Metaphysician Undercover

It'll be history, and there is always people who care about history . I forgot to mention the most important thing. There's sure to be at least one re...

I see at least three major differences. There's no need for any Democrats in the Senate to defect because conviction is highly unlikely. Also the popu...

We know Trump is extremely unlikely to be convicted by the Senate. The issue is which Republican Senators will be inclined to vote against Trump to en...

There is probably a lot more to this matter than what you make of it here. The Democrats may have layered the strategy. The Senate has a complex elect...

Yes, it doesn't even really make sense to speak of the possibility of experience without change, as change is so fundamental. However, we shouldn't di...

You've described a potential infinity, but not an actual infinity. To understand an actual infinity we need to understand the actual existence of the ...

The nature of reality is not an issue here. The nature of an object is. "Reality" is the more general concept, so there is more to reality than just o...

No, we didn't really discuss the nature of reality. We discussed the difference between trying to make true descriptions of objects, and creating imag...

Yes.

I think we've covered much ground in this thread so it would be difficult to summarize. The pivotal issue seems to be the reality of Platonic objects....

The issue here is that there is an incommensurability between distinct spatial dimensions. Pythagoras demonstrated that the ratio between two perpendi...

I think that what happened is that some people came to understand that there are things beyond the limits of understanding through science, because th...

What is it? I can't open it.

A process is a process. If your intent is to create ambiguity in the definition of "process", such that it is possible to have a completed process, wh...

I wonder if this is even true. Can you bring an example of an imaginary structure, created neither for the purpose of copying something in the world, ...

I know, it's because philosophers can't agree on anything when it comes to time.

That's simply an indication that we can do logic without knowing how the logic works. To know how logic works is a completely different issue. This qu...

Actually, what I described is exactly the case with Planck time. The limit (Planck time) is the product of the theories being used. This is from Wikip...

This is the category difference which makes Banno's claim of "done" false. Continuing with the Wittgensteinian perspective, the finitude of the proof ...

A sum is the total. "Diverges" signifies a direction. It would be a category mistake to say "diverges to infinity" is a sum.

Well, it's not a sum. And to say that the sum "diverges to infinity" says I can't give you that sum. So if you're not saying "it can't be done" then w...

The sum! Wasn't that the task, to sum the sequence?

Face it Banno; you're trying to avoid doing the task by giving some answer which amounts to "it can't be done".

Your answer is not a sum. The task has not been done.

Regardless of whether or not they understand the process, unless they "keep going like this" they cannot be said to have done the task. Understanding ...

OK, suppose you tell someone "keep going like this". At what point have they completed (are done) with that command? When they reach infinity?

In other words you're never done.

As I said, ellipsis means unfinished. So using the ellipsis and claiming "it's done" is a false claim.

This is a very interesting subject which you bring up here, but my opinion is somewhat opposite to what you say. I think that mathematics allows us to...

Do you think that the infertile female bees, the workers, do not play an active role?

It hasn't reached infinity, so it is not "done".

Bees appear to have three distinct sexes, and gender roles which follow. The queen is the fertile female who lays eggs to populate the colony. The wor...

"..." doesn't constitute doing it. And saying "done" doesn't necessarily mean that it is done. Clearly, "..." symbolizes what is not done, not what ha...

Thanks, John. Also from that wiki page, I'll add "...the mathematical framework of quantum physics does not support the notion of simultaneously well-...

Without a doubt, there is a physical limit to the human capacity to observe our world. We observe with our senses. Molecules are at the limit of what ...

No, you changed the subject. Your "entire argument", was irrelevant to what I said. You haven't even demonstrated a clear understanding of the crime t...

Mathematics is our means for measurement. I already proposed, and you somewhat accepted, that the reason we have "infinite", or "infinity", as a featu...

The DNC was hacked and information exposed by WikiLeaks. The victim was the Trump campaign? That's a stretch of the imagination.

OK, but this is where we need to be careful in our description. Change requires that there is something which is changing And so we have the dualism p...

It's called the uncertainty principle.

Tell me another one bro... According to Barr, the entire investigation was based on "a vague statement made in a bar". Further, one witness recants, a...

You could only make a clock by referring to such fluctuations, if the fluctuations were temporally consistent. But your premises provide nothing to ca...

You want examples of why conclusions drawn from false premises are unsound? Come on. Try this. The full moon is ten miles away. I can walk ten miles i...

Conviction of a crime implies that the criminal will be duly punished. The end, punishment, follows from the means, conviction. So it's not erosive to...

Isn't that what the impeachment process is there for, to remove an elected president? If so, then using it for this purpose is not an erosion of norms...

I thought we agreed that Platonic objects are not true objects. We assume these objects for some purpose or utility, but they do not have any real exi...

Well, I think the next move, after assuming "there is existence" would be to ask how we know there is existence. This will give us some idea of what i...

I would say that having axioms (premises) which instead of being based in the reality of the objects we are familiar with, are based in some imaginary...

I don't need to name any, they are all unsound. We've discussed the fact that the axioms lack truth, in how they describe objects. The axioms are the ...

So you're one of them then. When the evidence points to the truth of something other than what you believe, you dismiss the truth as "massively overra...