Well you've really lost me now. I haven't the foggiest clue of what you're trying to say. I suppose you succeed with "I am not going to discuss any of...
I don't see any reason to restrict "pretending" so as it only may refer when there is conscious deceit. Actors in a play will pretend, that's what act...
There is a reason why we have the law of identity. It was established to prevent the faulty arguments of sophistry. If you think my definition of "tho...
Right, and that's exactly why the phrase is ambiguous. We don't know who weighed you, how they weighed you, when they weighed you, and so the phrase i...
Sorry, sometimes I don't see what appears obvious to others. That's why I ask for explanations. I don't think it's related to smartness, I think it's ...
Why does one state "it is not profitable for us at present to do moral philosophy", and then proceed to do moral philosophy? Do you apprehend the pret...
Symbols, and word of mouth do not transmit thoughts from one person to another. It's you who is speaking nonsense. When I write this symbol "A", do yo...
Actually Aristotle is the one who first explained the failings of the LEM. Sophists at the time could produce absurd conclusions by adhering to the la...
Not quite, the readers produce new thoughts, within a new context. So if thoughts are existent things, the old thoughts of the author are different th...
What's the point then? Isn't this just like saying "let's discuss morality, but I have no respect for your opinion, I just want to discuss my opinion"...
The LEM only applies when the two terms are properly opposed, or form a dichotomy. It's quite clear that "male" is not a proper opposite of "female", ...
I think this is right, the statements are meant to educate. There is a wide variety of reasons for the statements, whether it's to introduce children ...
I agree that we enter the future ass first, because we are looking at things which we have seen and remembered, and that is past. ,However, a past eve...
That's not a logical conclusion. Furthermore, I actually agree with a lot that Peirce has said. in particular his very coherent method of laying out p...
It seems you didn't read my earlier posts Right, the symbols on the paper, and on this page have existence. The thoughts which were used to produce th...
Morality is just as much about judging possible future actions as it is about judging actual past actions. Authority puts an end to the infinite regre...
I don't see how this is a problem. Human actions, by their very nature are means, they are never ends in themselves. All we have, as evidence, to judg...
I think "foundation" refers to principles which "the acceptable accumulated knowledge and practises" are based in, built upon. So Weiersfass and Cauch...
Why are the "in-betweens" so hard to find? The vast majority of human beings are either male or female, and there's very few in-between. There's a sim...
It doesn't work though, because it doesn't explain how I'm here when no one's looking. So my real, true existence, is not supported by that fiction. T...
Right, how could a thing which is composed of parts which do not exist, itself exist? This doesn't mean nothing exists, only those things composed of ...
Actually history has not demonstrated that. You and Fishfry have simply made the assertion that history has demonstrated this. I demonstrated how that...
"Risk" here means the possibility of a law suit against the engineering firm. Real risk contains unknown factors which cannot be assessed. What we rea...
We stipulate what is the character, or nature, of a bad act. It is harmful to another, or it infringes on another's rights, something like that. A vir...
Well, I thought I'd add my two cents worth to your thread. As expected, you've deemed it not worth two cents. You owe me nothing though, because I off...
The claim was that math precedes foundations. But math consists of concepts, and concepts require foundations, so it is impossible that math is prior ...
The problem is, as I demonstrated, the concept of "empty set" is self-contradicting. Sure, a contradictory concept is functional and purposeful, but t...
It's not a terror at all, it's a respect for the reality of it. Infinite regress is an unintelligibility which is repugnant to a rational mind. A heal...
The problem with virtue ethics is the appearance of infinite regress. Plato introduced "the good", which Aristotle described as "that for the sake of ...
Trying to change the subject to distract from the fact that you're wrong? If so, you're unsuccessful because you're still wrong. The critics determine...
Right, I'm not even in the same ballpark as Zelebg. You and I might have some things in common Yes, I would think so. Free will only requires an agent...
I hope you see the problem with this. You're saying, if we (mathematicians) agree that it exists then it exists, without any definition of what it mea...
(1a) would be better stated as, "if" two sets have elements in common this must be a set. There is no reason to interpret a situation where two sets h...
I do not believe that "agent" requires self-consciousness. For example there are conscious agents which are not self-conscious. The point is that one ...
The point is that I do not accept your argument. You seem to be proceeding from the false assumption that only a self-conscious being can act freely. ...
What I said, or at least meant, is that I refuse to play chess because I find it irrelevant to my endeavours, so it's a waste of time. What could you ...
I went through this already. You cannot use the logic derived from the axioms to judge the axioms of the system, because valid logic will not allow on...
I wouldn't say that this robot has free will, it is determined to act according to the parameters of your program. This is an age old problem for theo...
Mephist seems to have no rebuttal to the arguments which demonstrate that the "empty set" is a contradictory concept, and unlike you, seems about read...
Thanks for the compliments. The biggest stumbling block between us is your concept of "mathematical existence". The proof that something has mathemati...
What this means is that zero is a very strange type of number, unique and different from the other numbers. So we ought to be careful in the way that ...
Yes, I would say it is a trick of sophistry. To say of an attribute that it is "null", is to say that the attribute is non-existence. So to say that t...
Right, the universe does not consult with our laws of logic, but we must follow these laws if we wish to make a coherent description of the universe, ...
Let's look at it this way. The "line" introduces a new property which the preceding "point" has not, "length". The "surface" introduces a property whi...
[q No I don't see any contradiction here. There is nothing to imply that a point is a line without length. That would be contradictory when #2 says th...
I appreciate your efforts to make sense of this for me. I am not just trolling. I recognize that is not the proper definition, I wrote something simpl...
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