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Ludwig V

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It's a bit more complicated than that. Bulbs like fluorescent ones flicker, but the light really is constant. It's like what is called "motion illusio...
May 21, 2024 at 09:31
It isn't a question of allowing them to use PSE or any other site. They will use it or not, as they see fit. When I was teaching, the most difficult t...
May 21, 2024 at 08:16
You are too kind. The model for the site is clearly (not "not necessarily") "those disciplines that have explicit agreed upon correct answers". That m...
May 21, 2024 at 08:07
Don't you think it is ironic that the critique of PSE was posted on Reddit? Talk about pots and kettles. I thought that the response to this question ...
May 21, 2024 at 08:03
I remember that discussion. Thanks for the reminder. In the context of the assumption that it is an empirical debate, I'm content with C. In favour of...
May 21, 2024 at 05:58
The public certainly seem to think that everyone in the public eye is expected to do that. Yet it is not clear to me that the public think that they s...
May 20, 2024 at 22:26
There is no doubt that it is easy to do that. But it seems that people disagree about whether the scenario makes sense or is incoherent and even if th...
May 20, 2024 at 19:17
OK. You and @"fishfry" both believe that the supertask is impossible. But you believe that is because it is contradictory and fishfry believes that it...
May 20, 2024 at 19:08
I followed your link and found this quotation from Benacerraf's Tasks, Super-Tasks, and the Modern Eleatics. I've put the passages of interest in bold...
May 20, 2024 at 12:51
Well, the first half of that is debatable, but let's save that for another time. You seem to have agreed on an agnostic position. From observation of ...
May 20, 2024 at 08:52
Yes, I find that as well. I work round it by selecting only the quoted text, not including the link that gives the attribution. Then, you can hit "quo...
May 20, 2024 at 06:03
Quite so. I've been thinking that the rules of the game require one to classify that as a purely physical phenomenon. But I prefer versions of this pr...
May 20, 2024 at 05:16
No, it isn't the same as being stopped. Being stopped is an everyday occurrence. Infinite speed, is, as you say, unintelligible. If that's what underp...
May 19, 2024 at 21:52
Yes. People may differ, of course. The view I expressed is unlikely to be acceptable to many believers - though there may be some, with philosophical ...
May 18, 2024 at 23:03
That's a very reasonable position.
May 18, 2024 at 19:53
On that basis, agnosticism is the only rational response. (It is my preferred response if people ever ask me.) But there are a number of physical impo...
May 18, 2024 at 19:50
He's right, of course, in his annoying way. Either there's a justification for that difference or there isn't. If there isn't, then morality is defici...
May 18, 2024 at 18:22
I agree. By "we" do you mean us human beings? You and I? If so, we will necessarily stop, if only when we die. Assuming that there are people who beli...
May 18, 2024 at 14:14
There's a confusion here. The remark you quoted, which the system attributed to me, is actually @"Lionino". I could claim academic sources from what I...
May 18, 2024 at 10:48
The truth is, you are both right. What religions don't often face up to is that brotherly love and sanctity are actually applied only to believers. Wh...
May 17, 2024 at 17:08
If both of these are true, then we need to be very careful about what we mean by "the world". There is an application that takes "the world" to exist ...
May 17, 2024 at 12:31
I agree with "a bat has.... what ultimate reality is" But then, I wonder what the status of "what's really going on in the world". Is that ultimate re...
May 17, 2024 at 09:04
I read your post. It is really helpful. I don't know enough to respond meaningfully, but I have a feeling I shall find my way back to it from time to ...
May 17, 2024 at 07:59
Yes, for me, that is the most helpful approach. Different kinds of object - different modes of existence. If you haven't come across it before, you mi...
May 16, 2024 at 21:20
Yes. That annoys me as well. Though there has to be a little wriggle room, doesn't there? Philosophers, in particular, would be very constricted if su...
May 16, 2024 at 17:44
Oh, well. That changes everything. I thought I was talking to a platonist and trying to get him to face up to some of his problems. But that's a bit f...
May 16, 2024 at 12:47
So many questions about this. It would be merely picky to ask whether "+" and "-" are objects, because it is obvious that they are operations to be ca...
May 16, 2024 at 11:05
Since I don't know what "reality" means in its philosophical sense (which I designate by "Reality", but I do know, roughly, what you mean by "the limi...
May 16, 2024 at 08:47
I don't think the calculus is relevant. In any case, I understood that it stated the problem rather than solving it - calculating the result to as clo...
May 15, 2024 at 20:25
Certainly mathematics is, in a sense, fixed. But what we are talking about it is applied mathematics. It seems pretty clear that arithmetic and geomet...
May 15, 2024 at 14:12
In my reply to this quotation, I said This was a mistake. I intended to spare you unnecessary verbiage in my reply. But what I said was annoying and u...
May 15, 2024 at 07:05
Well, I'm almost certain there isn't. But my disagreement with you prompted me to look more closely and acknowledge something that feels like error in...
May 15, 2024 at 03:41
Believe it or not, that's an incredibly helpful remark. Not only do I understand and agree with it, but it also enables me to get a handle on what met...
May 15, 2024 at 03:39
There's something going on here about ends and limits. I understood that the issue here is that although the series does have a limit, it doesn't have...
May 14, 2024 at 23:04
Well, whatever prompted you, the project makes sense to me and I agree with Toulmin. I'm not convinced about the relationship of those propositions wi...
May 14, 2024 at 19:28
If I knew how to ask without leading them into philosophy, I would. The Stanford Encyclopedia is the best quick reference that I know of for something...
May 14, 2024 at 15:32
It would be a mistake to apply (((P = Q) & (Q = R)) implies (P = R)) without checking very carefully whether "Q" means the same for both of them. It i...
May 14, 2024 at 14:48
I see your point. But you must know that there is a great deal of philosophy around your view of this. But I won't try to drag you through it, is beca...
May 14, 2024 at 11:34
No, I don't think that they think that. It is a philosophical thesis. I'm not sure it is possible to articulate what people who have not thought about...
May 14, 2024 at 10:31
.... and, as I think you must know, they think you are being wilfully dogmatic. That disagreement is what needs to be understood.
May 14, 2024 at 10:01
I'm not trying to find a solution, just to understand what's going on. Not so much why it's wrong, but why anyone would think it was right. Where does...
May 13, 2024 at 22:20
Oh, I see now. You did explain, but I didn't pay enough attention. Though I don't quite see how your B2 follows from your B1. But I don't think it is ...
May 13, 2024 at 19:51
That's clear as crystal. Your conclusion coincides with mine, so I'm perfectly happy with the argument. This puzzles me. Is this t(1) the same t as th...
May 13, 2024 at 17:57
Yes - unless it is a fictional situation - whether in the philosophical or the literary sense. That may explain why I have been confusing them. Thanks...
May 13, 2024 at 15:04
You mean because they allow the convergent infinite series? Mathematically? Physically? (I'm inclined to think you mean physically, because of your re...
May 13, 2024 at 11:46
Well, one could argue that it isn't a description of inertia, but of certain phenomena which are better described by inertia. Either way, impetus prov...
May 13, 2024 at 10:19
What it shows is that being a person is not simply a matter of fact, like weighing 15 stone or being 6 ft tall. It is a whole network of concepts (lan...
May 13, 2024 at 08:31
Case closed, then.
May 12, 2024 at 21:27
. That's a relief. I suspect that there are still people around who have difficulty with the difference between "not fully applicable" and "false". I ...
May 12, 2024 at 17:36
It has occurred to me to wonder why anyone trains these machines on text that has not been vetted for grammatical and other errors. (My bugbear is typ...
May 12, 2024 at 12:14