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What if early religion was created for closure
.: Religious Belief as Compensatory Control. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 14(1) 37-48, 2010. The references of that paper point to several recent papers about the whole subject. …
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If a given type of event has never been believed when it didn’t really happen, does belief i...
The argument is simple: A belief does not change the facts.
For further discussion it would help to present some real example. Otherwise your thoughts hang in the air completely.
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Can someone be both a theist and an atheist?
If a person declares himself to be both, a theist and an atheist, then the person should first clarify his/her concepts. Both terms are contradictory. Hence the answer to the OP's question is "no".
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Are unexamined belief systems a.k.a. superstitions & dogmas, studied by a specific branch of...
There exist several organisations to investigate results from parascience. One of the German organsations (GWUP = Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften = Society for …
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About the beliefs of those who believe in no after life
From an epistemic point of view this belief is a hypothesis, which has not been refuted until now. Several arguments exist which support this hypothesis. … Of course the opposite belief, believing in an afterlife, is a hypothesis too. Also that hypothesis has not been refuted. And theists support the hypothesis by a different set of arguments. …
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Why is having true beliefs important? (More detail)
Concerning your question about email notification
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Is Cleverness a part of Wisdom?
My short answer: Cleverness is part of wisdom. The latter is clever reflection of one's own experience of life.
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Any psychological self-test questionnaire to measure philosophical stances?
I have entered your self-description into ChatGPT and obtained a classification according to your four criteria. The classification is nearly echoing your own words, but it adds a summary in three lin …
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If an unfalsifiable claim doesn't contradict known fact, is it harmful to hold?
Niels Bohr narrates:
"A man lives near our holiday home in Tisvilde and he has placed a horseshoe over the front door of his house, which, according to an old folk belief, is said to bring good luck. …
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
The situation prompts a lot of ad-hoc hypotheses of his believers to support their belief. …
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Do people who "withhold judgement" also have a burden of proof?
This platform StackExchange Philosophy provides many examples of questions with answers of type A,B,C.
Whether the position of C, whithholding judgement, is rational, depends on his/her ability to jus …
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What are the most rational basic beliefs?
Always try to confirm or to refute your own conjectures.
Be aware that also humans - alike all species - have their border of
cognitive capabilities.
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Would it be possible to convince a hungry alien species that human lives are valuable?
IMO the only attempt is to argue with Kant's Categorical Imperative:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will
that it should become a universal law.
And to point out th …
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Is non-physicalism reasonable?
A philosophical position is reasonable if is based on rational
arguments. The position takes into account the knowledge of the time
and derives its argumentation in a logical way.
According to your …
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Can private experiences justify private belief in supernaturalism?
It is important to discriminate between certainty and knowledge. Certainty is a subjective feeling, which can be highly convincing for oneself. Knowledge requires the ability to give supporting argume …
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