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Nowhere near as low as the faked white-helmets video that lead to 105 cruise missiles being fired on Syria, nor as intriguing as the fake Skripal affa...

But, according to the Scientific Method, there is no such thing as evidence for any theory. All evidence can achieve is to render a theory problematic...

I've not caught up with the arguments, but it seems to me that the distinction between identity and causation might be a distinction without a differe...

You are exhibiting the stratospheric level of cluelessness frequently encountered in those who impute ignorance to others.

So, you cannot find a single case where a physical system, whose time-evolution is determined by laws of motion, expressed in differential equation fo...

When the ignorant impute ignorance, it is never pretty, is it? Now, because I am "unaware of basic mathematical terminology", perhaps you could find, ...

Read Darwin.

Science does not rely on any inductive principle, particularly as such a principle has never been successfully formulated.

Sure, I Says the ass and the hypocrite. Darwin wrote about this very issue in his most important work. Perhaps he obviously also did not understand th...

Differential equations you say? You mean the type of equations, that given the state of the system at any time, the states for all other times may be ...

The initial conditions at the big-bang determine, through the laws of physics, the universal wavefunction for all times. And "all times" means the uni...

The laws of physics that we have discovered do not depend on any inductive principle, and their discovery has nothing to do with the mythical principl...

How can natural selection cause anything in a deterministic universe?

I see. You claim that science merely models causal relations, but somehow manages to model unknown, unexpected, surprising causal relations, even when...

If that is the case, then how can quantum entanglement be discovered in the theory, 50 years before technology was capable of testing, or observing th...

The laws of physics don't seem to mention causality, anywhere.

But in the end, Newton was right.

I'm quite familiar with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It might be informative if you could use an inductive principle to derive it, though? I don't t...

That's quite funny. You, of course are completely confident in the definition of "metaphysical" or even "instantiated". Try reading all of the post.

Science doesn't use induction or any other mythical principle. I refer you to Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper.

Science doesn't assume or rely on any such inductive principle.

You are probably right, but I feel compelled to draw the distinction. Materialism seems to indicate that not only is everything constituted of mater i...

I have never encountered the claim that the scientists working on e.m. radiation thought they were trying to understand something non-physical before....

If I ever encounter a materialist, I refer them to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Then they are forced to join the physicalists.

It is a physical principle that any finite physical system may be perfectly emulated on a universal computer operating by finite means. I can't detect...

There is nothing "wrong" with Zeno's argument beyond the PRESUMPTION that the properties of abstract entities are identical the the properties of real...

"Radically mistaken" may be extreme language, but we "know for sure" we labour under certain misapprehensions. The fact that we are mistaken about the...

But why do you want to "know for sure"? How is that any better than to "know". We are fallible beings, and we should be open to criticism of our theor...

Can someone remind me why anyone should assume that the abstract properties of an abstract idea (in this case infinity) should have any bearing on phy...

I see. The proposal makes even less sense than I had previously thought. Thanks.

Our best theories tell us space(-time) is continuous.

What law of motion are you using? If you are using Newton's laws, then you might want to reconsider. Anyway, when we consider even the classical equat...

No such object can exist in Reality, so it cannot be "abstractly or otherwise".

It is trivial to divide any volume to cover an infinite surface. There are plenty of convergent infinite series that will divide the volume for you. L...

In mathematics, any volume can be divided in such a way to cover any surface. This is just like Zeno's paradox. The paradox arises from the confusion ...

Planck UNITS don't solve the "problem". So to reiterate, what can and what cannot happen in Reality cannot be deduced from mathematics. In particular,...

Not a smart move. All physical theories that work require the continuum.

Quite. The paradox has nothing whatsoever to do with the finiteness of the sum, it has to do with a finite entity being unable to perform the infinite...

Sheesh, I must have missed that when I did my maths degree.

Yes they are, and the whole point of Zeno's paradox is that it purports to be one, but it is not.

You mean literally FOREVER? Literally infinite time?

Why stop there?

You will never encounter a distance expressed in anything more than the set of computable numbers.

But THAT is not the paradox. The series obviously converges, but how can it ever reach the limit, if the entity performing the infinite sum is a finit...

The Critical Rationalists are, I believe, realists, and they have the epistemic story.

There is precisely zero evidence for a discrete space-time. General Relativity is a theory of a continuous space-time, and Quantum Field Theory os a t...

Does P2 show that all supertasks are impossible, or just a certain class of tasks? Are we not labouring under the conflation that certain abstract att...

What laws of physics do Achilles and the turtle obey? What do these LAWS say will happen?

I don't think so. It seems much more like an unfamiliarity with the laws that govern reality, and the mistaken assumption that these laws admit the (d...

But isn't it simply the case that you are confusing the continuum with reality? Don't tortoises and demi-gods obey the laws of physics rather than the...