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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...
April 26, 2024 at 11:38
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...
April 26, 2024 at 11:27
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...
April 26, 2024 at 10:38
Are you saying that people do not use "life" in that way, in languages other than English?
April 26, 2024 at 01:32
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,...
April 26, 2024 at 01:25
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...
April 26, 2024 at 01:02
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...
April 26, 2024 at 00:56
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...
April 25, 2024 at 11:57
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 ...
April 25, 2024 at 11:27
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...
April 24, 2024 at 23:45
The obvious point is that we can describe a scenario which is logically possible, but physically impossible. When working with this scenario, we need ...
April 24, 2024 at 12:08
Yes, that is the point. Your expressed conceptualization "60 seconds will pass in the universe" is not consistent with the conceptualization prescribe...
April 24, 2024 at 11:56
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...
April 24, 2024 at 11:51
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...
April 24, 2024 at 11:41
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...
April 24, 2024 at 02:14
What thread are we on? Did you combine this one with the other one? Maybe you could ask a mod to do that for you.
April 24, 2024 at 02:01
Hi andrewk. It's good to see you, been a while. Doing well? I hope.
April 24, 2024 at 01:48
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...
April 24, 2024 at 00:46
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...
April 24, 2024 at 00:02
That's beautiful, simple and eloquent.
April 23, 2024 at 12:26
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....
April 23, 2024 at 11:58
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. ...
April 23, 2024 at 01:45
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...
April 22, 2024 at 12:38
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...
April 22, 2024 at 12:12
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...
April 22, 2024 at 02:43
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...
April 21, 2024 at 19:04
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...
April 21, 2024 at 17:26
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!
April 21, 2024 at 12:03
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,...
April 21, 2024 at 12:01
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 ...
April 21, 2024 at 11:53
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...
April 21, 2024 at 11:27
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...
April 21, 2024 at 11:12
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...
April 20, 2024 at 23:57
You're missing the point. The act, which is called "interpretation", "to interpret", requires a relationship of representation of some sort. This is c...
April 20, 2024 at 11:57
People generally prefer to recognize difference over similarity. It feeds the ego and cultivates the superiority complex derived form the person's den...
April 20, 2024 at 11:13
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...
April 20, 2024 at 02:24
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...
April 20, 2024 at 01:00
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...
April 20, 2024 at 00:13
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...
April 19, 2024 at 16:32
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...
April 19, 2024 at 11:32
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...
April 18, 2024 at 21:54
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...
April 18, 2024 at 11:30
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...
April 18, 2024 at 11:23
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...
April 18, 2024 at 11:18
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...
April 18, 2024 at 01:56
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...
April 18, 2024 at 01:40
In: Infinity  — view comment
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...
April 18, 2024 at 01:31
It's actually an ongoing process, the evolution of thought. Look at Russel's paradox for example.
April 18, 2024 at 00:39
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...
April 17, 2024 at 12:18
In: Infinity  — view comment
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...
April 17, 2024 at 12:05