:up: Jainism's Anekantavada. Once you realize that disagreements, the seedbed of all violence, including wars, arise from looking at issues from only ...
BTW, for those interested, in spherical geometry there are square circles but no contradiction because their definitions have been adapted to the sphe...
We're talking past each other. I agree with you that real contradictions are impossible. If someone claims a contradiction as real, say p & ~p, all we...
That's wordplay. "genuinely contradictory proposition" and "such a proposition would not correspond to any object in reality" is a contradiction. Impo...
He messed around with the definition of distance - the way a taxicab moves around a city, a well-planned city with all roads at right angles to each o...
There are no genuine contradictions. That's the law :point: The Law of Noncontradiction ~(p &~p), only apparent contradictions that can be resolved wi...
Interesting post. For once I understood some math, weird math to be precise. However, I believe that squares and circles are mutually exclucive unless...
I did some reading up and what my OP is about matches what Jains had to say about truth 2,500 years ago (yeah! that's how old my idea is). Jainism has...
Many thanks for the challenge. The point I' making is that there are only apparent contradictions, not real ones. If given a contradiction, p & ~p, we...
:up: I suspect people are bored with reality and what it puts on the table. They thirst for more and if you look at extreme sports and how popular the...
I see two problems: 1. Radical Islam, assuming there's another version of Islam 2. The Global Policeman, Uncle Sam, seems to get involved and stay inv...
They have poor eyesight and so the mirror test is N/A. What's interesting though is what do we, indivdually possess, those attributes that are aspects...
I see. If one considers language as a mode of communication, it needs to be about reality and that invariably requires language to capture causality. ...
Modal Realism! I quite like it that there are more worlds out there populated by unicorns, fairies, angels but what scares me are vampires, ghosts, we...
Isn't that begging the question? By the way if a world has to be qualified with real as you do in "...a real world", it suggests that worlds can be un...
3, 4, and 5 are a pythagorean triple: 3² + 4² = 5² The yield of the land corresponds to its area. Imagine you had 9 square units of land (3²). Suppose...
You're joking, right? :lol: An important, very apposite concept. Humans are very defensive about what's within the sphere of their self, stuff like sp...
My reading of the correspondence theory of truth requires two essential components: 1. An actual reality. Call this R 2. A proposition about that actu...
I'm at a loss as to how language can be syntax-less. What about ambiguity like the one I talked about? One way could be if Piraha world is a highly st...
The way math began, if mathematical historians are right, suggests that math subscribes to correspondence theory of truth. Given numbers are abstracti...
I can't wrap my head around the fact that democracy is considered the best form of government and that there's a fallacy called appeal to the majority...
Syntax/grammar isn't then as I thought it was, a completely arbitrary set of rules. There's a rationale, a logic, to it which becomes essential to sem...
I see. Your point is the boundary between syntax and semantics is fuzzy with the former having some kind of effect on the latter e.g. take the two sen...
Why not? If a particular activity (here vaccine development) was/is done faster than usual, some standards must've been flouted and therein lies the r...
Let's be candid here. Vaccines usually take much longer than the 1 year Covid-19 vaccines have been developed within. My hunch is fast-tracking the pr...
Turing test? Mimicking consciousness to a T maybe possible. That's the nub of the Turing test. Of course, we may not be able to tell if the AI that pa...
Struck a chord in me, that. I'm going to go Aristotle on you and say a being's purpose is defined by what that being excels in. So, a lion, built-for-...
No insults I assure you. I thought you were being snide. No point discussing this. Let's pick up where we left off. I'm not even sure if what I say ma...
To be honest, when I read this I felt the same way as a famished homeless person would have felt when fae finds a half-eaten 2-day-old hotdog at the e...
DUI 1. You do something: Drink alcohol. 2. 3. Rights: You don't have the right to drink drive. 3. Consequences: Menace to society. Anti-vaccination 1....
I'm grateful that you thought my views were worth pursuing further but I'm not sure whether your objective was to make me realize that, https://youtu....
The way I see it, Claude Shannon treats information as answers to questions which from a certain perspective dissociates the grammar/syntax from seman...
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