions does a position have to meet to be regarded as reasonable?
Physicalism. Wikipedia ...
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What is the most ultimately natural philosophical question? If not "What is the nature of reality?"
"What is the nature of reality?" is the question that the Stack Exchange Philosophy Metaphysics page explicitly says should be asked.
And one presumes, an answer sought.
However. When I ...
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Do descriptions of what exist map to causes recognized by Man? Can we describe coherent models for broad patterns of knowledge? [closed]
EDIT 0 - To clarify, in the table below, the term God would be missing from it's provisional box for humans who map ultimate causes exclusively to non-moral, aka natural, types of cause. Sigmund Freud,...
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Are there any conserved properties in causation?
Physical objects do seem to operate on other physical objects while all operating under physical properties, i.e. chemical bonds, momentum, mass, energy, etc.
A chemical reacts with other chemicals to ...
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Under what conditions could all of reality be reduced to a formal system?
It would be very convenient if we had, at least non-constructively, a correspondent formal system that could reproduce any causal event within the universe.
The strength would be that naturalism would ...
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Are we incapable of loving ourselves, does love only come from the outside?
Love only comes from the outside, it brings you back into attachment to what you cannot control and instigate. Love is an alienated area that advances from the unknown, from a place different from me.
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