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I wasn't arguing that secular morality is not part of how we bring up our children. So I don't disagree with you at all. My perception of the politica...

Are you saying that the apple is a constituent of the episode during the first 10 seconds? I would then point out that the relationship of the apple t...

I think that both religion and politics were tabu, except on specific occasions. I don't know about wider society, but it seems to be still observed i...

A lot depends on what you mean by "separation". I was tempted to say that it is relatively simple to sort out at the institutional level. Quite a lot ...

H'm. Perhaps we agree, then. What is perceived is the same object in both time periods. I see the apple during the first time period, so I also see th...

So would I, except that I would specify that you see the apple placed in front of you. The delay in transmission does not affect this. I don't see wha...

There may be some level at which our personality favours one kind of theory over others. Scepticism seems to be a good candidate - a yearning for cert...

There is a problem from the start here. You think that "the direct object of perception" refers to something. If I've understood you, you don't know w...

It's certainly stupid if "direct awareness" is defined as "by introspection" - perceptions that are guaranteed correct, even if they are wrong. But, i...

I think it's just a coincidence. I used this example because it occurred to me at the time, not because I had read it before. I imagine that there was...

Thanks for that distinction. I wasn't aware. I'm glad you agree with me. I had noticed that people often speak as if the procedure (or function) someh...

OK. In that case, you carry out the procedure. What bothers me is the idea that a formula like S(n)=n+1 is not a set of instructions about how to do s...

Who said anything about reducing being to value? Hierarchy, yes. Order not necessarily. Alphabetical order doesn't imply value. Oh, dear. How can one ...

Statements do not always have clear meanings and sometime people deliberately mislead us and sometimes we just get it wrong. But not always. The fact ...

... and they don't always show their minds via what they say. Feeling the water and reporting feedback is one thing. Putting on (or taking off) clothe...

That's odd. That's exactly how I feel about what people say. I would much rather trust how they behave. Actions, as they say, speak louder than words.

I'm afraid that philosophers are not immune from the temptation to coin descriptions of doctrines they disagree with that have a rhetorical effect on ...

However, in the case of symbols used in calculation, an equivalence can be established. So you think that "to be is to be the value of a variable" is ...

I was referring to the previous two posts. Beyond that, there's much that I agree with, but I still have puzzles (questions), which is not quite the s...

I don't think I can add anything to your replies. I would likely just confuse the issue.

You are right of course. Like you, I am disinclined to back either option. But I prefer to treat each claim as a comparison or analogy and to note sim...

That's fair enough. Thank you for your comments.

Do you mean the premiss that space can be infinitely divided, not merely conceptually, but also physically? I think most people would accept some vers...

OK. As I said, I don't think the Aristotelian account clarifies anything much. If anything, it deepens the mystery. Perish the thought of denying that...

You may be underestimating him (or his advisers). I've heard a suggestion that the plan is to provoke serious unrest so that the Insurrection Act can ...

I wouldn't argue Wittgenstein's point, though doesn't that point us firmly in the direction of the Aristotelian distinction between actual and potenti...

No, it is simpler than that. We are using "medium" is different ways. I think. For me, empty space is not a mediium. A medium is substance that fills ...

I agree with everything you say. But it is not easy to say it clearly. What bothers me is that we seem driven to talk about processes in connection wi...

I agree with you. If I'm right aht Milton's defence of God, that the Fall was, in the end, a Good Thing, seems to me the deepest problem here.

I recently read this book. It was a real treat. I don't often finish a book thinking that I should read it again immediately. But I do still resist re...

It seems to me that the question of a medium in space is secondary. The first move is to set up a co-ordinates and rules for plotting the position of ...

Let me try to be a bit clearer. I cited the bumble bee just because it was a case where there isn't much, if any, doubt about how the world is as oppo...

That would indeed be of great interest. I wonder if we could construct a reply that they might have made? It may well do so. It may also set you in fr...

Of course. The ghost at the feast, perhaps. Well, one could simply argue that the argument is not a proof, but a reductio of a certain approach to spa...

Thanks, Banno. I knew I would not get it quite right.

I think it is important to underline that the mapping between the sets is identified between the first few steps in the series (I may have the exact t...

I realize that you see the contradiction as implicit and unavoidable. But you are not recognizing the meaning given to the terms within the system. "c...

It is possible, and has been the case at times in this discussion, that both sides of a debate are thinking in terms of "straightforwardly true". But ...

I'm sorry. I should have said "separates", not "divides". Can you think of a form of measurement that is not counting - apart from guessing or "judgin...

Are you suggesting that is a reason for rejecting his conclusions? Either way, I would suggest that we leave Cantor's theology as a matter between Can...

There's a lot that could be said about that. It is tempting to classify some rules as habits. Habits neither have, nor require, any kind of justificat...

I didn't know that came from Ramsey. But it is in the same spirit. Instead of having to remember each specific F and that it is G, and that my list of...

So you do know that the series is infinite without completing the count of them all. Zeno, if I remember right, thought that he had developed a proof ...

How do you know that the natural numbers go on for ever? Have you tried to count them and failed? That doesn't prove that they go on for ever. But per...

Quiite so. I'm afraid I'm among those who doesn't want to be bothered. And then you will be locked in for life. Then I find myself thinking that it wo...

I can see that moving towards subscriptions and rents is better business than selling people copies of software. That seems to need continuous updatin...

Quite so. I think there may be people who think that things will get better once Trump's term ends. We'll see. But even if they did get better, I can'...

Exactly. If you are painting from a mental image, how could you distinguish between mistakes you have made because you are not very good at painting m...

Isn't that a moral and political question, rather than a strictly economic issue? In any case, I doubt if it is reasonable to expect to draw those lin...

Yes. It seems to me that the fact that we do not perceive light waves as such is important. Light and sound are the means by which we perceive, not wh...