Because of... Infinite tasks or the correct terminology being supertasks. As you already know, super tasks, to be effective paradoxes and thus become ...
Ok. Let's study this problem together. Your claim: Time can't be infinite because of infinite regress. Your reason: If time is infinite than we have a...
Looks like we've to switch places here. Art-fictions are untruths that we know are false and although there may be a few out there who want to pass of...
Yes, but there has to be a practical implication, an infinite task, that creates the difficulty. In fact all paradoxes of infinity boils down to showi...
How many natural numbers are there? Infinite yes? Is that a problem? No. Why? Because it doesn't lead to an infinite task. How many points are there o...
No. An infinite regress, as I understand it, refers to the specific problem of an infinite task being impossible to complete. Infinity is the conditio...
Are we discussing simultaneity here? Consider the following Imagine a person B located equidistant from two light bulbs 1 and 2 and a third person loc...
My bad. Sorry. I wasn't clear enough. Infinite space does lead to an infinite regress but that isn't a problem. People don't usually introduce infinit...
I think Kant would've said all lying is impermissible. @"180 Proof" seems to have tinkered with the defintion of a "lie" to exclude untruths that have...
:rofl: 1. If you want to make a clock then there must be something that changes 2. If there's something that changes then there's something Ergo 3. If...
Thanks for the link. When I said that people don't find it difficult to conceive space as infinite I mean that it doesn't lead to an infinite regress ...
Ok. Firstly, if you're going to use the lack/absence of causality in the quantum world to attack scientific "knowledge" which is, as you presume, abou...
Perhaps causality is restricted to the macro, human-and-larger scale world but I did hear the physicist Lawrence Kraus make a statement to the effect ...
Oh! Thanks for the clarification. This isn't about euthanasia as I supposed. All I know is love is invariably associated with what maybe called high e...
It seems to me that what you call "primal words" aren't hard to define as you put it but rather they're the simplest of words, their meanings graspabl...
A situation that's a reminder for us all that we need to make our choice under such circumstances known beforehand to save your loved ones, if you hav...
I think there's a conflation between intelligence and immorality here. Intelligence doesn't lead to immorality. In fact, it seems philosophy has its o...
Thanks for reminding me. All I wanted to do was prove that time is non-spatial, despite its measurement being so and that time isn't some kind a speci...
I've given it some thought and... Motion is a very fundamental phenomenon. In fact every object in the universe is in motion relative to at least one ...
:ok: My argument boils down to self-justification - the circularity that pops up whenever we attempt to justify logic. I've been using "logic" in a lo...
Agreed. Yeah. I remember starting a thread titled "The fallacy of logic" on this issue, pointing out that logic itself is unproven as to its ability t...
Perhaps the word "authority" has negative connotations that skew your judgment. In line with your God-as-parent analogy, children don't actually mind ...
I feel sad when we badmouth God. Richard Dawkins "bested" us all in that department in The God Delusion: I feel sad because: 1. IF he exists, he's not...
Yes and makes us wonder if we're mistaking one for the other in every possible way which I think can happen in only 2 ways and what a coincidence that...
Religion reminds me of the satire comedy movie The Dictator where the main protagonist Admiral-General Haffaz Aladeen passes a decree that changes bot...
"Prediction" seems a wrong concept to apply to language. I thought that was an astrologer's domain. Language is about information isn't it and while t...
There's enough elbow room in convergent evolution to make inter-species communication impossible and in fact there have been no recorded cases of such...
Well, to my knowledge logic excludes only one possibility - a contradiction. I've heard of paraconsistent logic but I think it simply toys with the co...
If I understand correctly then your "mirroring" argument depends on the multitude of ways information may be transmitted through any given medium of c...
Perhaps of some relevance is our ability to "understand" animals. I don't know how much we've progressed in the the field of animal communication but ...
The problem of induction and Popper's falsifiability anticipated. I don't know if it works for deductive logic though. The square root of 2 was irrati...
Like all things, empathy requires a good environment to birth. For instance a person must not be too exhausted, emotionally, physically, or mentally. ...
I appreciate the spirit of hedonism. It is truly one of the greatest of philosophies, cutting through the befuddling fog and gets right to the point o...
It seems there's a big difference between hedonism, the philosophy, and a hedonistic lifestyle. The philosophy of hedonism is one of the most candid a...
Great point. However, notice that relativeness as applies here isn't the concept itself which is universal but to objects being compared to each other...
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