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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...
October 17, 2022 at 01:08
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...
October 17, 2022 at 00:50
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 ...
October 16, 2022 at 22:22
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...
October 16, 2022 at 17:24
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 ...
October 16, 2022 at 13:25
The chickens ate them! That's why they had to send in the chicken hawk.
October 16, 2022 at 12:44
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...
October 16, 2022 at 12:31
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...
October 16, 2022 at 12:10
The problem with litewave's representation here is that the existence of the particular "concrete whole" is taken for granted. Srap demonstrates how t...
October 15, 2022 at 11:58
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...
October 14, 2022 at 11:30
As I said, there is no equivalence, due to entropy, which is the supposed "energy" which is unavailable, neither potential nor kinetic.
October 14, 2022 at 11:07
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...
October 14, 2022 at 10:59
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...
October 14, 2022 at 02:19
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...
October 13, 2022 at 11:42
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...
October 13, 2022 at 11:37
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...
October 13, 2022 at 11:17
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...
October 12, 2022 at 11:54
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...
October 12, 2022 at 01:52
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...
October 11, 2022 at 11:07
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...
October 10, 2022 at 12:31
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"...
October 09, 2022 at 12:22
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...
October 08, 2022 at 11:29
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...
October 07, 2022 at 11:37
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...
October 07, 2022 at 02:35
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 ...
October 06, 2022 at 11:52
We start by opposing necessary with impossible. Fine, no problem. But then we need to give "possible" a position, because "possible" provides a truthf...
October 06, 2022 at 02:07
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 ...
October 06, 2022 at 01:56
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...
October 05, 2022 at 11:18
Yeah, we'll all stand up and say "my name is Bruce..."
October 05, 2022 at 02:04
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 ...
October 05, 2022 at 01:08
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...
October 04, 2022 at 10:44
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...
October 04, 2022 at 02:10
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...
October 03, 2022 at 11:05
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...
October 03, 2022 at 02:02
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...
October 03, 2022 at 01:39
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...
October 03, 2022 at 00:31
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...
October 03, 2022 at 00:14
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...
October 02, 2022 at 12:56
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...
October 02, 2022 at 12:52
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...
October 02, 2022 at 12:25
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 ...
October 02, 2022 at 12:04
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...
October 02, 2022 at 00:26
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...
October 02, 2022 at 00:05
Said Pilate who wouldn't stay for the answer. Come on, jump in! Or is it a little too frigid for you?
October 01, 2022 at 11:40
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...
October 01, 2022 at 11:37
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...
October 01, 2022 at 01:01
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...
September 30, 2022 at 23:32
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...
September 30, 2022 at 21:30
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...
September 30, 2022 at 11:19
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...
September 30, 2022 at 11:16