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For meaning, look to use.

Do tokens only make sense through types? I think so. I once walked through a park with a biologist who gave the scientific name for every tree we pass...

Cool. His predictions about speculation are famous. It's fascinating to look at commodities in terms of over-all social investment using units of time...

I also doubt that you read what I write. In some cases it's easy to link labor time with profit. Sometimes not. Can we really limit our view to hard c...

I don't think either economists or accountants try to estimate the actual labor time in commodities (if we extend our assessment out to the broader we...

It is, and it varies greatly from one country to the next. Another feature of labor that goes into commodity creation is a society's physical infrastr...

A word is a signifier. Reference is the signified. Together, they make a sign. The same signifier can be used in two different signs. Do you like that...

The labor time embodied by a commodity is partly the labor required to construct it. Some portion of the social investment in an item is overhead. Thi...

I think Devans99 is a troll.

I understand. Why does Marx care about labor costs? Is that dolphin-safe tuna?

Could you explain in layman's terms why Marx would care about labor costs? The value (as I understand the word) of a can of green beans is the price a...

Membership in a set is like membership in a club. Don't think of it in spacial terms.

A set is an abstract object. It's criteria. Don't think of it in spacial terms.

A set is an abstract object. It's criteria. Don't think of it in spacial terms.

A set is not a basket that we fill with members. It's criteria.

Calculus doesn't solve Zeno's Paradox.

I think you'd enjoy a book about Aristotle and the philosophy of set theory.

Time is a construct created how?

But where did this base reality come from?

The base reality has a beginning point?

There's a long range issue with your approach that has to do with logic-based ontology. That said, you aren't just producing an old-philisopher-based-...

Your base reality defies your rule that "for something to exist, it must have a start"

"Actual" infinity is an Aristotelian concept. He contrasted it with potential infinity. A beginning point for time is also a challenge to the imaginat...

Oh. You were reminding me of someone else. Why couldn't cosmologists get by with potential infinity?

Are you a determinist because there's a delay between events in the world and our recognition of those events?

By any chance do you have a history of arguing for determinism because of a delay between event and cognition?

I think physics will get along ok with potential infinity. I dont think they need actual. It's math that needs actual infinity as part of a foundation...

Like how?

I wrote in the shoutbox. Yay!

I'm just saying that "exists" and "conceivable" only directly track in maybe some form of subjectivite idealism that nobody has ever actually endorsed...

The gulf stream heat conveyor is threatening to shut down. Britain's dependence on natural gas will end before the supply does. :grimace:

I was checking to see if the zombie apocalypse has made it to Scotland

We can conceive non-existent stuff. And even a monistic idealist will allow the existence of the inconceivable.

Human labor. He doesn't realize he's developing industrial engineering. That's not a criticism. It's an interesting historical thingy. Not everybody i...

As I said, it's a limited analysis. This is close to completely meaningless.

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My interest is in agendas and how they differ by culture and era. If you compare the agendas of a 19th Century British factory owner to that of an Ame...

I understand. It's a limited analysis.

Direct price isn't necessarily the lower boundary. I'd sell you hardware for less than it costs to make it hoping I can sell you software downstream. ...

Did Marx think there is such a thing as value other than that which created by consumer demand?

That's paradoxical. But I don't see how finitism solves any paradoxes. Do you think it does?

Imagine a spaceship that has an accurate odometer. We set the spaceship in motion and it travels across the universe. The reading on the odometer will...

"2" referred to the US. "1" referred to Australia. The greatness spoken of was moral fortitude. Why did you think the context was math? Stick with me....

Propositions aren't context dependent. Any sort of realist metaphysics and therefore science and its practical arm, engineering, depend on the use of ...

Consider the proposition that two is greater than one. Could you explain in what sense you take that proposition to be context dependent?

What's funny about that? My instinct is to just write you off as beyond help and walk away. But the internet doesn't allow full manifestation of conte...

My diagnosis is that Turing couldn't put himself in other people's shoes. He couldnt see the world through their eyes. And the ability to shift focus ...

According to Alan Turing's mother, his early fascination with numbers had nothing to do with math. Before he could read, he would study the serial num...

Was I wrong? I'll have a think on what it means to be wrong.

Is it? It's in Miami. Do you agree?