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What is the best philosophy joke you have heard
I am not talking about jokes about how poor philosophers are or how unpractical they are. But one of those jokes that really makes you think. And would be appropriate to tell in class. Interested to hear what people think.
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In metaphilosophy, what should I call a foundational document?
I am planning the structure of a blog to write some
pieces on metaphilosophy, but each post will base its
topics on entire paradigms of interpreting various
aspects of the universe, uncommon enough that 95%
of visitors will not immediately…
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Did that rock just buy a pie?
Imagine a rock has become dislodged, rolling down a hill just on the outskirts of town. As it's rolling, it picks up an amount of money, which sticks to it. The rock has just enough momentum to roll into a pie shop. The money falls on the counter, a…
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What do we mean by the term "Number of things"?
I am reading the book "The Number-System of Algebra (2nd edition)." I have some problems with the the first article: "Number".
The author has confined the concept of number of things to the groups which have all distinct elements, that is the…
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An automatic philosopher?
This idea that AI could do valid philosophy, discussed on certain threads, seems absurd to me. So far, machine do not think. Some of them can compute and weave words together, but that's not the same thing.
It seems to me that the biggest problem of…
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Do punishments reveal your true beliefs?
It is very easy to imagine something, speculate something, think about something, or propose something. It is also easy to doubt something that defies common sense if there is no consequence for it. It is much harder to act on it. As Peirce would…
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What’s more implausible? God always existing or somehow coming into existence?
Suppose you observed a pattern in the stars that spelled out “Hello, this is God talking to you. I am the God of Christianity.” Many would find it ludicrous to suggest this happened through the blind assortment of stars operating through physical…
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