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  2. The unanswerable questions - Wikipedia

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    They are sets of questions that should not be thought about, and which the Buddha refused to answer, since this distracts from practice, and hinders the attainment of liberation. Various sets can be found within the Pali and Sanskrit texts, with four, and ten (Pali texts) or fourteen (Sanskrit texts) unanswerable questions.

  3. List of philosophical problems - Wikipedia

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    These questions continue to receive much attention in the philosophy of science. A clear "yes" to the first question is a hallmark of the scientific realism perspective. Philosophers such as Bas van Fraassen have important and interesting answers to the second question.

  4. Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae - Wikipedia

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    Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae (Certain philosophical questions) is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day that interested him. Apart from the light it throws on the formation of his own agenda for research, the ...

  5. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    They then went on to answer the query with, "No. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion." [ 5 ] The magazine Scientific American corroborated the technical aspect of this question, while leaving out the philosophic side, a year later when they asked the question slightly reworded, "If a tree were ...

  6. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia

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    The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle so called by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. [1] [2] Boolos' article includes multiple ways of solving the problem.

  7. Problem of the criterion - Wikipedia

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    Particularist theories organize things already known and attempt to use these particulars of knowledge to find a method of how we know, thus answering the second question set. Methodist theories propose an answer to question set two and proceed to use this to establish what we, in fact, know. Classical empiricism embraces the methodist approach.

  8. Category:Philosophical problems - Wikipedia

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  9. Talk:List of philosophical problems - Wikipedia

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    So the answer to this question 'what is art?' is 'people'. its people that determine what something is and why. though people's imaginations would be more precise, generally speaking, the answer is 'people' which means there are two answers to the question 'what makes art/music' (as in what constitutes as art/music) and because people determine ...