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Linguistic meaning is about what words refer to. Existential meaning is about purpose (use), life's purpose to be precise. Two entirely different conc...

With food & wine on it if it's not too much to ask. :lol:

Here's the problem: If you accept white lies, you must either, at a minimum, condone or, at a maximum, embrace black truths (hurtful truths); they are...

Should have implications for Calculus, infinitesimals to be precise. What say you?

Explain the difference between hallucinations and patterns, pareidolia and non-pareidolia, and we have something to discuss.

So, I was close to nailing it but missed by a mile. :grin:

Argument From Incredulity

Perception & Memory 1. Perceive A, parts & whole. Record in memory 2. Perceive B, parts & whole. Cross-check perception of B with memory of A. Match! ...

Page redirect, huh? Brazil's a covid hotspot. I hope Nagase's alive & well. He taught me a coupla things, one being, as I was just beginning my foray ...

Can we formulate an empirical version of logical positivism's thesis statement? If no, why?

All I know is this: The Gynecologist dilemma for Taliban. Either the Taliban must educate its women or the Taliban must allow men doctors to examine w...

I'll pass...for now. Thanks.

We can never be sure that there's no pattern: 1. xxxxx...obvious pattern: x repeats 2. xy...no pattern but wait a bit and it might be xyxyxy 3. str......

Beyond my ken I'm afraid. Good day.

You're one of those guys!

To ask a living organism to conceive of death is like using a pen to draw a picture of itself, broken into pieces. Possible.

No, I won't. :grin:

I think it's a definition rather than a claim. Help!

With that improved "...socioeconomic status..." to Batman... https://youtu.be/2bdI5XdDZ3Y

You may have a point there but do consider "gutters" and prisons" metaphorically. :chin:

Jordan Peterson!

If logical positivism implies that one particular hypothesis is correct then it fails because more than one hypothesis may fit observation. Since we c...

I'm happy, happy enough if you agree that patterns can be used to make predictions because that means you're testing the world to see if the pattern y...

Scary and also exciting! I feel dinosaurish!

Forget that I said anything at all. Let's get down to business, shall we? Patterns are repetitions either of entities or processes: 1. Entity pattern:...

God: Omnibenevolent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omniindolent

Can both be had together? The intuitive understanding seems to be that the shorter (space) the faster (time) but Fermat's principle shows that a short...

In a sense, we are the singularity: inanimate matter -> animate matter -> animate, thinking matter (us) -> ???

God the Father!

Amazing isn't it that if you see a corpulent person, you can't tell whether fae's a sloth or a glutton? :chin: 2 of the 7 deadly sins.

I believe there's a direct positive correlation between math and obesity! Causation? Why not?

Just a feeling...

Heard of it, yes. Understand it, no. I suppose efficiency is, as I said, key to the universe and by that I mean getting the most out of the effort put...

Seems to be the obvious conclusion. :chin:

Don't go Jordan Peterson on me!

Dialysis :point: Artificial Kidneys. How long till we have Artificial brains? :chin:

I'm curious, for every given phenomenon say the elliptical orbits of the planets or the life of a human or other animal, are these phenomena occuring ...

:lol: But then... It appears that there's something about efficiency that's mathematical. Nature tends to be efficient and if that then it, perforce, ...

@"tim wood" I maybe completely off the mark here but doesn't all that amount to saying patterns are basically hallucinations - our minds quite literal...

Essence = Pattern Definition of essence: the properties or attributes by means of which something can be placed in its proper class or identified as b...

Red herring, my favorite!

You're missing the woods for the trees. It depends on how broad/narrow the definition of sunrise is. If you want the sun to come up at exactly the sam...

Definitions of abstract: 1. existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. "abstract concepts such as love or beau...

So, there are no patterns. Nothing repeats. Then what is this: Born -> Infant -> Child -> Teen -> Adult -> Senior citizen -> Death ?

The sun rose yesterday just as it has for thousands of years before yesterday and it rose today too. Pattern: sunrise (repetition of an astronomical p...

Nothing repeats? The sunrise, the tides, the seasons,..

Let's not complicate the issue. Does your life have a routine, a pattern to it, or no? Before you answer that question, remember that if you say "no",...

Repetition, either qualitative or quantitative, is a pattern.

What do you mean by "...describe how that works..." I see the color white in all white objects. That's all there is to it.