In logic we must follow the premises regardless of truth or falsity. Your example makes premises which describe a machine doing what has been called a...
You do not seem to I was clarifying what is meant by "hunger". And, rather than being sophistical, I was exposing your sophistry. When we say that som...
You just reaffirmed the same contradictory statements. It's impossible, by way of contradiction, that the counter can do the assigned task, and 60 sec...
So if I were to ask you (in some language other than English), if you believe that there is "life" in some places of the universe other than on earth,...
Then why did you say there is no agreement between you and some biologists on the question of whether or not viruses are alive? Isn't this an instance...
I see that 30 and 15 and 7.5 sums up to 52.5 seconds. I also see that as it progresses the sum approaches 60. But I do not see how it could ever get t...
No, clearly I made the appropriate choice in deciding what to argue. The described "supertask" is incompatible with 60 seconds elapsing. We seem to ag...
All this, I take as evidence that we do not know what "life" is. We seem to believe that there is something called "life", (and it's sort of odd that ...
I guess I misunderstood your example. It is obviously not consistent with the OP. That little part where you say "and so on for 60 seconds" is unclear...
The obvious point is that we can describe a scenario which is logically possible, but physically impossible. When working with this scenario, we need ...
Yes, that is the point. Your expressed conceptualization "60 seconds will pass in the universe" is not consistent with the conceptualization prescribe...
Sorry Lionino, I am not a biologist, and spoke hastily without understanding what I was saying. Google has told me that viruses are not alive, so I ap...
I wouldn't say that. If you read Aristotle's Physics, you'll see that he describes the principal definition for "time" being used at his time, as a so...
I wasn't saying that this is "the issue", only that it is the logical outcome. For Icarus a minute cannot pass because he always has steps to cover fi...
Sorry no Axioms, I can't follow what you are saying, perhaps you could spell out your supposed "non-sequitur" in a clear explanation, instead of simpl...
What does "presymbolic language" mean? Isn't all language by the meaning of "language", symbolic in some way? Adding "symbolic" to language, to say th...
This is what I think is not at all objective and obvious, and I also disagree with it. I see an ontological discontinuity between inanimate and alive....
Well Vera Mont clearly doesn't think that it is objective and obvious, and I'm not convinced either way. Let me see if I can put this in another way. ...
I've seen you state this before, and I find it interesting and would like to see it better supported. What type of "threshold" are you talking about h...
It's not a non-sequitur, the conclusion follows logically from the way that Achilles' movement is described. From the description there is always furt...
By what is stipulated, yes, Achilles cannot surpass the tortoise. But, the stipulations are not a true representation and that is why there is a probl...
For what it's worth, I believe you'll find it in Bk 6 of Nichomachean Ethics. A lot of any such argument is a sort of stipulation of intuitive princip...
The specifications do not allow for a minute to pass, that's the problem. It's just like Zeno's Achilles and the tortoise paradox. What is specified b...
So, philosophy, as the ideas which are produced from the solitary thinker, is a representation of that kind of human being, the solitary thinker. Now,...
Oh my God! There's a lot of threads about the paradoxes which entail from the magic of mathematical axioms, that have popped up lately. Let's just go ...
Yes, there is a "slight of hand" involved. The real solution is that the only "finite time" in the description is the starting time, and the formula f...
How does that work? He's traveling by steps. Each step takes a discernible amount of time which is a different time from the prior step. You say he re...
Peter Wohleben, a career forester has a very well written, bestselling book called "The Hidden life of Trees: What they feel, How they communicate". I...
You're missing the point. The act, which is called "interpretation", "to interpret", requires a relationship of representation of some sort. This is c...
People generally prefer to recognize difference over similarity. It feeds the ego and cultivates the superiority complex derived form the person's den...
How do you make that consistent with what you said earlier: If, "already interpreted" is a prerequisite of there being such a thing as "the world", an...
To "interpret" is to bring out, or explain the meaning of. To "represent" is to stand for, signify, or correspond to. In no sense are the two the same...
How about that patient who had covid for a year and a half, and mutated about 50 different variants of the virus right within his own body? Too bad th...
A TikToker in Northern Ireland who specialized in the slang of that area, found to her surprise, that the only people in the world who could understan...
The primary problem with this statement is your use of "interprets". What is present to the mind, is just a representation which is created by the min...
I still do not see how this description of "intrinsic value" makes any sense. You seem to be saying that there are some things in the world, which dem...
I agree with this. The appearance of randomness is created by the system which analyzes, it is not a feature of the thing being analyzed. That the ana...
You have a very strange way of reading 180 Proof. Did bert1 say that "capacity" = "structure and function"? That's an odd interpretation, to assume th...
Yes, this is a problem. If "last end" is defined as happiness, then we need a separate description of happiness or else the two words just become repr...
Math is a field of study, it's not a symbol, sign, or even a group of such, so it's not used to refer to anything. But that's irrelevant. So this disc...
In practise the math always refers to something. In theory it is designed to be applicable to a very wide range of circumstances. When the theory is n...
This is the crucial point, which I'd like to bring to your attention. The law of identity is an ontological principle which deals which "objects" as w...
I like that. It reminds me of a song by Stone Temple Pilots, called "Plush": "And I feel, so much depends on the weather So is it raining in your bedr...
All right, you just confirmed what I thought. "Identity" in mathematics is equality. That clearly violates the law of identity. The law of identity al...
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