Yes, distinct conventions for numbers is a real issue, which I take as evidence against Platonism. How could a number be a single object, if there are...
I don't follow this. If, within the domain of real numbers, negatives do not have square roots, then the complex plane, within which negatives do have...
No, it would not. It would be a collection of parts without any parts. That's what your statement was, "empty collections". Your assumption that this ...
How could there be a concrete entity which is an empty collection of parts? That makes no sense logically, an infinite number of zeros does not make o...
The issue of imaginary numbers is different though. It is an issue of there being two distinct conventions, yet each convention is correct in its own ...
If that's what you call "honest" communication, and "well said", then it's no wonder that I have an aversion toward communion with you two. Your princ...
But in saying that, you are already assuming the existence of particulars. And by taking the existence of particulars for granted, you do not consider...
The problem with litewave's representation here is that the existence of the particular "concrete whole" is taken for granted. Srap demonstrates how t...
Yes, isn't that strange? The females created by the app seem to have very smooth (sort of artificial) skin. Some sort of gender stereotyping there. Th...
Potential energy is energy relative to a thing's position. Kinetic energy is energy relative to a thing's activity. Clearly there is a very substantia...
If you followed what Frank said, you might start to see why I said "potential energy" really doesn't make any sense logically. Consider, the definitio...
It's gravity, but gravity is understood as the property of another object. If you remove the other object which the gravity is the property of, then y...
Oh, the shit hits the fan. Jackie Cummins' face is now in the data base of the evil empire. The problem here is that people can take your picture anyt...
Now consider the difference between kinetic energy and potential energy. The former would be actually having the capacity to do work, and the latter w...
I was talking about the reasons why we say that the ball is a "red ball", and we assume that it cannot not be red. because it is a red ball I think th...
I have no problem with referring to particular things, and this is because I accept the law of identity. The real problem is with change to a thing. H...
There is actually many examples if you look for them. Someone, I believe it was Srap, earlier gave the example of Pluto being a planet. The linguistic...
I think this is where things get sticky. In the case of a particular object, such as "this ball", each and every property is an essential property, th...
Right, I think I follow this. Now let me tell you the issue I'm talking about, taking this simple example of "the book is not red". As it stands "not"...
It can't be me making the scope error, because it's your examples only, not mine. Am I making an interpretive scope error? Here's the example again: C...
Yes, that's exactly the problem. If (1) is defined as opposed to (2), and (3) is defined as opposed to (2), then (1) and (3) must have the very same m...
You start off with a false premise. "Feelings" are sensations and there is many different sorts of them, often involving neither pleasure nor pain. Co...
I know we've discussed this before. You believe self-deception is a nonsense concept. What I see here, is that if we start with "necessary" under the ...
We start by opposing necessary with impossible. Fine, no problem. But then we need to give "possible" a position, because "possible" provides a truthf...
We're too far apart on this issue to even start discussion. There's too much I disagree with here. To begin with, I believe that morality consists of ...
I believe this is the most accurate description you've provided. We don't act on the future, nor do we act on the past, we act at the present. The pas...
You are simply misrepresenting what I said (as is your usual habit) to continue with a strawman argument. I didn't say that it was necessary that you ...
Right, at that prior time it was not necessary. However, at this posterior time it is necessary. Human beings have a completely different attitude tow...
Not quite the same, because what I am saying is that the particular rules which become accepted by people, and therefore form the conventional rules o...
Yes, those possibilities are how we think "about" the future, just like we can say something "about" the future. Sure, but at this time, after the act...
What that poster says makes sense. But some who are taught that something contrary to what the poster says makes sense, refuse to allow the possibilit...
That's really not how Srap was using "possible worlds". We were talking about hypotheticals, counterfactuals, and whether or not it is raining out. He...
Right, blue eyes are recessive, so it ought to work out... unless they are specifically bred for. Those agrarians, they seem to know all about breedin...
Unless someone provides a definition, "meaning" is not being used in the sense of a definition. So in common usage, which is what we seemed to be talk...
That a statement could "mean precisely what it says" is what is nonsensical. The statement consists of words, symbols. What it means is an interpretat...
Look at the T-schema discussed earlier by Banno. "The book is in my room" is true iff the book is in my room. In this example, "the book is in my room...
I'm very distressed to hear that. Since it is very obvious that you could state "the book is in my room" when the book is not in your room, then it is...
Exactly, and this exemplifies how commonly accepted principles of logic fail us, and can easily be used to deceive. Honestly, (1) does entail (2), as ...
That's a pretty good explanation. Put simply "the book is in my room" implies that I know where the book is. "The book is possibly in my room" implies...
What you don't seem to understand MIchael, is that whether or not the book is actually in your room is completely irrelevant here. These statements ha...
I think what underwrites these modalities is experience. But it isn't direct experience, like we tend to say that sensation is experience, it's more l...
When you are talking about "the sum", quantity is not irrelevant. And, a successive accumulation without end, does not produce a sum. Sorry, my mistak...
I don't know, to be honest. We always describe things through terms of actuality, what a thing is. So possibility, being not actual, must be something...
That is explained in the post. Iif you will take the time to read it, you can ask me what you do not understand. Depending on what you mean by "not ac...
You misquoted me. I said "non-actual". I suggest you read my post before replying. Your rapid response indicates a strong probability that you did not...
I beg to differ. An arsehole is really a producer of waste, not a waste disposal system. The problem with all living beings is that they produce waste...
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