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Is it possible for some people to be conscious of their own free will, while others are not conscious of theirs?
The SEP entry on the epistemology of modality mentions perceptual theories, where there are true claims like, "Cynthia perceived that it was possible for her to defy gravity," or, "...
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Is Foucault's concept of episteme 'unthought-of'?
I am reading The Order of Things, and I understand Episteme as the conditions of possibility of knowledge. My impression is that this condition cannot be thought-of, which is why Foucault does a ...
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How does Gödel derive his first theory in his ontological proof
Every positive property is possibly exemplified, is his first theory but how does he get that. How does it follow from the axioms 1 and 2? I have heard some arguments for it, but they weren't ...
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Is this argument sound, and if not, how can i make it sound? [closed]
1 God had the choice on how to create the universe, if not he wouldn’t have free will.
2 To have the ability to choose freely is to have potential, because freedom of choice implies the presence of ...
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Can one test the view that possibility exists?
This is similar to my previous question, here: How can we test whether other possible worlds exist?. In that question, I asked how we can test whether other possible worlds exist.
Now, I am asking a ...
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Is there a specific sense of possibility (epistemic, logical, metaphysical, etc.) under which "nothing" is possible?
When people ask Why is there something instead of nothing?, it seems that they are entertaining the possibility of nothing/nothingness, of absolutely nothing existing. Intuitively we know that we ...
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Reference request about epistemic possibility
Epistemic possibility is the modality that captures what could be the case given our current state of information. Let □A mean “A is certain”. Then, it is common to define epistemic possibility with ...
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Is it ever reasonable to infer impossibility from high improbability?
For context, please refer to the section Biological Information: Beyond the Reach of Chance (pages 10-12) in DNA by Design: An Inference to the Best Explanation for the Origin of Biological ...
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What are some noteworthy consequences of a deontic logic extended with the axiom “Ob(A) → Ob(◊A)”?
I think one unsuccessful attempt to construct a form of deontic logic in which the “ought” modal operator implies the “can” modal operator was to include the axiom OBA → ◊A, for an “obligation” ...
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Could, "If X is red, X has a coloration," possibly be not true like, "Cucumbers are vegetables," is not strictly true?
I just watched this video, I thought it was a joke video at first, but it turned out to be an explanation as to why the metaphysical concept of "vegetables" is not scientifically stable, and ...
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Are there these two notions of possibility distinct?
There are two notions of logically possible. I will label them as the positive sense and the negative sense. The positive sense is that a set of sentences S is possible if and only if there exists a ...
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Can anything happen at any time right now if there is infinite Possibilities in life?
If we live in a world with possibly infinite realities, and infinite space, doesn't that mean that there is an chance that anything could happen?
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Can anything that doesn’t happen really be “possible”?
We refer to things being possible when we imagine a class of events that don’t break certain laws.
But this class is clearly mind dependent. For example, could world war 2 have started on a different ...
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