Metaphysician Undercover

Well, I can't say I understand exactly what you are proposing, but it seems like you are saying the question of the medium is secondary, but then you ...

In general, large business is advantageous to the government. There are many reasons, but it's easier and more efficient for the government to have th...

I think it must be both. The theoretical mathematicians who practise what they like to call pure mathematics want to be free from the constraints of t...

This is an interesting remark. Many would say that "space" is conceptual only. And if it is, how could it be anything other than the way we represent ...

I see the point. If thousands of protesters are being shot, then the "bullshit pretext" is easily seen. If it's just the odd one here and there, it's ...

Protesters are domestic terrorists. That looks similar to what the regime in Iran would say. Look at those poor drug runners, blown up in their boats....

Huh? Someone in my head knows more about mathematics than I do? Isn't that contradictory? Obviously then, the description is wrong. The approach to th...

Riding the bed. That doesn't sound so bad to me. When they get the flying cars out, I'm going to jump in, say "take me home", and lie down for a good ...

I don't agree with that interpretation, because along with "countably infinite" there is "uncountably infinite". Furthermore, Banno produced the proof...

I wouldn't call the contradiction "formal", because it's not explicit as a statement of X and not-X. However, i see it as implicit, and unavoidable fr...

I know I'm answering a question not addressed to me, but you say "start" to erode. That happened a long time ago, for numerous reasons. A person like ...

We're still not on the same page, because I claim contradiction within the system, therefore I cannot conclude that the existence claims are valid. Th...

It's not even an issue of does math, or does math not exist. We are talking about whether we have an accurate description of it. To assign a name "exi...

I'm glad you're back. The issue of platonism is more about the existence of any bijection in general, and the question of whether a measurement exists...

i don't consider this to be a solution, because the result is the uncertainty principle. What you indicate is two distinct concepts of space which are...

That's exactly right. To say that 2 is between 1 and 3 is to say that it serves as a medium. However, in the true conception and use of numbers, 1, 2,...

This issue is more complicated though. The Neo-Platonists took Plato's name and claimed to continue Plato's school, but their ontology is consistent w...

I agree. but my spell check doesn't like little p platonism. And, I count the distinction as unimportant because there really would be no such thing a...

I'm kind of surprised that he didn't just make his own.

You got it bro! We measure the object not the measurement tool. The standard metre cannot be measured. Numbers are the tool, not the thing to be measu...

I suggest lots of maple syrup. Better than flan.

I can't really follow anything you are saying. Again, "integer" is a faulty concept, because it assumes that "a number" is a countable object. That's ...

Of course, why would say that? it's defined as infinite. That's the whole point. It is infinite and infinite is defined as boundless, endless, therefo...

No, that's not quite right. I reject the assumption of any "mathematical objects" finite or infinite, as Platonism, and unacceptable. It just happens ...

As I said, denial! When numbers are assumed to be mathematical objects, these objects simply exist independently of any human mind. The supposed objec...

You were claiming that numbers "exist", and how to be, is to be a value. Now you've totally changed the subject to "assigning a value". Sure, and thos...

Do you recognize that set theory is based in Platonism?

If, "to be is to be the value of a bound variable", then you are obviously talking Platonism. Anytime a value has being, that's Platonism. I'm amazed ...

Of course, in the car is the best hotbox going. I assume your driver has a respirator.

As I said, Platonism, which is an unacceptable ontology.

I demonstrated already, it's not a proper "proof" because it relies on a false premise. This produces your incoherent, unsound conclusion "we can prov...

I think that the problem is that I stated a specific problem. Then Paine produced a quote from Kant, which appeared like it sort of addressed the prob...

There's an ontology which presumes that numbers exist, it's called Platonism. It's been demonstrated to be a very problematic ontology, and many philo...

No, my apology too, I didn't intend to imply that you have done this, in particular. But I might mention@"Banno", and a few other members in the past....

You don't seem to understand the problem. "Countably" implies a procedure which you continue to deny. When we looked at the definition of "countable" ...

I can't, neither can you. Get the point? I know you said this, but I do not believe you . The concept of "capable" is very straight forward with very ...

Although Kant claims "a sufficient reply" in that passage, I don't think he provides that at all. The problem he says arises from an assumed "differen...

I don't see anything special about that word. Why do you think I should embolden it? That's right, we know, by the defining features of the system, th...

Here's an example to consider Esse. Would you say that someone is "capable" of producing the entire decimal extension of pi? If not, then why would yo...

Esse, please read what is written. I took the definition from a mathematics site, provided by a mathematician, jgill. The definition was "capable of b...

Don't worry about that, do the world a favour and recycle.

That is debatable, and it is really the issue I raised already about the difference between Plato and Kant. Plato allows the human mind direct access ...

That's right, "countable" means something very specific. But as I've demonstrated, the meaning of it, as defined, contradicts the meaning of 'the natu...

Havana syndrome was a significant debilitating illness, kind of like an extreme chronic migraine. Numerous people were inflicted at a few different lo...

That's not true. The definition of infinity I use is the one used in mathematics, to describe the natural numbers as unbounded, unlimited, without end...

How would you determine the numeric value of anything without comparison to a scale? That's what the instrument does, it applies the scale to the item...

I think this matter still has relevance. It is the issue of division. In reality, everything that we attempt to divide can only be divided according t...

I wouldn't characterize this as "worries". It doesn't worry me at all. I just reject falsity for what it is, and since this matter has little if any i...

You have requested a distinction between a "transcendental" understanding, and a "causal" understanding. Can you explain this difference better, for m...