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What is the difference between Philosophy and Theology?
In attempting to wrap my mind around the basic vocabulary, concepts, and methods of philosophy, I find myself wondering what the difference is between a philosopher and a theologian.
Theology (link to definition in Wikipedia) can have two…
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What is Daniel Dennett's definition of a true believer?
I read that
In his writings on the intentional stance, Dennett has often made the controversial further claim that the intentionality of a creature wholly consists in its behavior being well-predicted by our adoption of the intentional stance…
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“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”- Lao Tzu.What does this mean?
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want. (Daodejing 11)
What does this mean?
Why does the emptiness hold the things we want?
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What name or label applies to a statement the very act of making which contradicts its truth?
Consider a proposition stating something to be true that by the very act of stating denies truth to the speaker.
This is not a fallacy, which is an argument incorrect by virtue of its form. But I am looking for a general term for self-defeating…
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Is Aristotle's resolution of Zeno's paradoxes vindicated by motion in the intuitionistic continuum?
In Physics VIII.8, Aristotle refers to his usual resolution of Zeno's paradox of motion:
We should make the same response to anyone who uses Zeno's argument to ask whether it is always necessary to traverse half the distance first, and points out…
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If you kill someone who is committing suicide, are you culpable for his death?
One of our definition questions particularly intrigued me.
If a man were committing suicide by jumping off a building and you shot him on the way down, killing him, are you culpable for his death?
Legally you may or may not be, depending on the…
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Is there any connection between Structuralism and Category Theory?
Having only the a very cursory knowledge of Structuralism, there does appear to be some points of coincidence:
Structuralism:
Individual elements of culture must be placed within a System/Structure.
The individual elements of culture must be…
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What is the difference between identity and equivalence?
While the problems of identity seem to have more heft in philosophy, I am actually more interested in the meaning of "equivalence" as symbolized in the (=) sign and, in guilt by association,with commodity exchange.
Obviously, 1+1=2 is not an…
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Are there some facets of perceptual experience which cannot be characterized as conceptual?
Some philosophers (e.g John McDowell) argue that the content of perceptual experience is necessarily characterized by conceptual terms; namely - the content of the experience is entirely built of concepts possessed by the subject of experience.…
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Does doing comparative philosophy presuposse adopting cultural-relativism?
Assuming that there are several distinct philosophical traditions - say - Western, Chinese and Indian and that philosophers can actually compare the manner certain philosophical problems were handled by the different traditions I wonder:
Is doing…
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What are the counterarguments against abortions in rape cases to the Thomson paper?
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"A Defense of Abortion" (Thomson):
You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with
an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been
found to have a fatal…
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What are the main issues on which the schools of Intuitionism, Formalism, and Logicism disagree?
What is the difference between Intuitionism, Formalism, and Logicism? Namely - on which issues do they disagree? And what is the relation of those schools of thought to Platonism, Nominalism, and Fictionalism?
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Why did Karl Popper criticize Karl Marx's ideas?
Karl Popper believed that Karl Marx's ideas lead to dictatorship.
Why did Karl Popper believe in this idea?
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What is the agent intellect according to Avicenna and Aquinas?
Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas seem to generally interpret Aristotle in different ways, and I am trying to understand the differences. Specifically, what are the differences between Avicenna's view and Thomas Aquinas' on agent intellect?
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How do modern dualists explain the mind-body interaction?
A serious challenge for dualism is explaining how mind and body interact if they are made of ontologically different substances, and more specifically how mental phenomena can causally drive bodily events and reactions. Even Descartes, who…
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