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If something is temporally and spatially vague, then can it be individuated by its absence?
1 If something is temporally and spatially vague, then can it become nothing?
I am thinking that it cannot be entirely individuated from its absence while it exists, because e.g. the space where it ...
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Does Valberg's "personal horizon" entail life after death?
The personal horizon is, Valberg contends, the subject matter whose
center each of us occupies, and which for each of us ceases with
death. This ceasing to be presents itself solipsistically not ...
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Is willful ignorance about one's own mortality escapism?
I don't mean if someone is dying of cancer and they refuse treatment or something -- I'm saying if a healthy person who is unhappy obsessing over his own inevitable death one day chooses to ignore ...
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Books/resources on non-existence
I believe that after we die there is nothing. The same that was before being born. So while I won’t care about not existing when it happens, the thought of it does bother me now, as I like being and ...
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What is the philosophical significance of the First Law of Thermodynamics?
The Law states that “no energy can be destroyed or created, for it is constant; it can only be transformed from one form to another”. Do you think this alignes with many of the teachings of Buddhism, ...
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Does the whole universe end when an individual dies? [closed]
Is it valid to think that from a "perspective" of a dead individue,universe has come to an end? I based this argument on my premise that from the start of the universe (~14 billion years ago) until ...
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Movies on philosophy similar to "Waking Life"? [closed]
The movie "Waking Life" is a philosophical masterpiece: a quasi non-narrative psychedelic dreamscape exploring the very nature of both existence and non-existence in unpredecented depth.
In ...
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About the fear of non-existence
Are there any reputable philosophical works that talk about the fear of non-existence as opposed to the fear of death? (Of course no one can imagine what it 'feels like' to not exist but if many ...
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What is the purpose of life? [mainly for non_believers] [closed]
I am aware this question has been asked quite often here; I wanted to customize the question to a certain context.
other questions are also debated when this question is asked:
Do we actually exist ...
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Death: A finite ending?
From the viewpoint of an atheist, when you die, you cease to exist. Your brain has grown old, and can no longer sustain the trillions of electrical signals that constituted who you once were. ...
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Does the concept of existence entail the concept of death?
Does the concept of existence entail the concept of death? I am asking this because many philosophers have tried to prove the existence of god (Descartes through the Meditations) by saying that he ...
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