Metaphysician Undercover

It's easy to see why it's incoherent. Start out with the concept of infinite. We can easily see why it is beneficial to allow for numbers to be infini...

Jgill talked about how the lamp would "appear", and this implies a sense observation, and empirical judgement. The point I made is that the descriptio...

I would say both, as the one seems to just be a more specific example of the other, which is more general. I don't see the point. The evolutionary for...

Language evolved to be efficient for the purpose of mundane communication, that's why it's vague and ambiguous. We learn the minimum number of words r...

Keep talking, you're turning me on. The sauce is the milchig and the gravy is the fleishig?

You could look to @"Banno" as an example. Banno has argued an interpretation of Wittgenstein, supporting that interpretation with an appeal to authori...

"White gravy", what the fuck is that? Some kind of cream sauce without the cream? And your "butter, is it hydrogenated vegetable oil, or is it milk fa...

I think that if the lamp is going on and off at an infinite rate, then it's not correct to say that it would be on at any particular time, or off at a...

I have to disagree. What you describe is a rate of acceleration which would produce an infinite speed. The rate at which you recite the numbers become...

A good honest man would take a boatload of gravy over the gravy train, any day of the week.

You might be right. French Canadians seem to be responsible for making the ramps illegal. The Québécois seem to really run with anything they find to ...

How do you make this conclusion?

But ramps are called wild garlic too, also Hanover's noxious weed allium vineale is called wild garlic, and probably a couple hundred other species. Y...

I guess there's a lot of different "allium" species. According to Wikipedia, hundreds (somewhere between 260 and 979, I guess because they haven't fig...

Thanks for the numerous corrections. I guess I'll just call them ramps, and keep eating them because they sure are good. Those are not ramps (wild gar...

Wow, look at those blooms! Those are "leaks", or "ramps", and they are delicious. Not quite a garlic, not quite an onion, but you get the best of both...

Let me remind you, the "thing" being described here, in the op is a fictitious scenario. It is one hundred percent dependent on the description, just ...

Wasn't that the moose who had all the ping pong balls falling on him? What's the moose's name Bulwinkle? No, it was the moose on Captain Kangaroo! Try...

I believe that is known as "the butterfly effect". The change of one letter changes one word, changes one sentence, changes the idea signified, change...

I believe Socrates (as portrayed by Plato) had great respect for the sophists. They displayed power and influence, and this piqued his interest. In Pl...

A few quotes with no real context, does little. Anyway, it's off topic, and really sort of pointless to argue a subject like this. You have your opini...

NoAxioms has a habit of making astonishing claims, then instead of recognizing the incorrectness, arguing some twisted principles. Like above, noAxiom...

The difficult thing is that many human beings are like naive realists, and they think that our sense perceptions of "the everyday world" are a direct ...

I meant, that they can mislead us when we apply the principles to the activities of the physical world. That's what Zeno's paradoxes show. What is evi...

Yes, Zeno is analyzing in a misleading way, but only because the axioms of continuity and infinite divisibility are themselves misleading. So Zeno sim...

https://iep.utm.edu/zenos-paradoxes/ The paradox is like this. Both Achilles and the tortoise are moving, but the tortoise has a head start. So at t1 ...

I think so, but we'll have to see what noAxioms is talking about with the reference to a requirement for further premises. I think noAxioms looks at Z...

I don't see the need for any other premise. Achilles is moving, and described as doing this in a way in which he will always have to move further befo...

Obviously, the described process has no start, that is implied by the description. So your conclusion that it is logically impossible to have started ...

This is not the issue. It clearly does not have a start. The question is whether it is logically necessary for such a task to have a start. This is ar...

I think that's actually a very difficult issue to resolve. It's basically the same question as whether an infinite regress is logically possible. I be...

I think you misunderstand Zeno's paradoxes. Zeno concluded that Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise. That is explicit. And therefore, it indicates t...

In Zeno's Achilles and the tortoise, empirical knowledge shows that Achilles will pass the tortoise. But empirical knowledge has problems like what Hu...

That's almost right, the logic is valid, but not necessarily sound. Soundness requires true premises. Generally though, judgement of the premises is d...

When I was young (back in the good ole days), we could listen to AM from all over the place, at night. My brother was a keener and did put wires throu...

My posts are invaluable... so good luck trying to get money for them.

The practise may be more common in northern countries (Canada for example), where the drying conditions are not as reliable: https://mbcropalliance.ca...

Perhaps I was wrong to call it "common practise", but that was the information I was reading at the time. The degree of such usage has been debated, a...

Isn't the required act, to run underneath and catch the poor soul? Or is that only appropriate with babies?

Why do you conclude this? Do you have absolute control over anything you created? Why do you think that God would have absolute control over the unive...

Oh my God! Save this poor lost soul.

God has to be real, because that is stipulated in the conception of "God", as an essential aspect of "God". If God was not real, then the conception w...

That's the point, mathematics is always "married" to something, be it the world of sensory input, or the alternative, Platonic universe. You're jumpin...

I know of a couple of escaped pot-bellieds who got blasted, mistaken for the enemy, wild boar. Shame, shame.

How would you classify model-dependent realism? Clearly this is not "correspondentist". You can argue that it is a form of "realism" as the title sugg...

Oh I see, "I exist now", is an eternal truth. So the "eternal truth" is a truth which obtains the highest degree of certainty. The other less certain ...

Wouldn't this mean that your existence is eternal?

If you'd have read what you said to me, you would know that you asked me "in terms of purpose - of any kind -". I assume that the clearly stated "any ...

It seems you misunderstood.

I cannot quite apprehend what you mean by "a set of constraints which things not of or in reality are not subject to". I assume you are saying that th...