TheMadFool

Thanks. :up: Do you have any idea how we ever calculate irrational numbers? I mean, it's a given that they have a decimal expansion e.g pi = 3.14159.....

:chin: "The state of being unconditional is itself a condition". How would you translate this statement?

I'm saying it doesn't matter whether we elect Pop Idols, Super Models, or Action Stars or not. They're either as bad as or as good as any possible goo...

I agree but isn't there a need to separate the object of interest from the rest of phenomena and doesn't that require one to assign a label to the col...

@"alcontali" Do you have any idea why numbers like sqrt(2), pi, e, were given the name irrational? Is it because they can't be expressed as a ratio wi...

Well, this is paradoxical: you should like good leaders since a good leader, by definition, is one who's dedicated to your welfare and that's a primar...

https://youtu.be/cCX5JJwkZhU It seems, kind sir/madam, that according to your most valuable post on the Dunning-Kruger effect all of us are under the ...

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Who do you go to when you get sick? Oh, I see. There are many obstacles between those who seek expertise and those who possess expertise, one of them ...

This loops back to what I said about requiring qualified experts for any and all jobs. I mean governing a state or a country isn't something an unskil...

:clap: :clap: :victory: Wow! You have a book!! I have doodles on scraps of paper. :sad:

I guess the problem runs deeper than it appears at first glance. What of the idea of a true leader? Have you ever encountered anyone that fits the des...

What is coping to you? What have you discovered about the truth of the matter so far?

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Even if purported cause and effect exist in the same frame of reference? Spatial contiguity if not temporal proximity.

What you say makes sense. A lot of what goes in soldier training programs would surely qualify as abuse for the civilian population. To shield people ...

Read below: Perhaps part of tackling abuse is to prevent it. A post-abuse treatment seems one step too late for it makes a illness of "normal" reactio...

I see. Fantastic. So, while pain is a natural part of life, we have the option of how we face/deal with it that may prevent suffering. What would thes...

What do you mean by that? How does zero contain information?

Thoughts may not require a thinker just as lightwaves don't require a medium.

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What is the difference between pain and suffering? What do you mean by abuse? Does abuse cause pain or does it cause suffering?

I haven't read a lot of philosophy to be able to comment but if allow me a guess I think philosophers would lean to the left but I heard Nietzsche, an...

Space.

What to do you mean by mine/hijack our mind? The purpose of information is...

What about sleep and the time before you were born? Non-being? Of course you couldn't experience non-being directly for that would be a contradiction ...

Do you see abuse as inevitable that you must ask about fragility and resilience to abuse? I mean isn't abuse itself preventable? Why create a problem ...

I'm curious to know if there's anything in philosophy that has an effect on the left/right leanings of philosophers. Personally, being left or right w...

How does that make the necessary-contingent distinction undesirable?

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Just a thought and the connection to the topic title is the possibility of an object/objects that could be at rest relative to everything else in the ...

As "proof" I refer you to the ubiquitous nature of paradise-hell concept in all cultures. Disregarding minor religions like nature worship, the domina...

Thank you for your reply. What about light? No matter who the observer, where the observer, relative velocity with light is always 186,000 mph. Isn't ...

Correct. Thanks for pointing that out. Motion is always relative. What I meant to ask was if there exists an object that's at rest relative to everyth...

What are these "premises" that one may not like?

How so? I'm not quite clear on the matter. Heaven is advertised as a place of perpetual bliss but I wonder if that's the truth or a misunderstanding o...

Did you consider the notions of hell and heaven? Both exist as concepts of worst and best case scenarios. That these concepts exist suggests to me tha...

Under what conditions do propositions deserve our convictions or our doubts?

I may be guilty of reading too much into it but there is a sense in which infinity defies quantification, at least one aspect of it and that's the dif...

:lol: If you find it difficult to believe try physicist George Gamow's book, One, Two, Three,...,Infinity which was published in 1947.

It's just an opinion. I'm not claiming this is a mainstream view on the issue. It just seemed right to look at infinity as a quality, being uncountabl...

I've always been confused about this claim that infinity is not a number but is a concept. A number is a concept too isn't it? I guess if we look at i...

I think science supports the belief that this is the best of all possible worlds. Think of the teleological argument in its new form, intelligent desi...

It's impossible for a necessary truth to be false but it's possible for contingent truths to be false. What do you think "possible/impossible" means?

I'm just shooting in the dark here but to me the difference between hard solipsism and solipsism is that the former claims that is certain that other ...

That's what I thought but n/(-/+infinity) approaches 0 as a limit which I don't think does justice to equality (=). Although I must say that Zeno's pa...

How?

I wish life was that simple. To deny or negate a proposition that's a necessary truth will lead to a contradiction in all possible worlds. A contingen...

I'm not saying we can't imagine and invent our own theories about god's world but if you factor in god being immaterial, there is no necessity for a w...