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Look, lets say there is a bunch of building blocks, and what these building blocks do is obey the laws of nature, so that whatever they produce is sai...
April 24, 2022 at 22:06
Your phrase "substance causation" is still incoherent to me. (I'll be clear to add "to me" if that satisfies you). You are saying that a "substance" c...
April 24, 2022 at 13:21
It hasn't always been like this. Newton for example indicated that the reality, or truth of his first law of motion, what we call inertia, is dependen...
April 24, 2022 at 12:45
That's exactly the issue, a changing space. Apokrisis claimed space was both flat and curved, which I pointed out is contradictory unless this is a te...
April 24, 2022 at 12:28
I think what is required, is to first remove all reference to dimensions. It is this idea of distinct dimensions which causes the problem. Suppose we ...
April 23, 2022 at 13:04
That's because I have never come across "substance causation" before, it seems to be your idiosyncrasy, and you haven't yet explained it in a coherent...
April 23, 2022 at 12:31
For the reasons I explained, "2d sphere" is incoherent.
April 23, 2022 at 12:03
Come on apokrisis. This statement says that the cosmos was created with the purpose of maximizing entropy. That means that it was created intentionall...
April 23, 2022 at 12:00
I think the proper limits to curvature are the infinitely small radius, and the infinitely large radius. The infinitely large radius cannot appear as ...
April 23, 2022 at 11:22
As I said in my earlier post, the only sense of "necessary" which can be validated is the sense of "needed for...", as a good, for whatever purpose. T...
April 23, 2022 at 10:27
I believe the position apokrisis is arguing is contrary to the principles of Gaussian curvature. But apokrisis refers to Gaussian curvature in an atte...
April 22, 2022 at 22:00
The trackpad is a terrible invention. It's designed to make you inadvertently click on all sorts of things which you otherwise would not click on, whe...
April 22, 2022 at 12:26
Yes, I am referring to "agent causation". But I went through this already. A substance does not cause anything on its own, it is the act of the substa...
April 22, 2022 at 12:09
This is where you are wrong, because you are not distinguishing between the ideal and the real. I explained this already. You said a thing is flat to ...
April 22, 2022 at 11:41
There's method to the madness.
April 22, 2022 at 00:43
If that's their childish attitudes, I'd tell them they'll have to wait a long time before they'll be old enough to have a drink. Some people will neve...
April 22, 2022 at 00:40
I didn't say "event", I said "act". Some acts are not events, but cause events, like an act of will, it causes an event but is not itself an event. Th...
April 21, 2022 at 23:59
I'll dig as deep as necessary, until you recognize your mistakes. And from my experience, that will be very deep.
April 21, 2022 at 23:21
No, that technique I described definitely would not work in a flat world, because the thing being measured is assumed to be curved. The curve is what ...
April 21, 2022 at 21:30
That's clearly not what I said. I said conviction is our means of understanding. Without conviction we suspend judgement indefinitely, on everything, ...
April 21, 2022 at 13:13
I'd measure in the same way that curvature is normally measured, classically, relative to a central point. That's why I said, replace your "negative a...
April 21, 2022 at 12:39
Waited for what? Waited until 2025 before he turned 25? That would have been real magic if he could do that, kind of like being born on Feb 29, real m...
April 21, 2022 at 11:35
I don't deny this, I think pretty much all use of words is dogmatic conviction. However, that's how we understand things, through such convictions. I'...
April 21, 2022 at 02:17
"Two extremes of one spectrum" is not a proper description. It is not what you told me, nor is it what your Gaussian curvature exemplified. A flat thi...
April 21, 2022 at 02:08
This is what is incoherent. Your phrase "there was no time when..." implies that the described scenario was real when there was "no time". Therefore y...
April 21, 2022 at 01:41
Is your appeal to authority supposed to impress me? Did you just meet me yesterday? Are you going to defend your assertions or not? Can you justify yo...
April 21, 2022 at 01:14
I see this as incoherent. A sphere is a 3d curved surface. It requires 3D. Parallel lines require a flat 2D surface, a plane. The two are incompatible...
April 20, 2022 at 11:57
That's an incoherent sentence. The ball and cushion are observed to be in a situation now. In the time before now, the ball and cushion are presumed t...
April 20, 2022 at 11:32
The mathematics is irrelevant, because as I've explained to you numerous times, and you persistently ignore, the measuring system employed (i.e. the m...
April 20, 2022 at 11:06
One of the problems involved in assuming infinite time. When two things are assumed to co-exist, forever, it makes the existence of each of them unint...
April 20, 2022 at 01:42
By then javi will no longer be 25 years old.
April 20, 2022 at 01:35
There's no such thing as parallel lines if space is curved. As I keep saying, that would be contradictory. So your reference, parallel lines, has no p...
April 20, 2022 at 01:20
Right, but "positive" and "negative" curvature is an arbitrary convention of measurement, just like the number of degrees in a circle. And as I said, ...
April 20, 2022 at 00:54
Right, so to actually be at that limit, as in having zero curvature, would be contradictory to having any degree of curvature at all. Kind of like dea...
April 20, 2022 at 00:17
Right, and to have zero curvature is to have no curvature at all, which is a direct contradiction of having curvature, being curved. Drawing a triangl...
April 19, 2022 at 21:57
I don't think so. When we look back in time, as is the case with "could have been different", it is impossible that things could have been different w...
April 19, 2022 at 20:48
This is the sort of strawman often used to "refute" free will. The determinist will characterize the free willist as saying "What I did, could be diff...
April 19, 2022 at 11:57
Observation all happens within the imagination?
April 19, 2022 at 11:50
You appear to be contradicting yourself apokrisis. You reify space, by talking about "flat space" and "curved space", implying that space is a thing w...
April 19, 2022 at 11:47
The number of degrees in a circle is arbitrary. It could have been a hundred, four hundred, a thousand, or any number. 360 was a convenient number bec...
April 19, 2022 at 01:04
I'm surprised that you don't see the problem with this statement. The nearest blackholes are more than a thousand light years away. You cannot call th...
April 19, 2022 at 00:39
When "necessity" is understood in the sense of required, needed, necessary for, then logical necessity and the necessity of causation are the same typ...
April 18, 2022 at 12:53
That's exactly the problem, it isn't science at all, because instead of acknowledging that the predictive failures of the theory are due to a faulty t...
April 18, 2022 at 11:35
Making exceptions to the rule stipulated by the theory, whenever the theory fails in its predictive capacity, to account for these failings, instead o...
April 18, 2022 at 01:39
This is not necessarily the case. We just need to accept what Plato tells us, that the senses deceive us, and we obey reason instead of the senses. So...
April 17, 2022 at 12:50
That the theory doesn't allow any predictions at all, is exactly the point I was trying to make. The mathematics applied to an observed pattern provid...
April 17, 2022 at 11:54
I think experiential consistency is questionable. That's why we have difference of intuitions, differences of preference, and so on. These are the pec...
April 16, 2022 at 21:12
I can't see how the analogy works. You can point to your cat and say "I know that's a cat, but I don't really know what a cat is". But you cannot poin...
April 16, 2022 at 21:00
Who do you propose could set the boundaries to religion? Such boundaries could only be set by God, or the gods, because only these divinities might ha...
April 16, 2022 at 11:41
No, this is exactly what we cannot do. We must respect the fact that thinking about anything, is, by its very nature something limited by the human co...
April 16, 2022 at 11:31