A thief is a person who steals, especially in secret and without using force or violence. The plural of thief is thieves. The related noun theft refers to the act […]
Validity stemming from contradictory premisses
Can an argument with contradictory premises be valid? Well, if the premises are contradictory, then they cannot all be true (that’s just what contradictory means) so they can’t all be […]
What threat to the external validity of a study is not also a threat to its internal validity?
There are seven threats to external validity: selection bias, history, experimenter effect, Hawthorne effect, testing effect, aptitude-treatment and situation effect. What are the 4 threats to external validity? In this […]
Is mathematics truth? As in the sense of that which is manifest or possible in reality?
Mathematics itself isn’t truth, but all its results can be said to be true. Everything in mathematics begins with a set of assumptions and definitions. All proofs are pure deductive […]
A question about the Turing test
Turing’s new question is: “Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?” This question, Turing believed, is one that can actually be answered. In the […]
Historiography of the Ship of Theseus
The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’ paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains […]
Philosophical way to look at classical interpretation of probability
What is the classical interpretation of probability? Classical probability is the statistical concept that measures the likelihood (probability) of something happening. In a classic sense, it means that every statistical […]
Need help with this paper on epistemic justice
What does epistemic justice mean? Epistemic injustice is injustice related to knowledge. It includes exclusion and silencing; systematic distortion or misrepresentation of one’s meanings or contributions; undervaluing of one’s status […]
What does it mean for one geometrical axiom to be considered _equivalent_ to another geometrical axiom?
What are geometric axioms? Axioms are generally statements made about real numbers. Sometimes they are called algebraic postulates. Often what they say about real numbers holds true for geometric figures, […]
Are there any good arguments against Berkeley’s immaterialism?
Why does Berkeley’s master fail? The master argument fails to establish that (3) cannot be true, and therefore it fails to establish that objects cannot exist without the mind. What […]