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April 18, 2024 at 10:06
:ok: In "This sentence is false", whether "is false" or "is true" referred to the subject of the sentence "The sentence" or the whole sentence "This s...
April 18, 2024 at 09:55
I cannot imagine anyone relating the idea of space with the word or concept "beyond". It is just an idiom of the linguistic expression which we use ha...
April 18, 2024 at 09:45
Not making sense at all. "It is unlikely that" sounds you are lacking confidence on what you are saying, or just being evasive. "It is impossible that...
April 18, 2024 at 09:40
"It is possible that " is based on guessing, illusion, unfounded optimisms of low probability of the cases manifesting in reality. "It is impossible t...
April 17, 2024 at 20:13
Do you think there is some physical space in your imagination or around your understanding? I don't get it.
April 17, 2024 at 19:52
Hmmm I see what you are saying now, but I don't agree with you. "Beyond" in the example of "It is beyond imagination" has nothing to do with the conce...
April 17, 2024 at 19:47
What time is it? can be true or false depending on what was the criteria of the truth. If the criteria of truth was whether someone asked the question...
April 17, 2024 at 19:43
Every truth or falsity must be derived from some facts in the world or the known axioms which are self evidently true. The paradox starts with the obs...
April 17, 2024 at 19:41
"This sentence is false." If it is false, then it is true. If it is true, then it is false. The If parts need reference (under what ground it is false...
April 17, 2024 at 12:08
But people use the expression all the time in daily ordinary communications. Why reject? It wasn't "Did you lie?" we were talking about. It was "You l...
April 17, 2024 at 10:59
From your post, it appears that you might not be a native speaker of English language actually. When you said "It is beyond me", it sounds like "It is...
April 17, 2024 at 10:44
For an agnostic atheist materialist monist, having all the sounds like one's claim that she is a vegetarian, but loves eating beef, pork, chicken, lam...
April 17, 2024 at 10:35
It means the OP is under some sort of suppositional or imaginary scenario rather than based on the fact. When you say "It is possible that", it must h...
April 17, 2024 at 10:31
Removing the brain from the body would make them both die immediately. Medically, scientifically and realistically it is unimaginable. Brain can only ...
April 17, 2024 at 10:28
I see. So the OP is not the actual case. You have been talking the whole lot under a simulation/hallucination/dream/illusion. Got you. Ok, please carr...
April 16, 2024 at 17:39
Ok fair enough. Two questions. 1. I was not asking you to test the simulation/hallucination/dream/illusion hypothesis. But I was asking you to provide...
April 16, 2024 at 17:34
Can you prove that is the case with some evidence? Or is it just your guessing or imagination?
April 16, 2024 at 17:28
For you to have been experiencing a simulation, hallucination, dream or illusion, you still need the physical body. No one can have all those experien...
April 16, 2024 at 17:17
I am not sure if you are allowed to modify the given example sentence under the process of breakdown. If it is allowed, then virtually all questions c...
April 16, 2024 at 15:02
Your statement here sounds nonsense. Some questions can be for true or false. For example, "You lied, didn't you?" This means you lied, and it is true...
April 16, 2024 at 13:38
What do you mean by "we appear to be embodied"? Can you imagine yourself existing without your body?
April 16, 2024 at 13:33
Isn't one's physical body the true nature of the self? The moment the body dies, mind also dies truly and eternally.
April 16, 2024 at 13:16
Come to think of it, Afterlife sounds life keeps continuing after life ceased. Shouldn't it be called "Afterdeath"? :chin:
April 16, 2024 at 13:12
Your keep parroting "You missed the point." in most messages you write wouldn't help you on understanding. "Beyond" can mean other things too dependin...
April 16, 2024 at 13:00
As I said before, will say again. The whole confusion with the paradox and undefinability have been originated from the single narrow perspective seei...
April 15, 2024 at 10:57
Really? In which book or article did he do that? I have his Mathematical Logic, Method of Logic, Elementary Logic and The Significance of New Logic, t...
April 15, 2024 at 10:01
I think Quine did understand what bachelor meant. But his point was that a word can mean different things, the meanings of words can change through ti...
April 15, 2024 at 00:51
Quine was not a stupid. He was very academic and famous. He wrote many Logic and Philosophy books. I have some Quine books. Bachelors can mean differe...
April 15, 2024 at 00:23
Yeah, it is better I am not clumped with Banno in a thread. From his comment, it is obvious Banno seems to be still in huff or under some sort of psyc...
April 15, 2024 at 00:08
It can be implemented in C or Java in modified form with abstraction and generalisation. It cannot be implemented because you are seeing it in the pro...
April 14, 2024 at 10:36
But your example "cows don't eat house bricks" is neither a fact nor common sense. It is just an irrelevant daft statement, which is based on senseles...
April 14, 2024 at 10:31
No one was talking about opinions here apart from yourself. Isn't it a typical case of the strawman?
April 14, 2024 at 10:20
You are misunderstanding concepts as if they are some separate entity from language. Concepts, words, ideas and notions are part of language. Their me...
April 14, 2024 at 10:08
I got this book as well. It just arrived. It seems Prolog is a great logic program language which is built on FOL and HOL. An ideal PL for AI applicat...
April 13, 2024 at 09:59
You know the cows eat house bricks is false from common sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense You don't need to generalise it to find out ...
April 13, 2024 at 09:03
It sounds a weak argument for your point. Some surly confused guy calling an honest man dishonest doesn't make the honest man dishonest. Likewise some...
April 13, 2024 at 08:53
It is ungrammatical but also incomplete. If it is incomplete, then listener will add their inference into the sentence trying to make a meaning out of...
April 12, 2024 at 13:16
Of course it does, but nothing more than it is a triangle with the standard definition. But if you say, something like "I think therefore I triangle",...
April 12, 2024 at 12:54
Your points seem to be confined in the domain of analytic truth only. In a domain where all in the domain is defined as truth regardless of the real w...
April 12, 2024 at 10:58
Again the point was the atomic concepts don't tell you much just by themselves apart from being objects of conjectures, confusion, intuition or poetry...
April 12, 2024 at 09:48
:roll: It was not a proof. It was an example, so that you could understand the points better.
April 12, 2024 at 09:45
You are not reading what comes after, :) Analytic truth is a definition fallacy. It is defined as, 1. It is true, even if it is false. 2. Therefore to...
April 11, 2024 at 19:37
Analytic truth can be wrong, if it is wrongly defined, expressed or applied to an incorrect model of the actual world, which is always possible from t...
April 11, 2024 at 19:03
Analytic truth can be wrong, when it contradicts the reality. The reality has potential possibility to be otherwise from status quo at any moment of t...
April 11, 2024 at 16:09
Analytic truth can be true, but wrong. Can "wrong" be "true", and "right" be "false"?
April 11, 2024 at 14:50
What does a brick mean on its own lying on the ground apart from being a brick? Nothing. Many bricks must be piled with the cement mix into a shape to...
April 11, 2024 at 13:23
But Hamlet doesn't exist. Hence "Exist" on its own, is vague and obscure. It is said to indicate things that doesn't exist as if it exists. When a cla...
April 11, 2024 at 11:52
It is the most famous and quoted phrase in English language. What would be your valid analysis of "To be or not to be"? Why is it ungrammatical? What ...
April 10, 2024 at 11:12
The ones I ordered are, PROLOG ++: The Power of Object-oriented and Logic Programming" by C. Moss. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence by B...
April 09, 2024 at 23:50