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3 days ago · Buddhism - Four Noble Truths, Dharma, Enlightenment: Awareness of these fundamental realities led the Buddha to formulate the Four Noble Truths: the truth of misery (dukkha; literally “suffering” but connoting “uneasiness” or “dissatisfaction”), the truth that misery originates within the craving for pleasure and for being or nonbeing (samudaya), the truth that this craving can be eliminated (nirodhu), and the truth that this elimination is the result of following a methodical ...
2 days ago · Epistemology ( / ɪˌpɪstəˈmɒlədʒi / ⓘ ih-PISS-tə-MOL-ə-jee; from Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē) 'knowledge', and -logy) is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.
5 days ago · Truth refers to the quality or state of being in accordance with fact or reality. It is an objective concept, often seen as absolute, though perceptions of truth can vary based on individual beliefs, cultural contexts, and available information.
3 days ago · contributed. Truth-tellers and liars problems (also called Knights and Knaves problems) are logic puzzles in which a set of statements is provided, but some of the statements are true and some of the statements are false. The goal of the puzzle is to determine which statements are true based on the information given.
2 days ago · Subterfuge lurking in the shadows of that Truth: among all of India’s prime ministers other than Chandra Shekhar, who sneaked into South Block through the backdoor and remained in office for a trice, Narendra Modi has returned with the lowest personal margin of victory — 13.49% as opposed to such prime ministerial highs as 72.18% (Rajiv ...
3 days ago · In Outline of a Theory of Truth, Kripke introduces some of the central concepts of the logical study of truth and paradox. He informally defines some of these -- such as groundedness and paradoxicality -- using modal locutions. We introduce a modal language for regimenting these informal definitions. Though groundedness and paradoxicality are expressible in the modal language, we prove that intrinsicality -- which Kripke emphasizes but does not define modally -- is not. We characterize the ...
1 day ago · Biden responded by doubting whether Trump, a “whiner,” as he called him, really would. “Something snapped in you when you lost last time,” the president said. Trump gave Democrats plenty ...
