TheMadFool

Lakatos' intention, as far as I can tell, is to make falsificationism soften its stance. His notion of science as a research program is falsfication-t...

Emotions are the reason that anything matters It appears to be a rather complicated issue, emotions and mattering but I find it helpful to distinguish...

The way I see it, existential empirical statements are of lower utility than universal empirical statements. More can be done with, say, knowing all m...

A few points to consider: 1. Fact is stranger than fiction (Many times, reality has outdone our wildest imaginations. This is as clear as crystal from...

Let's study this very carefully. There's "thinking", there's "Descartes", and then there's Descartes' "I" in "I think therefore, I am". To what does t...

Focus on the argument StreetlightX :smile: Descartes would've appreciated that (a lot).

I'm sorry to contradict you here but Descartes' self is the thinker but if thought waves are real, there's no thinking so we can forget about a thinke...

According to Plato, the human predicament, our greatest challenge, stems from our split personality so to speak - one one side we have the rational & ...

Here's the deal in my humble opinion. You ask this question for the simple reason that it's not possible to distinguish reality from a simulation. Erg...

This doesn't add up. A conspiracy theorist is vindicated precisely when the evidence that fae depends on and the conclusion that fae draws from it han...

You missed the point then. Did you get my eye analogy? :chin:

I came across that story too. It would've made my day if it were true. Unfortunately, it appears to be just one of those tall tales people spin to mak...

I'm working under the assumption that only one alternative will be correct and the Shannon's logic works perfectly well in that case. As for the possi...

I stand by what I said. I no longer believe as I did before that there are two parts to our personality viz. the emotional and the rational - this is ...

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:up: I remember starting a thread in the old forum which has now sadly become defunct about how questions could be reformulated as statements using th...

You can ignore my post. Thanks for bringing up the issue of ambiguity because it lies at the heart of Shannon's theory on information. Thanks. Have a ...

I wish I was a Daoist :sad: The emotional side doesn't have anything to say...Is someone there?

It just dawned on me that we're, as some have accused me of, self-delusional. As Agent Smith in The Matrix rightly pointed out, "there's no escaping r...

I've come to the realization that there are two sides to every person - an emotional half and a rational other half. These two don't get along and all...

To the extent that I'm aware, a lot of subjects, not just science, and including philosophy, have, for reasons that are obvious, developed their own s...

Sorry, but you seem to be contradicting yourself. Please go over your posts again. Are you implying we can cope with uncertainty? Uncertainty, ambigui...

A very good post by all standards - a fresh perspective to a vexing problem in this age of modern medicine :up: However, killing in self-defense is on...

What else could surprising/shocking mean? Also, what do you mean by "it has nothing to do with any supposed information within the message"? How would...

Then why is it surprising that it rained in the Sahara and not that it rained in Oxford? I admit that I'm not sure what the logic behind why the shock...

While not to discount the possibility that we don't see the world as it really is, I'm somewhat certain that you're making a mistake if your thesis de...

Everything about Buddhism boils down to suffering and how to escape it, not in some haphazard, ill-considered manner, like routed soldiers fleeing fro...

From my notes on Claude Shannon's Information Theory as contained in Richard Dawkins' book The Devil's Chaplain Message = Information + Redundancy + N...

Let's frame this problem in the right context, Leibniz's principles concerning identity. 1. Indiscernibility of Identicals: The less controversial pri...

Precisely. You don't argue and prove a definition but you need to for a proposition. Stock markets and the Brooklyn bridge are definitions.

Merry Xmas to you to!

Really, definitions can't be true/false. They're either good or bad depending on how well one adheres to the criteria of a good definition.

:up: Not to contradict you but definitions can't be true/false.

The a priori and a posteriori distinction is irrelevant to my point because whether it's either, the matter boils down to a proposition and its truth ...

Merry Christmas to you too, TruthSeeker. You raised an important concern regarding my little excursion into epistemology which, I feel, also applies t...

@"Metaphysician Undercover" :up: G'day

Thanks for the info. How does what you said and the fourfold indeterminacy of Pyrrhonism and Nagarjuna's tetralemma hang together? There are only 4 po...

I can see where you're coming from. The fact of the matter is that Dualism implies and is implied by The Hard Problem Of Consciousness. It's, in logic...

Well, for sure, we see eye to eye on what the Buddha's position was/is - neither is nor is not is the Madhyamaka mantra. The question that remains una...

Symbolic logic, as the name suggests, has to do with symbols and their manipulation and that's probably the aspect of logic you're not familiar with. ...

The logico-epistemological format of this sentence which you employ often, almost all the time, is intriguing to say the least. You said, "this is not...

Incels, from what I read in Wikipedia, are just a bunch of people trying to cope with what seems to be social isolation in general and sexual deprivat...

It doesn't matter if you didn't understand the question. I get synonyms but information, last I checked, isn't synonymous with causality. They're trea...

Nothing to add/subtract although the most pressing concern regarding information being sought, given the teleological slant of many of our predecessor...

Here's another angle to information. In information space there are six dimensions: 1. What? 2. Where? 3. When? 4. Who? 5. Which? 6. How? 7. Why? Each...

Yes, I agree with you. To the extent that I'm aware, this comes from my acquaintance with detective work, the effect contains telltale signs of the ca...

Let's add one more to the list of occasions when the laws are silent shall we? . Reminds me of the time when I was working on something. Halfway throu...

Thanks for your input but the question is, if we're trying to come up with a model of the world, what model fits the bill, comes up with the goods so ...

Firstly, relevant here is the notion of a completed infinity. The infinite possible thoughts must all at once be held in consciousness i.e. we've to b...

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