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Parenthetical: I don't agree with the quote but was reminded of it.

I'm not exactly in my element either. Blind leading the blind here.

I don't want to derail the thread and must be honest I am not a mathematician. However, it's my understanding that in your example numbers are not the...

They exist as abstractions, mathematical concepts. There are certainly mathematical abstractions without a concrete actualisation, and these include r...

I don't think this is right. Imaginary numbers exist as mathematical entities used by mathematicians. In exactly the same way that the real numbers ex...

There is no formula for life. Best we can do is have an ongoing discussion about a subject, for 100's of years, without reaching a definitive conclusi...

on the numberline, yes. Where is the numberline located?

What do you mean by 'humanity'?

Yes that is true. My example is at the syntactical level. Ok I'll leave it to someone else to find an example at the semantic level.

I was attempting to give an example of a non-arithmetical use of the symbol '2'. So my attempt was successful(?).

I have no idea what that means.

An obvious non numerical example: dynamic programming languages tend to treat '+' as a concatenation operator when applied to sequences of 'chars'. So...

At least we get a little existential dread to spice things up. Afterall, the dinosaurs became extinct without conceptual capacity.

And some of the accomplishments of conceptual thought are: medicine, art, technology, science, space exploration, engineering, the Internet, etc. Not ...

2+1 and 3 are symbols referring to the same mathematical entity. The symbol 2+1 also contains descriptive information about the process used to arrive...

Sounds like you are into advaita vedanta

Yep. One can reason one's way towards an ideal, but lived experience is not purely rational.

Wrong, there is actually a lot written on this subject. Good starting points: Lee Braver - "A thing of this world" and Simon Critchley - "very short i...

Isn't this just confusing a snapshot of a thing with the thing itself? The movement is not divided into discrete moments until we try to model it usin...

Lacan iirc. Who, of all French thinkers, might possibly deserve the title of obscurantist.

Your Catholic mother should've been more worried about the content of the book than the cover. Lest ye be corrupted.

Is this thread intended to find something akin to the p vs np problem (related to complexity in computing)? https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Comple...

What about people who hold irrational beliefs - say paranoid psychotic delusions - that couldn't possibly derive from some type of memory process (bec...

Is this the fiction section of the forum?

https://plato.stanford.edu/

Dunno, never tried it.

I had no idea that orange trees are so easy to grow

yes I come back to this from time to time. In my (subjective) opinion it is one of the greatest works of fiction.

Homework?

The last man by Mary Shelley

Consider how worse it would be without that section. At least that section serves the purpose of containing the religious garbage in one place.

The natural sciences would have to have reached omniscience to ascertain that assertion. Until then we can assume that any undetermined reality is mer...

Yeah if you ever find a cure for philosophy please let me know.

I still think you have failed to see the distinction between premises themselves and their relations. Can you explain what you mean by "favoring relat...

It seems to me that your confusion is a result of conflating premises with the logical relation between premises. But its hard to make sense of your p...

Sigh. Logic as the analysis of the structure of arguments is centered around the notion of logical entailment. Logical entailment is the valid movemen...

You have made it clear that you have not understood the subject and that you are unwilling to listen to others. I'll leave you to it.

Logic deals with propositions. "buy me some butter", isn't a proposition. It's an imperative statement. Perhaps you should read up on what a propositi...

Is OLP still alive and kicking? I have read that Searle is the last proponent of OLP. I admittedly don't know much about OLP or ILP

Well sure, you can do that if you don't care about maintaining logical validity.

1. If Bob is a bachelor, then he is unmarried 2. Bob is a bachelor 3. Therefore: Bob is unmarried The conclusion necessarily follows. You can't have t...

It is almost always the case that a webdeveloper has zero understanding of the logic of a computer at the hardware level. Moving from hardware to soft...

read back through the posts and you will see that I am the one who said it was overkill.

perhaps you meant to highlight In any case, you can cover most of the modern Western Canon (Descartes onwards) with English, French and German. Bonne ...

It takes years to learn a language to the level needed to read philosophical texts. At this rate the poor guy will never get started.

Link a paper you have authored

Pretty sure it wasn't merely a quote and that Rafaella attempted to pass off others work as his own.

Asking this question means that you're implicitly aware of the difference between the social and the individual - yet you are stuck on the question of...

What it does for the man on the street is provide authenticity; it provides him a way of making sense of his existence from his own explorations, not ...