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Epistemology is the study of knowledge, acquisition thereof, and the justification of belief in a given claim.
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How does Analytical Idealism justify empirical truth claims?
In Analytical Idealism (e.g., Bernardo Kastrup’s framework), reality is a mental construct within universal consciousness, unlike physicalism’s mind-independent world. How does this view justify ...
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Ways to strengthen the Kripke/Ross argument against computationalism?
OK, I thought about the Kripke-Ross argument (presented in a previous question here) long and hard again. A nice overview is that of Edward Feser
I now did a major rewrite of this follow-up question ...
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How to show that a statement has the "not even wrong" property?
Wolfgang Pauli is often credited with coining the phrase "not even wrong." However, the concept of nonsense obviously predates this. In debate, opponents may sometimes dismiss theories as ...
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Many people, when faced with a statement, exclaim: “PROVE IT!” But are they truly aware of what they’re saying? What is a proof? What does it mean?
For example: is a proof an observation, a perceptual confirmation? Just like that?
Does it need to be recorded somehow, to be interactable or repeatable?
Does it have to be universal—i.e., accessible ...
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How much recursion is needed in the set in order to make a reliable conclusion? [closed]
In formal systems, recursive definitions must be fully specified to ensure the reliability of conclusions.
However, in natural human thinking, we often rely on context-dependent partial recursion to ...
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Can a relation between two objects become equivalent to the objects themselves? [closed]
There are relations between all objects. For example, between the objects light and darkness, there is the relation of opposition. According to Hegel, the struggle between opposites is one of the main ...
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Under what conditions can we reasonably assert that a reported event was indeed a miracle? [duplicate]
Consider, for instance, a testimony I once heard concerning a Latin American evangelist. During an evangelistic campaign held in a stadium on a scorching day, with temperatures exceeding 35-37 degrees ...
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Term for when absence of denial is taken as confirmation
What is the term for when someone takes absence of denial as confirmation of his theory?
for example let’s suppose that someone postulates:
In medieval Europe, People believed in spirits that guided ...
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Why does no philosopher discuss this idea more skeptically than solipsism, which argues that nothing beyond experience exists, thus the self too?
The "I" (one's self) is also something that is uncertain to exist as it is external from accessible experience. For that reason it can neither be an absolute certainty that experience (...
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Similarity and difference between idealism and materialism when it comes to emphasizing the importance of individual judgment [closed]
Falsehood is an objectively evaluatable property of propositions. Being objective, makes it the study of materialism, while the proposition part makes that of idealism. Likewise, judgment is a mental ...
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Is mysticism compatible with peer review and the scientific method?
Prompted by Gaia's question How close is philosophy to mysticism?, I'm curious whether mysticism can be reconciled with epistemological standards such as peer review and empirical verification. Have ...
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May we reframe epistemology in terms of information thermodynamics rather than classical propositional structures alone? [closed]
May we reframe epistemology in terms of information thermodynamics rather than classical propositional structures alone? It is possible to establish epistemology on the basis of the thesis that ...
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What are examples of non-physical 'fields' or 'forces' in philosophy that have influenced real-world reasoning or cognition [closed]
In modern physics, the known four fundamental forces are defined by particle interactions and empirical observables. But from a philosophical standpoint, the concept of "force" is also a ...
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Can we use information theory to justify Bayesianism?
Bayesianism is a framework for reasoning under uncertainty, where beliefs are represented as probabilities. It updates those beliefs using Bayes’ Theorem, which combines prior probabilities with new ...
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How is the underdetermination of evidence a real problem?
The problem of underdetermination says that multiple, fundamentally different theories can explain the same set of observations or evidence equally well — and therefore, evidence alone may not be ...
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