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This is too easy. A "machine made by scientists" is a physical device. It therefore has unavoidable imprecisions in its manufacture; and therefore it'...

Would you say that there are countably or uncountably many finite-volume regions of space, and countably or uncountably many finite-duration intervals...

I think the consequences of sexual repression are perfectly obvious. But perhaps you're asking if these consequences are only perfectly obvious becaus...

What was the context? Context may help us know what he meant. My favorite Hilbert quote is when he spoke before the faculty senate of Göttingen, argui...

I reflected on this last week. First there were the Grammys, which people complained were raunchy. Then a few days later a sexually repressed guy in A...

LOL. Now I can't unsee that. I did some Googling around (ie "research") and found this interesting thread. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions...

You're right. For multiverse, it's not necessarily true that whatever can happen does happen. But for many-worlds, it does seem to be the case that th...

Bump stocks were just ruled "not machine guns" by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Does this change your statement? I'm not familiar with exactl...

"fiscal: relating to government revenue, especially taxes." Hokay! Alright! Sounds like I win either way! Whateva.

Actually not. It can be expressed in positive form. It shows that for every list^* of real numbers, there is some real number that's not on the list. ...

You're right, I reread your post. You're talking about a theoretically random coin, and asking if such a thing could exist or if it's only an object o...

Only by virtue of our ignorance of the physical determinants of the outcome. Else you must not believe in physics at the macroscopic level. See for ex...

nevermind

Would it be fair for me to say that I'm perfectly willing to allow Boolos his rhetorical fun; but that I was perfectly justified, and in fact helpful ...

Give 'em both barrels!

Of course. But that's not who the article is aimed at. I respect that you have a different opinion, this is not a hill I'm going to choose to die on. ...

A simplification too far IMO, and as evidence, it was presented in this thread as being meaningful. A belief I corrected.

What does that mean? I have no idea what "the maximal (consistent) extension or union of all the systems you mention" means. Are you saying you don't ...

You said: I don't know what that means or what that is. I asked in good faith for you to explain to me what that phrase means, with perhaps an example...

What is that?

I wrote a long post about it here ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/514425 I couldn't add anything. Ok well I'll just give the tl;...

Ok. Is that a question? Make your case that "whatever can happen, will happen." If I flip infinitely many fair coins, it's possible that I never get a...

My point exactly. We have people speculating on what he meant, since what he wrote was wrong. We don't know what he meant. One must always lie a littl...

I'll keep it between me and Wikipedia. How do you know? And who decides what "can" happen in order to make your claim true?

Yes, exactly. The proof from ZF is trivial. ZF contains a model of PA; that is, a set in which, with the proper interpretation, every axiom of PA is t...

I did see the italics but I did not see a link to the source. So I couldn't tell if you were quoting someone else or quoting yourself from some other ...

A while back someone on the site told me the technical names for what I call ontological and epistemological probability but I don't seem to remember ...

Yes. No.

One, you (and probably others, I haven't read the entire thread) are confusing the multiverse with the many-worlds interpretation. They're two entirel...

None other than Bill Clinton personally executed a guy just like that. Ricky Ray Rector shot a cop in Arkansas then put the gun to his own head and fi...

I gave you a formal mathematical proof of this fact over two years ago, maybe three. You're telling a little fib here.

Must be one of those "emergent" properties I keep hearing about. I think emergence is a murky concept and doesn't answer any of the questions people t...

No prob, likewise. After all when Peirce says the same thing I go, "Hmmmm I need to learn more." So maybe there's something to it. Who's to say.

I've taken and taught calculus and have no idea what the "geometrical objects of extension" are. The objects of the Cartesian coordinate system are or...

Thank you. My granting of @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s point is causing me to waver on 2 + 2 = 4. I need to read more of your posts so I can strength...

@"jgill" is a professional mathematician. I don't say was, because it's not the kind of status one loses by virtue of being retired. I am a failed mat...

Ok not physics. Thanks for the clarification, I'm sure you can see that this idea would not hold up as physics. But if it's a "hypothetical conceptual...

Did you mean a beer? Or did you mean an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt flavored with hops? According to you they're two entirely diffe...

Ah, so the purpose of reducing suffering is so that I can feel better about myself? What if I could feel better about myself by increasing suffering? ...

I commend you for fighting the good fight against @"Metaphysician Undercover". But here I find myself inclined to see his side of it. I might know who...

Hmmmm. The way I'm hearing this, and correct me if I'm misunderstanding you, is that there's an absolute space against which everything else happens. ...

I'm just clarifying that we often take "infinitely divisible" as a mathematical continuum, but this is very loose speech. The actual condition require...

Ok. My point, which I sadly forgot to make, is that even with the clarified fact that the Planck scale is the scale below which contemporary physics c...

I have never done that, so I'm happy to see that I am therefore not the target of that particular criticism. It is not exactly a measurement problem. ...

Ok. Then for clarity let me add another important condition. The rational numbers are infinitely divisible, but they are not complete. In addition to ...

Your intuition is seriously at odds with modern physics. Do you think physics is wrong? How do you square this. Secondly I wanted to repeat in case yo...

I have never claimed otherwise. If I've somehow failed to communicate that, I'll try to do better. But I would disagree with one aspect of what you sa...

In other words space is not described by the mathematical real line. As I've written in this thread at least ten times now. How many times must I say ...

If you view real numbers as locations where points might live, then she passes through each location. I don't see how this changes anything. Also I've...

Wouldn't it be like a dream? Every night I have great adventures, run around in semi-familiar worlds, solve problems, interact with people I used to k...