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If some of this is relevant to the points I've made, then provide some quotes or references. Otherwise what's the point in mentioning something which ...
August 01, 2021 at 11:21
That's what infinity in mathematics gives us, ungainly lacunas.
July 31, 2021 at 11:38
Maybe consider that those ordinary concepts are not composed of rules at all. It's possible that when we see non-ordinary concepts like mathematics as...
July 31, 2021 at 00:44
I'm a philosopher, my game is to analyze and criticize the rules of other games. This is a matter of interpretation. If you do not like that, then why...
July 30, 2021 at 13:03
In the Aristotelian scheme, matter is characterized as potential, and form is actual. And of course both are real aspects of reality, with a qualifica...
July 29, 2021 at 22:04
You do not seem to be grasping the problem. If a set is characterized by its elements, there is no such thing as an empty set. No elements, no set. Do...
July 29, 2021 at 19:55
When. after repeated attempts, the rules are apprehended as impossible to understand, due to the appearance of inconsistency and incoherency, the best...
July 29, 2021 at 01:55
It's not trivial, because it's a demonstration of what "specified" means. If you specify that the guests are all human, then clearly that is a specifi...
July 29, 2021 at 01:47
I don't see that as a trivial point, because not only is "set" undefined, but also "element" is undefined. So we have a vicious circle which makes it ...
July 28, 2021 at 11:10
OED: specify, "to name or mention". Clearly the set you called "V" is not unspecified, and it's you who wants to change the meaning "specify" to suit ...
July 28, 2021 at 01:10
I like the way that Plato introduces the idea of agency in relation to harmony, at 92c, where he has Socrates say: "How will you harmonize this statem...
July 28, 2021 at 00:28
That's what I see as the principal issue. Evidence is derived from "our" universe, and we generally do not allow conflicting evidence as this is contr...
July 27, 2021 at 11:04
It appears to me, like you refuse to accept that agency is an essential part of harmony, and that Socrates' description of harmony, as something produ...
July 27, 2021 at 01:51
That's right, to specify that they are real numbers is to specify, just like to specify that the guests at the hotel are human beings is to specify. T...
July 27, 2021 at 01:32
You might place the agency within, as immanent, but the main point is the lack of agency in Simmias' argument. And, when agency is accounted for the a...
July 26, 2021 at 11:12
You are specifying "the real numbers". How is this not a specification? Actually, you're wrong, your set is clearly a specified set. This is not true,...
July 26, 2021 at 01:52
At 86 is how Simmias describes what you translate as "tuning". At 94 is where Socrates corrects Simmias,.with a more true description of "tuning", as ...
July 25, 2021 at 22:12
Do you not grasp the "ing" suffix on "tuning"? The ratio of frequencies, according to which something is tuned is the principle, or rules, applied in ...
July 25, 2021 at 19:05
Another example of the division between mathematics and philosophy. But the Wikipedia entry is consistent with the SEP.. You two just seem to twist ar...
July 25, 2021 at 12:17
I already explained how this interpretation is faulty. "The tuning" is the act which tunes. It is not visible in the tuned instrument because it is pr...
July 25, 2021 at 11:22
"We might construct..." In other words, if we allow that anything goes, then we are able to do anything, so we might also be capable of doing everythi...
July 24, 2021 at 11:50
This is Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on infinite regress. "An infinite regress is a series of appropriately related elements with a first membe...
July 24, 2021 at 11:24
I don't think this is quite what he is saying. In fact, this is the problematic perspective which Plato believed needs to be clarified. Think about wh...
July 24, 2021 at 02:08
I'm not reverting back. Just because I understand better what I didn't understand as well before, doesn't mean that I am now bound to accept the princ...
July 24, 2021 at 01:02
Right, each part needs to be ordered, towards one end, purpose, function, or whatever you want to call it. Each particular has a specific role within ...
July 23, 2021 at 11:09
To make infinite numbers into a circle is to make a vicious circle. It is to say that the beginning is the same as the end. And this is what allows fo...
July 22, 2021 at 10:32
No, Socrates argument is not based on a pre-existing soul, as I explained. First he demonstrates the faults of Simmias' position. Then he demonstrates...
July 22, 2021 at 02:13
Obviously, "2" refers to two distinct and different things. If there was only one thing we'd have to use "1". Again, this is the difference between fi...
July 22, 2021 at 01:55
These two ideas, that there is such a thing as the soul, and that each part of the body is itself a "self-organizing" entity, is what Socrates demonst...
July 21, 2021 at 10:51
Saying that the soul is like a harmony, or attunement, is to assume that there is such a thing as "the soul" which is being talked about. .Socrates si...
July 20, 2021 at 21:15
Socrates' argument is that the soul is not like a harmony, it is more like the cause of the harmony. That's right, Socrates' argument doesn't depend o...
July 20, 2021 at 01:25
You write very well. That must be why I like to engage with you, not that I want to troll you. Yes that' the mathematical Platonism I reject. I believ...
July 19, 2021 at 11:00
A harmony is a group of notes played together, like a chord, which are judged as sounding good. This is why I do not like your interpretation of the w...
July 19, 2021 at 02:37
I didn't know that, but it makes the problems which I've apprehended much more understandable. If everything is a set, in set theory, then infinite re...
July 19, 2021 at 01:48
The second is always true regardless of the instrument. That's what I've been explaining to you, the temporal aspect of Socrates' argument. The harmon...
July 18, 2021 at 01:30
That is what you said. You said the phrase, "We should not use 'least' if we don't mean quantity" is incorrect. I asked, if you don't mean some sort o...
July 18, 2021 at 01:03
OK, this makes more sense than what you told me in the other post, that one "precedes" the other. You are explaining that one is a part of the other, ...
July 17, 2021 at 12:16
OK Tones, explain to me then what "least" means in "the mathematical sense", if it is not a quantitative term. It can't be "purely symbolic" in the co...
July 17, 2021 at 03:09
It appears to me, like you're totally missing Socrates' argument. There is no such thing as "more or less in tune". Either the waves are in sync or th...
July 17, 2021 at 01:40
No, I think you misinterpret this. I say it's "your" bijective equivalence, because you are the one proposing it, not I. So "yours" is in relation to ...
July 15, 2021 at 11:00
In other words, you agree that it's incorrect to say that ordinals are logically prior to cardinals. That is, unless you are just trying to hide a vic...
July 15, 2021 at 02:06
The argument is not about universals. It is a question of whether the activity required to produce, or create, an organized system of parts (the harmo...
July 15, 2021 at 01:50
Well then it's incorrect to say that ordinality is logically prior to cardinality. If there is already cardinality inherent within ordinality then the...
July 15, 2021 at 01:33
Isn't this circular? Doesn't "least" already imply cardinality, such that cardinality is already inherent within the ordinals, to allow the designatio...
July 14, 2021 at 10:50
This is why the immaterial soul is prior to the material body. Wayfarer's point explains why we must conclude that the immaterial soul is prior to the...
July 14, 2021 at 00:30
But a lyre does need to be tuned. It doesn't magically tune itself, and if used, it rapidly goes out of tune. So there is a very clear need to assume ...
July 13, 2021 at 10:26
Yes, and the belief that the soul is like a particular lyre being in tune (a harmony), is the belief which Socrates dismisses as faulty. So the fact t...
July 13, 2021 at 01:46
I think you're using "necessary" in a way different from how the classical theologians used it. God is said to be necessary in the sense of "required ...
July 12, 2021 at 10:50
This is strangely worded. If it is true that the act of tuning is what causes the lyre to be tuned, then it contradicts this to say "The tuning does n...
July 12, 2021 at 01:22
Well, I don't think this is really true. There are principles to be followed in tuning the instrument, but the tuning itself is dependent on hearing t...
July 11, 2021 at 23:00