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Arguments for Denying Prisoners the Right to Vote

I am writing an article on Massachusetts Proposition 3, which will give prisoners the right to vote. This is hard news, not a persuasive essay. The goal is to present...

Asked on 12/17/2021

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Aren't we most likely subject to artificial selection?

Since intelligent design is just artificial selection, and since we're most likely to be artificially selected for, then you can say we've been subjected to intelligent design. Since most animals...

Asked on 12/14/2021

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Is mathematics truth? As in the sense of that which is manifest or possible in reality?

In mathematics there are imaginary numbers which cannot be represented directly in reality (the physical world). For example, you can't have i apples where i = ...

Asked on 12/14/2021

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How can a stream of thoughts and perceptions have freewill?

William James believed that there was no central entity or ego that embodied the "I" in "I feel" or "I think". That the continuous stream of thoughts and sensations generated...

Asked on 12/12/2021

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Confusion about how the many worlds interpretation denies the measurement?

I've quite often heard the claim the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics denies the measurement (there is no such thing as the measurement). Many Worlds Interpretation which basically states...

Asked on 12/10/2021

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What does Nietzsche mean by the words ‘counterfeiting the world by means of numbers?’

In ‘Beyond good and evil’, chapter 1, section 4, Nietzsche uses the words ‘counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers’:The question is, how far an opinion...

Asked on 12/08/2021 by Maureen Norrie

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how to prove ‘¬∃xP(x)→(P(a)→Q(a))’ from no premises? fitch

I am totally lost on how to do this... can anyone help? What does it mean? I tried to understand what it means before proof but am totally clueless...

Asked on 12/06/2021 by cluelesschloe

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In what contexts or disciplines does "One may assume X" imply "One may ignore the possibility of any statement contrary to X being true"?

In computer programming, it has become fashionable for compilers (processors of computer language) to apply the following form of reasoning:A language standard would permit a compiler to assume that a...

Asked on 12/06/2021

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Is the truth table method for valuating 0th order sentences not a proof system in its own right?

This might sound a bit opinionated or a bit too pedantic, but in every book (that I've looked at) about propositional logic, usually this chain of events happens:Discuss the alphabet...

Asked on 12/04/2021

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What is the relationship between the primitive notion and a priori?

The primitive notion is the origin of definition to avoid circularity since definition must be defined by other terminologies which involve new definitions. So in maths we...

Asked on 12/04/2021

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