Metaphysician Undercover

I don't understand this feeling of offense. This is philosophy, and what we do is critical thinking, and therefore criticize. What I don't get, is tha...

@"Hanover" What you described as a social alignment. I think of as emulation.

Your denial never ceases to amaze me.

You know the way my memory works, we just discussed that. The echo chamber throws some words together and voila, a memory is created.

Take a look at the quoted sequence: Quite clearly, the limit must be assumed prior to taking half of it.

look at what "as close as we like to some number" means. It means there is no limit to how close we can get to that number. That is how you define "li...

The conclusion "x=0" is not valid without a further stipulation that there can be nothing between the least ? and zero. But we know there is no least ...

Banno's proofs continue to be a matter of begging the question. Stipulate that the limit is the value, then use that as a premise in proving an instan...

But the point I made is that "point particle" is a conception of convenience, designed for the purpose of representing interactions. It does not repre...

That reminds me of a proverb: He who drops the slab on the toes of the one who called for it, laughs out loud, before running like the wind.

Sorry Srap, I can't see how you make this conclusion. 'Within a specified tolerance' does not indicate "the actual value" has been given. It just indi...

That's exactly when rounding off is employed, when things are designated as "arbitrarily close". How have you done anything other than described a cas...

"Infinitely small number" really has no meaning in this context. If the formula is applied to spatial distance, as in the Zeno paradox, it means infin...

I'll repeat, since you did not address the issue. It is a difference between theory and practise. In theory, the sum approaches the limit. In practice...

You mean the key is to put an end to the infinite sequence by rounding off. That's what we've done with pi for thousands of years. But if you think th...

Well yeah, it's all sausage to me. Fried bologna is known as the working man's dinner, or the Newfoundland steak. Google tells me it's the "Appalachia...

It looks similar, more granular (is there nuts in there, or is that chopped barley?), and slightly different colour. Delicious looking, any way you lo...

isn't the firing of neurons, which constitutes the playing of the song in the mind, something physical as well? It doesn't happen at the speed of ligh...

Why not? it's like when you play a 45 at 33 1/3.

You're making me hungry. Sounds like fried bologna.

Sounds good in theory, but in reality ... social distortion.

I like that. Everybody's talking at me, but I don't hear a word they say. i might repeat those words though, because they're echoing around in my mind...

Well, it was a while ago that I listened to the interview, maybe I distorted it in my memory. I can't remember the context. I think he was talking abo...

Fair enough.

No, you described a long process, and the problem is with the use of "at some point". How does a process occur at a point?

I listened to an interview with him, where he said something like that, on how he felt about that song, Not those exact words obviously, On what basis...

Oh yeah, that's a good one. There is water flowing underground, and under the water more water, and under that water more water, and under the ocean m...

I would say the opposite is the case, what you say sounds bizarre. You are representing driving through British Columbia, as being in British Columbia...

From the "tribal" perspective, that which divides the tribe is evil. And the designation is justified.

When the measuring stick needs to be measured, it's time to throw away the measuring system completely, and devise anew. Otherwise paradoxes are produ...

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I wonder why that happened.

if being is reduced to value, that's idealism, not necessarily platonist though, but most cases yes. That's classical Pythagorean idealism, the cosmos...

I think the ice apocalypse has gotten to you. You're speaking like Bokonon in Cat's Cradle. "I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we all...

I think that would be an odd use of language, if every word referred to an object. Definitely not suitable for a rigorous logic. For example, we disti...

Much appreciated, thank you.

This is platonism. The abstract object is independent from minds, but accessed by them. Quantification doesn't require platonism. The proposition that...

You could say that. The point though is that if a numeral refers to a number which is an object, and that object is said to be an idea in someone's mi...

I don't understand you. In each instance where 1 is taken to be a token, the type is a symbol. And the type of symbol is mathematical. And the type of...

Let's be clear, numerals are objects in our shared practices. Numbers if they are assumed to be objects are nothing other than platonic objects. The q...

If the shoe doesn't fit, you must acquit.

The only way that "1" can refer to an object called "a number", instead of referring to distinct ideas in the minds of individual subjects is platonis...

No, I've repeated this numerous times now, "space" is purely conceptual. it doesn't make sense to talk about dividing space physically. Physically the...

The wrinkle I see here is that Trump likes to declare "national emergency", and this gives the president special executive powers to act without appro...

The "logical next" is next in time in this context. The only other option is "beside" in space, and this is clearly not the case. "The item with the n...

I made it far enough in mathematics, before getting too ornery, to know that you have to do multiplication and division before you do subtraction and ...

I think it's an "ice apocalypse". Kind of like what Vonnegut was talking about in "Cat's Cradle"

How could "the next step" not imply "a thing happening in time"?

Of course it's not empty space, or else it wouldn't qualify as a medium. That's the point I was making. There is no such thing as empty space between ...

Careful, they may be disguised as Jehovah's Withesses.