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What is Dummett's narrow/wide scope objection to Kripke's modal argument against descriptivism?

I just cannot wrap my head around this concept, if anyone can make it clear for me I'd be greatly appreciate it. I've tried reading the literature, but the papers I read invariably start putting the modal statements into formal logic -- which I have…
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Does Popper's falsifiability criterion hold any utility?

I understand that Popper's falsifiability criterion is meant to demarcate science from pseudoscience. But, is that all one can expect from it? I mean I do not care about science, but the values it holds, like explanatory power and predictability,…
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Negation of "I think therefore I am"?

My idea is to assign a truth value to this statement of Descartes. However, if I apply a negation I should get a false value to its negation and equally non-trivial. So the negation could be: "I think therefore I am not" "I do not think therefore…
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Are there any philosophies related to different structures of organization of information?

I am interested to explore different ways to organize information, for example in different libraries and archives or even museum. And I wonder whether there are philosophies that discuss the epistemology of structures of organization of information…
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If logic is based on human reasoning, how can most people be so incoherent?

I believe that our understanding of formal logic is to formalize how a human brain is supposed to work. And this also makes sense when we think of mathematical problems that we only should get the correct answer if we follow the correct rules of…
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Is infinity a concept or a word empty of meaning?

I'm wondering if infinity is a concept. We know from experience that there are things for which one cannot reach the end. A long way through the space is an example. One cannot reach the end of the space because the time needed is not humanly…
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Whats the earliest documented instance of Buddhist Philosophy on European thought?

Whats the earliest recorded instance of Buddhist thought in a European context - say a translation. I know that Schopenhauer (1788-1860) read the Bhagavad Gita - but this is a Hindu text and not a Buddhist one. However we also have, In Understanding…
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Are there any Western philosophies that present views similar to the No-self view of Buddhism?

Can similarities be found in western philosophy with the eastern concept of self (no-self) in Buddhism? In Buddhism the no-self is called anatman. Buddha spoke about the emptiness of the form, in the sense that the form is the physical body, and the…
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Why is Philosophy not taught in schools or more widely studied?

(I am new to this section in stackexchange) Is it because the subject is too vague to become a subject? Also, when I meet college students, I ask them what they study, I find them studying a wide rage of subjects like physiology, medicine,…
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What do panpsychists think a rock’s consciousness is like?

There is a problem with panpsychism that I haven't seen discussed in the literature, so I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers to discussions of it. For purposes of this question, I understand panpsychism to be the view that consciousness…
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Do statements have an intrinsic, unchanging truth value, even when currently unknown, or can they have different truth values at different times?

Example: I state that a coin will come up heads, then flip it. While the coin is flipping, does the statement 'the coin I just flipped will come up heads' have a truth value? Based on my understanding, it's unknowable, so it doesn't have a truth…
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Is entropy physical or idealistic?

I came across the question after watching a video (Heat Death) regarding the heat death of the universe and my question serves as such: I understand this universe is constantly going from a state of order to chaos i.e., a state of high entropy to…
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Does it matter if certain professions have a lower rate of theism, and if so, why does it matter?

Many of us are familiar with discussions bringing up the correlation with religion and IQ, or educational achievement, or being a professional in a certain field like physics or biology. These are brought up in both directions, in support of…
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Why don't we have consensus in more complicated areas of logic?

When I once realised I don't really understand how and why proof by contradiction works, I started reading about it. And apparently I wasn't the only one who felt there's something wrong about it - constructivists and intuitionists do not accept the…
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Self determination in non atomistic time?

I am reading the book Perspective in Whitehead's Metaphysics by Stephen David Ross. On page 182 he says, "whiteheads theory of events is atomistic-primarily to allow for self determination, but the physics of the universe are infinitely and densely…
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