Can "what is" be determined by "what ought to be"? Is that not the meaning of "nothing is right or wrong, only thinking makes it so"? What philosopher covers this? Descarte? Does his "I think, therefore I am" even remotely mean the same thing? No. Never. “What...
Read MoreCan you really get to the bottom of something and say, ‘this is the truth,’ this is the lie? Or if each side is crying ‘truth’, do people just choose which side to take based on their own beliefs? Some people do say “this is the...
Read MoreWhat do you think are the 3 most important human rights occurrences happening now that we should try to fix? Off the top of my head (freedom of thought is the central human right to me, to deny it means death): Uyghurs genocide / oppression (Freedom of thought...
Read MoreQuora question: Why is irrationality consistent with itself while logic is not? In his bio, the questioner calls himself an “irrational logician”. My answer: Well, how exactly is irrationality consistent with itself? And, how is logic not? Specifics would have gone a long way towards understanding your understanding of...
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Why do several people say that Marx was an idiot or inept? I don’t think either Marx or Engels were idiots. They were irrational. Marx and Engels could not reason. Irrational people choose solutions for emotional reasons, not because the solution survives scientific method testing and thus...
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How is epistemology applicable today? To philosophers? I don’t know. To me? It is not. Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues. Wikipedia Epistemology is required because philosophers had difficulty establishing the truth of things. To know, i.e., to have knowledge, means...
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