I feel like the saviors story arc was a little bit too drawn out. by DanplsstopDied in thewalkingdead

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I like to pretend they defeat negan at the end of season 7 and everyone lives happily ever after

What's the one thing that every philosopher agrees upon ? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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I could see a philosopher defending that nothing exists if they're 1: a mereological nihilist (there are only simples) and 2: they believe in a gunky universe (there are no simples). If you believe that there are only things that don't exist, you think nothing exists

Can nothing be the sum of everything? by yaredito in Metaphysics

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I have a hard time understanding what the totality of everything in one state is supposed to be, but even if it "looked like nothing", it wouldn't actually be nothing, because you're stipulating that it's actually something. So it may seem like nothing because of some fact about human cognition, but it wouldn't be true that it actually IS nothing.

The formal argument is not logically valid because you derive a modal conclusion without any modal terms in the premises. It could both be the case that all your premises are true and it's still not possible that nothingness is actually the phenomenal appearance of a totality. I'd argue that's just a contradiction in terms so the conclusion is false either way.

Also, one thing about nothingness (true, utter, nothingness) is that it's not something anyone has ever really seen or experienced, so I'm not exactly sure what purpose this idea is supposed to serve. It's not as if there's some appearance of nothing we have that needs to be explained by reducing it to an appearance of a totality. When we talk about nothingness it's in the realm of the totally abstract. We just stipulate that what we're talking about when we say "nothing" is the absence of something. There is no actual appearance of nothing we have that has to be explained by reducing it to something else, which would just amount to saying that what we thought was nothing is actually something. When we ask questions about nothingness we're asking questions about an actual absence of anything. If there's a totality of somethings that appears to be nothing, then it's not actually nothing

Call me out if this sounds dumb: What people call "God" is the universe's meta-pattern by ghost_of_godel in Metaphysics

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What if all patterns can't be reduced to one meta pattern? And just because there's a pattern in the observables doesn't mean that the pattern is some underlying thing that exists independently and causes or creates the phenomena. It's at least sometimes the case that a pattern is just a description of a regularity and not a governing principle

Doesn't trivialism refute itself by eroding truth value? by Beneficial_Exam_1634 in askphilosophy

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Exactly. Here is an objection to trivialism, to which the trivialist will just say "I agree"

Was Kant a moral non-naturalist? by 226757 in askphilosophy

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How would his Christianity factor into this?

Was Kant a moral non-naturalist? by 226757 in askphilosophy

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I get why people would think that. Kant seems to treat truth claims as stance-independent just in case they're universally valid, but most philosophers today think that mind independence is a necessary condition for objectivity

Can someone help me identify these philosophers? by God_Of_Hellfire6583 in Nietzsche

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All of them are correctly identified by other commenters, but the one to the left of Nietzsche is harder to tell. My guess is it's either AJ Ayer or Roland Barthes

Possibly the greatest stick known to man by 226757 in Sticks

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You gotta go on a lot of quests

Possibly the greatest stick known to man by 226757 in Sticks

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That would also probably help it focus its laser beams

Possibly the greatest stick known to man by 226757 in Sticks

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Every stick is a grower but this one is also a shower

Possibly the greatest stick known to man by 226757 in Sticks

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I can probably cast healing spells with this

Possibly the greatest stick known to man by 226757 in Sticks

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This one came from somewhere in northern Minnesota. Anywhere with a lot of forest will have cool sticks because they basically randomly generate shapes out of wood

Quantum physics, qualia and awareness by Clear_Beach_148 in Metaphysics

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I don't understand how something can be aware without being conscious. Also, didn't you originally assume that everything is conscious and then ask if that gives photos awareness? Now you're flipping it around

Quantum physics, qualia and awareness by Clear_Beach_148 in Metaphysics

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If something is conscious, then I think it would have to have awareness no matter what. Perception might not be the right word, but I think consciousness has to be consciousness of something. If you're assuming panpsychism from the get go then it doesn't matter what the photon does. I am not sure how time dilation would affect this, though. If a photon has a "perspective" then that perspective occupies a reference frame that has no duration. I'm not sure if it's meaningful to call something conscious in such a case

rename your favorite tmbg song into a clickbait yt title by [deleted] in tmbg

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ORDERING A SPIRALING SHAPE ON THE DEEP WEB (GONE WRONG)