Metaphysician Undercover

This is incorrect, "consistency with itself" does not make it true, it means the logic is valid. That's the difference between sound and valid. Consis...

Uh, no, laws are not games. What kind of game do you get penalized for not playing? But I haven't yet accepted your mathematical rules. I am judging t...

When your perspective is whatever is good for Trump is the correct thing, as yours is, it's easy to understand this statement. And since Trump is the ...

That's not quite right. I learned how the game was played, then decided I didn't want to play it. The fact that it was a game, and the rules referred ...

These are physical objects effected by light, so this is not much different from a demonstration of the photoelectric effect, which shows how supposed...

Jesus Christ! You would ruin my fucking day by bringing my attention to a number which is irrational, wouldn't ya? Don't try to lead me to the river, ...

The problem though, is that I am talking about judging those premises or axioms which establish those definitions of "true" and "false". If I am to ju...

No, you're wrong. It's not conjecture, it's proven. The truth of it has been demonstrated to me as true, through evidence and logic, therefore it is p...

Yes, I could write 1 on one chair, 2 on the next, 3 on the next etc., to count them. Then I'd have a direct correspondence. After all the chairs are m...

As in my example, There are six chairs at the table. I need four more to have ten chairs at the table. If this is not an exact correspondence with the...

You do recognize that "false" and "true" are assigned to the premises, not by what is determined by the logical system, (which is validity), don't you...

If this were true, then mathematics could not give us truth. But it's not true, because mathematics can correspond exactly with reality. Consider that...

The problem here, as I've already explained, is that the field is the medium. "Changes within the field" means that the field is a real, changing thin...

There is an argument, that thinking is a conscious activity, and thoughts may come without conscious activity (as a dream for example), therefore thou...

If infinity is a number greater than any real number, then by definition it is not a real number. So what kind of number do you propose that infinity ...

I can back it up, because I've researched it before, but I'd have to go back and find the same material again. That's a lot of time and effort just fo...

OK, a wave (gravity wave) which is not movement. You're back to contradiction. The problem is you have not presented anything which makes sense. Prese...

It is in the best interest of the administration of Ukraine to remain silent on this issue, and the US has no judicial power over potential witnesses....

Then you clearly have inconsistency, contradiction, if you model gravity waves as wrinkles in the fabric of spacetime, and you maintain that things do...

You might suggest it, but it's not at all a sound argument. Your proposition, "Spactime is not something that anything can travel through", is not a s...

Where did you hide all the witness testimony that he did?

There's a whole lot of testimony from many witnesses. I won't say eye-witness testimony, but ear-witness testimony, because the trial concerns words. ...

Right, this is one reason (amongst others) why, as I explained, objects must be conceived of as part (features) of the medium. Understanding the appea...

A crisp shadow is not inconsistent with a wave, as an object in a wave tank demonstrates. There is a crisp shadow created by the object. There is stil...

Mephist draws on a top-down description of a set; the set as more fundamental than its elements, to explain topology. This is the only way that "empty...

The problem with the "empty set", which I have described, is a demonstration of the reason why I don't believe in the existence of sets. So I take the...

That's the problem, I don't believe in the existence of any set. That any set has real existence has not yet been demonstrated to me. And axioms which...

Right, the more we can reduce the need for a huge multitude of aspects of reality, in our descriptions, the less complicated and easier it is to under...

How is that relevant? As Mephist said, a set is identified by its elements. That's the reason why an empty set makes no sense. Clearly a closet is not...

I didn't say a field requires a medium, I said a field is a medium. It is the medium which substantiates the wave function, and therefore the existenc...

If you automatically designate as a "crank" anyone who expresses this idea, that if it looks like and acts like a wave, then it is a wave, and a wave ...

This is exactly why it is contradictory. If there is a set without any elements it is not a set at all. With zero elements the supposed set is non-exi...

You ought to consider that if everything is in the past, as you describe in the op, then things we are aware of are only memories. However, this is cl...

I see, it's a matter of "national security". I guess the president's allowed to do anything when national security is at risk.

This is not true. The preferred frame, what Leo called the "absolute inertial frame" could only be produced from an accurate understanding of the acti...

This is a symbol, "0", or "zero". As you seem to be fairly well educated in mathematics, you'll know that it means different things in different conte...

This is not a necessary conclusion. There could be a dimensionless reality, actuality which validates the dimensionless possibilities which has relati...

The problem is that your demonstration, through this technique, produces a misunderstanding of the theory, rather than an understanding. So the critic...

Sure, but how's that relevant? What is at issue is the postulate that a set is more fundamental than its elements. That's plain English.

I see mathematical axioms expressed in plain English.

I believe that fields, like the electromagnetic field, are a real medium in particle physics.

OK, here's an analogy then, tell me what's wrong with it. The police show up at your door and ask to search your house for evidence of a crime. You re...

It's one of the first things I learned in high school physics, waves are an activity of the medium, and we experimented in wave tanks.

It's not true that words are worth nothing in mathematics, because the axioms are written in words. My demonstration was a proof, a logical proof that...

The only models I can think of are those of particles physics, in which the particles are a feature of the fields.. Empirical evidence indicates that ...

This is the mistaken procedure called Platonism. A set is a human creation, produced to categorize. If we produce an empty set, which may or may not b...

I asked NOS4A2 why the request for documents was deemed invalid.

Isn't it the case, that when the House (as an entity) decided to begin impeachment proceedings, demands for evidence were valid?

Can you explain this better? Are you saying that the House (as an entity) must pass judgement on impeachment, before any request for evidence is valid...

This is not a proper rendition. Because of the subjective nature of "observation", there are limitations to what can be observed. There are things whi...