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It seems like you have an aversion to discussing things "linguistically". That's interesting, because Wikipedia doesn't even have an entry for "quanti...
April 16, 2019 at 01:59
That's not true at all, "same" has a very useful purpose, it refers to one identical thing, one and the same. And, similar things can be members of th...
April 16, 2019 at 01:03
There's a lot said by Wittgenstein in the upcoming section 137-200, about what you might call the "unthinkingly" way of doing things. I'm going to rea...
April 15, 2019 at 12:37
It seems like you did not read the quote I posted from your referred site: That is from the site you referenced on "heat death". Notice, "the ability ...
April 15, 2019 at 12:10
Different runners run the marathon for different reasons, I've seen them interviewed. So I don't see any common intent there. Many may have a similar ...
April 15, 2019 at 11:29
How does one approach the figuring out of pi?
April 15, 2019 at 02:03
My definition is the same as the one on your referred site. The laws of thermodynamics came into existence following the defining of energy. So you're...
April 15, 2019 at 02:00
As I said, I don't think we have the principles required to precisely measure the various motions of objects in relation to the motions of light becau...
April 15, 2019 at 01:34
I don't understand the question. They see the thing which is emitting the light, as emitting light.
April 15, 2019 at 01:24
I don't think that the movement of objects can be satisfactorily related to the movement of light, in the manner suggested by special relativity, beca...
April 15, 2019 at 00:54
I told you, I don't believe in heat death. And I also told you that I think your description of it, as energy (which is by definition the capacity to ...
April 14, 2019 at 23:20
You don't seem to understand, all energy is "the capacity to do work" whether it's potential energy or kinetic energy. So, as I said already, and as i...
April 14, 2019 at 21:47
The problem here is that only individual people have intent. We can generalize, take a vote or something, and say it is "the will of the people" or so...
April 14, 2019 at 21:41
Right, that's the point. The assumption that the speed of light is invariant (which is essential to special relativity), is what produces these contra...
April 14, 2019 at 20:41
I can't answer that, I don't know the heat death scenario
April 14, 2019 at 10:32
Right, we are talking about the temporal ordering of two events, when the light reaches the front of the traincar, and when the light reaches the back...
April 13, 2019 at 11:35
I suppose it must be the intention of the sign-post maker we're talking about, maybe the intention of the town planner plays a role too, and even othe...
April 13, 2019 at 10:52
StreetlightX seems to have an allergic reaction to "intention", breaking out in rash statements any time the word is used. Generally, Streetlight woul...
April 13, 2019 at 01:24
"Use" implies "for the purpose of", and "serves the purpose" plays an important role in the Philosophical investigations. In everyday usage, to say th...
April 12, 2019 at 11:47
You are mixing together, the definition of energy (the capacity to do work), with the relative condition of "available". Whether or not the energy is ...
April 12, 2019 at 11:24
That certain energy is not available to a human being with the desire to use energy, does not mean that this energy is no longer the capacity to do wo...
April 12, 2019 at 01:40
Adding the premise doesn't make it into a problem, it's the thought that there ought to be an objective reality which makes it into a problem. If you ...
April 12, 2019 at 01:28
That's just the way it's been conceptualized, energy is a property of something moving, just like momentum, and motion does not just disappear, or bec...
April 11, 2019 at 11:40
The problem is that to say that the ordering is dependent on perspective means that there is no objective truth with respect to the order. Therefore t...
April 11, 2019 at 02:31
The problem here I think is that there is no real principle whereby we can say that there is "only one which we can ever be aware of". That's what des...
April 10, 2019 at 11:21
That's incorrect, energy is the capacity to do work, it is not "the getting of work done". Flowing water for example has a certain amount of kinetic e...
April 10, 2019 at 01:52
We are approaching an extensive section (approximately 135-200) in which Wittgenstein makes an examination of the concept of "understanding". I believ...
April 10, 2019 at 01:39
So it's an objective fact that everything possible is actually happening, at every moment of time, in the many-worlds hypothesis?
April 10, 2019 at 00:35
Are you talking about the professors of dogma? That you hate this activity and believe it to be "detrimental to the quality of the forum" is your own ...
April 10, 2019 at 00:30
I did that just to say that you're not talking about spam, you're talking about something else, and calling it spam. If you can't handle someone pushi...
April 09, 2019 at 18:04
"Spam" is usually something which comes in your email. It refers to sending the same message to many different locales. Spam on forums would be a case...
April 09, 2019 at 14:27
I think there's an important relation between 107 and 108 which should not be overlooked. The seeking of the ideal is finally determined as fruitless ...
April 09, 2019 at 12:23
But we're talking about meaning, "use", and when I shout "banana" it has meaning regardless of whether anyone understands my use,and comes to my aid, ...
April 08, 2019 at 21:17
I agree, 104 seems to be right out of context. I'll see if I can make sense of it. I believe that in this section, 100-108, he begins by referencing t...
April 08, 2019 at 13:52
I don't know about that, "consistency" is something other than simple use. It might be an attribute, a type of use. But meaning is restricted to use h...
April 08, 2019 at 12:59
You don't seem to understand. Energy is the potential to get work done. We make a judgement concerning a particular aspect of an active thing, its cap...
April 08, 2019 at 12:33
I don't think this is correct, context is what determines sense, not rules of use. This is what Wittgenstein is getting at, each instance of usage is ...
April 07, 2019 at 12:44
Yes, but how does that make a difference? Energy is the capacity to do work, therefore a potential. Kinetic energy is actually having that potential b...
April 07, 2019 at 12:27
This is the point of the op then. The classical sense of "object" can be rejected altogether, and we no longer have any objective reality, everything ...
April 06, 2019 at 12:17
That's what I've been discussing with andrewk, whether EM waves are real waves or not. Andrewk insists that "wave" is defined in physics in such a way...
April 06, 2019 at 11:36
This is where I believe Wittgenstein has gone off track. It appears like "stay roughly here" serves the purpose, but it really does not. if someone sa...
April 05, 2019 at 12:22
The point remains, that in physics a wave is defined as a vibration in a medium. It is an activity, and when there is activity there is something whic...
April 05, 2019 at 11:52
Suppose "pi" defines the perfect circle. Do you think that striving to resolve the exact mathematical value of pi would be a case of striving after th...
April 04, 2019 at 12:07
No, in my high school physics, that is not how "wave" was defined. Here is what Wikipedia says: "In physics, a wave is a disturbance that transfers en...
April 04, 2019 at 11:53
[ Yes, I think that is the case, electrons are measured as effects, and most forms of measurement are like this. But there is varying degrees of sound...
April 04, 2019 at 03:12
What is measured is the effect of the photon. That's the difference between a machine observing and a human being observing, the standards of measurem...
April 03, 2019 at 12:36
In: Brexit  — view comment
I'd say, perhaps go for three referendums. Two wins out of three ought to be fair.
April 03, 2019 at 02:10
Sure, QM is consistent with special relativity, but I don't think it's correct to call the properties of a photon "physical". A photon has an effect o...
April 03, 2019 at 01:58
But mathematics is necessary for, and therefore essential to, many of the artificial things existing in the world. The world would be completely diffe...
April 02, 2019 at 14:19
In: Brexit  — view comment
Different places have different rules concerning referendum votes. I've heard sometimes it takes a 70% vote on a referendum for change to a country's ...
April 02, 2019 at 12:26