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Okay. I need a clacker, a... whatchyamacallit. A *looksitup* marker. You guys get on that.

ANYWAY!

I like this TV show called The Big Bang Theory. Perhaps you've heard of it, it's pretty popular. My older brother says he thinks that it's written by the same people who beat up nerds in high school, but I think differently. That's a topic for another thread. What it has done is gotten me looking into all sorts of scientific theories and laws.

I got really interested in the philosophical problems, 'cause I feel way too dumb to involve myself in the unsolved physics problems. I looked it up, and there's this handy list!

List.

There's a few that I'm particularly interested in, like the Molyneaux one, the problem of induction, and the idea of moral luck. So for now, let's tackle those, because my thread, my favorite unsolved philosophical problems. What is intelligence?

Originally Posted by That article there that I linked above

Intuitively, it seems to be the case that we know certain things with absolute, complete, utter, unshakable certainty. For example, if you travel to the Arctic and touch an iceberg, you know that it would feel cold. These things that we know from experience are known through induction. The problem of induction in short; (1) any inductive statement (like the sun will rise tomorrow) can only be deductively shown if one assumes that nature is uniform. (2) the only way to show that nature is uniform is by using induction. Thus induction cannot be justified deductively.

I like this, because it ties in with our 'Aliens' thread. How can we intuitively know something?