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Cranleigh School Blogs / Philosophy Zone / Thought Starters

Thought Starters Blog Posts

Why do people believe in ghosts?

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 | Thought Starters | Thomas Tatnall

One of the biggest questions asked by most people nowadays is ‘why do people believe in ghosts?’ One of the…
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Does a person’s name affect the person they become in the future?

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 | Thought Starters | Louis Cookson

Does a person’s name affect who they become? Our names have a very big influence on us. Some research shows…
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Can robots ever learn more than humans?

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 | Thought Starters | Louis Cookson. Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash

Can computers ever learn more than humans?  

Is Nothing Something?

June 20, 2018November 14, 2018 | Thought Starters | Jacopo Bounous, Student

Is Nothing Something? Is nothing something? Or is nothing the absence of something? Or is something the absence of nothing?…
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Paradoxes and Problems

June 6, 2018November 15, 2018 | Thought Starters | Jacopo Bounous, student

Paradoxes and Problems The Grandfather paradox Imagine that you do manage to invent a time machine. You travel back in…
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Is Maths a language and are Numbers its Alphabet?

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 | Thought Starters | Jacopo Bounous, Student

Are Numbers the alphabet for the language of Maths Is maths even a language? We portray our ideas with it,…
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Dreams

June 6, 2018November 15, 2018 | Thought Starters | Scarlett Schutte

John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley have a theory that dreams are simply electrical brain impulses. On the other hand, a…
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Can the human race learn everything?

May 16, 2018May 18, 2018 | Thought Starters | Louis Cookson

I would say no, even if the whole population of the world all tried together, they couldn’t. Because of history,…
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Are You Wet When Submerged In Water?

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018 | Thought Starters | Theo De Unger

My friend popped this question to me a couple weeks ago and this started a long discussion/argument about this question.…
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