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No, that’s not all! Philosophical questions also have to be relevant. That’s a squishy condition but I would really say it’s that simple. There is nothing speci
by arrrg 14y ago
No, that’s not all! Philosophical questions also have to be relevant. That’s a squishy condition but I would really say it’s that simple. There is nothing special about philosophical questions per se, it’s whatever humans find intensely interesting and cannot (yet or ever) be investigated empirically.
(I’m pretty sure I agree with you that something like morality can, at its core, not be empirically investigated, though empirical investigation can help create clarity in arguments about morality, though I’m not sure whether that’s an absolute truth that cannot ever be changed. Free will? Nature of knowledge? Those obviously are ripe for empirical investigation. I don’t see why we should never be able to answer those questions conclusively and empirically.)
- Houshalter 14y agoI don't know about free will because it depends how you define it and it's not something I've ever understood, though it doesn't seem like a concept that is dependent on how the universe actually is in a physical sense. The nature of knowledge is pretty vague too, but if you mean the concept of how we can ever know things, that also doesn't depend on how the universe physically is. In another universe with different laws of physics, it would still apply. The same is true of mathematics, for example.