EricH

In fact they do all the time at the atomic & sub-atomic level. Just for example - radioactive decay. Atoms will randomly split and new atoms will pop ...

So there are two distinct mechanisms to determine the truth value of a language expressions, yes?

Are there expressions of language that are true but are NOT true on the basis of their meaning AND also are not derived from other facts? Put slightly...

Here you seem to be saying that we can determine the set of facts from a well constructed dictionary. And here you seem to be re-stating the Correspon...

I’m puzzled as to why you are posting on this amateur forum. Your ideas are groundbreaking and revolutionary. I urge you to submit your thesis to The ...

First of all my complements on a very well constructed OP. Anyway, this is sort of a whimsical notion, but I'm seeing a sort of a poetic analogy betwe...

Occam's Razor Humor

Perhaps an ignorant question but isn’t this just a variation on Occam’s Razor?

This is a very ambitious project - if you succeed then the name PL Olcott will become world famous. But so far I can't make any sense of what you're s...

I still can't make any sense out of this. What is the difference between a "sense input" and a "sense meaning"? The only way we can even know that the...

I still can't make any sense of this. Does the Cyc project identifier refer to - a conceptual object - a collection of conceptual objects (i.e., how d...

So this whole project is merely the embodiment of people's imagination.

You'll have to forgive this bear of little brain, but i can't make any sense of this. How do we know that dogs exist? Can we rule out the possibility ...

apologies if that came across as a personal criticism - not my attention. I just skimmed your post and missed your distinction. Other than that- see m...

Classical and quantum physics go together quite well. You can read a very technical discussion here (which I don't pretend to fully understand) - but ...

Seems like hair splitting to me - the equation is deterministic but when you use it the results aren't. But OK.

“Features common to Copenhagen-type interpretations include the idea that quantum mechanics is intrinsically indeterministic,” Just scroll down to the...

Every physicist agrees that the schrodinger equation is deterministic” Not sure about that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_...

That is not quite correct. The job of the president (amongst other things) is to insure that federal laws are enforced. Trump is being charged with br...

I am likely an outlier in this conversation. I see two groups of people who have been buffeted by historic forces outside their control who are strugg...

I still have not communicated. I'll try one more time. BTW - not that it's truly relevant but I was a physics major in college (albeit not a very good...

Perhaps I'm not following you, but it seems to me that you're not addressing the random nature of these events. This describes the necessary condition...

I asked you this before and never got a response, so I'll try again. Using your terminology from the OP, let Y be an atom radioactively decaying into ...

I don't see how you can conclude from this statement that he's looking for fraudulent ballots. If he were truly looking for fraudulent ballots then he...

In Matthew 5:17-20 Jesus clearly states that you should obey all the laws of the Old testament: 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the...

OK. So let the current event be the radioactive decay of an atom at time T. What is the specific prior event that caused the decay of that atom at tha...

What is the distinction between determinism and causality?

With 20/20 hindsight "appealing" is not the best choice of words - it goes beyond that. In superdeterminism even your thinking is predetermined. Every...

We cannot logically rule out superdeterminism but as a fact based person I go with the evidence. And as it says in the WIkipedia article, 'any hypothe...

Einstein got it wrong. EPR supposedly showed flaws in quantum mechanics. But . . . It's the opposite. Bell's theorem showed that there are no hidden l...

Over time radioactive decay behaves in a statistically predictable manner, but each event is completely random and uncaused. Going back to your OP, if...

Well yes, that was my point. But just to be clear, the statistics only work in the aggregate level. Each individual atom that decays does so in the ab...

There are "things" which do not have a specific prior cause for their existence. When an atom decays radioactively from one element to another there i...

Hmm, just out of curiosity could you point to specific examples?

Let's try another approach. The big oil companies have billions of dollars at their disposal. They can afford to hire any number of top climatologists...

This is simply not true. The change in climate over last 150 years or so (since start of industrial age) do not fit into any known previous pattern an...

The words true/truth have very different meanings/usages in math vs talking about the real world of human interactions. As I understand things, 12 * 1...

While it cannot be proved with 100% certainty, all indications are that they (Trump supporters) approve of Trump's authoritarianism. https://www.polit...

I did a quick search in NY Times. Dozens of articles or opinion pieces on microplastics. Here's one I did not bother checking BBC, but I'm confident t...

“ The majority opinion is so stupid and unjust, and the dissenting opinions are more originalist (some of which call out the majority’s misreading of ...

Now that he has put us all in this situation, the U.S. Supreme Court – and especially the Roberts majority – has a real dilemma on its hands. It has a...

This has got to be the one of (if not the most) off topic discussions I can recall. :rofl: :joke: :lol:

Who is this "we"? My college roommate hated coffee (although it's unlikely he's reading this). :razz: :grin:

Causality does not apply at the quantum mechanical level. Whether it applies at higher aggregate levels is still up for debate.

Perhaps I was not clear. The main item that I was trying to adjust was this: This gives side B a reason for their actions, whereas there was no reason...

I appreciate that you are trying to set up a thought experiment that removes the specifics of the current war. But (at least as I read this) it seems ...

My best friend from college (who is now dead) was an fanatical Zionist. After he graduated he spent a year in Israel - mostly on a kibbutz in Northern...

Here's a very pertinent article which hit my news feed a few days ago. Perhaps this is old news, but it's the first I'm hearing about this. https://ww...

This is a good example of the complexities in these situations. Why should the 1938 demographics be the deciding factor? If we want things to be resol...

In cases that are unambiguous (or as unambiguous as possible) such as European occupation of Western Hemisphere it might be possible to come up with s...