Answer by TKoL for Is the present ontically vague?
There are 2 concepts I can think of that are great candidates for grounding the discssion on the ontical vagueness of The Present.Relativity of Simultaneity. For you, at any given time, there's a...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is David Deutsch correct in stating that the Copenhagen...
I can, as a lay person interested in qm, try to explain some of David Deutsch words, hopefully successfully:First of all, Copenhagen is taught by default at universities - they teach it as if it's the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on If one has free will, does this imply his actions are random?
If they are, does this imply that basically everything must either be determined or random and that there is no third middle ground? - this is a common approach, but not one everyone agrees with. It...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What is the probability of solipsism?
If this would were designed to convince you you're not the only consciousness, even though you ARE the only consciousness, do you really think we'd be trustworthy to tell you the truth about it?...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can definitions in the Oxford Dictionary of the English...
I think we're missing too much context. Perhaps you were giving a presentation of your position, and you were using a word relevant to the conversation, but you were referencing a definition for that...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on At what point in the history of mathematics, and why, did...
@Speakpigeon can you think of an exmaple, yourself, where A -> B is (at least broadly) true, but B -> A is not true? If you can, you can transform that example into (not A) or B and see for...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can you be a determinist while thinking laws are just...
There's actually a kind of beautifully deep ambiguity in the word "law". When people talk about "the laws of physics", for example, they don't always mean the same thing. Some people mean "the laws you...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Are the subjective experience of the "inner witness of the...
Is there a symmetry breaker between these two types of experiences?Yes, repeatability by others.If we take a basic perceptual experience, we have it reinforced through our lifetimes that our perceptual...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for How is this Linda example addressed by Bayesian thinking?
Suppose that you see Linda go to the bank every single day. Presumably this supports the hypothesis H = Linda is a banker. But this also supports the hypothesis H = Linda is a Banker and Linda is a...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for If this is the answer, what is the question?
The question is, "What is the question?"Alternatively, possibly "What?"
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does physicalism imply that an explanation for...
I'm a physicalist, and I don't think the question is a category error, or useless, or uninteresting, or malformed. I think it's a beautiful, wonderful, complex question, and it occupies my...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why do most philosophers believe in a deterministic...
@DikranMarsupial can you please point me to where I can read question 6? It's not obvious to me from the link in the OP how to see that.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is there an overarching purpose for philosophy?
I like to think of philosophy, not so much as the study of / search for TRUTH, but as the study of what the best ways to find truths might be. Truth is still the centerpiece, but in a more meta-way.How...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Whose perspective on evidence is correct: Hitchens's razor...
Absence of evidence frequently is evidence of absense (not always though). Especially in cases where you're explicitly looking for evidence that you should expect to find. People misuse this phrase a...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is affirmation of the consequent always invalid?
Probabilistically speaking, affirming the consequent is often evidence (though perhaps usually very weak evidence) of the antecedent.Imagine someone says to you: If my husband has just come back from...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Would being in a simulation explain why we have regularities?
If we were in a simultion, the universe in which the simulation is implemented would have to have regularities too, in order to implement something upon which to run a simulation. So it would explain...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Are all arguments for the existence of other minds circular?
They're not necessarily circular, but they probably necessarily have uncertain axiomatic assumptions, like just about everything
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is Alzheimer’s disease evidence for the non-existence of...
"the region of the brain that houses memory" - but that assumption itself isn't necessarily obvious to someone first getting introduced to the question of Physicalism, and so the fact that we can say...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on If A is justified in believing in X based on their...
@Mark I think extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Three girls have, as a group, lied about things before - if three girls told me they all saw a space craft, I would chuckle and move...
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