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The opposite has also been claimed, for example by Karl Popper, who held that such problems do exist, that they are solvable, and that he had actually found definite solutions to some of them. David Chalmers divides inquiry into philosophical progress in meta-philosophy into three questions.
The problem of evil may be described either experientially or theoretically. [3] The experiential problem is the difficulty in believing in a concept of a loving God when confronted by evil and suffering in the real world, such as from epidemics, or wars, or murder, or natural disasters where innocent people become victims.
Zeno devised these paradoxes to support his teacher Parmenides's philosophy of monism, which posits that despite our sensory experiences, reality is singular and unchanging. The paradoxes famously challenge the notions of plurality (the existence of many things), motion, space, and time by suggesting they lead to logical contradictions .
Damascius composed a number of works, and a significant number of his works in fragments or derived from his writings survived, the more complete works being: the literary work Life of Isidore, or Philosophical History, preserved by Photius; [15] and the philosophical works: Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles; Commentary on the ...
"A Two-Sided Ontological Solution to the Sleeping Beauty Problem" (PDF). Anthropic Preprint Archive: The Sleeping Beauty Problem: An archive of papers on this problem; Phil Papers Entry on Sleeping Beauty (a complete bibliography of papers on the problem) Twoplustwo thread discussing the sleeping beauty problem in depth; Bischoff, Manon (2023 ...
Four solutions elucidated by Nails were proposed early in the history of the Socratic problem and are still relevant, even though each still poses problems today: [4] Socrates is the individual whose qualities exhibited in Plato’s writings are corroborated by Aristophanes and Xenophon.
Aristotle's theory of universals is Aristotle's classical solution to the problem of universals, sometimes known as the hylomorphic theory of immanent realism. universals are the characteristics or qualities that ordinary objects or things have in common. They can be identified in the types, properties, or relations observed in the world. For ...
Pages in category "Philosophical problems" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...