The answers shown here are not necessarily the same provided as part of the 2009 PhilPapers Survey. These answers can be updated at any time.
Question | Answer | Comments | |
A priori knowledge: yes or no? | The question is too unclear to answer | A priori and a posteriori share an obvious (overlooked for 10000 years) circle. | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept both | Nominalism and Platonism share a circular relationship. That is, you cannot have one without the other. | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept both | Subject and object share an obvious circle. Thus no subjects, no objects, just pi. | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Accept both | Need one for the other. | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | The question is too unclear to answer | Epistemology and ontology share a circle thus I am, God is. The background is a circle (more realistically, pi). | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Accept more than one | Skepticism and stoicism share a necessary circle. You need one for the other, obviously. | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Reject all | What difference does it make? Nature has us covered (already made the 50-50 available, choice). | |
God: theism or atheism? | There is no fact of the matter | Negation shares a circle with duplication, thus two (not-one) is the basis for reality, any system. | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept both | Have to have one to have the other. | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept more than one | Any name reduces and expands to the same name (a different name). Basis for naming: circular relationship between one name and another. Complementary is the basis for identity. | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | The question is too unclear to answer | Nature is lawless. Obviously. | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Accept both | Classical and modern (non-classical) share a circle thus nothing changes because everything changes and the men will (all) be forgotten (also, their ideas, classification schemes). | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | External and internal share an obvious circular relationship thus 50-50 is the norm (all disciplines, systems). | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Accept both | Ethics is a circular relationship called nature. | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept both | Cannot have nature without something called anti-nature. This is another way to say symbolic relationships share a circle (cycle) with nature. | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept both | Cannot have mind without matter and vice versa. They share a circular relationship thus pi is the most (only) realistic observation (observer). | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept both | Negation and duplication share a circular relationship, thus you need both to have either (neither). | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept an intermediate view | Doesn't matter what you call it. Observation and observer share a circle (circular relationship) thus circle is the most realistic externistic=internalism. | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | There is no fact of the matter | One and two share a circular relationship. | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Accept more than one | Nature normalizes behavior 50-50. | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Accept more than one | Nature normalizes behavior all systems 50-50. | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | There is no fact of the matter | Biology and psychology (philosophy and technology) share a 0-1 circle, thus either-or is both-and, neither-either. Circular relationship between any X and Y. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | There is no fact of the matter | Unit shares a circular relationship with a group, any system. | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Accept both | Does not matter what the name 'is...' | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Accept both | Not possible to have physical without symbolic. These share an obvious circle. | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | There is no fact of the matter | Life and death share an obvious circle. | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Accept both | A and B share a circular relationship. You need both to have either (neither). | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | There is no fact of the matter | Doesn't matter. Nature has you covered. | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept: correspondence | Representational reality is based on (articulates, proves) a circle. | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | There is no fact of the matter | Any observation is true (shares a circle with an alternative observation) because 50-50 is the base observation. | |