JimRoo

I am curious as to what publisher's book you used as your copy of Euclid's Elements. I'm curious because the first edition of Euclid's Elements that I...

That was a part of Orwell's newspeak in the novel 1984. From wikipedia

I'm not sure if that's completely accurate. In 2015, there was an article, Quantum physics problem proved unsolvable: Godel and Turing enter quantum p...

My understanding is when Riemann is talking about the 2nd derivative, he is talking about the 2nd derivative of the metric function, the function for ...

Would matrix form work? Let x = (x_1 x_2, ... x_n) be a row vector, x^t the column vector, and P be the p_{ij} matrix. Then, something like: ds^2 = x ...

I have been reading along in this thread and I appreciate the effort that you and others are making in explaining Riemann's paper. So far, this has be...

I agree with Wittgenstein that not everything we call language is this system. But, I also agree with Augustine that for many of us, this is the way w...

The original German is something like: Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge. I think that gets around the ambiguity in English. ...

You state: (V?T), (¬V?H), (¬T?¬H), Therefore: V Based on the previous paragraph, I think you mean: (V?T), (¬V?H), (¬T?¬H), Therefore: T Can you work t...

Ford claims that both Kavanaugh and Judge were stumbling drunk at the time. Judge has written a book, "Wasted", in which he claims to have been a drun...

If people are interested Rosen's essay is available on line here - Google books .

I'm interested in following this thread. I thought "states of affairs" and "atomic facts" are different translations of "Sachverhalten." Or, are you s...