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What is nature? What can its fundamental forces be? Are there limits on our human ability to answer these questions? I'm proceeding with the assumptio...

Well said. Every language writes a narrative. Math and logic, like the verbal forms, are languages with stories to tell.

Both senses hover close to what I'm trying to say. The symbols are always only partially understood; if they're completely understood, they're signs, ...

If you're speculating about the scientific imagination being unable to expand forward without merging into the metaphysics of philosophy, then I find ...

We're not satisfied with appearances, and what lies beyond the imagination of protein-based sentience cannot appear dynamically to our imaginations. S...

My point is that the human can think what the brain has the capacity to think, and not beyond that point. That's a limit far short of being able to th...

Your philology and classification of philosophy show promise. I think you should continue as you've been going, with a mind towards detailed elaborati...

As the medium is limited, so is the meaning supported by that medium. If abstract thought is connected to the brain, then the limitations inherent in ...

The scope of science includes more that nature? The scope of nature includes more than material things and their attendant physics? As the medium is l...

Are you answering "yes" to the question:

Consider the pertinence of the following: a philosopher arrives at some logically valid statements about the potential of the reasoning mind: it can w...

You refer to a frequent problem of language. Materialism within science circles means matter is the basis for all of existence; there is no immaterial...

So, it appears that you, like me, see the two disciplines connected within a bi-conditional relationship.

We're on the same page here. I smile upon scientists who do in-house philosophizing about the meaning of one type of procedure versus another type. Ho...

Do you think it's also true when we switch the position of the two disciplines in the above statement? This statement is interesting in a suggestive w...

Yes. This activity needs to be occurring steadily, and it is. Complicated processes need regular oversight with regard to methodology. Maybe it's a st...

Interesting elaboration of certain practices likely going on quietly within science circles. Thanks for turning on this light.

Can the philosopher nowadays be taken seriously as a science generalist? This label is meant to parallel the general practitioner of medicine, a docto...

Some scientists are very firm on a big difference between the two fields: Richard Feynmann. Must they wax philosophical when they describe the differe...

If philosophy of science has no practical application, what value do philosophers find within it?

This is how I first thought to word my question. If there's only a narrow separation between materialism and physics, does this suggest a reason why p...

If the underlined above are your essential focal points for this conversation, I'm struggling to see why it isn't chiefly a scientific inquiry within ...

You say language reaches its limit dealing with empirical experience. Can you elaborate on "dealing with"? For example, "Dealing with" means perceives...

Are you steeped in linguistic philosophy? Do you think language is inherently limited in its ability to characterize empirical experience truthfully a...

I'm interested in learning how and why "A set of all sets" is not reasonable. Are you referring to the ZFC restriction of the comprehension axiom and ...

Let me correct myself. When I posed my question to you and tim wood, I was understanding tim wood to be questioning generally about the relationship b...

So, why are you two posting here? I don't suppose you refute the notion written narratives have no relationship to material things. Do you? 180 Proof,...

Gnomon is asking what title should be affixed to this conversation.

Did you commit a typo? Perhaps you were intending to write: space-time? And now, before the next round of beer and peanuts, a title pitch from the chr...

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I acknowledge that of the two of us, Bob Ross has a deeper grounding within sentential logic. You've been extraordinarily generous with your time, ene...

I’m arguing that nothingness cannot support an intersection with somethingness. I’m choosing my words carefully because I’m not saying nothingness can...

Hello Bob Ross, I come to you asking a favor. Can you examine my argument below and tell me if it contains any fatal flaws? One wants to claim the nul...

When a probability is calculated, either the computed probability is right or wrong. So, there's no guesswork involved in computing a probability equa...

My point is that an equation that computes to either infinity or undefined does not represent: "Every causal chain inevitably arrives at a first cause...

Statistical probability is a math-based science. Calculating probabilities is not educated guesswork. Either the math is correct or it isn't. Uncertai...

It's your citation. Find it yourself. No. Can you cite a math equation that... (see the underlined above) Your premise -- Nor has its faulty logical s...

Are you talking about constraints that empower precision of measurement: "our capability to measure or observe," or constraints that limit precision o...

ucarr_180 Proof We're looking at a metaphysical binary structure for existence, and thus everything conceivable is metaphysically constrained to a fun...

You are counting back to a start point: Logic is the soul of your argument; logic is continuity; many times have you written, in your own words, for e...

If existence is eternal, you're metaphysically constraining existence to a binary structure of "to be" or "not to be." Do you feel completely comforta...

Is true randomness a phenomenon; is inception of first cause an event? These questions are meant to suggest how all things -- including true randomnes...

What if I characterize nothingness as undefined somethingness, and represent it as 1/0, with no-beginning zero = potential matter-energy-motion-space-...

My goal is to nuance the following premise: “Logically, an infinite causal chain cannot exist that does not inevitably arrive at a first cause." I wil...

So, A?C. Okay, you've shown me the transitive property via implication. No dispute from me, but the transitive property by implication is not what I'm...

For an explanation supporting the reality of causation, I'm inclined to cite the second law of conservation: matter and energy are neither created nor...

My first impulse is to deem your non-response a blatant evasion. Could it be you have nothing to say about a first cause and its followers? Let me exa...

Perhaps Gnomon can elaborate so rules of inference governing formal proofs not yet satisfied by reasoning about causation. Regarding causal chains, yo...

What I remember pertinent to first causes within the context of causality is that after inception, a first cause is henceforth subject to the laws of ...

I haven't forgotten you telling me after inception the causal chain develops within the everyday world as we know it. Since both of your equations eva...