Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Bias against religion
Here Phil denies a site policy of bias against religion.
Here Geoffrey has deleted a pro Plantinga answer.
This one is even more extreme: it's more broad spectrum than Christian and was accepted by ...
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Should we change the text on our comment link?
I wanted to ask you people whether you agree with the following suggestion:
Should we change the link-text of the link that lets us add comments from "Add a comment" to "Improve this ...
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Can communal moderation (closing, downvoting) in principle support the fair rights of the minority?
Democracy vs tyranny of the majority - is a well-known fact. https://blog.oup.com/2022/01/majority-rule-is-not-democracy/
Even with dedicated editorial staff in scientific journals, there is always a ...
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Is philosophy stack exchange Philosophy 101, or is it a place for ideas?
There is a place for signposting philosophy students or amateur philosophers, but is it acceptable to develop ideas through Q&A without being closed for "opinion"? Is it possible that ...
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Suggestions of what to do if we have concerns about a user's mental health?
If we see another user exhibiting behaviour that may be indicative of a mental health issue is there anything constructive we can do (either as regular contributors or moderators)? I'm not saying ...
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Charge of duplicate seems unjustified. Shouldn't my question be reopened?
My question: Can the strength of evidence for a proposition P be assessed objectively?
The question my question is allegedly a duplicate of: Can we assign probabilities to God and is the argument from ...
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Do we want to collect the best questions and answers at the end of each quarter?
This meta site contains several questions about the quality of questions and answers posted on the site. These seem to focus on what to do about low quality (unless I overlooked some).
We could also ...
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Should the threshold for the Community♦-raised flag "20+ comments" be lowered from 20 to, for example, 10?
Many questions and answers get a lot of comments, even though comments are not intended for extended discussions. This issue has been raised before and some solutions have been suggested, for example:
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How should I frame a question about the soundness of a particular objection to an argument?
I came across a particular argument and associated objection in philosophy of the mind. Both the argument and the objection can't be sound, but I can't find where either goes wrong. I thought I'd come ...
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Discussion about using a script to automate something on our site
I believe that the employment of certain scripts (carefully, conservatively, minimally) could benefit the site. I am likely capable of writing such scripts.
I do not know much about community rules or ...
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Request to ban the tag "logic"
For example:
"What is Nagarjuna's Tetralemma?"
-> [buddhist-logic] [indian-philosophy] [nagarjuna]
"Logic and critical thinking"
-> [critical-thinking] [argumentation]
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Can LLMs act as neutral arbiters for interpersonal forum drama? [closed]
Assuming we find, anywhere on this site (or elsewhere on the internet really), a discussion between two participants which emotionally derails (as agreed afterwards by participats).
Can LLMs then ...
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Do we want something like topic challenges for philosophical works outside our bailiwick, to help alleviate the Western bias on the site?
While reading the candidate profiles for the 2024 moderator election and the comments below them, I came across the following in a comment below one of the nominations (not mine):
I would hope that ...
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What is the appropriate way to cite a specific person, or use terms named in terms of a specific person?
So I was reading the SEP entry on simplicity, and w.r.t. Occam's razor, they say:
It should be noted that modern formulations of Occam’s Razor are connected only very tenuously to the 14th-century ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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How Can We Meet Herr Klöcking's Call to Community?
In his recent post about upcoming moderator elections, Moderator Philip Klöcking wrote:
New input and energy for shaping and developing a proper community would be most welcome, since any attempt to ...
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Ruthlessly LLM: what to do about it?
I have a hunch that many questions here (especially questions, perhaps due to attention seeking) are LLM. E.g. this one
Can an ethical understanding based on evolved instincts be considered objective ...
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Should I delete my account?
On the one hand, I quite like viewing the site, and adding notes when I can. On the other hand, I keep saying angry things that don't make sense, due to my psychosis. What should I do?
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Upcoming moderator election
We wanted you to know that since the workload vs. possible activity for the current moderators reached critical levels, there will be elections for one (probably, possibly more) new moderator(s), ...
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What's wrong with this question
The question. I've added some details to it after the closure. I'd like to have it reopened, maybe you can point me in the right direction.
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Can we ask for an answer from a particular school
What is the relation between the individual and the collective?
This is actually two questions. The first question is easy, as it's
yet another version of Yoneda's lemma: the relation between the
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I want to answer a closed question
Why this has been closed at all?
Are there different types of randomness?
I want to answer pointing out the existence of the theories dealing with uncertain probabilities such as possibility theory ...
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Should we just accept that this q&a site is now for people to express opinions on a variety of broadly speaking philosophical topics?
Should we just accept that this q&a site is now for people to express opinions on a variety of broadly speaking philosophical topics? It seems to have gone that way, and even asking for someone to ...
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I don't understand the voting patterns
What is intention +1
What is free will +6
What is virtue -2 and 4 close votes
Is it just random?
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Is "Mike Song" using a LLM to create answers?
This is just a hunch, and people more familiar with newcomer behavior might be better qualified to judge this:
User "Mike Song" joined today and already wrote answers to a number of pretty ...
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Red Hot subjects and agit-prop
Some issues that are very current and very hot, come up here on occasion — fortunately much less often than on politics-SE but still it does happen.
Is it of any use? To anyone or cause?
Repeating ...
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How much does my high rep immunise me against bans?
How much does my high rep immunise me against bans? I have got quite a few downvotes recently, and I actually don't want to be banned.
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I wanted to apologize for some of my recent outbursts
My apologies for being weird and disturbed recently (I've been unwell). I should read some philosophy...
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Is there hostility to professional philosophy, on this site?
Is there hostility to professional philosophy, on this site? Maybe some of you are or were professional philosophers (Geoffrey Thomas e.g.), and it is not surprising, if you look at the way that most ...
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Deleting and re-asking the same question
There was this question.
The asker themself deleted it.
And then asked it again.
When I tried to flag it as duplicate, the system said Cannot flag a deleted entity as a duplicate.
Now it seems to me ...
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Bee in the Bonnet questioners
What is/should be the policy for "bee in the bonnet" questioners?
eg.
Polcott who is very personally offended by Mr. Gödel
Thinkingman and his antiGod pro physicalist 100s of questions
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Trying to pinpoint the right question about life and existence and self-demise
I thought I post this in meta first because I'm not a philosopher and I wouldn't even know where to begin to look for sources for something like this.
I'm trying to formulate a question that is more ...
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Should I report accounts that I believe is a returning banned LLM user?
Should I report accounts that I believe is a returning banned LLM user? I don't have enough evidence for it to warrant these accounts being banned, but it is really getting on my nerves, and I wonder ...
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Philosophy Zulip Chat: I’m accepting applications to be a moderator
https://plato.zulipchat.com
See this site as an example of what I think a flourishing Zulip Chat can be modeled off of: https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/
Mainly interested in moderators who are ...
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Why does this comment remain an 'answer'?
It seems that you consider humans a kind of prototype species in the universe...
This 'answer' clearly is not an answer, but a comment. It should be not stand as answer.
Why does it remain an answer?
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What makes this question about sexuality and social determinants of gender about philosophy?
See Is the notion that queer identities and sexuality are innate incompatible with the view that genders are socially molded?
This seems like a science question question to me (perhaps biology, ...
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Why was this +10 answer deleted by a moderator (some time ago)?
I just saw that this answer of mine was deleted 4 months ago: Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
In that answer, I try to ...
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Why are so many upvoted questions with upvoted answers being deleted recently?
Just as a small sample, these questions have all been posted in the last few days, and subsequently deleted by the "Community" bot a few hours or days later:
Is an explanation for ...
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Why has this question been closed by the Community Bot?
Why are the following question and its answers deleted by Community Bot?
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/112528/is-an-explanation-for-consciousness-even-possible-if-not-what-are-we-...
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How identical does a "duplicate" question have to be?
How identical does a "duplicate" question have to be? There are a lot of examples of very similar questions cropping up again (since thinkingman this has been a trend even). e.g. this ...
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Tag for Linguistic Relativity
This question prompted this (meta) question.
I added the tag "linguistic-relativity"
But it could be called a number of other things
Sapir-Whorf
Whorfianism
Linguistic Determinism
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Why was this question about logic deleted?
This question was deleted by a moderator (which prevents voting to undelete, hence we have to talk about it here instead). The question is all about logic, which is listed in the help center as a ...
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Am I missing active questions
At 23:48 GMT 16/04/24
Am I missing a disappearing (and reappearing) active question?
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Is it appropriate for moderators to take sides in an argument?
There is another user who frequently responds to me with passive-aggressive snotty answers. I sometimes reply to him with all of the respect he deserves, and then, mysteriously, my answers get removed ...
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Is it appropriate to downvote for quackery?
(I'm going to create my own examples so as to not make this question an accusation at anybody. Please consider these claims a representation of my own mostly-suppressed quackery, and not ...
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Are people voting to close for reasons of clarity just because they question isn't literate enough?
Wittgenstein's notorious paragraph: can axioms in natural language prove their own consistency?
This question should be closed cos the phrase "analaytic language" is unclear. How is it ...
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Can we please undelete a question?
Here is my question asked 10 years ago: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/6319/how-belief-in-own-specialness-called
How belief in own specialness called?
Solipsism is a belief that ...
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Attempt at a "sociology of knowledge" based on SE experience
Based on a comment received on a recent PhilSE post I'm interested in discussing some "trends" in the way the two different populations act on SE.
The said post has been asked the same day ...
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Inappropriate conversion of answer to comment
I recently posted a pithy answer to this question Does the "gradual brain replacement" thought experiment prove consciousness is independent of substrate?
The answer was entirely apropos the ...
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Wikimedia Charter “community engagement”: April 2nd - 30th [closed]
I personally find this roughly “on-topic”.
Philosophy Stack Exchange is kind of a “free knowledge repository” or “free knowledge community”. In some ways, there are parallels or similarities between ...
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