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The uses and abuses of mathematics in early modern philosophy: introduction
https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 017-1670-y

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Godelian is one good example and practitioner of Mathematicism in a very fundamentalist and dogmatic sense. Mathematicism is 'the effort to employ the formal structure and rigorous method of mathematics as a model for the conduct of philosophy'.[1] or else it is the epistemological view that reality...

Whether incest is genetically harmful to humans or not, it cannot explain why so many cultures proscribed marriage to some cousons and mandate it for others. This suggests that there must be some other reason for the marriage rules. In addition, if we are genetically programed to object to incest w...

Incest increases the reproduction of unfit mutations, but it also propagates the same genes making them more vulnerable to shifting environmental circumstances. No. Incest has the potential for recessive unfit mutations to express themselves phenotypically. I cannot play any role in propogating unf...

Amazing Fact.. The genome variability of the Cheetah is so small that scientist have suggested that at the end of the last ice-age the entire species was represented by a single breeding pair. So much for the problems of incest. So what?? Point is at present, there is an inherent inbreeding avoidan...

False. No such things exists. There is no mechanism in animals that allow them to discriminate and coitus between siblings is common. In populations which have a harem system such as many herd animals and gorillas coitus between father and daughter is guarenteed. No harm results from this. I had st...

Why so [my typo. Should be the word "do" instead of "so"] some religions divide the world between good and evil and what are good and evil? ChatGPT The division of the world into categories of good and evil is a common theme in many religions and belief systems. There are severa...

Peace is defined as: Peace means societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence [threats verbal or physical] between individuals or groups. https://en.wikip...

Notes: KIV

Notes: KIV

Those who deny moral facts exist [thus morality is not objective] leveraged their argument on Philosophical Realism [p-realism] which is grounded on the idea of mind*-independence. [*or human conditions]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism I argue, those who argued on the basis of p...

Actually, the notion that incest avoidance results from the biological risks of inbreeding is dubious. First of all, the risks of inbreeding are relatively slight, especially in primitive cultures in which the infant mortality rate is 50% any way. More important, a common marriage rule in many simp...

Here is an example [re incest], why Moral Objectivity has the advantage over other moral views. I once knew a mill owner whose children has born an incestuous child together. Their wood mill was some 10 miles from the nearest small town and his family had very few opportunities to meet members of t...

Why do people like PH et. al. [philosophical realists] insist abstract objects do not exist? First, There are Two Senses of Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?t=40265 1. Framework & perspective based reality - mind-interdependent 2. Mind-independent reality, i.e. philosophical...