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Do you mean something like models fitting data pretty well?

:up: Along these lines, it also makes sense to avoid taking certain issues too seriously. So often we are just talking about usage and differences tha...

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Let me just start by saying I don't deny private experiences. For me it's more about trying to point out their semantic uselessness. 'Red' can't refer...

Is there such a thing? I lean toward Saussure's notion of a system of differences without positive elements. Concepts are only sold in sets. Why arbit...

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Sorry for the delay. Just saw this. Do you mean something like saying to oneself that such and such is red? I can relate to the experience. I can see ...

Sorry, matey. You are reminding me of my cat when she no longer chases the red dot but only stares at it. I feel as old as yonder elm.

I've made quite a few. Be wary of taking grammar (by which I mean, in this context, proprieties of usage) for theology-strength cosmic insight. Maybe ...

I bet you say that to all the girls, you old rake.

Not so fast. I'm of half a mind to correct you and half a mind to leave you to your sandbox and its kitty droppings. https://idioms.thefreedictionary....

Why is an actual infinity of parts incoherent? We are comfortable with the infinity of the primes. If we listen to careful proofs rather than internet...

Here you make a case that 'mind' and 'brain' are used differently. The thesis is true. But you forget that we can give one another a piece of our mind...

I'm curious what you'll say, knowing how wrong you are.

Bless your little heart, friend. Go in peace.

Of course I have. It's weird to make such a big deal of it. It's a relatively easy read. Heidegger for the less pretentious ? I never claimed the mind...

Dude. Descartes has been tied to the whipping post for quite a while now. Prove to me first that Jesus isn't the crown prince of the Crab Nebula.

As I see it, you are describing grammar here as if you were purveying eternal cosmic truths. Yes, we talk of states of mind, states of one and the sam...

I can make some kind of sense of 'the color you see' as opposed to 'the color I see.' We can agree to use 'color' this way in this kind of context. Bu...

It's great to see Ryle and Sellars get recognition around here.

I understand why one would say this, but consider that we only have evidence for behavior. Our talk and doings are indeed synchronized. The assumption...

It sounds like you'd want an invertible function f : S \subset \mathbb{R}^3 \to\mathbb{R} , with S finite. That should be easy (an infinity of choices...

I like the approach, but it occurs to me that you are leaving something out: death. Romeo and Juliette are together in eternity. We can be like they a...

Might be yanking this out of context, but it inspired a question. Does the philosophical situation itself, occurring in the space of reasons and domin...

I think the wrinkle is in red is a property as we see it. It's as if 'red' is supposed to do double-duty for some ineffable private experience which i...

:up: I think so. After reading Ryle, I thought now this is the book for those who find the later Wittgenstein too nebulous. He just chops away confusi...

You might find some in an excellent book entitled The Concept of Mind. It's by this dude named Gilbert Ryle. It's one of my favorites. Yes, philosophy...

I agree with the point I think you are making. We can think of math as an excellent syntax for expressing truths about our world. One of its best feat...

IMV, good philosophers often try to show us that our questions were ill-conceived in the first place. It also makes more sense to me that metaphysicia...

You basically need to situate that equation within a number system. Consider that x^2 + 1 = 0 has a solution in the complex number system but not in t...

Typically, the concept of 0 is just identified with the empty set. So you don't need your "n" as a kind of function. It should be mentioned that Benac...

Allow me to recommend The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle. I only recently got around to this book, and it's just flamethrower for so many entrenched ...

Yes, it's all built of \emptyset . I also like thinking of it as the bubbleverse. The empty set is an empty bubble. All the other bubbles are just bub...

That article is fascinating, but I can't help but to object to this part: This is a bold claim... that all pure math is eventually applied. Really? I ...

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It's just that the two most popular constructions of the counting numbers from set theory use the empty set as zero. The best is maybe this one (Zerme...

Hi ! Excellent point. The main reason for most people to learn math is probably its central role in science. I don't just mean physics. I mean any sci...

In general it seems that the more 'uselessly' metaphysical as opposed to practical the issue, the more semantics becomes central. Also, good point abo...

Typically 0 = \{\} , so the set above might not be valid. That depends on whether zero is assigned to the empty set and whether it's OK to repeat elem...

I also don't think there's a satisfactory answer. Assuming the brain has evolved to solve problems (or maybe just the single problem of replication), ...

That one got a chuckle out of me.

. Nailed it.