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When you say logic and math aren't about anything at all, do you extend this application all the way to include the internal consistency of logic and ...
August 16, 2024 at 14:35
Well, if a fact about science is a science fact, then you must explain how a science fact is not science. Take for example electrolysis, the process o...
August 16, 2024 at 13:42
My thinking here is simple: we talk about science; we talk about art; sometimes we see scientific sensibilities conflicting violently with artistic se...
August 16, 2024 at 04:08
Regarding my thesis, going forward from what you wrote above entails assessing whether experimentation is modally existential, with the hows and whys ...
August 16, 2024 at 03:48
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August 16, 2024 at 03:38
You've been clear: science is science; art is art. Your definitions are clear: science observes and measures; art narrates living through love \leftri...
August 16, 2024 at 03:35
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August 16, 2024 at 03:24
Take for example the discovery that light waves bend around gravitational fields; that's an outcome predicted by Relativity. It's one of the end games...
August 16, 2024 at 03:14
Your clause fragment above puts on a good show for establishing the proximity of the arts and sciences, and yet, I wonder if you feel that a descripti...
August 16, 2024 at 03:04
Since science is done presumably only by humans, the authoritatively binary distinction you seek to establish between science and art reads like an ex...
August 16, 2024 at 02:33
I sense great depth of meaning in your sentence above. So far I cannot sound the deep waters here, beyond vaguely ruminating on the connections betwee...
August 16, 2024 at 02:25
What I've underlined is succinct and insightful. Bravo. It's a clear expression of a basic value guiding the scientific process. I know one of the bes...
August 16, 2024 at 02:06
Yes. The sciences and the humanities are each seriously concerned with both "what" and "how." Yes. The sciences and the humanities are not mutually ex...
August 15, 2024 at 22:40
philosophy -- the study of ideas about knowledge, truth, the nature and meaning of life, etc. --The Britannica Dictionary Do you agree that this defin...
August 11, 2024 at 00:09
Do you imply that Tarskian's definition is too narrow in scope to be considered philosophical?
August 10, 2024 at 23:24
What if you had written: (In fact, it would also be philosophically interesting to elaborate why exactly your example sentence is not philosophical.)?...
August 10, 2024 at 23:19
So, your behavior follows patterns exhibiting moral principles, thus you are your own moral authority. If I'm right about this, then you understand ot...
July 25, 2024 at 19:25
Are personal changes roughly equivalent to volitional decisions? You don't think personal cognition can evolve?
July 25, 2024 at 17:56
Not even your own? If you refuse to internalize moral principles you believe in and abide by, you're making yourself indistinguishable from a sociopat...
July 25, 2024 at 17:48
You seem to be an adherent of the law of the jungle: survival by any means possible. You think anarchy a companion to evolution? You think social welf...
July 25, 2024 at 15:32
Are you proposing sociology as a replacement for the moral authority of church and bible?
July 25, 2024 at 15:22
The fall of humanity into an inherently sinful nature had been a pretty good myth for checking human deceitfulness. In the wake of its obliteration by...
July 25, 2024 at 13:32
A strong institution with generally accepted moral authority that establishes the moral compass is what humanity has been losing since the Enlightenme...
July 25, 2024 at 13:22
Yes. If the president wants an official investigated, the investigation must be run through either the Congress or the Attorney General.
July 25, 2024 at 00:14
Preternatural mastery of gaslighting: massaging the Supreme Court into giving you cover for the insurrection that wasn't an insurrection. "Now ladies ...
July 25, 2024 at 00:05
Sound judgments about authenticity are tough calls to make during stormy times. Dug-in opponents succumbed to rage harden themselves against calls for...
July 24, 2024 at 23:57
Who says Christian family values aren't identity politics? The Office of the Special Counsel is bi-partisan and independent.
July 24, 2024 at 19:59
There is a sub-clause to this structure of upward mobility that complicates it somewhat. Tokenism. A few showcase individuals who work their way up fr...
July 24, 2024 at 19:24
Depends on how many of the military personnel defect to join your supposed Trump-led insurrection. Without significant numbers from the bona fide mili...
July 24, 2024 at 19:11
No doubt some unexplainable luck factors into the mix regarding the phenomenal success of any particular individual. History features mediocrity eleva...
July 24, 2024 at 03:51
Yes. The game requires astute governance of the masses by elite bosses who contain and appease the public by acting through popular representatives wh...
July 24, 2024 at 03:36
Excellent point. I think the exercise of power often pairs money with guns to form a potent duet. Puppet despots can be bribed, but the quelling of a ...
July 24, 2024 at 03:26
This is my understanding of the liberal/conservative divide. The masses at the bottom of the liberal group are (socio-economically) developing individ...
July 24, 2024 at 03:19
With some apprehension, I want to declare that in America, the sacred artifact is not the Holy Cross, but rather the loaded gun. Gadget-crazy material...
July 24, 2024 at 01:45
Okay. Let's look at my dialog with noAxiom once again: If find it useful to begin an exam of the writer's post by asking grammatical questions. That's...
July 02, 2024 at 15:52
Consider: a human individual navigates his way through the natural world. His perceiving mind processes the incoming data from his senses towards the ...
July 02, 2024 at 14:51
Is ‘object’ the antecedent of ‘it.’? Does “convention” equal “A way in which something is usually done in accordance with an established pattern.”? Ar...
July 01, 2024 at 18:31
How is my understanding of your quote a mis-reading of it?
June 29, 2024 at 00:55
language - a system of human communication rooted in variations in the form of a verb (inflection) by which users identify voice, mood, tense, number ...
June 28, 2024 at 15:17
Can a sentient being cognize a thing-in-itself without the mediation of language?
June 27, 2024 at 20:20
Are we outside the language game within the realm of Kant’s noumena?
June 27, 2024 at 10:51
Is this the premise you're examining?
June 26, 2024 at 16:46
If we work backwards one causal step: "where the gun is pointed," how do we know the gun doesn't know the combustion differential between the paper an...
June 25, 2024 at 16:08
You've just designed a gun that emits a destructive heat ray. Your IC board supports three settings for the temperature of the emitted heat ray. In or...
June 24, 2024 at 21:36
This clarification is very helpful. AGI can independently use its algorithms to teach itself routines not programmed into it? At the risk of simplific...
June 22, 2024 at 19:42
There's the issue of what you assume, and there's also the issue of what your language implies. Is metacognition limited to monitoring and control eve...
June 22, 2024 at 03:53
Given your use of the reflexive pronoun, I infer your assumption functional AGI will possess: consciousness, independence and self-interest. Given the...
June 21, 2024 at 22:29
"Bravo," to Enoah for starting a conversation about the uncontainability of art. I wanna add my two cents by talking about art as the "meta-experience...
June 01, 2024 at 13:42
Bob Ross' words speak for me as well. Since I see great value in the rules of order within American courtrooms, I want to deliver my closing argument ...
April 11, 2024 at 22:57
I read your response as a "yes" to my question. So, philosophy is to science as grammar is to humanities. There are ground rules for continuity and co...
April 10, 2024 at 13:57