I recently saw an edited clip on YouTube in which a person said something that was false but very funny in response to a question. In the comments, someone said that the person in the video didn’t respond to the question that way, and that the clip was just edited to make it seem that…
Tag: logical fallacy
Possibility, necessity, and imagination
In philosophy, specifically in metaphysics, we often speak of what is “possible” or “contingent” and what is “necessary”. If something is necessarily true, then it cannot possibly to be false. An example of necessary truth might be mathematical theorems. If something is contingent, then it’s true but possibly could have been false. We often talk…
thoughts on mind 