Why don't we do something different? Buddhism and Christianity both have rituals. Check. Christianity and Judaisim both are monotheistic. Check. Now w...
Democritus, the laughing philosopher? Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher? Life is no laughing matter! Don't take life too seriously! Opinions seem di...
Yup, I didn't choose my language, but I can speak/write it, not that well but enough to get by. I find the concepts/words I use relatable at a very de...
I don't know. Shouldn't you be the one telling us how to do that? After all, you come off as being very/quite certain about what you're saying, compar...
JWST Mission Objectives (in a nutshell) 1. Detect first stars (astronomy) 2. Detect first galaxies (astronomy) 3. Atmospheric studies of potentially h...
I suppose the OP is designed not to discuss religion per se but the Wittgensteinian take on language and its implications vis-à-vis philosophy, specif...
Now, you're joking, right? :smile: Show us then a different method of measuring the length of a curve if not using infinitesimally small straight line...
I don't get how Wittgensteinian philosophers can be so certain of their claims when they simultaneously also assert that the very thing they're making...
What is so fascist about God? Late Paul Erd?s is not alone in this particular or rather peculiar point of view in re the God-human relationship. The l...
All I can say is Please note mathematicians are under no illusion that a curve is in fact made up of infinite straight lines. They are, as I tried to ...
Well, all that I can say at this moment is I don't quite follow your language game. Did you get a handle on mine? Each word has a form of life that ma...
You want me to eat the cake and have it too. :grin: I like that although you have my sympathies, having painted yourself into a corner like that. That...
If I catch your drift, I had an inkling of that then. Observe, how physical, how tangible, the words "grasp" and "see", synonyms of the word "understa...
We think in pictures? Perhaps, but still in the dark about how. All I can tell you is this. Once rationality or to be precise, logic, enters the pictu...
I do recall coming across that particular story. How does that help in furthering the discussion? So, there's this carpenter and his help, a coupla wo...
When scientists do something, it's certain that years of planning have gone into it. Expect success rather than failure, almost all relevant contingen...
Well, you have a point although you didn't answer my question which is what's the difference between contexts and language games? It's perhaps being t...
A maximally great being exists: (\forall x)(Mx \to (\exists y)(y = x)) If god is the maximally great being then god exists = Mg \to (\exists y)(y = g)...
Mathematics is overrated then, oui? I don't know how to respond to that, math being my hobby and all. I can say this though: Mathematics helps reduce ...
I'd say you're taking Wittgenstein a bit too far. There are clear-cut definitions in mathematics which don't allow either ambiguity or vagueness. Mind...
:lol: Explain yourself. In my humble opinion, Wittgenstein sets the bar too high. As the title of his book, On Certainty, it becomes clear that he's c...
"limited domain"? Perhaps you're on the mark, but, from personal experience (haven't had much of that to be frank), I'd say mathematizing issues (tran...
All that comes to mind is that science seems to be employing a host of ostensive definitions - we can point to stuff that science deals in (rockets, s...
What I would like to stress on is if it's (genesis of the universe and life) is goimg to be, as you claim, bottom-up (for me this means going from the...
All I can say is you're not incorrect, but as I pointed out, infinity allows approximations that turn out to be useful when dealing with feminine geom...
It's physicists taking a dig at mathematicians. The Teakettle Principle, in my humble opinion, is basically a variation of don't reinvent the wheel pr...
My hunch is there is no solid reason for the panpsychism hypothesis. It's pure speculation and to that extent is less likely to attract subscribers bu...
Indeed, what does motivate panpsychism? Let's see how things stand. The soul remains, as of yet, a hypothetical. We haven't, as of yet, proven that we...
I don't know, but @"T Clark" might have something to say. The metaphysics, the ontology, of infinity, may not be as important as how useful it is to u...
Yep, that's the phrase I was looking for. Infinity is used to get as close as possible to a target (curves/females). Have you heard of The Teakettle p...
\aleph_0. That's the only infinity that makes sense to me; kinda feel like a time traveler (physically in the 21st century but mentally a mathematical...
Vladimir Putin exists. Where p = Vladimir Putin, (\exists x)(x = p) Sherlock Holmes doesn't exist. Where s = Sherlock Holmes, (\forall x) \neg (x = s)...
Would you say that's phenomenology in a loose sense? I heard phenomenology is about dumping all conceptual schema that exist and we employ to make sen...
:lol: Good call. The lemniscate, if you'll recall, was the reason Cantor lost his marbles. Of course Kroenecker was being nasty; probably that was the...
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