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Magnus Anderson

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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...
September 19, 2018 at 11:28
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...
September 19, 2018 at 11:09
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...
September 19, 2018 at 11:03
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...
September 19, 2018 at 10:53
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...
September 19, 2018 at 10:48
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...
September 19, 2018 at 10:33
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...
September 19, 2018 at 10:22
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...
September 19, 2018 at 06:40
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...
September 19, 2018 at 06:02
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...
July 30, 2018 at 17:27
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...
July 30, 2018 at 17:21
"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...
July 30, 2018 at 10:25
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...
February 18, 2018 at 00:20
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...
February 18, 2018 at 00:03
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...
February 17, 2018 at 23:20
What you're saying, probably without realizing it, is that pattern recognition is an entirely random process.
February 16, 2018 at 13:35
Apo's having a field day with Banno. Made me giggle.
February 16, 2018 at 13:25
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...
February 15, 2018 at 15:35
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...
February 15, 2018 at 15:14
The question is: why is it impossible for the brain to be conscious if atoms and molecules are not conscious?
February 15, 2018 at 15:07
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...
February 15, 2018 at 14:52
So there can be no correlation between variables unless variables are of the same type?
February 15, 2018 at 14:18
You need to define what it means for life to be starting and stopping.
February 15, 2018 at 14:14
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...
February 15, 2018 at 12:23
Maybe you should try to explain why you find it counter-intutive?
February 14, 2018 at 19:51
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...
February 14, 2018 at 19:50
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...
February 14, 2018 at 19:42
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...
February 14, 2018 at 19:24
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...
February 14, 2018 at 18:50
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...
February 14, 2018 at 17:10
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...
February 14, 2018 at 17:04
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...
February 14, 2018 at 16:58
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...
February 14, 2018 at 16:44
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...
February 14, 2018 at 16:15
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...
February 14, 2018 at 15:16
You are not saying anything relevant. I was responding to Banno. Basically, the encyclopedia is saying that inductive arguments have the following for...
February 13, 2018 at 11:50
Tsk. You're being a fool.
February 13, 2018 at 10:59
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...
February 13, 2018 at 07:17
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...
February 12, 2018 at 16:04
The word "emergent" simply means "arising unexpectedly". It refers to an observation that contradicts our model of reality. It refers to an observatio...
February 12, 2018 at 12:41
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...
February 12, 2018 at 10:26
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...
February 11, 2018 at 21:31
You don't understand what it means for a logical argument to abide by the rules of reasoning?
February 11, 2018 at 21:12
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, ...
February 11, 2018 at 21:08
Negative concepts are defined in relation to one's expectations. The word "nothing" means nothing other than "absence of that which was expected". It ...
February 11, 2018 at 20:09
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...
February 11, 2018 at 19:19
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"...
February 11, 2018 at 12:30
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 ...
February 11, 2018 at 07:43
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...
February 11, 2018 at 06:08
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 ...
February 11, 2018 at 05:07