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Show me one (1) philosophical problem that YOU have personally solved.

>> No.17858135

>>17858132
there is no God

>> No.17858143

>>17858132
((((((((((((YOU)))))))))))))

(Its total extermination btw)

>> No.17858187

>>17858132
I stopped thinking about it.

>> No.17858191

1. Morality
2. Meaning of life (what is purpose)
3. Meaning of pride
4. Purposes of ideas/consciousness/creativity

And a lot more.

>> No.17858212

>>17858132
The Theseus' Ship Problem

>> No.17858217

>>17858132
All of them, pretty much.

>> No.17858218

>>17858191
these but I actually have unlike that retard, unless he happened to have the exact same conclusions as I in which case he is in fact not a retard.

>> No.17858232

- Morality
- Purpose
- Personal ethics
>>17858217
Alright Wittgenstein

>> No.17858242

>>17858132
I solved the problem of philosophy. In conclusion, philosophy is trash.

>> No.17858247

>>17858132
The problem of gays and trooners heavily informed by jungian and frueidian lenses (a.k.a shit I've absorbed through JBP and some Jungian Youtubers) but completely boiled and shallowed down to "presence (or the lack) of either male and female models in a child's life results in a radicalisation on the masculinity and femininity spectrum and desire".
If a child lacks a functional paternal figure, he/she will desire that sexually and vice versa and can comform themselves to attract and be that which they lack.
I have never seen any evidence from any personal interaction that is against this paradigm.
I know Jung probably has already written some shit about this, and maybe Camille Paglia, but I am proud to say I have derived this shit from nothing but YouTube videos, random sexual studies journals and my own reasoning :)

>> No.17858249

>>17858132
I solved the problem of the stinky butt.

(Just kidding, that problem remains unsolved.)

>> No.17858251
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17858251

>>17858132
The nature of the transcendental Ego and access to the field of pure infinite consciousness.
I'll have to admit I just followed Husserl's footsteps but he does require us to do the work, he's just guiding us along.

>> No.17858256

>>17858247
Uberboyo is based tho

>> No.17858306

Euthyphro Dilemma

>> No.17858535

>>17858132
Everything that I can't solve is a false problem

>> No.17858554

>>17858232
disappointing.

>> No.17858586

Free will doesn't exist.
Proof:
Try to lick your elbow. You can't. QED

>> No.17858591

>>17858132
I solved the problem of interpreting God and organized religion.

>> No.17858634

>>17858218
This, this, so much this

>> No.17858645

>>17858132
>you

>> No.17858650

>>17858187
based and returningtonaturepilled
>>17858132
I wish I could please my wife

>> No.17858651

>>17858586
I keked

>> No.17858653

Pseud trap

>> No.17858789

>>17858651
I’m not joking btw

>> No.17858792

>>17858191
>>17858218
So do you have cringe solutions or the based ones? Lets hear it

>> No.17858798

>>17858132
>speaking about philosophy as if it was maths
Cringe

>> No.17858799

I have made a rational justification of faith.

>> No.17858802

>>17858132
The Munchhausen trilemma

>> No.17858808

>positivist jurists propose there are laws that give rights and laws that take rights, attempting to define reality within some esoteric framework that benefits them
>all rights are just obligations to others, thus all laws take rights but not all laws give rights
>all law is inherently negative, constricting, antithetical, etc (I can't remember the word but god damn they used it a lot in jurisprudence)

>> No.17858826

>>17858586
what do you think, "will" is exactly? Trying to lick your elbow is an "act of willing," the outcome or success in doing so is irrelevant.

>> No.17858985

Solved religion. Basically you can explain everything without it so it's unnecessary.

>> No.17859178

>>17858187
So you solved the philosophical problem, congratulations.

>> No.17860266

>>17858132
>>17858212
To solve the Theseus' Ship problem, you need a qualifier, so the answer is two pronged.
If the question is technical, then once 51% of the ship has been replaced.
If the question is metaphysical, then it is always his ship.

>> No.17861142

>>17858132
We have no way of knowing what Chuck dealed in when he owned the store. We get the impression that he sold fuck and suck just because of empirical habit. It is commonly held that since the name of the store now that Sneed owns it has a rhyming scheme, the previous owners must have used a rhyming scheme in their own store. That's not necessarily the case.

>> No.17861157

>>17860266
proof the conditionals

>> No.17861175

>>17858132
What is the meaning of life, it's in the dictionary? Duh.

>> No.17861195

>>17860266
What kind of warrenty does he have, that could alter the outcome, did he let any unlicenced greeks pilot that shit, could be a liability problem. I think a full audit is in order. One of the classic blunders.

>> No.17861419

solved the problem of evil by not acknowledging is as as such

>> No.17861901

>>17858132
It might be considered a variation on the anthropic cosmological principle, or something along those lines, but I was debating the existence of God with my uncle six or seven years ago and he brought up a crude version of the fine-tuned argument, regarding there being natural formations in perfect circles, or in the golden ratio, etc. Out of nowhere I responded: a perfect circle isn't any more likely to exist than any single non-perfect circle. It's a distortion of probability - likely a result of our keen pattern-recognition abilities - because we are incorrectly comparing the odds of the perfect circle against the odds of all different types of non-perfect circle, even though each of those non-perfect circles have the same probability of existing as the perfect circle. But for some reason, we treat them in sum, whereas with the perfect circle, we treat it as its own category.

>> No.17861906

>>17861142
/tv/ eternally BTFO

>> No.17861920

The problem of universals

>> No.17861925

the way people are so stupid, I feel like im solving the problems of money, governance, poverty and violence every time I engage in a debate with some idiot capitalist who doesn't understand what real leftism is.

>> No.17861944

>>17861142
/thread
/board
/site

>> No.17861947

>>17861925
Alright, give me a synopsis of "real leftism" in 1000 words or less. This could be very promising.

>> No.17861949

>>17861947
dude free stuff lmao

>> No.17861962

>>17861947
well I suppose it varies but it could be summed up by the abolishment of unjust hierarchies, including in industry, where workers seize the means of production and are this granted the full value of their labour

>> No.17861966

>>17861947
"Gib me dat for free" unironically. The ultimate chad philosophy.

>> No.17861979

>>17861962
Please tell me you aren't >>17861925
because if you are, either there are gaping voids in your statement, or "real leftism" is exactly what I thought it was.
>abolishment of unjust hierarchies
How do you do this without abolishing legal equality?
>unjust hierarchies in industry
What are some examples?
>workers seize the means of production
Nothing except a lack of capital is preventing this. But almost every gluttonous, corporate, global corporation founded before 2000 started somewhere with very modest means.
>granted the full value of their labour
Granted it by whom? Their employer? Do employers provide nothing? Does the infrastructure, transportation, R&D, legal administration, etc. come out of thin air?

>> No.17861985

>>17858132
Hard problem of consciousness, or at least the "firm" problem (halfway between soft and hard)
The problem of induction
The rest are classified so you have to buy my book :)

>> No.17862006

>>17861985
Give me the low-down on induction. Skip the needless exposition, I'm a literal genius.

>> No.17862009

>>17861979
yes that is me
>How do you do this without abolishing legal equality?
you do it by establishing equality by destroying the barriers of class my dude
>What are some examples?
literally every single business where profits flow upwards and workers are deprived of complete compensation for the value created by their labour, aka any bussness where 100% of the profits do not go to labour
>Nothing except a lack of capital is preventing this
yes, the ruling class hoards all of the capital and uses it to hold power over workers and deprive them of the value they produce
>Granted it by whom
themselves, they own the capital, they do the labour they take the profits

>> No.17862012

>>17861419
Real Aquinas hours

>> No.17862027

>>17858586

b..but I chose not to try...

>> No.17862041
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17862041

you mistake the nature of philosophical problems. they are terminally problematic; they eternally generate new solutions without ever being exhausted by them. if a philosophical solution could be solved it would cease to be philosophical at all (Betrand Russell, I believe, expressed the same insight).

>> No.17862043

>>17858826
But you didn't even try, because you couldn't

>> No.17862046

>>17862009
>by destroying the barriers of class
That's a nice platitude, but how do you actually DO it in the real world? How do you legislate it, enforce it, apply it?
>where profits flow upwards and workers are deprived of complete compensation for the value created by their labour
This is where I think you have a severe misunderstanding of businesses operating in voluntary markets. For one, how do workers pulling levers, marketing products, or turning bolts create value if there are no levers to pull, no products that sell, and no tools or materials to assemble? The value doesn't come solely from labour. It comes from many places: much of it is investment before the final product comes into existence, and then after there is significant infrastructure, logistics, transport, administration, and legal/liability work that's required. So give me an example: in what sense are the labourers in a given industry not compensated by a company (or individual) whose initial risk and investment actually facilitates everything else that follows? In other words, if the investment flows downward, why should profits not flow upward?
>hoards capital
In certain industries, at certain times, yes. That is a natural evolution of a system in which initial risk and capital is needed to find a place in the market at all. But rest assured that labourers experience almost NO capital risk. They just show up and perform the labour and are paid an agreed-upon price.
>themselves
So why don't they grant it to themselves?
>they own the capital, they do the labour, they take the profits
If they own the capital, why don't they use it to grow their business?
>they do the labour, they take the profits
Where do you suppose the money to pay wages comes from?

>> No.17862067

Meaning of life (what is purpose?)
Meaning/purpose
Meaning/purpose/communication

Like a triangular physics formula of distance-time-speed, which can be rearranged 3 different ways, the concepts of meaning, purpose, and communication are fundamentally linked.
>The meaning of life is to communicate with purpose
>The purpose of communication is to convey meaning
>Communication that has meaning gives people purpose in life
You input data into the formula and the product is something of value.

This describes the social nature of humans and animals, and why organisms have senses and faculties that allow them to speak, or at least call each other.
What is the purpose of 4chan if not an arena for the formula above?
We gather here to communicate, the purpose of this communication is to find meaning. If you read a random series of numerals and letters it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it communicates nothing. Communication must seek to improve life in some way, even if it is merely to entertain and pass the time. Then it has value.
A person can communicate hard data for technical purposes or light chit chat for social reasons. Profound psychological insight, beauty, comedy, fiction, a variation of purposes, like the many boards on the main page, or the many genres of channels on the TV.

To look upon a simple object with your eye is to recieve communication, the object transmits facts about it's geometry, it's colour, it's size. If the meaning is correct then it may be edible, that is the purpose of the object. Another meaning may communicate a deadly poison, and so you leave it alone, because it's purpose is to kill you. If it contains another meaning, then it may be used to break a window if that is what you aim for.

>> No.17862084

Why

>> No.17862117

Phenomena = noumena
Everything we experience through senses must be the real thing because otherwise the thing-in-itself would have to be some kind of cosmic horror and that's 2spooky4me. Checkmate.

>> No.17862139

>>17858132

Numbers and math aren't real, as in, exist in the universe on their own. They are a tool created by humans to describe the patterns of the universe that works well because it was designed exactly to do that, like a screwdriver. When they don't work well, humans use a different kind of math, like non euclidean geometry for curved space

The world of universals of Plato doesn't exist.

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17862146

>>17858251
we have seen it

>> No.17862160

I solved the question of free will. The conclusion is that I do have free will, and you don't (if you disagree).

>> No.17862266

The concept of a universal mind/spiritual ether/god is self evident

Self evidence is the root of all experience.
When you wake up in the morning, before you even open your eyes and see light, your consciousness somehow condenses from the disintegration of sleep. You become self aware in this moment.
There is the classic phrase 'I think, therefore I am.' This is an action description of the exact moment you wake from sleep.

All human experience is derived from an immutable, active, self awareness. Even when sleeping the brain is not switched off, but resting in a low energy stasis mode where self aware dreaming is still possible.
Without self awareness there is no living existence.
For the universe to be able to produce living beings, self aware beings, there must be a form of life within the fabric of the universe itself. If not, then the universe would not be able to support life.
You cannot have something inside of the universe that isn't a part of the universe.
You cannot have something that is alive and self aware unless the universe contains life and self awareness.
To deny a universal mind is to deny that you yourself exist.
To deny that you exist is to play silly games, to pretend that you don't understand the meaning of simple words, to pretend that you can't see me, and that I can't see you. To pretend you didn't wake up this morning, when we all know that you did. Your existence is self evident. I, myself, confirm your existence via my own self evidence.

The universe exists because we confirm it exists via our own self evidence. The universal mind/spirit ether/god principal is also self evident. This sentence has two meanings at once - 1. That you self evidently can understand the existence of the universal mind - 2. That the universal mind is in and of itself in possession of a self aware faculty, a consciousness, a living process.

>> No.17862273

>>17862084
Because

>> No.17862306

>>17858132
I solved the problem of the necessary and sufficient ontological conditions for being an OP: faggotry.

>> No.17862410

>>17862009
What's stopping leftists from just doing this? What are you waiting for?

>> No.17862444

>>17862410
Their jewish masters haven't commanded them to yet

>> No.17862520

>>17858132
I'm a Catholic atheist. It used to give me headaches but I realized that it was like a reverse Pascal Wager. If God exists, I won't have eternal life but death. If Hé doesn't, I won't have eternal life but death. . Therefore I can be certain of this and live with peace of mind.

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17862677

>>17862266
Plato had forgotten lectures that are only described in the writings of his students that attended them in person. Plato said that he would never put the ultimate truth in writing.
The topic of the secret lectures is known to be a description of the final nature of the numbers. The essence of the numerals 1, 2, 3 etc.
This meaning of this can be derived through his famous theory of forms.
Plato talked of the realm of forms, of cupness, of tableness etc.
But to follow this notion to it's logical conclusion means that there are also forms of abstract concepts. The mind itself must have a root location in the realm of forms. A mindness, a conciousness-ness. Even time and space would have a root location in the realm of forms.

Above that level, to reach for an even higher level of abstraction than these, there can only be one final supreme concept. Something from which all forms recieve their form.
This would be described as 'Formness.'
Formness would give all sub forms their form. It is the final singularity, the supreme origin of forms. This would truly be 'The One'. It gives itself a form, it exists through self evidence.

Returning to Plato's description of numbers being used to explain his ultimate truth -
The form of forms - 'Formness' - is the zero numeral - 0. Or it would also make sense to use the infinty symbol ∞.
Through self awarness, Formness creates it's own existence in a self sustaining loop of infinite energy - It allows the perpetual motion and self sustenance of the universe, which is itself.
The self awareness of Formness, 'looking at itself in the mirror' creates a form of the form.
This is going from 0 to now having 0 + 0.
There was 1 numeral, now there is 2.
You have the original 0, now you have 0 + 0. There is now actually three 0 numerals in the sentence, so 2 has become 3, and so on and son etc etc till you have all of the numerals.
0 is infinite Formness
1 is the universe
2 is time and space - Time derives infinite energy from Formness to move forward with eternal motion, eternally renewing the universe - Space is granted infinite energy from Formness to give shape to the universe, eternally sustaining it's existence
The remaining numerals are everything contained within the universe

Consciousness is self awarness, rooted somehow in the original self sustaining, self aware 0 of Formness.
Your mind is somehow able to 'Look at itself in the mirror' - and your mind is actually the substance of that same mirror. You are looking at yourself within yourself.
Ultimately, when discussing things at this level, the meaning of symbols and words begins to disintegrate to some degree, due to the low fidelity of the material plane in contrast to the higher planes of knowledge, spirit, and forms.
All that remains when understanding the value of the ultimate truth is the significance of self awarness, and that Plato's realm of forms reduces down to a final ultimate form of 'Formness'.

>> No.17862709

>>17862677
>Above that level, to reach for an even higher level of abstraction than these, there can only be one final supreme concept. Something from which all forms recieve their form.
Isn't this what Parmenides describes? That all things that ARE are participating in the same thing, that thing being "being" itself?

>> No.17862744

>>17862160
Based and self evidence pilled

>> No.17862878

>>17858132
The perspective that frames "philosophical problems" as something to be "solved" it itself a problem to be solved.
All personal growth I have experience in my life has had the feeling of transcending or encompassing a my past perspective. Problems are not solved so much as they are subsumed or made irrelevant.

>> No.17863059

>>17862677
Hierarchy is inherent in the structure of the sequence of numerals and forms.

The spirit of man has dominion over matter due to the superiority and complexity of the self aware mind.
The close relationship of the human consciousness to the ultimate 0 position of Formness grants a direct spiritual force and mental presence that allows the mind to absorb more information from the environment. The human mind recieves more meaning per second during lifetime than that of a low beast. There is more inherent purpose in the communication between a human and the environment of the outer world.
The communication between two humans is more powerful and important than the noises called out between two animals.

Man is positioned to be able to eat animals placed lower on the heirarchy due to their lack of consciousness. Also plant life is conveniently placed for the consumption of those intelligent enough to harvest them.
These lesser forms of life lack full self awareness, their mind is not complete, and so to remove a beast of the field from it's experience on the material plane is less severe than the death of a human. A fruit or vegetable is close to being a form of 'semi conscious matter' - within reach of even the mind of an animal to harvest. Man is able to easily farm entire fields of plant life. The human mind is intelligent enough to control these things, and these lesser minds, because of his inherent spiritual power. Dominion over matter is automatic.

The self awareness of the human mind also means that there is a greater sense of self regulation. The human mind seeks to govern it's own behaviour, to emulate abstract concepts of grace, beauty, and truth, to make sure ones life represents a 'goodness' - a moral feeling that ultimately originates in the purity of spiritual abstraction.
Again the singularity of 'Formness' is a final origin of these concepts of 'goodness' - 'humaneness' - 'truthfulness' and so on. The notion of purity is rooted in the simplicity and beauty of singular Formness.
Man 'feels' - through connection to Formness - that he should take care of his surroundings. Even when considering the low beasts of the field, mans spiritual 'goodness' means that he should keep and feed the animals, that should the animals hurt themselves he will see to their medical repair, that to make these beasts uncomfortable or to abuse them is a defiance of the 'goodness' that it is a disrespect to ones own nature.
Even when looking at a low beast, even when looking at plant life, even when looking at the bricks of his own home, the spirit of man sees beauty and truth. Man dispenses kindness upon these animals and even objects and looks after them, because through all things he is reminded of their origin, his own origin, in a transcendant plane that precedes ones own material presence.
All lesser forms that man percieves ultimately return to the higher origin, the original Formness.

>> No.17863174

the external grounding for PSR and logic (there is none)

>> No.17863199

>>17862878
>just forget about the problem and is not a problem anymore

>> No.17863208

You don't solve "philosophical problems"
fucking retards

>> No.17863281

>>17863059
The spirit of man understands the spirit relationship one has to the universe.
The spirit of man, through self awareness, also can clearly see that he is placed higher on the hierarchy of forms than the beasts and matter in his environment.

But, the human mind is not all powerful.
There are many individual humans, and so no one man has the limitless power of the universe at his disposal.
A human is capable of making mistakes.
A human is also capable of intentionally doing 'wrong' acts, things that defy the basic principles of spiritual goodness that his mind operates on.
Through some imperfection of the mind, a human can abuse his environment, wasting materials, abusing animals, even insulting other humans - which are his close relations, his similar images. He can even abuse himself.
As one departs from the singular purity of Formness, complexity and irregularity arrive. Much like the variety of odd and even numbers in a sequence, and the imbalances that arrive in their multiplication and equations, living creatures bump into each other and confuse one another during their interactions.
Man can struggle to identify his origin, becoming distrcted by lower forms in the material plane. These can take the form of eating disorders, drug habits, absorption into trivial items like ornaments and toys. Possessions and actions that celebrate the lower elements of the heirarchy and consume the precious time of the spirit of man, irrelevant manias.

Spiritual satisfaction is found in recognition of the true origin. The spirit is renewed when considering the absolute power of the Formness, the singularity represented by the 0 numeral. The universal mind/spirit ether/god principle.

>> No.17863284

>>17863281
The universal mind will seek to test the spirit of man.
The universal mind will remind him of his true origin, and when the spirit of man is consumed by inferior elements on the hierarchy of forms, they will be stripped away by destiny.
The spirit of man, temporarily lost, will feel that he is traumatised as his spirit is ripped away from his toys and possession by random accidents. How cruel is fate? Am I not human? Was I not granted dominion over matter? Surely one such as I does not deserve this?
But as man is stripped of his numerals, his bank balance, his expensive collections, his list of toys and possessions, he is brought closer to zero.
The Formness watches and thoughtfully smiles, because it is taking you to your home.
One day, when you are old, you will leave behind everything you have accumulated anyway. The lower forms in your possession are borrowed from the world on a temporary basis. Even your body is discarded, a lower form gifted to your consciousness to be piloted by it.
Death is not the end, only a transition.
You are finally free, allowed to return to your origin.
As your body is stripped away, you will understand that your losses in life, being made to let go of lower forms, are nothing compared to this final detachment from lesser form.
How can aging, injury, or disability compare to bodily death? How can losing money or crashing your car compare to leaving the material plane behind?
From the moment you were born, you were destined to return to your origin. Your final form is the original form.

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>>17858132
Demonstrating that God is omniscient and omnipotent while deliberately sacrificing omnipresence for the act of creation. This is why He demands sacrifice from his creations. His was the first, for us.

>> No.17863546

>>17858191
>Meaning of life (what is purpose)
Why would life have a meaning?
We came into existence, billions of years later and now through evolution we are built to continue existing and to have babies.
Where's the complexity

>> No.17863620

The trolley problem

>> No.17863627

The nigger problem