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Quora – Correspondence theory
What are the weak points of correspondence theory? For me, the weaknesses are not so much with correspondence theory, but with our understandings of reality and our place in it, and the distinction between our experiential reality and whatever it … Continue reading
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Tagged Philosophy, truth, uncertainty, understanding
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Qora – shocking proof
Quora – Shocking proof What scientific theory do you think will be proven wrong and shock the scientific world? Or what new scientific theory will shock us all? For me, the implicit assumptions behind the question are themselves disproved. In … Continue reading
Email to Justin
Email from Justin – Why you don’t need to find your purpose in life – Do you believe you’re meant to have a purpose in life? Hi Justin, At the conscious rational level – of course not – makes no … Continue reading
Put up a new Page above – Risks and responses
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Technology, understanding
Tagged Abundance, AI, Communication, complexity, enlightenment, Evolution, freedom, future, knowledge, Money, Philosophy, Politics, risk mitigation, technology, truth, understanding, values
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Foundations of Logic – foundations of mathematics
Foundations of logic – In Logical terms, which is your preferred Foundations for Mathematics/Logic? Evolution. Without it, we would not have brains capable of making mathematical abstractions. [followed by] Hi Robert, That is not as I see it. It seems … Continue reading
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Foundations of Logic [Continued]
Foundations of Logic continued Hi Andrei Mirovan Consider this view for a moment. Prior to the formal discovery of the most simple instance of possible logics (what we may call classical logic) the terms know, and knowledge referred to a … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, enlightenment, Evolution, knowledge, Philosophy, truth, understanding, Wisdom
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Foundations of Logic -knowledge, truth, science
Foundations of Logic thread On a more GENERAL level: can science aspire to be a type of activity that pursues KNOWLEDGE (and that also ACQUIRES it reasonably often), and, at the same time, accept that its claims and theories are … Continue reading
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Tagged Logic, Philosophy, science, truth, understanding
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