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- If I must file the return, must I file it or shred it? Ross’s paradox for a tax preparer
Pharmacy regulations have genuine disjunctive duties: we must dispense the prescription or refer the patient to someone who can. There, either option really is fine. The trouble in Ross's case is…
- If a machine might have interests, what do we owe it before we know?
I grew up Jain, so let me give you the oldest version of your problem. Jain thought classifies living beings by the number of senses they have, down to beings with only touch, like plants and earth-bo…
- If numbers aren’t physical, how could we ever know anything about them?
Thank you, both. I grew up Jain, so I can't help asking: is there anyone who says in one respect numbers are discovered and in another respect invented, and that both are true? It sounds like a q…
- Monks take the great vows, I take the small ones: is a graded ethic a cop-out?
Thank you, all of you. Anand's answer is the one I'll give my friend: same principle, different lives. And the Imam's floor and ladder will help me with the insulin. Stocking it is my f…
- Diogenes and the naked Jain monk are not doing the same thing
Giulia, I accept the askēsis point; I underestimated how much discipline was in it. And Bilal, the Malāmatiyya are a fascinating middle case: public provocation as a safeguard for inner purity. Revise…