That would be eternal truth, if there is such a thing. Some would attribute this to God, others to mathematics, and some perhaps to physics. It seems ...
Doesn't "valued because they are valued" imply infinite regress, or maybe a vicious circle, rather than bootstrapping? In the op you say "Bottom line,...
It is demonstrated this way. Purpose is prior to any display of purpose. Therefore there must be a purpose which is prior to all things which display ...
Quite simply, God is the source of purpose. Those who do not believe in God have a big hole in their capacity for understanding, because the purpose w...
Faulty conclusion. If someone tells you the earth has spun on its axis 1460 times, therefore it's time for you to go and vote, so you do, this does no...
I've heard that some states have declared open season on wild boars. Kill them by any means, pounds of rat poison, machine gun, landmines, bombings, w...
Oddly enough, voting is not just limited to those who are educated. Now, it has been argued that a certain degree of education ought to be mandatory, ...
The Lounge is where I go to take the edge off the day with a good lullaby. Thanks NOS, I slept well for four days after that one. Have you ever heard ...
Fishfry doesn't quite grasp the reality of the fact that the judgement of true or false, which we subject premises to, is really just a judgement of r...
What's with the price of olive oil these days? It seems to go up by about twenty five percent every time I go to buy some. Is there a shortage of oliv...
I told you how the person gets back to the ship using free will. That's one point for free will, zero for you. A robot cannot decide whether or not to...
Yes, I agree with that. But, there is no "seconds" inherent in that passage of time, nor does it appear like there are any natural points for division...
You continue to refuse to acknowledge the difference between the measurement and the thing measured. T1 and T2 are points designated by the measurer, ...
I think, and then I do. The "force" which moves me comes from within me, and therefore cannot be described by Newton's conceptions of force. "Speed", ...
I dealt with this already. If you restrict the meaning of "physical" to that which abides by the law of physics, then every aspect of what we would ca...
You've got this backward. Some supertasks are coherent and consistent, therefore logically logically possible. In this case, that is the proof that th...
I think that this principle says something about our capacity to observe. It might resolve paradoxes, but it does so by recognizing the limitations of...
I backed it up with logic. It was suggested that there was a fallacy involved in the logic, the fallacy of appeal to consequences. But referral to a d...
I really don't see how there could be a staircase which is not physical. That really makes not sense. However, just like in the case of the word "dete...
As already argued in this thread, above, the so-called "stochastic nature" of radioactive decay, is best understood as a feature of the means employed...
I can explain it very easily. There is two different senses of "limit" being used here. One is a logical "limit" as employed in mathematics, to descri...
It is not useful to assume spontaneity, just like it is not useful to assume randomness. Are you familiar with the theory of "spontaneous generation"?...
That's not quite what I'm saying. The process described by the op has no limit. That should be clear to you. It starts with a first step which takes a...
Are you saying that you believe that there would still be an April 29, even if there never was any human beings with their time measuring techniques, ...
No, it's not based on such a desire at all. I recognize that to be impossible. My desire is that the writer of the material which I am reading, would ...
Notice, in your referred article, that when the argument's conclusion concerns good and bad, rather than true or false, it is not considered to be a f...
That "flavour of characteristics" is what I call ambiguity. Your use of this word conflicts with the idea you expressed above, about using well define...
Deductive logic proceeds from premises which are often produced from inductive reasoning and empirical evidence. As you noticed, empirical evidence do...
There is no limiting process in the premises of the op, nor in what is described by . The "limiting process" is a separate process which a person will...
"Repugnant", is a commonly used word in philosophy. The argument I gave is logical, but what is concluded is that the assumption, "there is ontologica...
That's like saying today would be April 29 even if there was never any human beings to determine this. If you can't understand how this is wrong, I do...
Nice try Michael, but "ground state" is an ideal which does not occur in nature. It's like a "blackbody" and things like that, ideals used for theory,...
OK, the earth goes around the sun indefinitely, even if there were no humans on earth. But there is no "years", nor is there any individual "orbits" s...
So these attempts were a matter of caring about something else (your spouse, your health), more than smoking. And this is what actually failed for you...
If someone would explain to me, in a way which makes sense, a better perspective, then I'd happily switch. Simple assertions like "It must", and "no i...
Ontological randomness may be logically possible but it's philosophically repugnant. The problem being that if something is deemed as random, it is in...
Notice your reference to "previous occasions". That's what I described, the will to get past the failed attempts, until you find the strategy which is...
That's fundamentally incorrect. If you truly believe that an increment of time exists without being measured, tell me how I can find a naturally exist...
It's pretty obvious that the exact thing which you need to care about more than smoking, to stop smoking, is not-smoking. If you look into the scienti...
This is wrong in multiple ways Janus. First, addictions do not work like that. To break an addiction is not a matter of deciding that there is somethi...
You have not avoided the contradiction, only obscured it. Increments of time must be measured, the are the product of a measuring device. The measurin...
I believe that is the essence of freedom of choice. Possibility is general, it is then divided by the mind, individuated into a multitude of specific ...
The contradiction is very obvious. I'm surprised you persist in denial. The supertask will necessarily carry on forever, as the sum of the time increm...
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