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Concept - an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances. With our definition of concept (Webster’s), we have the same relationship...

My point is that number-signs, fundamentally distinct from physical number, are concepts only after they’re been cognitively_mnemonically linked to th...

Terrence W. Deacon, in his book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, does important work towards a physicalist explanation of the mind as ...

Apparently without intending to, you state my premise exactly. Here you are expressing my premise again with a more complex model. Music, a complex in...

Your questions are good. They point to my main point in all of my jabbering: number-signs (which are not number, the physical property) attach themsel...

Your best friend sings tenor in the church choir. His buddies call him “Golden Pipes.” The women call him “Boy Wonder.” He serenades the sighing of lu...

I got a little carried away with my vernacular. With the above salutation I’m praising what you posted. Your supposition about differentiation points ...

How are “essential” and “fundamental” distinct? Webster’s Thesaurus lists each word in the other’s list of synonyms. I wonder if you, when talking of ...

Your post is interesting. Let me clarify: that math covers more than the simple physical I don’t deny. Math, like other abstractions represented by si...

Thanks for weighing in. I hope you’ll keep doing so. :up:

Methodological, the adjective that attaches to physicalism, tells us your brand of physicalism gets practiced via model making, model evaluating and d...

Since your question asks about the “object” you can’t count, a word single in number, haven’t you already counted it?

It just preserves from one pair to another pair what the eyes perceive. Number signs, in order to be assigned meaning, must first be referenced to som...

You have a three-year-old. You ask him to go to the big fruit bowl on the table across the room and get you two apples and two oranges. You don’t ask ...

Einstein took Kant’s essentially unmanageable space and time verities of cognition and said, in effect, “No.” Spacetime works its ass off in the every...

Your definition, being correct, improves my post. For clarity, let me ask about a particular detail. If one models the universe as beginning-less, and...

Hear ye, hear, ye! All y’all students come to order! Professor universeness is in the house! So listen up. Some foundations ‘bout to get laid.

If none of these numbers are there, then how do you assign the number-signs to what you see? If you’re a brain in a vat, how do you find meaning in ar...

I beg your pardon for my digression into crude raillery. I’m crediting jgill with being an exception to the practice of mathematicians giving the blin...

If we can agree that the toddler sees a difference between one lollipop and two lollipops, then we know this person understands magnitude as something...

The exercise of reason is sometimes a transitive verb, meaning it has intentions about acting upon and affecting some object of its attention. If that...

Name a material object with any of the following: length, weight, form or color that you can’t count. If you find all such material objects are counta...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14901/numbers-a-physical-handshake-with-design/p1 Can the starting point be localized to, say, the post-Big ...

You’re welcome to continue weighing into this conversation on the physicalist side, if that position isn’t also averse to your inclinations. Hoping yo...

Excellent example of the natural world practicing physical number for counting! What person in the village thinks two trees or four trees have fallen ...

Ever seen a toddler who, knowing next to nothing about numbers in their head, fails to distinguish one offered lollipop from two offered lollipops?

Your premise presupposes what it seeks to contradict. Don’t take my word for; take your own words for it. Re-examine your closing sentence.

What does it come from? If you say reasoning about reasoning about the world, that lands it in higher-order reasoning about the world. Now, I challeng...

And thus you are a dearly valuable exception to the rank and file establishment.

So, you detest materialism? Post herein a picture of your right index finger after you’ve chopped it off.

Thank-you for your time, attention and commentary. Its not easy to get them from authentic experts. I like having the attention of important people. W...

Percept + concept = complex materialism. As with complex numbers, there is a real part and another type of part. In the case of materialism, the other...

:up: Speak! Without antecedent, existential fact, science and math can’t even get started.

Quantum computing has something contrary to say about the last part of your claim. If mind emerges from brain, then no brain, no mind. Yes, mind is in...

Suppose the Riemann hypothesis finds its solution in pure math. So, pure math establishes that all primes calculable by the zeta function locate thems...

Suppose the Riemann hypothesis finds its solution in pure math. There it’s established all primes calculable by the zeta function locate themselves on...

If this is something you cannot know, then your argument above has no grounding in fact and therefore no logically attainable truth content, only blin...

Pattern-making in total abstraction from physical reference, beyond convention established by precedent, tells you what?

So, pure math includes relationships without reference to physical things inhabiting the natural world. This is an intriguing argument for idealism. W...

Assuming you possess proper vision, have you ever been unable to distinguish five oranges from two oranges? Physical: anything subject to the spacetim...

You say number stands apart from apples and oranges . When we look at number five apart from them, we know nothing about their number. How do you know...

Why do you line out “an arbitrary starting point for a sequential process”? A starting point not logically necessary = a starting point arbitrary. Agr...

You’re citing the sign/referent relationship?

The idea here is that with any and all experiences of sentient existence, the sentient being must make a start, i.e., embark upon their personal histo...

This is a continuation of the first part of my OP. Conclusion: number-as-property, being essential and physically real, and being tied inextricably to...

Is this a correct paraphrase of your response to Philosophim’s thesis: spacetime, an unbounded, finite, beginning-less phenomenon, requires an arbitra...

This story gets off to a loud-banging, bell-ringing good start. The climax of the good, opening start is on the London station platform, when the prot...

In order to give coherence to the proffered parts, I took recourse to thinking of this being the story of two cyborgs forced into a mind-meld experime...

It hovers along the cusp of noir and sci-fi, and that’s a potent mashup. The use of the verb here is beautifully visual and current. Our situation has...