480 Answered Questions for the topic philosophy
10/04/19
What is the truth value?
Determine the truth value of the following if A is true B is true C is falseA • ( B ⊃ C)
10/03/19
Determine the truth value.
Determine the truth value of the following if A is true B is true C is false A • ( B ⊃ C)
10/03/19
Determine the truth value
I need help to determine the truth value on this problem for my philosophy class.Determine the truth value of the following. Given that A is true, B is true, and C is falseA • ( B ⊃C)
Philosophy
10/03/19
If you believe that there was a real person behind all the Socratic personas what kind of evidence would you use to substantiate such a position?
this question is really one about the nature of the evidence pertaining to persistence through time and change.
09/15/19
Do minimum wage laws have the opposite effect than intended?
I'm currently trying to back up my opinion on minimum wage laws with some type of source... I'm reading Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom for my PHI 110 class & am having a bit of...
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Philosophy Ethics
09/06/19
Ethics Based on Consequences
Utilitarians argue that since happiness is the end that all human beings seek, (1) action that maximizes human happiness is good and (2) the right action to choose (among options) is that one which...
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Philosophy
08/28/19
What is Value Theory?
What is Value Theory? And how might answering questions in one area inform the way we think about other areas?
Philosophy
08/05/19
what is the role of Cartesian ''cogito"in the formation of Husselian phenomenology
What is the role of Cartesian"cogito"in the formulation of Husselian phenomenology
07/27/19
what is area of a paper , if I peel it into 2 separate parts
If I have a paper which has a height of 5 cm and base of 10 cm , then the area must be :Area of a rectangle = base * height so , 5*10 = 50 cm² , should be the answer to this right , But what is...
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Philosophy
07/14/19
Social Contract Theory
I am dying to know. Does anyone believe in the social contract theory by Hobbes? Only philosophers please answer, but I am astounded that a person would believe man would kill another in nature.
07/11/19
My views on the central theme of my book have changed - how do I bring in that nuance?
I've been working on a fantasy story that explores the creation and evolution of religion. But I'm struggling with what I'm fundamentally trying to say regarding religion.When I first began, I was...
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Do writers write philosophical essays?
I'm son to two philosophers, and maybe this shaped too much my way of understanding the world. I think a lot, or maybe thinking means a lot to me. And, mainly, I think about art questions and art...
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Philosophy
07/10/19
Do you think that an action ought to be judged morally in terms of its motive, its consequences, something about the nature of the action, or some combination of these? Explain.
Do you think that an action ought to be judged morally in terms of its motive, its consequences, something about the nature of the action, or some combination of these? Explain.
07/01/19
Transcendental Argument for God
I'd like to understand the various forms of this argument and the responses that it has generated.
Philosophy
06/10/19
Plato would claim that if an artist painted a picture of, say, a mountain, that the mountain is twice removed from true reality. What does this mean?
Philosophy
06/10/19
What does the sun represent on Plato's Allegory of the Cave
I'm having a hard time understanding the language of the philosophers. If someone could help me understand a little more clearly
Philosophy
06/09/19
Please help me with this philosophy multiple answers question
The egoist will often give common sense answers to whether e.g. it is ethical to kill. She will say that it is (usually) not, because killing people in civilized society is likely to end badly for...
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Philosophy Biology
06/01/19
What is the bioethical issue?
06/01/19
What would it take in a book to convince a rational person that it had been written by or directly inspired by a god?
Many of the world's religions are based on a book or text that adherents claim to have been written by or directly inspired by a god, perhaps omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent.
My question...
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Philosophy
05/29/19
Berkeley's denial of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities
What does it mean to say that ideas are all that are real? How does Berkeley's denial of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities result in this claim? (This distinction itself is...
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