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Metaphysician Undercover

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I am skeptical of myself, very much so. But that doesn't answer the questions I have for you, concerning your "Metaphysical Principle". You seem to ha...
February 26, 2022 at 03:22
I don't see how you could argue this point. An interpretation is how one explains the meaning of something. To use different words to explain somethin...
February 26, 2022 at 00:35
It's not off track, because your designation of "greater" might be purely subjective, and in itself off track. You might say stone is greater than wat...
February 25, 2022 at 18:23
I am having 'great' difficulty understanding what you tried to tell me Joe. Isn't it true that "why?" is an inquiry as to purpose? So why do you dismi...
February 25, 2022 at 14:19
Probably the real reason why Saddam Hussein had to be ousted was the flow of sanction busting black market oil.
February 25, 2022 at 13:08
I don't see how you can believe that what goes on in the minds of two different people, when they read the very same thing, is the same. Pass two peop...
February 25, 2022 at 12:44
[ As I said, I believe a theorem is literally the terms that state it. Therefore any and all theories or theorems are open to individual interpretatio...
February 25, 2022 at 01:38
After reading the article it seems more like the dishbrain was programmed to do do something which was a simulation of playing the game pong.
February 24, 2022 at 12:55
My reply is similar to Wayfarer's, but if we go deeper you'll see that I differ significantly in opinion, from Wayfarer. As I defined "exist" as spati...
February 24, 2022 at 12:51
Neither is relevant to the attendant, who will get the coat either way. That's the point, the attendant doesn't even consider whether or not the thing...
February 24, 2022 at 02:48
Actually, Newton said his first law of motion requires the will of God. The fact that something existed in a specific way in the past, doesn't necessi...
February 24, 2022 at 01:44
Why don't you just say that any form of organized existence, or order in general, must be created by a mind or something mind-like? I think clearer te...
February 23, 2022 at 20:04
This is where Wittgenstein goes wrong with the idea of hinges. The proposition that this is a token is completely irrelevant, and not even taken into ...
February 23, 2022 at 12:54
Generally, "exist" is a spatial-temporal concept. To exist is to be describable in spatial-temporal terms. The concept of "real" allows for truth in r...
February 23, 2022 at 12:15
This is what I object to, as false, or unrealistic. Our actions do not demonstrate our certainty, and the randomness of an individual's mistakes shows...
February 22, 2022 at 14:08
I don't understand any of your concerns here. Laws of self-regulation exist for many industries, especially concerning safety issues. The government p...
February 22, 2022 at 13:22
You're not the first, if you check my history on this site, I've already been engaged in fulfilling your wishes. In mathematics we are taught to take ...
February 21, 2022 at 12:24
No you haven't explained. And that you say you fear I will refuse to accept your explanation, is admittance that you haven't explained, because you ar...
February 21, 2022 at 02:21
You can say that a line is extension, but a line only has one dimension. You can define space to be three dimensional, described by three lines in rel...
February 20, 2022 at 22:09
These two statements are fundamentally incompatible. If "knowledge is a success word", then success is its goal, and knowledge is reduced to justifica...
February 20, 2022 at 13:44
I don't see your point. The concept of "matter" is not compatible with the concept of a "line", in any conceptual scheme that I'm aware of. Simply put...
February 20, 2022 at 13:12
Why do you complain about the self-evident truth, and insist that it's somehow "wrong"? What qualifies as a "crime" is what the government dictates is...
February 20, 2022 at 13:05
I think you're missing an important point Sam. When you say "here is a broom", as a proposition, it is a proposal which may or may not be accepted. If...
February 19, 2022 at 12:56
I can't make sense of your post. "Matter" and "space", though related, are distinct conceptions. I don't know what you mean by matter finding space wi...
February 19, 2022 at 11:42
I have, there is a number of them in my family. Also, I've had numerous, (some very lengthy), discussions with mathematicians in this forum, some conc...
February 19, 2022 at 01:53
Correction, the bank accounts are frozen for contributing to illegal activity. That's the point of the emergencies act, it allows the government to ma...
February 19, 2022 at 01:27
This is not true, that's the problem. This is not what the math represents. It's just like your claim that a line is composed of an infinite number of...
February 18, 2022 at 14:03
That's an expected reply, which sums the attitude very well: 'money is more important than a healthy body'. Obviously the proclaimed "freedom" is not ...
February 18, 2022 at 12:54
No, but I've had a lot worse, I've been beaten and kicked all over my body. Believe it or not, that's what quite often happens when you protest the au...
February 17, 2022 at 22:48
You missed the point. Velocity, no matter how you interpret it, classically or in the modern way, implies motion. Motion implies that the thing moving...
February 17, 2022 at 21:30
Nothing new there. Ever been audited by the revenue department?
February 17, 2022 at 12:53
Begging the question.
February 17, 2022 at 12:29
Well Banno, I take your reply as a joke. You have put no effort into it, being afraid to look at anything which is inconsistent with what you claim. A...
February 17, 2022 at 12:00
No, doubt is not a language game. It is an attitude of uncertainty which does not require language for its existence. Likewise, certitude is an attitu...
February 17, 2022 at 01:13
I'm not saying that it's not well understood, nor am I saying that it's at all ambiguous. I'm just saying that it does not provide a real solution to ...
February 16, 2022 at 22:59
It is not necessarily true that God knows the future. This problem was investigated by Augustine at some length. If God can know the future, it appear...
February 16, 2022 at 18:53
Well, if you cannot apprehend the obviousness of the fact that any understanding of reality which you may have, is your own mind's understanding of re...
February 16, 2022 at 16:53
Can anyone provide a clear explanation of the difference between a hinge proposition, and a self-evident truth? That might be a good start toward unde...
February 16, 2022 at 13:23
Actually there is a way to settle this, and that is to understand and accept the very obvious reality, and simple truth, that consciousness is fundame...
February 16, 2022 at 13:10
I believe this is the mistaken simplicity which modern conceptions of space and time have fallen into. This is the result of placing pragmatic conveni...
February 16, 2022 at 12:32
As far as I know, no one has demonstrated an acceptable resolution to the arrow paradox. What it demonstrates is that a moment in time is incoherent i...
February 16, 2022 at 03:26
The application of division, fractions, ratios, is generally very problematic, and the way that conventional mathematics treats division in general is...
February 15, 2022 at 13:57
That's what you might think, but quite obviously "doubt" is created when the appropriate language game cannot be determined. That's what Plato demonst...
February 15, 2022 at 13:34
The issue with pi being an irrational ratio is not a measurement problem. It is a logical problem with the defined (mathematical) object, the circle. ...
February 15, 2022 at 12:42
The problem I see is with "intention". Intention is what gives causality to abstractions. We might assume that the abstractions are tools put to use i...
February 15, 2022 at 03:31
Judging by the news of a whole fleet of crashed crafts a week or so ago, calling me couldn't have hurt.
February 15, 2022 at 02:42
You should have said this right away, when I said things in the past are not in the universe. That would have saved some time, and unnecessary back an...
February 15, 2022 at 02:33
Do you understand a difference between "data comes from the senses", and "data is the material world"? In the former, "data" requires sensation. In th...
February 15, 2022 at 02:10
If hinges are defined as propositions which it is unreasonable to doubt, or, are indubitable, then there are no hinges. Each person is involved in num...
February 15, 2022 at 01:54
The correspondence is not with a material world, it is with an immaterial world, notice the correspondence referred to is with "data", not "a material...
February 15, 2022 at 01:09