TheMadFool

Thanks for your views. All of the past nor all of the future is, as you put it, faleshood. I mean the past is a learning opportunity and the future is...

I wanted to start a new thread but @"StreetlightX" will surely merge it with your thread. So, here's a simple proof that humans can understand everyth...

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Can you name one unjustified truth?

I guess we see this all the time and everywhere - protectors morphing into oppressors - and the reason is simple: To be able to protect one needs powe...

There's a certain feature of this topic that interests me - that the more we become aware of our emotions, their origins and consequences, the more we...

What do you think of my reply to Gnostic Christian Bishop?

Sorry. Thanks. You say that if a claim doesn't have a counterexample it can be taken as proof. That's the fallacy of the argument from ignorance. Ther...

Do you think justification is necessary for truth?

Can you read my reply to altetheist above regarding the difference between justification and proof? Thanks

You mentioned something that I've been thinking about - that justification, by itself, doesn't guarantee truth. A justification gives us a reason to b...

Are you contradicting yourself? You say "Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability" then claim that "Without us doing some of b...

:up: Is there a difference between knowing what hate is and feeling hate? Maybe I was being analytical about something so instinctual. Yet wasn't it S...

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aletheist claims that proofs are sufficient but not necessary for truth. god must be atheist claims that that truth can be based on the absence of cou...

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What is justification if not proof? Why do we need justification if not to establish truth?

Thank you. I think we're both right. A given proof is a sufficient condition to establish truth AND it's necessary too. I'm concerned about the latter...

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Your question, asking for proof without which you won't be satisfied, is proof that claims necessarily require proof.

The POE is real enough to discourage/disabuse people from belief in god. It's quite odd actually why this is the case. The reason it's odd/madness, de...

I'll have to delve deeper to understand Godel. Thanks for good advice :rofl:

Ok. I think wikipedia may have some errors. That's a big accusation but consider the following 1. Proof implies truth You agree on that (proof as a su...

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I watched a video on Godel's theorem. A very simple argument and I think you're on the right track with your explanation. Basically, every new theorem...

You mean it's possible to create an axiomatic system that is complete and consistent as long as it doesn't involve arithmetic? Do you know why this is...

:up: I wasn't excluding reductio ad absurdum as a method of proof. I'm questioning what appears paradoxical to me in Godel's Incompleteness Theorems v...

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Thanks a lot. I remember quite vaguely that self-reference or the liar paradox has something to do with Godel's theorem. Please note the underlined pa...

Indeed. I sensed that there wasn't the required level of correspondence between Godel's incompleteness theorems (GIT) and the justified true belief (J...

Indeed. I sensed that there wasn't the required level of correspondence between Godel's incompleteness theorems (GIT) and the justified true belief (J...

I'd like to continue the discussion as you raised an important issue - counterexample as a method of proof. I'm familiar with the term, counterexample...

a > b > 0 a > b a - b > b - b a - b > 0 Anyway You made an interesting point here viz. but I want to ask you a question: How do you know that a propos...

Can you have a look at Godel's Incompleteness Theorems vs Justified True Belief

:ok: Undecidable = neither provable nor disprovable??? I corrected my post. Thanks.

Thank you so much :up: I think there are many ways to rectify any inconsistencies with respect to free will and god's omniscience and love. However, i...

:up: Thank you. I was just wondering whether Godel's incompleteness theorems proves that any given set of valid argument forms constructed for our con...

Beautifully worded but there are no accidents in nature hence we have the laws of nature.

I don't know what sort of problems the Chinese were solving when the encountered negative numbers so that's a dead-end for this discussion. However th...

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Are you trying to say that the Chinese had the concept of zero as a number but just didn't have a symbol for it? Although the timeline is a bit fuzzy ...

Well, we could go for some kind of Platonism that the true good form exists out there somewhere like a well in a village and people come to the well w...

Indeed I was wrong but not completely wrong about Judaism: As you can see the reward/punishemnt is awarded/meted out in the afterlife. Justice, if you...

To be frank all I understand about Godel's incompleteness theorems is that there are some unprovable truths in any axiomatic system. In the discussion...

Thank you again for your valuable comments. I was reading another thread of mine concerning axioms and @"alcontali" mentioned Godel's incompleteness t...

Thanks for the tidbit. I actually find no logical connection between a dhow and mathematicians. Why would a dhow interest a mathematician? I'm genuine...

:chin: Can you give me an example that proves the statement I put in bold above? You said constraints can be positive. Isn't this like saying restrict...

Do you know of a reason why negation and or are preferred over other logical connective like "and" and "implication"? Is it that "negation" and "or" r...

Thanks for your valuable answers. I must confess I didn't understand everything the links were about. Anyway... To put it in logical terms I'm looking...