It's not that complicated. Given the natural deduction rules (there are 18 of 'em) of predicate logic, the existence of a true paradox means predicate...
Good advice. If I were to add anything then either develop a thick skin, like you said AND/OR improve your logic. No solace there for most of us I fea...
It appears we're taking the mind for granted. The emphasis is on using it instead of studying it (NASA budget for 2020 was $20 billion while only $10 ...
Update One word, paradox, designed specifically to elicit/evoke/bring on aporia of the finest quality philosophy has to offer. There are so many parad...
My hunch is that the mind is in the spotlight so to speak in the scientific community - there's frenetic research ongoing in neuroscience, aimed at un...
The question of all questions is "is the imprecision a bug in language or a feature of reality?" My main concern is the existence/nonexistence of (tru...
All or none thinking (in psychology known as splitting). The person who's affected by splitting fails to recognize and appreciate subtleties and nuanc...
Regarding the the Law of Attraction, if prayer and wishes are causal dead ends i.e. they produce no effect, so the scientific community claims then, w...
Hi Jack. The Law of Attraction, on superficial examination, seems to square with mathematical reflection transformation (what you are is reflected bac...
Thanks a ton. There's a lot to take in in your post. The problem with paradoxes, basically contradictions, is that it makes any logical system in whic...
Languages are used to describe something i.e. they aren't invented in a vacuum. There are two aspects of this whole description process: 1. Things/obj...
May the best strongest man win! Strength in numbers. Who, in their right mind, will want to dare to contradict a frenzied mob of armed men (women and ...
It's quite possible that you're right on the money. I am kinda sorta perfectionist, although looking back I see no evidence of it in anything I've bee...
:clap: Magnifique! A bad workman blames his tools! To be fair, many religions are pragmatically-challenged i.e. many of their injunctions are quite si...
Infinite series are a staple in math; some of them are fundamental to calculations of certain extremely important constants such as \pi, e, \gamma, et...
What if knowledge gets to us? We seem to be under the (false?) impression that knowledge is static/passive, that it just sits there, motionless, waiti...
Afflatus (sounds gassy, I feel bloated). Your line of thought would end at a point that's both intriguing, comforting and, simultaneously, disturbing....
Why is omnilogical not a God attribute? Perhaps if it is, there really would be no way tell the difference between God and a supercomputer (super AI?)...
I want to bounce this off of you guys & gals. Suppose I can't lift a stone weighing 30 kg. So, I take a sledegehammer and break this stone into 3 piec...
Some have thought it relevant to include Buddhism into a discussion on boredom. I second that. After all ennui is basically a state brought on by poin...
What do you eat? :grin: My takeaway from the post you linked to: 1. Form vs. content. Very important concepts as far as I can tell. 2. (Over)simplify....
Aporia can be interpreted as a state of readiness (imagine athletes at their starting positions in a race, legs cocked as it were, read to sprint at t...
Clearly, awe and wonder is an emotional experience even if brought on by the application of cold, unfeeling rationality. In my childhood days, I recal...
What's understanding? Aporia, whatever else it might be, gives me the impression that it includes, as part of experiencing it, the grasp of the major ...
I'm not sure. Are we talking past each other? An invention, in my view, is essentially imagination based. Ergo, what's invented needn't correspond to ...
The Form of infinity can perhaps be deduced from its definition: nonterminating, endless. Basically, infinity is that which can't be completed, from a...
Why do you say that? Why? How does justification work? Pray tell. Teach me how philosophy works. Well, I did, didn't I? I know of no actual infinities...
Perfection, though here meant as an objective attribute, can also be subjective. When one is in love or is it more appropriately described as infatuat...
What's that? Yup, I understand that, but "they go on forever" is a potential infinity, not an actual one (physically uninstantiated). Yet, here we are...
Well, I haven't found any infinity that's actual. There! Too, you have it easier. You need to furnish as proof only one infinity that's actual. Kindly...
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