Thanks for alerting me to the paradox. I failed to notice that a theory that explains everything, explains nothing was one, a very interesting paradox...
Interesting. I had the exact same problem when I began thinking about the TOE and Karl Popper's statement. For some unknown reason, there's no good ex...
How? Don't you see anything wrong with a TOE that's supposed to explain everything? It (the TOE) could only do that if it were compatible, truth-wise,...
To my tiny brain language boils down to two elements viz. 1. semantics (meanings of words) and 2. syntax (rules for word combination). Worth noting th...
:up: It looked like a good lead to follow and I thought you might be interested. Like they say somewhere in a little town in America, don't forget to ...
Superb demonstration of how thinking should be done! Kudos to you 180 Proof. I just want to add a point of my own if you don't mind. Lottery So, annou...
@"Wayfarer" First off, I must apologize if I am, as I suspect, barking up the wrong tree but from what I gather, you seem to be interested in mathemat...
As far as I can tell, if politics (civil liberties) and health (pandemic-related morbidity & mortality) are what matters to the vaccine hesitancy phen...
I kinda agree although I struggle, very hard indeed, to wrap my head around the alleged "...struggle between oppposing forces..." My response, for wha...
Not so. I clearly didn't assume the existence of any hedonic or nonhedonic value system, hence the question, do things have value because they make us...
Above my paygrade fellow forum member. Thanks for the effort. Much appreciated! When I do get round to studying set theory in earnest, I might just be...
It was different for me. I felt a huge sense of relief rush through me when reinforcements arrived at the tail-end of the movie and Thanos, although I...
Not Sherlock Holmes but take a look at this: HORROR DEATH Brit pensioner, 77, found dead in cinema seat after watching horror movie I seriously advise...
If I were to hazard an opinion, I'd say that though it's hard for me to say in what precise sense universals exist do remember, take note of, the fact...
There's no reason why the feeling can't be mutual but know-it-alls have an unfair advantage - it hurts to be called a moron but when someone calls you...
I vaguely recall this as being a fact, I think it's mentioned here :point: Parmenides Thanks for the short but informative introduction on realism vs ...
Given that physicists rely heavily on math and knowing that the current foundation of math is Set Theory and taking into consideration The Axiom Of In...
This was and is the status quo but the future doesn't necessarily have to be like that - our technological prowess could one day free us of the need t...
Firstly, emotions tend to have causes e.g. when you see a gorgeous person, one experiences love and happiness; when someone insults you, sadness and h...
People seem not to like smart alecs and so an omniscient being is going to be a pain in the ass. On the flip side, people have a low threshold of tole...
The numbers are simply meant as analogies to illustrate what I feel is the meaning of The Holy Trinity which is that The Father, The Son, and The Holy...
There seems to be two definitions of greed that say the same thing but in different ways: 1. Inordinate level of want 2. Taking more than one's fair s...
One way of measuring oppression would be statistical evaluation of representation - is a particular demographic (race, ethnicity, ideology, etc.) repr...
I don't know, it's kinda hard for me to tell the difference between avarice and envy. Is someone rich and powerful greedy or are those not-so-rich, no...
Someone definitely skipped his logic classes. Jokes aside, there's a sense in which the Holy Trinity can be made sense of mathematically. What if God ...
Come to think of it, I take back what I said. In the beginning, I thought Einstein was guilty of loose terminology - misusing/abusing the word "god". ...
Do we have a choice at all? We must, perforce, live life using a model best-suited for the time, place, and people. Plus, let's not forget that to hav...
Einstein in a religious context reminds me of the time when some friends and I wanted to play volleyball; we had to divide ourselves into two teams. T...
Old ideas have withstood the test of time i.e. they're models of reality that got us this far, in one piece. A new idea (model of reality) has to run ...
Alas, adding to our woes, Einstein didn't exercise the same logical rigor he did in physics and math when it came to religion. The world, especially h...
I think there's nothing with the concept odf god we have - god can be taken as the living embodiment of all that's good in humans and dialling them up...
I won't go too far back in time, prehistory is just too much conjecture than anything truthful. So, let's begin around the first century BC/AD when, i...
First off, the definition of real that I posited in my first post is a cul de sac, a blind alley, a dead end ( :grin: ). It leads to nowhere and yet i...
Oh! If stoicism recommends acceptance of one's cricumstances, how would we explain such an attitude? It could be, other reasons being possible, that t...
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