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We are omnivores by nature. Oddly, we lack the equipment like fangs, claws, brute strength but our appendix is a vestigial organ. The only explanation...
January 10, 2020 at 01:06
Using truth tables we can evaluate any logical statement, including the Curry statement. What do you mean by "simultaneously"? Some propositions are t...
January 10, 2020 at 00:18
I'm not certain whether we have free will or not but if god is, as the religious claim, about morality then it seems necessary that he grant it to us....
January 09, 2020 at 23:59
Firstly, there definitely is a requirement that something stay constant to serve as a record-keeper to monitor change and thus allow us to recognize i...
January 09, 2020 at 23:31
Thanks. Anyway, to get back to where I digressed, I don't think there are such things as defective souls. Are you suggesting that some are just born b...
January 09, 2020 at 22:33
Don't get me started on scapegoats. I'm not surprised that the only facial hair that suits me is a goatee. I wouldn't do that. Poor guy. He's taking a...
January 09, 2020 at 21:31
First, duality. Why is it that the concept of duality has emerged in both Eastern and Western thought? Daoism has yin-yang, Buddhism has the middle-pa...
January 09, 2020 at 21:24
0 = -x + x. Dualistic thinking. Delete nonsense (mine, not yours)
January 09, 2020 at 08:22
Truth tables can be used to explore all possibilities.
January 09, 2020 at 03:59
Ok :chin: If we can prove any P2 then it has to be a paradox, right?
January 09, 2020 at 03:58
How would you evaluate a conditional sentence in a way different to the way I did the Curry's sentence?
January 09, 2020 at 03:56
It's a very convenient setup (for god). All the good there is in the world is part of god's plan and all the bad that there is is our fault inspite of...
January 09, 2020 at 03:49
The sentence can be either true or false. If it's false then it's antecedent is false and that means the entire sentence evaluates to true. If it is t...
January 08, 2020 at 03:39
I think we need to really consider the matter of prophecies, especially their fulfillment, very seriously. If a given prophecy, be it christianity or ...
January 08, 2020 at 03:15
:up: :ok:
January 08, 2020 at 02:57
Perhaps you'd like to hear it straight from the horse's mouth...Curry's paradox
January 08, 2020 at 02:09
I haven't read many books so you might want to take this with a pinch of salt. All books on human history has one word that is, for certain, common am...
January 08, 2020 at 01:24
:100: Amazing :up:
January 08, 2020 at 00:53
There's a paradox here. Set aside all the politics that has now suffused the middle-east with people dying on both sides of the dividing line and cons...
January 08, 2020 at 00:51
Well, I humbly beg to disagree. Paradoxes usually aren't trivial since they indicate something unsolvable or unexpected; paradoxes reveal either error...
January 08, 2020 at 00:12
That's wonderful. Negating the double negation. I tell you, there's something very liberating about negation.
January 08, 2020 at 00:06
Agreed, using the implication equivalence. However this doesn't refute the argument because... ~P1 v P2 := P1. Assuming P1 means ~~P1. and so we get P...
January 07, 2020 at 23:11
Sound advice if you ask me. BTW I just realized the image you posted is double negation - rejecting or negating all the nos on ths sign - which comes ...
January 07, 2020 at 22:55
:smile:
January 07, 2020 at 21:39
I agree. Got carried away a bit there. Yet, there must be something truly special about being able to negate, reject, deny, say "no" to something as p...
January 07, 2020 at 20:24
If you go by the lexical definition then art is intimately linked to beauty/aesthetics. There are many art forms but they must all be aesthetically en...
January 07, 2020 at 20:18
Curry's paradox begins as an assumption of the equivalence between the sentence P1: if this sentence is true then P2 which in logic is the following: ...
January 07, 2020 at 16:54
Please ignore my last post. I misspoke. Sorry for the trouble.
January 07, 2020 at 16:47
I did mention in a clear unambiguous way that negation taken as rejection involves a serious risk to life and limb if we ever reach a point where we r...
January 07, 2020 at 16:45
Negation, in its broadest, most magnificent form, is simply the act of rejection. Negation is to reject, to disagree, to say "no", and given that to a...
January 07, 2020 at 15:17
Incorrect because if it did mean that the world would be much better than it is and it isn't. You do the math...
January 07, 2020 at 14:48
Reduction but not elimination, to a non-zero value. Exactly what I meant.
January 07, 2020 at 14:42
Where is the contradiction?
January 07, 2020 at 14:40
I disagree with your claim that if hedonism is true, morality is meaningless. Let's begin with religions; humanity's earliest experiment with morality...
January 07, 2020 at 10:26
It seems the good you're concerned about doesn't have anything to do with morality. You describe the good as a fulfillment. Nevertheless, the moral go...
January 07, 2020 at 08:00
A variable that stands for what is being considered.
January 06, 2020 at 21:42
Well, the videos I posted suggests that happiness and goodness aren't the same thing. This, in my humble opinion, is what's been, is and will be human...
January 06, 2020 at 21:35
https://youtu.be/iNkrF43SZEU https://youtu.be/-v6mBz-3XC8
January 06, 2020 at 21:17
:up: :ok:
January 06, 2020 at 06:46
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus#/media/File:Motor_homunculus.svg Why can't I post images?
January 06, 2020 at 05:56
In my humble opinion near-perfect simulation is already a reality. Cortical Homunculus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus#/media/File...
January 06, 2020 at 05:49
Great advice! I hope somebody with 6 degrees of separation from the members on this forum is a bigwig politician, oil tycoon or car manufacturer.
January 06, 2020 at 05:13
:up: :ok:
January 06, 2020 at 05:03
:up: :smile: Don't believe me.
January 06, 2020 at 04:43
What about space? Is space finite? What is there outside of space? Nothing/something. The former is space and the latter requires space.
January 06, 2020 at 04:35
Give me an example where it does make sense.
January 05, 2020 at 22:17
Just check the math. In the 1st step the 1st ball is removed but there are more than 1 ball. In the 2nd step the 2nd ball is removed but there are mor...
January 05, 2020 at 21:27
step 1, 9 balls numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 step 2, 18 balls numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 step n, ...
January 05, 2020 at 19:48
Linguistic turn? Perhaps I misunderstood. Sorry. Well reminds me of driving. When traffic is flowing smoothly we're completely unconscious of the act ...
January 05, 2020 at 19:07
Did you notice what is common to all the "problems" you listed? HUMANS!!!
January 05, 2020 at 18:40