Fabulous argument. Here's a variant of it: - More than Two Things plus one equals More than Two Things - but X + 1 <> X for all X - So More than Two T...
My point is that you do not understand what the word means. If you know what actual infinity means, there is no way in hell you can take Zeno's "parad...
You have to understand that actual infinity is just a concept, nothing more than that, and that you have to understand it. I don't think that you unde...
Not quite. You can have an infinite number of one and the same thing. Or you can have an infinite number of completely different things. Or you can ha...
The concept of infinite time does not imply that things will repeat an infinite number of times. You can have an infinite number of completely differe...
Not quite. Zeno's "paradoxes" exist because people do not understand the concept of actual infinity. That's the problem. For even if you accept that t...
If time is infinitely divisible, it follows that it is impossible to experience what happens at every single point in time. So yes, you cannot observe...
It's not possible for a human being to count an infinite number of things in a finite number of steps. However, that DOES NOT mean that it is impossib...
Yes, I do believe that actually infinite quantities exist. For example, I believe that at every point in time an infinite number of events occur. This...
Motion is one of those frequently abused terms. Motion simply means change in position. No concept of position, no concept of motion. It's a high-leve...
What does it mean to say that a point has no size? Does it mean that it has zero size i.e. that it does not exist? Or does it perhaps mean that it has...
"No duration" does not mean non-existent. Time can be defined as the number of events between two events. Events themselves have no duration. (Not nec...
You can easily "fix" induction by turning it into a deductive argument such as follows: 1. All observed As are Bs 2. The future mimics the past 3. The...
Not the answer that I was expecting. But it does justify every single post I wrote in response to your claim. For I was right: you do think that the f...
What's the relevance of stating the obvious fact that induction is not a deductively valid method? What's the relevance of stating that induction is n...
The state of a system is simply the set of values its variables are assuming. If the system has two variables such as height and gender then its state...
There is a correlation between height and gender. The taller the person, the more likely the person is a man. And vice versa. That's an example of a v...
Alright, so you do not want to define what it means for life to be starting and stopping which means the discussion is over and it's your choice. No p...
The arrow is resting AT every instant but it is not resting BETWEEN instants. Even the idea that the arrow is resting at every instant is strange. Res...
There can be any number of moments within a second. Bergson claims that time is indivisible. I claim that time is not only divisible but also infinite...
I understand the paradox. The paradox is a word game. In other words, there is no paradox. If an object is at rest at every point in time, it does not...
You will have to define what it means for a moment to "start and stop". Moments do not start and stop, they simply follow one after another. For a mom...
Right. Bergson thought that Zeno's paradox of the arrow demonstrates that time is not made out of points. But I don't agree. Zeno's argument is just a...
Meditation is a tool that we use to reduce mental stimulation. So yes, by eliminating distracting impulses, it can help us focus. It's a very useful t...
What does it mean for time to be "starting and stopping"? The point is that my past is a succession of moments. You have one moment coming after anoth...
Or you can simply explain it to me so that I can be enlightened. "Spatialized time" is precisely the kind of time that I am talking about i.e. the kin...
That's right. What I am describing is denial. The thing is that mysticism in general is about denial. That's simply what it is. Why is it that meditat...
Observation. This guy thinks that time is something other than a sequence of moments. When you ask him what this "something other" is, he tells you th...
I think that Bergson, like every other mystic, is against awareness. He hates it. He wants to go back to being blind because he finds reality to be to...
You are not saying anything relevant. I was responding to Banno. Basically, the encyclopedia is saying that inductive arguments have the following for...
You're being pedantic. It's what people to do in order to feel superior (when they are actually not.) See Banno for example. Here's an amendment to my...
Depending on how you define the concept of emergence, you can say that pretty much any event is emergent. This is to emphasize that the concept of eme...
The word "emergent" simply means "arising unexpectedly". It refers to an observation that contradicts our model of reality. It refers to an observatio...
Alright. That might be the case. But I think that you're saying a bit more than that. I am not sure. Your insistence that you're not interested in nar...
I don't think that's eccentric. I think that what they teach you in school is eccentric. The rules of reasoning, or inference, is a very intuitive ide...
Maybe I'm not the one who's getting confused ;) I understand very well what truth-preservation is. My point is that it's a concept that is 1) narrow, ...
Negative concepts are defined in relation to one's expectations. The word "nothing" means nothing other than "absence of that which was expected". It ...
This depends on how you define the concept that is represented by the word "thing". If it's too specific, the object will exist for a very short perio...
I am going to return to something @"apokrisis" said in response to me on page 8. I am struggling to understand what you mean when you say "constraint"...
That's not what I think. Just because the premises are true, or can be true, does not mean the argument is valid. "True xor true = true" is not valid ...
If you define validity the way he does, as truth-preservation, then yes, he's right, induction is invalid because its conclusion can be true and its p...
I am not sure we are on the same page. I don't think that the argument is valid because the two sentences are consistent. I don't even know what that ...
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