Metaphysician Undercover

Is it really possible to ignore that thing which invokes your ire? If it were, then how would it invoke your ire?

You should by now have noticed that the holier than thou attitude doesn't get you very far around here. So if it's an act, you might just drop it, bec...

What you say, and what you display are distinct. Reread your own quote: "One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others..."

No, you perceive yourself as the one with power, as is evident from your holier than thou attitude.

The problem though, with "the example", is that it is never a perfect representation of the category, it too has accidentals which make it nothing mor...

I agree, I find the amount of "loose talk" is increasing. Being a serious philosopher, I think loose talk is garbage and detrimental to the site. Agai...

I would draw your attention to the actual stipulation "perception" of power. There is much evidence that you preach the precepts of your church with a...

We measure space, time and motion as discrete, because that's the only way we can apply the numbers. But we tend to believe that these are continuous....

"Self-definition", or "self-identity", whatever you want to call it, what do you mean by this?

The problem though is that we actually are marking things, with a ruler and other forms of measurement. But when we think about space in our minds, we...

Nor is it include in what is greater than two, it is included in what is not greater than two. If it's not included in what's less than two, and not i...

Well the subject of this thread appears to be what to do about off-topicness. There is first, an issue as to what constitutes off-topic. Shouldn't it ...

2 is the boundary between all that is less than two and all that is greater than two. But what is 2?

Are you saying that it is inappropriate for the originator of a thread to tell participants that they have stepped outside the bounds of the topic, as...

No, I don't think that motion is a supertask, I think a supertask is an impossibility. I do not believe that motion is impossible though. We observe m...

What constitutes "vanishing"? If the originator must be present in order that the thread topic be followed, then why not leave the judgement of what i...

I see how this makes sense with space, but I don't think it makes sense with time. With space it only makes sense to claim that there is a half distan...

Actually, my suggestion was a change (operation) which requires zero amount of time. This implies that state A is simultaneous with state B, but are c...

That's interesting because then you are trying to convert the uncountable infinity to a countable infinity. I don't think that this is possible, and i...

We could begin with the assumption that there is no such thing as a finite amount of time. I think this is a reasonable assumption, and those who argu...

I look at off-topicness as a necessary evil. It's bad because its digressive, wastes time, and distracts from the overall flow of the thread. It is ne...

Supertask is defined like this "a supertask is a countably infinite sequence of operations that occur sequentially within a finite interval of time". ...

If a man is attracted to white women and not black women, or blondes and not brunettes, or women of a certain colour eyes, is this a matter of sexual ...

I think that "exists" means to partake in all three aspects of time, past, present, and future. If you're just in the past, you existed, and just in t...

OK, you can consider the individual who produces fictitious fantasies to be successful, I have no problem with that, it may be a pleasant and fulfilli...

The way to produce, and increase accuracy, in modeling what is real, reality, is to determine and exclude as possibilities, those "ideal states of aff...

As I've said earlier, I am satisfied with two completely distinct definitions, but there are always those who what to bridge the gap. Furthermore, I b...

So the set of natural numbers is "countable" according to the value of the aleph numbers? I assume that the aleph numbers negate the infinity of the n...

Any one can see that the "aleph numbers" are not the same as the "natural numbers", therefore it is not the same definition.

OK, so there is a different definition of cardinality for finite sets then there is for infinite sets, the former relates to bijection, the latter to ...

Well, perhaps we'll find that definition. So far, "cardinality" is incapable of producing your desired conclusion, because it is impossible that an in...

You said "it's a function". I asked what does "it" refer to. If you have something constructive to say, then address the issues. I didn't come this fa...

I don't see your point. What's a function?

I don't see how any form of 'jection' is possible, if you cannot lay out all the members of the set, which is the case with an infinite set.

Thanks fishfry, it's rare to see a complimentary comment here. It's only taken me days to get to this point. Notice that the recognition that somethin...

I've studied the nature of time for very many years now, and I've read a lot of related material. Here is some speculation. For the longest time, I be...

OK, thanks for that good clear definition Michael. I was wrong to think of sets and subsets as parts and wholes, they are actually completely separate...

I never switched definitions. I maintained my non-mathematical definition, which was "capable of being counted" (#3), and this was contradictory to th...

I'm asking you what you think. I believe that it is impossible to count the elements of an infinite set. I've only said that about twenty times. You s...

No, I think any finite set of natural numbers is in principle countable, it's the fact of being infinite which makes the whole set of natural numbers ...

OK, if that's what you think, then maybe you could explain how one boundless or endless (infinite) thing is bigger than another. I'd be very intereste...

It is possible that "continuity" is just an imaginary notion, a fiction conjured up by the human mind. If this is the case, then there is really no ne...

You haven't stipulated any reasonable definition of countable. You made a broad description concerning the activity of counting, and the assertion tha...

That's not true, because I've claimed that the object, being the set of natural numbers is uncountable by definition, that means nothing, not even God...

What I think is that it is necessary to assume that the entire physical world is reborn, comes into existence anew, at each moment in time, and this i...

As I said to you days ago, it's impossible. No, you can't count the natural numbers either, because they're infinite. That's the point I'm arguing wit...

I already answered this days ago, I don't see the relevance. Why do you keep asking?

As I said, your definition appears like nonsense to me. To be able to do something, is to be able to complete that task. Being incapable of completing...

This is likely the most difficult issue of religion, to establish compatibility between the idea that the human being has real freedom of choice, yet ...

It's not special pleading, it's just reality, a statement of fact.