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158 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Has Priest's conjecture about the axiomatization of truth been solved?
In Priest's The Logic of Paradox he introduces a system of logic in which statements can be
only true,
only false, or
both true and false (paradoxical).
He shows how the reasoning applied in Tarski'...
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Who is the original source of the quote, "People that cannot distinguish rocks from coconuts exhibit a pitiable but praiseworthy tendency to die?"
I'd like to find the author and source of a quote. I recall it as:
People that cannot distinguish rocks from coconuts exhibit a pitiable but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind....
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Are there any canonical English translations of original analytic EM Hindu authors?
I'm centrally looking for translations of analytic [ Nyaya / Vaiśeṣika ] texts that contain analysis of motion, as described here. I've found the English version of the Prasasastapada that's on the ...
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Philosophy of Action 101
I am looking for a concise introductory work to the philosophy of action, to use as a background text from which to start for a work in the field of social sciences.
After extense review, I haven't ...
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Does Kant anywhere "rationalize" noumena on, say, moral grounds?
I ask in the context of reading various "new realists" or "objective oriented ontologists”. To my reading, many of these thinkers would like to return to Kant's attempt to unify both ...
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Recommendation for references on the philosophy of space and time
I am a mathematician by training but I have absolutely no formal (or even informal) training in philosophy. I am also beginning a project to write short stories with a heavy focus on mathematics, in ...
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Is it even possible to know, from the outside, whether a physical system is conscious?
I take it for granted that other humans, and other higher animals like chimpanzees and dogs and cats, are conscious. But is it even possible to know, from the outside, whether a physical system is ...
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Analysis of Liar-like sentences in fuzzy logic
Let t0 = FALSE and t1 = TRUE. In fuzzy logic, 0 or 1 can be switched out for any real number in the interval [0,1]. This lets us construct all manner of liar/honest-like sentences, ranging from, "...
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How do dialetheists determine which contradiction is true?
I have been reading a lot about dialetheism lately. I know for a fact that dialetheists do not believe that every contradiction is true. (Surely there is a difference between asserting that Liar is ...
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Using differential equation to estimate epistemological growth constant
I found some tweets (1,2) describing a philosophy paper as follows:
I came across this paper from the academic journal of philosophy that
tries to solve a differential equation for an ...
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Recommendation: Second Order Logic textbook
I'm looking into Universalist Realism, Nominalism, Trope theory and the application of Second Order logic to each of them, however I have little/no experience with Second Order logic. Please let me ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Does Alvin Plantinga's book Knowledge and Christian Belief offer any substantial updates to Warranted Christian Belief?
The stated primary goal of Plantinga's Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015) was to condense the content of Warranted Christian Belief (2000) into a shorter and more accessible book.
My question is ...
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Where did Kierkegaard say this, regarding speculative/theoretical vs. practical/experiential knowledge?
Where did Kierkegaard this:
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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What is the thinking Buddha's posture according to Hegel?
I am looking for some scholarly comments on a passage by Hegel about Buddha:
The image of Buddha is in this thinking position : the feet and arms
are folded over one another so that one toe goes into ...
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