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Ooooo... makes good wine!
November 05, 2024 at 23:50
Oh, either/or. I'm not picky. It's the Epicure in me.
November 05, 2024 at 23:47
Only if it pays in both carrots and tomatoes and turnips.
November 05, 2024 at 23:46
Well, it's not the first time, it won't be the second time...
November 05, 2024 at 23:42
Hey, that's my job! :D
November 05, 2024 at 23:38
yeah it seems hard to emphasize the parenthetical points if we only typed it out in lowercase without punctuation.
November 05, 2024 at 23:31
Heh I wouldn't be surprised if I made a few mistakes. I did write it out while following the symbols though :D -- but I take your point that it's not ...
November 05, 2024 at 23:28
For all x there exists a y for all z such that if P is a property of x and there exists a u such that -- Q is a property of y or u is a property of R ...
November 05, 2024 at 23:23
...though part of my interest here is also in how it seems plausible that sound would effect things in a strictly physical analysis, and if you replic...
November 05, 2024 at 23:10
Keep 'em coming. I like to be corrected -- it helps me learn. Alot of this is fuzzy in my head so I'm all ears -- formal training was an eternity ago,...
November 05, 2024 at 21:58
Oh, nitpick away. I don't pretend to have a mastery here -- just an interested person who doesn't mind being corrected.
November 05, 2024 at 18:36
I know that's a kind of fearful use of this technology -- but it strikes me as something like Jurassic Park: Very interesting extrapolation of the sci...
November 05, 2024 at 18:10
So "P ? Q" can be read as "P is contained within Q", and it makes sense of material implication because P can be empty set, which is a member of every...
November 05, 2024 at 17:38
I flip these values accidentally in my mind all the time. I could just be confusing myself. When stating it in terms of probability space my thought i...
November 05, 2024 at 14:46
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01335-8 Well that's neat.
November 05, 2024 at 14:40
Yes that's very helpful, thanks. I was getting lost in the idea of a probability space and how that relates to "contains in", but the visualization ma...
November 05, 2024 at 07:38
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix53-rmS7Dj8GDYczwgeFaEsH1AuPgsA-AeN7HCEpzQZwvOaSfe-ky6-sQ57XBwejjeMl1iLaCyTannv948tVK02RFGIpoAUVZBj...
November 04, 2024 at 23:21
Thanks :). This is a meaty post. Almost too much for me :D -- one thing that's interesting is your reduction of material implication to set theory. I'...
November 04, 2024 at 23:02
I remember enjoying it -- it's something of a lament and criticism of disenchantment as the one true knowledge. The plant studies stuck with me as an ...
November 04, 2024 at 22:10
Fair enough. I agree it doesn't fit the form -- people don't actually say the implication, it's only equivalent to the implication (but so are so many...
November 04, 2024 at 13:11
True. The one time he did we all know it's because his wife grilled him the night before and he felt guilty but ever since the divorce it's been same ...
November 04, 2024 at 00:07
A = "George is going to open the store tomorrow" So, by substitution: George is going to open the store tomorrow implies George is not going to open t...
November 03, 2024 at 23:46
A thought I have is sarcasm, but in the context of asserting a falsehood mistakenly. So I can sarcastically say "George is going to open the store tom...
November 03, 2024 at 23:17
If dialethism is true then pluralism is true. Dialethism is true as it resolves the liar's paradox in a clear, non-vacuous way. Therefore, pluralism i...
November 03, 2024 at 07:04
Heh. Well, I'd expect that from you :D -- I'm not sure that the differences between them are at the level of "of course" for the participants here. I ...
November 03, 2024 at 01:20
I want to attack the notion that this idea is an evolutionary adaptation. All species develop coping mechanisms, from viruses to us. Some of the speci...
November 03, 2024 at 00:59
:rofl:
November 02, 2024 at 15:27
While others may have done so, in this thread that's been me aping Priest. The idea is to point out a difference between LNC and LEM, as well as to pr...
November 01, 2024 at 22:43
I'm fine with another rendition other than "laws" -- that's just usually the word that comes up. I don't think they are literal laws though, not even ...
November 01, 2024 at 20:16
That's a question I ought take up, given I'm defending pluralism and poo-poo-ing the idea of correct logics, at all. Nihilism states there's no logica...
November 01, 2024 at 01:26
There's a memoir I read which talked about the effects of music on plants that I wish I remembered the name of. It wasn't the only thing in the memoir...
October 31, 2024 at 23:49
Though not to be rude I'm still looking for good points of response @"Count Timothy von Icarus", but rather in bits to see if we can stall the sprawl ...
October 30, 2024 at 23:23
Oh, certainly. Fair enough.
October 30, 2024 at 23:13
Now that's when we're doing philosophy! :D
October 30, 2024 at 23:09
If the liar's sentence is true then the liar's sentence is false. If the liar's sentence is false then the liar's sentence is true. The law of exclude...
October 30, 2024 at 23:09
These work just fine by me which indicates we're just talking past one another. What say you to 's proposal? Does it seem to sidestep something import...
October 30, 2024 at 22:53
I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say "correct" in describing a logic. What would it possibly mean for a logic to be correct in a non-question begging ...
October 30, 2024 at 17:29
I set out the meaning of the liar's here:
October 29, 2024 at 21:14
What I said was It's the object that's different which changes the meaning of "...is false", which is why these examples don't work. Since the liar's ...
October 29, 2024 at 21:06
Reality is what's interesting here -- what I don't want to do is define reality within my logic, though. And I don't think that logic needs to restric...
October 28, 2024 at 21:02
Muy bien mi amigo.
October 27, 2024 at 17:47
I believe you've misunderstood, or I've not explained myself clearly. Wherever the fault lies doesn't matter to me. My thinking is that the mind is no...
October 25, 2024 at 21:33
:heart: :nerd: I hope to do so :).
October 25, 2024 at 21:29
Naw. "Mind" and "Identity" are different. For instance if I'm looking for some keys then my mind is occupied with keys, but I am not the keys.
October 25, 2024 at 21:28
I wish I could tell you the "because", so I'm sorry for piquing your curiosity here without having an answer. I'm still interested in the problem of c...
October 25, 2024 at 21:25
What's evidence to you? That's probably where disagreement lies, by my guess. The evidence I'd point to with respect to the mind being a part of the b...
October 25, 2024 at 21:20
I can say, with certainty, that the Moliere posting on the old TPF is not the same person as the new TPF, but at the same time is the same person as t...
October 25, 2024 at 21:12
Taking this one up in favor of the OP: If we invented a Transporter in the way Star Trek seems to indicate I would not enter it. It's science fiction ...
October 25, 2024 at 20:32
I mean I have a type of thinking I keep going back to and it's often labeled as Blasphemy :D
October 25, 2024 at 20:26
I, for one, do not trust math. We may be immortal for all that. (EDIT: And it looks like a cool book that I'd enjoy reading)
October 25, 2024 at 20:16