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1,028 capsules, each one classified by the strength of its evidence.

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religion
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The Axial Age

The claim that between roughly 800 and 200 BC, several unconnected civilisations independently produced a similar transformation in religious and…

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anthropology
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Cultural Relativism

Cultural relativism is the principle that a culture should be understood on its own terms rather than judged against the standards of another. It…

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law
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Natural Law and Legal Positivism

The central question in the philosophy of law is whether an unjust law is still law. Natural law theory says that at some point it is not: law and…

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philosophy
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The Problem of Induction

The problem of induction is the observation that no amount of evidence logically guarantees a general conclusion. That the sun has risen every day so…

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philosophy
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The Ship of Theseus

The ship of Theseus is a puzzle about identity over time. If every plank of a ship is replaced, one at a time, until no original material remains, is…

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computer science
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The Turing Test

The Turing test is a proposal, made by Alan Turing in 1950, for sidestepping the question of whether a machine can think. Rather than defining…

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physics
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The Nature of Time

Time is one of the most familiar parts of our experience, yet what it really is remains one of the deepest and most contested questions in physics…

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neuroscience
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The hard problem of consciousness is the question of why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience, the felt quality…

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philosophy
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Free Will

Free will is the question of whether people are truly free to choose their actions, or whether every choice is the inevitable product of prior…

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physics
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The Anthropic Principle

The anthropic principle concerns the striking observation that the universe appears remarkably fine tuned for the existence of life. Many of the…

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