It's not a matter of what is "meant by 'going to zero'", it's a question of what value is given in the calculation. Look at 6:25 in the video where he...
One divided by infinity is not zero, it is indefinite. If you assume that one divided by infinity equals zero, you assume that the value for y reaches...
I use "direct" here in the sense you suggest, as to guide something. The issue I indicated, is that if the mind was directing itself, there would be n...
If you would have listened to me in those other threads, where I explained the deficiencies in mathematical axioms, especially those which make what i...
OK, I'll go with that term. We could almost just call it "mind", but that would imply that we were limiting ourselves to the conscious aspect. I think...
I don't think it is particularly useful to attempt at distinguishing specific types of thinking, like this. I believe that if true boundaries between ...
Why portray philosophy in the way you do? Take Socrates for example. Socrates used philosophy to show that what people commonly believed about the gen...
I tend to think that actual thinking does not really involve words, and this is a sort of misunderstanding that people hold. You describe relating pie...
I think that what has happened is that we have allowed spoken language to supersede the more animalistic communications. This means that we look for m...
When I see that clip of Newton's Cradle, my first thought is "that looks fake". The accelerations and decelerations are not right, so the whole thing ...
Hopefully this is the first step to the Republicans disassociating themselves from Trump. If that happens who knows what will become of all the disenf...
There is a need to distinguish between intersubjective and objective, in order to allow for the truly objective aspect of reality which is beyond the ...
You still have not justified the validity of. or done anything to disambiguated, this proposed concept "ordinary criteria". If "ordinary criteria" ref...
If I understand correctly, "frontrunning" means receiving orders, and buying for yourself prior to filling the orders, even if just a fraction of a se...
Within that conceptual framework which produces these forms, "the dips and dimples" are in the fabric of spacetime, not space. Suppose we have two obj...
Let's say that understanding is not the same as thinking. Doesn't understanding require thinking? And wouldn't some thinking not produce understanding...
Right, there is very clear evidence, and a formal inquiry, which came to the conclusion that there was illegal foreign interference in the 2016 electi...
Unless stated as rules, the boundaries of conventions only exist as ideas. This is what is meant when people say agreement is "implicit", they mean th...
This is nonsense Harry. The Dems never contested the results of the 2016 election, nor were there accusations of theft. There was accusations of illeg...
As I said, you can use "rule" however you please, there's no rule which dictates how you must use the word. However, if you are trying to remain consi...
I think that the "puzzling" issue of the op is explained quite easily by the fact that we learn to talk before we learn to read, or think in words. Be...
Where's the "other" option? I would say that they definitely have a different meaning, as "is" and "ought" have different meanings. But it's one philo...
"If" it were the same... but it's not. A rule consists of a stated principle of conformity, therefore defined boundaries. A convention, by your own ad...
We don't need to make that determination, because if this were the case, the conclusion would be the very same, that a convention is necessarily not a...
Sorry Luke, you misunderstood again, as usual. I didn't agree that a convention is the same thing as a rule. I agree that for you it is. But I believe...
You can make them that way if you want, it's just a matter of definition. You can simply define "rule" in a very ambiguous way, allowing all sorts of ...
Yes, we could make that judgement. But we don't stay within those boundaries, that's P2. I know you disagree with P2, and you could have saved days of...
If going outside the boundaries of a convention is the same thing as staying within the boundaries of a rule, then obviously a convention is not the s...
Right, Trump's team threatened to call hundreds of witnesses and drag the trial out for months, preventing all the other work that needs to get done f...
Well, if we're going to proceed with a philosophical inquiry concerning where, or how we might find rules, we need some criteria as to what qualifies ...
Luke, how many times must we go through the same thing? If a convention is proposed as a rule, then we must determine whether it fulfills the conditio...
That's a nice theory but it's not really consistent with the graph you provided. There are many instances when margin growth slows, where the market c...
Obviously, going outside the boundaries contradicts staying within the boundaries, therefore going outside the boundaries does not fulfil the requirem...
How many times do I have to repeat the same thing Luke? A is an action, the action of following a rule. The first premise defines this action. It does...
I believe it is possible for a man to mean that, as you are suggesting. But what is possible for "a man" to mean with those words is not the question ...
When one is proving that B is not an A, then what is required to be an A is stated (definition), and the description of B is stated. If the descriptio...
That magical power is called contradiction. It's not hard to tell someone to do one thing one minute, and the opposite thing the next minute. Choose t...
Come on NOS, I can incite someone to commit a crime, and if the police arrest, and therefore prevent that person from carrying out the crime, it doesn...
What is described in P2, conventions and unspoken rules, do not concern the act of rule-following, that's whole the point of the argument. to show tha...
That's not true at all. All of Trump's actions following the election, especially his incessant claims that the election was "stolen", ought to be con...
Are you sure that these "amorphous field contours" are not just theoretical? What physicists know as a "field" is just a map of something they don't r...
Right, the argument concerns a type of action, what we were calling "rule-following". That's why P1 and P2 have "act" in common. I believe you've grad...
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