Thus you inadvertently refute your own statement. You said, and this is a direct quote: "For motion can only be defined as a change of place or positi...
So you agree that all motion is relative. Something is moving only in relation to something else, and not in any absolute sense. That's a lot differen...
Relative to what? If I am sitting on my couch watching Youtube videos, am I moving? Well no, relative to my couch. No, relative to my street, my city,...
That's a married bachelor. Algorithms are deterministic. They cannot create randomness. This is precisely what pseudorandomness is: A deterministic se...
The story actually goes back to Leibniz, who "dreamt of building a machine that could manipulate symbols in order to determine the truth values of mat...
A sequence is pseudorandom when it's the output of a deterministic process, but the sequence satisfies all known statistical tests for randomness. Whe...
A computable number is a real number whose decimal digits can be generated by a computer program. Most real numbers are not computable. The digits of ...
Almost all reals are noncomputable. How is some noncomputable number pseudorandom but not random in your view? Among the noncomputable numbers. Pick a...
This is why it's not productive to continue this convo. I've spent the last couple of posts saying that math is a lie, math is fiction, math is untrut...
My understanding of the meaning of the word is that culture is that which is passed down through generations. Animals have instincts and behaviors. Th...
Someone using your keyboard, perhaps your cat, wrote The Pythagorean theorem in the real world is literally false. It's close but no cigar. It's appro...
:100: Reminds me of those people who memorize digits of pi. The only people with zero interest in doing that are math majors. I don't think everything...
Uh oh. This is one of those flashpoint conversations that I shouldn't get involved in, because I actually haven't followed it in years.. It's just som...
@Meta, I'm going to withdraw from this phase of our ongoing conversation. Perhaps we'll pick it up at some time in the future. If you can't agree that...
That's right. My understanding of this issue is that on the one hand, if you have something physically wrong with your brain, you need a neurologist; ...
Complete misunderstanding of the nature of physical science and the inexactness of all physical measurement. You are living in your own world of delus...
I will get to your earlier longer post when I get a chance, a little busy this week. That you don't understand that all physical measurement is approx...
Shapes seem more like qualities or attributes. Color, temperature, mass, don't exist in isolation. They are attributes of objects. As is shape. I thin...
Yes I understand that. It's just that I've heard that particular saying before, and I genuinely don't understand it. No, I think holes exist, and so d...
Hmmm. I will have to think about that, it's a good point. SEP has an article on the subject. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/ They even made ...
LOL. Should I read the rest? Second time today someone took one of my little jokes too seriously, I'll practice up on my smileys. :smile: :yikes: :coo...
I confess I have never understood this in the least. Bound variables are part of symbolic representations, not the things themselves. A cat is the val...
The point is that the process of abstraction necessarily, by its very nature, must omit many important aspects of the thing it's intended to model. Yo...
I made a logic joke. You are a little off target. Do you need me to explain the joke? You said that a theory would explain a lot if true. I pointed ou...
Several decades at least. Of course Ptolemy had evidence too. Isn't this just Hume's problem of induction? Old philosophical conundrum. Like the turke...
Isn't that just the currently contingent theory, subject to revision in next week's Physical Review Letters? You have no actual evidence for such a pr...
Agreed. We adopt scientific realism for pragmatic reasons. I suspect we are in agreement. And FWIW, bowling balls always seem to fall down, but electr...
If you go to the moon, the gravitational acceleration is different than on earth, And I took the trouble in my post to give the striking example of da...
Do we? Aristotle said that bowling balls fall down because bowling balls are like the earth and things tend to go to like things. Fire is like air, th...
Maybe I should start reading the rest of this thread so we can have a free-for-all instead of a tag team. Good question, let me see if I can sharpen m...
No prob it took me years to figure out the @ sign! Well in my opinion no, because it's not likely to be true that the mathematical real numbers are ph...
If you tag my handle I will be notified of your reply. That is, you can highlight some of my text and hit Quote, or you can simply type in an '@' sign...
You're welcome. I'm very happy to know that my pedantic pickiness has been useful for a change. But you know philosophically, the idea that the physic...
I will keep my clothes on if that's ok :-) Like I say, I only jumped in to correct the claim that each real number is characterized by a property. Oth...
You're replying before I'm finished typing. I'm out of breath! I don't mean to be at odds. I think the idea that the physical world is the same as the...
I notice you've changed the subject. Your ideas are muddled. Your credentials mean nothing. Well you know there are no infinitesimals in the real numb...
You're right, it's irrelevant. You seem confused about infinitesimals, infinity, the real numbers, and a number of other things. How'd you get through...
Oh well nevermind then! It was a highly nontrivial typo but if you meant natural numbers then you are right. As do I. The notion that the real numbers...
Haven't read the rest of the thread but his phrase jumped out at me, as it's false. Almost all real numbers are neither computable nor definable. If a...
Ok good. Progress is being made. One point, I am not reading the entire thread. From your side it must seem like you're being tag-teamed by @"Luke" an...
Why do you so studiously avoid the only substantive thing on which we disagree and that I have a definite opinion on? When I talk about Turing's limit...
Ok. This is a good starting point. The question is, are you interested in understanding mathematical order in a coherent way? The idea, as with anythi...
You typed in a lot of words so you deserve a response. Since (looking ahead) you regard this as friendly sparring, I'll respond in kind. Just up front...
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