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If there is such a thing, then it is part of "our world". And so the mathematical axioms must be "true to it", in order to be correct. Then the chess ...
June 26, 2020 at 11:29
I've never seen any such definition of "division". The usual definition involves dividing something and this has nothing to do with multiplying. You t...
June 26, 2020 at 02:58
I even provided quotes from Dr. Feynman, describing how when electrical energy moves, it moves through the field, rather than as electrons moving. But...
June 25, 2020 at 11:13
You're not going to get very far by limiting "immaterial" in this way. It's a straw man which doesn't in any way represent what a person who believes ...
June 25, 2020 at 11:03
This is where I have a disagreement. There are many instance of a/b, which cannot be called an element. As I described already, in many cases a cannot...
June 25, 2020 at 01:33
I can't answer this question without an acceptable definition of "number". It seems mine has been rejected. But as I just described, one cannot be div...
June 24, 2020 at 11:08
You don't seem to understand. "One" does not represent a quantity which can be divided. Any multitude such as two, three, or four, can be divided, bec...
June 24, 2020 at 02:08
I've already given my proof, based in my definition of "number". It's in my posts directed at Banno. Don't listen to Banno here because Banno's form o...
June 23, 2020 at 11:08
They think they've proved it. Staring from a false premise does not make a sound proof. But if one doesn't recognize the falsity of the premise... "1"...
June 23, 2020 at 02:48
There was no point to your example, as is your habit. You started from a false premise and tried to make something out of it. I took my definition of ...
June 22, 2020 at 10:49
I do not argue against the fact that mathematicians believe that .999..., and 1 refer to the same value. The difference between these two is a differe...
June 22, 2020 at 02:29
No, clearly that's not "the same way". You, as a growing human being, have grown taller over time. The mountain's circumference has not grown larger a...
June 21, 2020 at 12:42
It's just that i think about extremely trivial things, which is not a common trait. But the important things are already over thought so why not?
June 21, 2020 at 12:22
No, I believe the two symbols have different meaning, and I've given the reasons why I believe that. You claim that the symbols refer to the same thin...
June 21, 2020 at 12:19
I invited anyone to provide a better definition of "number", one which would provide for these "non-particular quantities" to be called numbers, but n...
June 21, 2020 at 02:21
No that's not my contention. One is a quantity, two is a quantity, three is a quantity and so is four, etc.. 1/9 is not a quantity because it is a fra...
June 21, 2020 at 02:17
It might be a normal way of speaking, so long as the meaning is understood. And the meaning is that the circumference of the cone is smaller at one en...
June 21, 2020 at 02:02
Right, that's why one is called a number, it's a value representing a particular quantity (as per the definition I offered), the quantity of 1. On the...
June 21, 2020 at 01:53
One is a particular quantity, and therefore a number; 1/9 is not. This is because a fraction must be a fraction of something in order that it signify ...
June 21, 2020 at 01:44
A ninth of that particular pie is a particular quantity. A ninth, or 1/9, is not a particular quantity. Are you capable of understanding this?
June 21, 2020 at 01:38
No, a cone is the whole thing, not just one end or the other. One cone is smaller than another cone, but it makes no sense to say that a cone is small...
June 21, 2020 at 01:36
Seems you have a short memory. What we previously determined is that I do not believe that 2+2 is the same thing as 4. Remember? You argued that 2+2 i...
June 21, 2020 at 01:24
Sorry to have to inform you of this, but this talk makes no sense to me. And I've never heard anyone talk like this prior to seeing it on this thread....
June 21, 2020 at 00:58
Sorry Banno, but in logic definitions are prerequisite. Family resemblance might suffice as a description of meaning in common vernacular, but mathema...
June 20, 2020 at 22:11
I think the system of real numbers allows that "number" remain undefined, indefinite, and this is why "the real numbers" is not a fixed system. Rigoro...
June 20, 2020 at 11:13
To support this thought, they define "motion" in very strange ways, as Kenosha has demonstrated. This makes the thing described as "motion" something ...
June 20, 2020 at 11:06
I take my definition of "number" from OED: "an arithmetical value representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations". No...
June 20, 2020 at 10:43
A numeral is a special type of sign. To know whether .999... qualifies as a numeral would require a definition which dictates the criteria for being a...
June 20, 2020 at 01:38
Whether or not .999...qualifies as a numeral is a matter of interpretation. What I meant, as you seem to have difficulty in understanding, is that it ...
June 20, 2020 at 00:44
Try this: .999... is not a number because it has a indefinite extension. A number is an object and an object cannot have an indefinite extension. So d...
June 19, 2020 at 10:50
Your wrong, it's not Galileo's definition of motion. It's yours. Right, that's exactly what you claimed motion is: See what I mean? You are taking an ...
June 19, 2020 at 02:37
Maybe this is evidence of that difference between metaphysics and mysticism which you have been describing. Metaphysics, in the tradition of philosoph...
June 19, 2020 at 02:27
I agree that to have changed position implies that something has moved. But motion is defined as. and the word is used to refer to, the activity of mo...
June 18, 2020 at 10:46
I think that's ridiculous. My tea cup is sitting on the table right now, and it used to be on the counter. So you say my cup is in motion because it's...
June 18, 2020 at 02:05
If it is moving, there is no place where it is.. That's contradictory, to say that it is moving, and that it is at a place. The frog intercepts the fl...
June 17, 2020 at 10:31
For the reasons alluded to in my last post, and mentioned earlier in the thread, I really think it is necessary to separate space and time conceptuall...
June 17, 2020 at 01:34
Motion, in the everyday sense, looks like something not having a determinable position. We often describe it as what happens when a thing changes posi...
June 17, 2020 at 00:35
Yes, and the eternalist idea that there is motion when nothing is moving, is contradiction, plain and simple. You can try to hide that contradiction b...
June 16, 2020 at 10:27
Are you familiar with Aristotle's cosmological argument? This is the argument which is used to refute both materialism and Platonic realism, and give ...
June 16, 2020 at 02:21
That's the first time I've seen "eternity" described without reference to temporal concepts. So I don't really think it's the classical interpretation...
June 15, 2020 at 01:43
I don't see how one can give "special metaphysical status" any meaning without referring to religious principles.
June 15, 2020 at 00:09
In the way I've been describing in this thread, as interpretation. What I've said is that an individual person, as a mystic, cannot properly interpret...
June 14, 2020 at 13:18
You could start with Plato's divided line, the divisions of knowledge, and see that the one half is knowledge which deals with Ideas or Forms. The low...
June 14, 2020 at 11:05
If the human body is simply responding, or reacting to sensory stimulation, then how do you account for intention, which is the desire to change the s...
June 13, 2020 at 11:25
When what you believe is inconsistent with every traditional or conventional school of thought, don't you think it's time to reconsider?
June 13, 2020 at 11:06
Maybe you could elucidate this; it appears quite confused. It seems like you are saying that movement of the body, and emotion, are one and the same t...
June 13, 2020 at 10:55
All living things have a soul.
June 13, 2020 at 02:41
This is not quite what I was saying. I was saying that metaphysicians apply logic to the mystical revelations. This is why metaphysics is so different...
June 13, 2020 at 02:36
This "middle layer" doesn't even resemble any metaphysics that I'm aware of. Are you sure that the author is not just trying to change the way that we...
June 12, 2020 at 23:51
I don't see how that's relevant.
June 12, 2020 at 10:30