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I think Marx felt the same way.

I think he did believe that. It's a little easier to tell what GW Bush thought versus Putin, though.

Oh, it's more complicated than I thought.

I was thinking the same thing. Common decency? Very un-American.

Plan A from Princeton (notice who actually wins this conflict) https://youtu.be/2jy3JU-ORpo

Are you dreaming of the kind of world Marx thought we were headed toward? No governments? We're just not ready for that yet. All attempts so far to bu...

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It sounds like you're saying mathematicians might stipulate things for the sake of advancing the field? I was just looking for the necessity behind st...

I would agree that we do have directly opposing intuitions. Does this show up in math so that a decision has to be made about which side we'll use as ...

If I stipulate that zero can be positive or negative, I'm inviting you to agree that we will talk about it that way. The agreement is the basis of the...

Then there's no real stipulation going on. The mathematician is guided by which of his intuitions he wants to explore. That's the only choice involved...

I guess we aren't on the same page here. :victory:

Those aren't a matter of our choices though. They reflect cognitive imperatives. That was our question: Do mathematicians stipulate like the architect...

If you're talking about the axioms that protect set theory from paradoxes, you're right. There's nothing intuitive about those axioms. It's debatable ...

You're the one who seems to be insisting that the rules you've mentioned have no use even within the realm of math itself. Interesting.

If what you're saying is meaningful, there should be some use somewhere. I take it you know of no practical use, but maybe there are non-practical "pu...

Meaning is use.

I'll take that as a "no"

Lots of death, yes.

Aren't those things features of how the human mind works?

Do you know of any practical use for this information?

I think this is a good idea. Our assessments of how we got here won't agree. You can criticize the West for supporting Ukraine, but that's not going t...

Deeper into what? Cognitive imperatives?

I once made a program in machine language and burned it into proms. I'm guessing the higher level syntax would follow necessity to some extent? The pu...

I don't know. There are jargons everywhere, in sports, in the law, in engineering, in medicine, etc. But I don't think there's much stipulation going ...

"Zero has an inverse" is true IFF zero has an inverse. Problem solved.

If that perspective is valuable to you, then great. It wouldn't be valuable in say, electronic engineering, where zero volts or ground is neutral. You...

I see.

At one time, my greatest fear was of not being able to tell reality from fiction. When I began to realize there is no criteria for that, I headed into...

I don't know what an unreal idea is. They guy thought he was a character in a video game. That was an idea which he took for reality. Since you have n...

Sometimes people confuse their ideas with reality, as with the Ketamine use I was describing. A person thought he was a character in a video game.

Were you thinking that we can't see the effects of quantum weirdness with our own eyes?

It doesn't look like the Ukrainians are in the mood. The war crimes just keep rolling out day after day.

I believe I've deciphered the message: "Part of my brain is devoid of wrinkles, but I'm hoping no one notices." The trick is to change all the t's to ...

He's been here longer than you have.

Per Chalmers, ontological realism just says that statements of idealism or materialism are truth apt. Ontological anti-realism denies this. It's proba...

Sadly, Aquinas' justification for executing heretics, referred to by Catholics during the inquisitions, was a passage from Plato. "Islam" was original...

There are scholarly viewpoints on both Plato and the gospels. Sometimes Christians decide they have special knowledge about how to properly interpret ...

:up: Plato clearly believed in a divinity of some sort. He was profoundly disillusioned by the behavior of the Athenians around the time of Socrates' ...

Okey dokey.

You stated that what is usually considered to be reality may be distinct from reality as viewed from a philosophical perspective. Can you not articula...

What's the difference?

Delusion: "An idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rati...

Aren't delusions unreal by definition?

I fairly regularly get to standby when a person's been given Ketamine for some painful procedure. That drug puts people under so they don't feel pain ...

The Buddhist raft?

:up: Sounds good. :up:

Yes, Biden and Obama are in opposite sides of the Democratic party spectrum. That's normal. Presidential candidates usually try to pick someone who co...

Omg, that's so sad. Russian unemployment rate: https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/russia-unemployment-rate.png?s=ruuer&v=202209281825V202203...

It kind of looks like he's trying to lower the unemployment rate in Russia by killing off men.