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The length contractions in Fitzgerald's theory is the same as that in Einstein's special relativity - they are both Lotentz transformations. The diffe...

I agree with you on this. JTB theory does not explain how the word "knowledge" is used by people, hence it is a poor definition. I think it becomes ev...

I see a similarity between the physical and moral example I gave, in terms of how we go about learning abut the world. I stand on the side of a pond, ...

I see you completely ignored my question on Snell's law. In the case of water and mirages, does light not behave as according to Snell's law? It alway...

Yes you ask some probing questions. I might reply in more depth when I have the time to think it over, but a quick reply to one of the question you as...

The line on a piece of paper is a one dimensional entity (the line) embedded in a two dimensional entity (the paper). So most definitely there is spac...

I agree that seeing something from no perspective is meaningless and absurd. I do find something interesting in the different claim that objectivity i...

While the universal concept does not exist in space, included within that universal concept is space. This is the thing that I tried to clumsily expla...

Give a precise example of where light does not behave according to Snell's law when passing from water to air? Can you give such a context? I doubt it...

My previous reply was nonsense, it's getting late and I didn't pay enough attention. What I meant was: The concept of a line is referencing something ...

And this spatial concept has conceptual points on it.

There are no tricks in physics, I have no idea what you are talking about. Light changes direction at the boundary of two medium, given by Snell's law...

Spatial - relating to or occupying space. Your two sentences contradict each other. Neither "sin" nor "cos" are parameters. "t" is the parameter. In t...

Refraction is never a trick. It is simply the way light behaves when moving from one medium to another where there is a change in wave speed. This is ...

A point is an exact location in space. There is a location in space on both a curve and a straight line (more than one location). For an intuitive app...

Refraction is not a trick of light. It is light behaving correctly as we understand it does.

Then I suggest you read up on refraction. Light is behaving correctly as we understand it when it redirects at the boundary between water and air. The...

This question makes no sense to me. It is like asking - Since a handle cannot be a door, what distinguishes a handle on a door from a handle on a wind...

Yes but that doesn't affect the dimensions of the curve. You can similarly embed the curve in 3,4,5... dimensions, however the embedded curve is still...

There are no accepted self-contradictory theories in maths. If you are able to show a theory is self-contradictory, then you have disproved that theor...

I was not exchanging one for another, I was stating two separate points. A straight line and a curve are both continuum, as can simply be seen by tryi...

Are you saying a straight line is not a continuum? Take a pencil and draw a straight line, then take a pencil and draw a curve that is not a straight ...

In mathematics, a straight line is a special case of a curve. A curve is a one-dimensional continuum.

The light traveling from the stick to our retina is behaving as we know it should according to physics, when a stick in the water appears bent. It is ...

Just to clarify my thoughts - if we understood what it is each other is saying, but disagreed on the word to use to represent the other's views, that ...

Yes, I agree with this.

I wonder if small isolated societies misunderstand each other as much as we do. For example the isolated Amazon tribes. I would guess (and it is a gue...

My stance is that within social conventions, yes a definition can be wrong as defined within those social conventions. Different social groups may def...

This is I think a good example of what I suggested as elaboration. The multiple people who say "socialism" misunderstand what it is the others are say...

Thanks I will have a look

I think most materialist/physicalist accounts are that of a form of materialistic monism, or physicalism, that rejects dualism altogether. The claim i...

Absolutely, I'm not suggesting you are pissing on science. As a first point of call, what I hope to get to myself, is a place where an understanding o...

I certainly wouldn't classify myself as an expert on phenomenology, I have a shallower understanding than that. Quite possibly you have a better under...

Agreed, semantic robustness is valued in science. Where I see a divide between phenomenology and science is in the method. Science (I would say all sc...

Perhaps the scientific method can be partly described as a from of shared instrumental phenomenology with predictive power. It is not pure phenomenolo...

There is some truth to that - other things being equal the simpler theory is often preferred.

What is it you think makes science special, that is not the method? Could you elaborate? It seems to be from other posts that you have criteria that y...

So is it intentionality that makes something scientific or pseudo-scientific? You clearly have a criteria to divide science and pseudo-science, so a l...

Ok, so just starting with your first paragraph, it seems a dividing line for science: - Science requires evidence (material evidence? naturalistic ass...

But what exactly are the pseudo science interests and how do they differ from science interest? And does the answer to that not also answer to a demar...

I guess my question is why are horoscopes pseudoscience? Is it because of the method they use to come up with theories? Is it because of something els...

This is interesting because in the same paragraph you are unsure about the limits of science, while also worrying about pseudo-science. But does your ...

Yes it does. It gives people tools with which to explore their beliefs, views, values, underlying assumptions, etc in a way that science alone can't. ...

Yes. It is the old is/ought divide. Philosophy is uniquely useful on the ought side.

Or imagined it or dreamed it? Yes my belief in this specific example would be because of actions, but I don;t think it is necessarily so.

Absolutely, that would be great. But which comes first? Peace and prosperity or better communication? I don't see peace and prosperity if people strug...

Yes that's exactly what I mean (in a thread about meaning).

I was not suggesting nominalism in particular. Rather I was suggesting that people in political discussions elaborate and explain their world views in...

You are correct here, however I will add a caveat. When people use these words in the context you describe, they are often being taciturn. When person...

I suggest you read up on inertial and non-inertial frames of reference. I think your misunderstanding stems from not knowing the difference between th...