The experiment aims to study one of the most profound puzzles in quantum theory: how or why do the rules that govern fundamental particles like electrons and atoms, give way to the "classical" physics of the everyday world?
For the proponent of acquaintance or the given, the lesson of these doubts and disagreements is that from the fact that something is given it does not follow that everything about the nature of the given or its epistemic role is itself given; "profound puzzles can arise, and legitimately demand solution, even in connection with that which is indubitable" (Fales 1996: 2).
It's unlikely that any of the students who attended the sports careers week at Pepperdine went away with the profound puzzles of settling on a career solved.
Why brain damage and romance seem made for each other is a puzzle too profound for journalism.
It trades in crafty puzzles rather than profound mysteries, and gestures in the direction of mighty philosophical questions that Mr. Nolan is finally too tactful, too timid or perhaps just too busy to engage".
The movie, directed by Christopher Nolan, "trades in crafty puzzles rather than profound mysteries, and gestures in the direction of mighty philosophical questions that Mr. Nolan is finally too tactful, too timid or perhaps just too busy to engage," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
This puzzle is more clever than profound, although reasons for thinking it meaningful might be conceived.
Within that puzzle, there is something even more profound, a sense of the deep privacy, the day-to-day solitude in which this woman lived, a solitude that many New Yorkers share.
Shifting the focus of jurisprudence in this way from rules to plans not only resolves many of the most vexing puzzles about the nature of law but has profound implications for legal practice as well.
Subtitled 'Paradoxes, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge', this is a profound and endlessly fascinating collection of philosophical experiments that leave the reader unable to settle back into old and lazy ways of thinking.
