Metaphysician Undercover

I can't understand why this is so difficult for you apokrisis. The word refers to the shape, just like "square", "rectangle", "circle". What do you me...

No, I don't agree. All those words have a particular meaning, referring to a particular shape. Each is different from one another. Despite the fact th...

You never asked me for the antonym. You asked me if it's not X, what is it? How should I know? Obviously there's countless possibilities for what it c...

Generally speaking, pain is the consequence of error. So are you saying that from one's feeling of pain, an individual infers one's existence? If this...

How should I know? There's all sorts of forms it could have. Maybe it's liquid, or gas. these things have very odd changing shapes which cannot be des...

Traditionally, "artificial" is opposed to "natural". So to say that something is not natural does not entail that it is supernatural, or not of this w...

But what is "historical fact"? It is just memories, and memories are fleeting. We reinforce our memories by revisiting them, going over them again and...

Yes, for "some reason" I hate untruth, it makes me get violent. If the thing is not straight, and it is described as straight, then I object violently...

I thought I'd try to make some progress in this discussion. You seem to be bogged down in your infatuation with measurement.

It's ironic, but there is no such thing as "literal truth". "Literal truth" can only be taken metaphorically, because all literature needs to be inter...

Sure, you can define crooked as not straight if you want. But there are all kinds of different ways that something can be crooked. It could be bent, t...

That's the hard part. That's what we need a different theory for. I hold the string to the ruler, so I just convert it to that straight ruler scale, b...

The method given in the Tau Manifesto for finding the area of a circle seems unnecessarily complex. The comparison given, between how the Pi Manifesto...

And my point is that this is false. That was not what the concern of the protesters was. The legitimacy of the presidency, the validity of the electio...

Well, the banners indicate the marchers' concerns. If the banners didn't indicate that the marchers believed that Trump unfairly won the election, why...

I didn't see any such banners in those marches, the banners mainly referenced Trump's improper behaviour, and in general his attitude toward others.

To get what you want most often requires help from others. In order for others to assist you in getting what you want, you must express yourself clear...

Have you checked out ernest's 60,000 word essay on natural law and the social contract?

That worries me. So, I'd better think about something else right now. Bye, Arkady.

Yes I see we're definitely not coming from the same place. That's why I brought to your attention, how absurd your opinion appears from my perspective...

Well, as an example, I would take a string, and make it follow all the crooks of the crooked object, to get a better measurement.

Sorry, I was rushed and didn't explain myself well. Let me just clarify what I mean. The plumber, qua plumber, is not an artist, because they are taug...

I haven't thrown away the ideal of the perfectly straight, I've determined that it is not useful in this situation. There are still many uses for thos...

Actually the nonsense is in your passage which I first responded to: To think that art is not a knowledge generating endeavor is simply ridiculous bey...

I have determined that the straight ruler is incapable of measuring the object which I desire to measure. If you want to call that "measured in some d...

Yes as far as I know, it's well accepted that these trades people are artists. If someone said to you, "I am an artist", by what principle would you a...

Yes, I've worked with plumbers in the past, they take pride in their work, and I believe they often consider their work to be art. I think it is commo...

I think the answers to those questions should be obvious to you. What delineates an artistic human activity from a non-artistic activity is creativity...

The straight ruler is your analogy. Don't you recognize it as your analogy? My claim was that we cannot derive the true nature of a real black hole th...

This is really quite petty. "Art" is a very general term. Yes, the aim of art is to create, but there is no limit to the number of different things wh...

No, I don't. That's the point. GR is coming at the real existing phenomenon which is called a blalk hole, with the Schwartzchild principle, which assu...

Here's our difference of opinion right here. My dictionary defines "art" as "human creative skill or its application", and that's how I generally use ...

The point though, is that Step 1 does not have to occur as the described Step 1, "I perceive the stars twinkling". One might perceive twinkling stars,...

When we concentrate on descriptions of what is, we tend to take for granted the "what is" part, and proceed in an attempt to describe it. But as Arist...

As I said, it's very useful for determining the different ways in which the thing being measured varies from the standard of measurement, but the stra...

Well, we differ in opinion clearly, because I think you will necessarily get a mistaken result if you start from the premise of the perfect symmetry, ...

I think that I have understood what you've been trying to say, but the point is that I disagree. You think that it is impossible for one to be mistake...

From wikipedia, it is based in the assumption of a speherical symmetry. But this simply assumes the traditional Newtonian representation of gravity, a...

So the Schwarzchild principle does not follow directly from GR then, it follows from the assumption of a "spherical distribution of mas" in conjunctio...

Describing the motions of things, and explaining the motions of things, are two distinct things. So, you can describe the situation, the ball is set o...

There is a long history of belief in the mystical relationship between musical principles (consonance and dissonance), and the secrets to the universe...

I think you are just creating a fictitious, impossible scenario, for your example. You are saying, suppose I feel sick, and there is absolutely no rea...

So the issue here, appears to be that since there are such objects, black holes, whose mass is contained within the Schwartzchild radius, doesn't this...

How is this not a mistaken perception? When I perceive a table, then I later realize that what I perceived is really a desk, that is called a mistaken...

That doesn't indicate that there is anything inherent within GR which would make you expect to find a black hole, it indicates that certain types of s...

I don't see how this could be true. What is it inherent within GR which would make you expect to see a black hole?

Your definition of "knowledge" is tailored for the purpose, so this argument is only begging the question. Explanatory knowledge, (knowing-that), is j...

I agree with this. There are areas where GR has difficulties, one being the phenomenon which is called a black hole. It's not that GR predicted these ...

I really don't think that the brain is "adding colors". I think that's a mistake, thinking that the brain is adding red. I believe the red is there, a...

Sure, but what colour is grey? In primary school art class we could make greys and browns by mixing all sorts of colours. Grey might be defined as bla...