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What is Gödel’s Incompleteness? Consider the following three sentences—(a) Nobody is great, (b) I am nobody, and (c) Therefore, I am great. In three sentences, we can produce a self-contradiction because “I am great” is contradictory to “nobody is great”. This problem arises by giving the word “nobody” two meanings—(a) there is no individual, and (b) there is no …
Unification of Natural and Moral Law We cannot apply value judgments to the trajectories of motion in modern science. For instance, if a ball moves, we cannot say whether the trajectory of movement is good or bad, right or wrong. Since my hand movements are also modeled like ball movement, therefore, my hand movement cannot be judged as good or bad, …
The Problem of Free Will and Its Solution The problem of free will in modern thinking is created as a result of the Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism in which the body is governed by natural laws and any interference by the mind in the working of the body must violate natural laws. Thereby, as the scope of natural laws increases, the scope of free …
The Fundamental Problem of Epistemology Epistemology is a vast subject, and every method of knowledge proposed thus far in Western philosophy has proven to be inadequate. For now, we will consider two such methods called verificationism and falsificationism. Verificationism says that a theory can be verified by data. Falsificationism says that data can only falsify a theory. Both theories have serious …
The Anti-Reductionist Theory of Evolution Modern evolutionary biology is modeled after the modern method of doing science, which can be called “trial and error”. While doing a trial, an experimenter makes arbitrary changes to his experimental setup. Most of these arbitrary changes result in something undesirable and are classified as errors. However, rarely do we find something that produces desirable …
The Semantic Conception of Reality Reality in Western philosophy has been conceived either as subjective or objective. The objective conception of reality, also called Realism, envisions each thing as only one thing. Knowledge of objective reality is supposed to be only one thing and called the objective truth. Anything deviating from the objective truth is considered false. The subjective conception of reality, …
Quantum Collapse and Entanglement Realism has failed in quantum mechanics because each thing is many things at once, such as a pen and paperweight, and yet, we see one of those things at one time, place, and situation. The selection of one out of many possible visions is called the quantum measurement problem. Some interpreters of quantum mechanics imagine …
The Vedic Philosophy of Language It may surprise many people to know that the Vedic tradition never created dictionaries or rules of grammar. However, since time immemorial, there are six systems of study, collectively called Vedāṅga (and sometimes Upaveda), that include Nirukta and Vyākaraṇa which are erroneously translated as dictionary and grammar. The broader set of six Vedāṅga includes the …