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Well in fact that is exactly how one learns math! Once you get past calculus, the early upper division math classes make no sense to students. Abstrac...

I think you are just not cut out for mathematical abstraction and should pick another major. Ditto. Ditto. I'm not going to bother. You are obfuscator...

The concepts are built up in layers, like a burrito. At the bottom is the concept of set. A set is informally a collection of objects. Formally, set i...

No longer recall the specifics, but something about support for authoritarianism along with my dislike of police thuggery in the name of conformance t...

I am unaware of what I wrote that this is in reference to. I oppose Antifa and regard them as the modern incarnation of Hitler's brownshirts, governme...

I'm not too much of a historian but I do know the Germans got screwed at Versailles and that led to the rise of Hitler etc. I didn't mean to get into ...

@"darthbarracuda" :up: :100: :clap:

Forbes magazine is a mainstream periodical, hardly a hotbed of conspiracy theories. They explored the question. Did Covid-19 Come From A Lab? Was It D...

If I can recall that far back, my other choice was Hillary. I'd do it again. That doesn't make Trump "my man." It only means that millions of people w...

At trial it was revealed that Chauvin's knee was on Floyd's upper back and not his neck; and that Floyd was complaining about not being able to breath...

Nice to see you admit it was a test run. A test run of man-made bioweapon, a test run of media-induced hysteria as a means of social control. . Or per...

Not following the discussion except sporadically, and just quote-grabbing this one sentence in case I'm missing some context. But didn't the Israelis ...

I am criticizing those who in the past year constantly called policy by the name of science. As in "follow the science," when they really meant, "Shut...

Cantor died of a heart attack. Boltzmann was a physicist. Turing was most likely killed by the Brits because he was blackmailable and knew too many se...

I agree and admitted as much a couple of days ago. I'm all for science, and wholeheartedly against the WORD "science" being used as a synonym for "shu...

Yes ok. I misspoke myself when I was unclear that a SET can be given an arbitrary order, and that no one order is to be preferred above any other; but...

Gosh without that, China would be a wonderful country. Or as I like to say: Uyghur please! But you are making my point for me exactly. A year ago if y...

Yes and vice versa. Back in the day it was right wing zealots pursuing the left. Now it's reversed. Not much better. Human nature is awful.

Not entirely sure what that means. The CIA is the world's greatest drug trafficker, has been for decades.

Full disclosure, I didn't read the entire article. I do not agree that it's "widely accepted," nor is it known. Only that finally, after a year, peopl...

I think you know what I meant. The "good Germans" we heard so much about, as in "Where were the good Germans?" Now that I've seen the past few years i...

I don't understand the kind of human being who can watch a video like that and conclude that "she got what she deserved." I will agree with you that s...

You'd have made a good German. And if she deserved everything she got. didn't George Floyd? Or is your violent authoritarianism one-sided? I see that ...

Great summary, thanks much. Dulles and McCloy of course were also members of the Warren commission. Dulles had been fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs...

Let's hope. The government wants to label everyone who dissents a "white supremacist." It's not true, but it's an example of the Big Lie. We'll have t...

Thanks much.

Shortly after my last post to you, I ran across a video of a woman being tased for refusing to put on a mask. Just yesterday, Fauci finally admitted t...

Hi, I didn't read the rest of your post yet but I realized I needed to clarify what I wrote last night. 4 is indeed the cardinal number 4 or the ordin...

No comment. Chuckles and guffaws, but no comment. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/dhs-partner-private-firms-surveil-suspected-domestic-terrori...

The phrase "conspiracy theory" is used to dismiss and marginalize any dissent from official opinion. The CIA didn't invent the phrase, but they promot...

Now that is very interesting. When you say space and time, I've understood you to be referring to those words as understood in physics. The space and ...

I see that I can buy a copy, but I didn't find a pdf. I'm wondering if you could summarize. Did von Neumann anticipate the categorical approach to set...

What's the smallest positive integer that Wiki doesn't have an article on? That would make it deserving of its own article!

I hope you would allow that people of good will could see the politicized science of the past year very differently.

Or in a two-person race, the loser finished second, and the winner finished next to last.

Ok.

Excellent job of misquoting me, attributing to me things I didn't say, and launching yourself into another irrelevant tirade against math, or abstract...

Now THAT's action at a distance!

This was an interesting convo. I hadn't read the rest of the thread and just grabbed on to your challenge to say something bad about science. Now I ha...

As has been the vilification of legitimate dissent all year long.

If what Fauci's been doing is what you call science, then I'm against it. https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-ope...

@"Metaphysician Undercover", What he said.

I repeated what you said. "He was obligated to do the best he could while working for a lunatic." That's TDS. That's the literal definition. Fauci has...

@"jgill" does complex analysis, where CT has made few if any inroads. The theory of fields doesn't make for a good category, as I've heard it put, so ...

It's Trumps fault? To wit.

Yes ok I do take your point. I love science and hate scientism and fake, politicized science. So if I criticize the latter, I haven't actually said an...

Quite possibly not. Trump drove a certain segment of the US population insane. One need not be a "China hater" to hold that opinion. Although as it tu...

Would be most interested in a reference or more context.

Did you miss 2020? "Science" is a political word used to silence legitimate dissent and the actual scientific method. American science is now Lysenkoi...

Well you know it's a funny thing about that. Last year when reputable scientists suggested that covid might have escaped from a lab, they were margina...