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Comment author: Quirinus_Quirrell 12 April 2011 12:16:41AM *  7 points [-]
  1. A priori knowledge: yes or no? Yes
  2. Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Either, depending whether the second vowel has rising or falling intonation
  3. Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? Subjective
  4. Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Yes
  5. Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Internalism
  6. External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Skepticism. I haven't been able to take realism seriously since I left Hogwarts.
  7. Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? No free will
  8. God: theism or atheism? Atheism
  9. Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Empiricism
  10. Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Can be any of these, or something else entirely, depending on the specific knowledge and how it interacts with the relevant interdicts
  11. Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Non-Humean
  12. Logic: classical or non-classical? Classical
  13. Mental content: internalism or externalism? Internalism
  14. Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Moral anti-realism
  15. Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Naturalism
  16. Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Depends whose mind we're talking about
  17. Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Non-cognitivism
  18. Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Externalism
  19. Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? The first box twice
  20. Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Consequentialism
  21. Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Sense-datum theory
  22. Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Further-fact view
  23. Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Snicker
  24. Proper names: Fregean or Millian? It's more complicated than that (some names are pointers, some are independent entities, and some can even communicate in binary by agreeing or disagreeing with a sequence of pronouns)
  25. Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Realism with some caveats
  26. Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Survival
  27. Time: A-theory or B-theory? Neither. These both claim the past and future are disjoint. What the fuck?
  28. Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? Varies depending on mood
  29. Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? Correspondence
  30. Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? Actual
Comment author: JenniferRM 02 January 2014 11:37:54PM *  1 point [-]

I found this comment while wandering the archives and was surprised, in that context, that it didn't have more upvotes. Clicking through, I see that the playing field was relatively level and many upvotes would have been contextually unnecessary.

(Part of my personal enjoyment grew from the implicit dynamics between this copy of Quirinus and the most likely host of this copy of Quirinus. Too bad Clippy posts so rarely... it would be interesting to see that set of answers as well.)

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