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Some people wouldn't be able to accept what you're saying because it would mean they have to accept that the world may be a dream. We really don't kno...

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It would have to show that the world is actually a dream. You directly perceive the world because there's no interface. The world is created by you, f...

BaShana, BaShana, BaShana

A Fort Sumter moment would require that half the states had already seceded. :cool:

I think you just need some more of whatever mind altering substance you have available. Then you'll get it.

Since the Ukraine war started, Russia has engaged in "systematic dismantling of independent civil society, harsh suppression of anti-war dissent, and ...

Being in British Columbia usually entails waking up in your car with a Canadian citizen tapping on your window to see if you're ok. You roll your wind...

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Ok. All I know is that it's common sense that if you're driving from Washington DC to Alaska, you will, at some point, be in British Columbia. Those w...

I read you as basically saying there's a higher truth missed by Zeno. Per tradition, his point was exactly that: that the way we picture the world, th...

I was on reddit and somebody posted a quote from a prominent intellectual. I thought, oh, that's cool, and googled it. Turns out that quote was misatt...

A Euglena is a one celled thing that has both mitochondria and chlorophyll. It's hard to kill because if it has light, it gets energy that way. If the...

Supertask. It's the reason Zeno's paradox stands.

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I think I could find cases of it in this thread. I'm not going to mine it to find them though And since you bring that up, let's look at the differenc...

Absolutely. Let's keep in mind that it does not mean the same thing as countable as the word is commonly understood.

Denumerable, yes. Let's not mistake that for countable in the common sense of the term. I think that's where some of the confusion in this thread is c...

You mean they have the same cardinality. Neither one really has a size.

You couldn't finish counting them.

It's just that the extension of the idea of the real numbers seems to be somehow bigger than the extension of the idea of the natural numbers. We coul...

They're doing the best they can. There was an asteroid issue.

About 99% of species that have existed on earth are now extinct. Do you have thoughts about the end of our species? I always thought it was kind of un...

This could be you

So the same thing will work for "abstract" and "platonism.". They're parts of a language game. You can't reject them without special pleading. Godel s...

L. Ron Hubbard didn't win a Hugo. In my collection, Asimov talks about the convention where his followers showed up demanding that he win. There was t...

It's a Hugo winner. It's in a collection of winners I have, edited by Asimov.

It doesn't sound like you know what a set is.

You said this: Now apply that strategy to the empty set. You'll find that you can't. Set theory is fundamentally platonic. Eject platonism, and you've...

I've just been observing the different stances people are taking. The only book on phil of math I've read is Mary Tiles' book. After reading it, I rea...

Is that a no?

Yes. I know. You pretty much came up with Frege's argument all by yourself. That's pretty cool.

Ok. I don't object to that. I doubt you can do the same thing for ZFC, though. So are you now suspicious that ZFC might be bullshit?

What about it?

Could be.

An object in your mind is called a mental object. An object in your hand is a physical object. An abstract object is something that isn't physical, bu...

So you've just completely changed your mind here. You were quoting ZFC as if it were scripture a few pages back. Then you were a deflationary nominali...

Dude. According to that survey, a small minority think the foundation of math is set theory. There aren't a lot of experts in phil of math, but they w...

You have the minority view, so you must be following the minority rules. :razz:

You're trying to have your cake and eat it too. -15C here. :confused:

So math is just language games, right?

Wow! Being productive. :up:

There was a lot of strenuous protesting in this thread to the effect that infinity is a thing. Turns out you actually agree with Meta. Numbers aren't ...

Because you're procrastinating from whatever it is you're supposed to be doing right now?

So that's deflationary nominalism. It's a minority view.

Frege had a pretty persuasive argument for it.

the present situation: https://i.imgur.com/3BFzsQq.jpeg

Are you a cartoon character? Do you know SpongeBob?

The base of hell is frozen because Lucifer's wings continuously flap.

That existed before money. They bartered. The problem was that corruption in bartering was rampant. They would put the good dates on the top of the ca...