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Proving God and believing only provable things
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I recently have been on some discussions regarding proving God exists and proving that Jesus is really the son of God; intertwined with that, there was a ...
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Is there anyway to prove things happen/exist if I'm not aware of them?
I don't even know how to properly ask this, but how can one prove things happen without them knowing?
Things only exist for me when I'm aware of them, either by direct contact (I see it, I feel it etc....
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I could prove: Solipsism is wrong. Is my argument acceptable?
Solipsism is the idea that one cannot be sure of anyone's existence but only themself. I think that one can assume this idea to be right and then prove that this is wrong. This self-inconsistency ...
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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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Has any philosopher ever argued succesfully that anything at all does not exist?
Is it possible to prove that something does not exist? I'm asking because I find it very difficult to think of any such idea.
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Does the famous Descartes quote "dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum" suggests secure knowledge of ones existence?
After a discussion about the "difficulties to distinguish knowledge from faith" someone replied to me that the quote implies faith because it uses the word "think". But as it is generally understood:
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Is it possible to prove that the universe either is or isn't a simulation? [duplicate]
Can it be philosophically proven that the Universe either is or is not a simulation? If someone was in a simulation, could they tell? What would the differences be between a simulated universe and a "...
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If there is anything that could behave like a god, is it then a real god? [closed]
Let's assume that the our universe's physics allows time travel. This is my main assumption!
Let's further assume that there is an quite intelligent, invulnerable being, that found a way to achieve ...
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Is it possible to show that something does not exist?
I am aware that I could show that something does not exist with the knowledge of an implication.
If B is true if A exists, then A does not exist if B is false
But if we have no implications, is it ...
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Is illogical = not logical?
I think law of excluded middle makes sense to mean that a statement should be either logical or illogical but in this case I don't assume "not logical" = "illogical" since the author didn't say "...
