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ontology

  1. Bodhi Dharma Zen

    what's the difference between "knowledge" and "belief"?

    What is a "belief"? which are its characteristics? What is "knowledge" What exactly is the difference between both of them? In every discussion people take for granted an incredible amount of stuff, like that the particular POV everybody have is the best, or truer, or more realistic, and...
  2. the PC apeman

    Ontology is a Waste of Time

    Inspired by this... I have an explanatory model for the experiences I've had that I also use to make predictions about future experiences. This model looks like the world as proposed by materialists but I am not a materialist. Neither am I an idealist nor a solipsist. These are all...
  3. Travis

    Theists, the grapevine or the grape?

    Theists: Which comes first, the grapevine or the grape? Don't dodge this question on your IQ in regard to practical creativity. If you have any practical creativity, how would you answer the question, and why? In not more than fifty filthy theist words. I just want to see if theists have...
  4. Bodhi Dharma Zen

    The "ultimate substance"

    Apparently all people have a precise idea of what constitutes "the final subtance" that the universe is "made of". Some believe that it is mind (idealists), some believe that it is god (pantheists) some others believe that it is matter (materialists). Extreme oversimplifications of course. I...
  5. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Ethics without Ontology

    Due out in March from Harvard University Press is a new book by Hilary Putnam, Ethics without Ontology. From the description of this forthcoming book: ~~ Paul

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