Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: Do people learn most about philosophy by studying or by life experience - why?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Do people learn most about philosophy by studying or by life experience - why?
- Question: Can you see the similarities of going to a Catholic school and the Allegory of the Cave?
- Question: Might "talk like a pirate day" help us realise, that we're all in the same boat?
- Question: When is a good time to work on an all day drunk?
- Question: Philosophy and science which one is more important?
- Question: Why is the claim that 'until you've heard every other proposition you can't be absolutely certain of anything' not valid? 2+2 MUST equal 4?
| Question: Do people learn most about philosophy by studying or by life experience - why? Posted: 18 Sep 2015 09:10 PM PDT Introspection and contemplation - both lead to experience. Examine nature and things not created by man. The earthworm will scream to you, what but an infinite wisdom could have created me? Could you have made me? "Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death." ~ Socrates "I will . . . show that he who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. And how this may be . . . I will endeavor to explain. For I deem that the true disciple of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men; they do not perceive that he is ever pursuing death and dying; and if this is true, why, having had the desire of death all his life long, should he repine at the arrival of that which he has been always pursuing and desiring?" ~Socrates Philosophy provides wisdom, knowledge and truth. It removes fears, develops character and morality. It teaches us not to fear to die. After all - "A good man has nothing to fear in death" ~Socrates :)  |
| Question: Can you see the similarities of going to a Catholic school and the Allegory of the Cave? Posted: 18 Sep 2015 08:50 PM PDT Whatever I say, I'm thankful for going to a Catholic school growing up, I think it installed important things in me...At the same time it could be the reason I'm a little crazy However when I left, it was like coming out of an imprisoning cave. you can't really learn about the world until you experience it |
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| Question: When is a good time to work on an all day drunk? Posted: 18 Sep 2015 07:30 PM PDT After all the questions within Religion and Spirituality with sufficient nexus have been moved into the Philosophy category and every switch out of the Philosophy category have been returned within an hour of the switch for a period of at least a month. That should motivate someone's tiny little OCD ego into a twerking frenzy. At that time there would be a sufficient reason for the all day drunk. No plastic accessories should be required though, I guess if the beverage of choice is suitable, a drinking straw may be utilized. |
| Question: Philosophy and science which one is more important? Posted: 18 Sep 2015 05:54 PM PDT The Philosophy of Logic is the very foundation of Law and Science. The equation: If A = B, and B = C, then A must = C is the foundation of all our rationality. |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2015 04:05 PM PDT That claim would be unworkable, because it would allow an essentially unlimited number of counter-propositions, most of them with no supporting evidence, to be raised against anything you propose. Furthermore, the fact that another proposition could be made doesn't necessarily mean it is reasonable or has any legitimate supporting evidence or reason to believe it, so it can be discounted. Only propositions that actually have some validity are worth considering. Furthermore, it also depends a bit on what you mean by "absolutely certain". Outside mathematics, it's usually impossible to be absolutely totally certain of something with no possibility of doubt. That's because everything is ultimately down to what we observe in the world, and there's always the possibility that we have missed something or something else is going on that we don't know about. So in that sense, we can never be absolutely certain of everything. However, in most cases, while we can't be "absolutely" certain we can still be extremely confident in what we know, to the point that no reasonable doubt exists. The example I like to use is that we can't be absolutely certain that people need oxygen to live. Sure, everyone we know who has been deprived of oxygen for too long has died, but technically speaking that could just be a real freak coincidence- it's pretty damn unlikely but if you do the math, the probability isn't zero (probably less than 1 in a billion, but not zero). So we aren't absolutely certain of that, but I sure wouldn't try suffocating myself to test this out. In the case of mathematics, it's a little different because like I said in the answer to your other question, basic values are defined and so we can be absolutely certain of how they relate to each other. So in the case of 2+2 you can prove it equals 4 like so: 2+2 = (1+1) + (1+1) = 1+1+1+1 = 4. So we've proven that 2+2 = 4 beyond any doubt, so no other propositions can be valid there. The reason we can prove that for sure is that 2 is defined as 1+1 and 4 is 1+1+1+1 by definition as well, so those can't be doubted. Most things in the real world are different from in mathematics because they relate to observation rather than being defined, so there's always at least a theoretical chance that the observations are wrong. |
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