No, I'm suggesting that the mathematical concept of the real line doesn't apply to the true nature of physical space; or that if it does, this fact li...
@"keystone", I'll reply to this one before the other one. I had no trouble @-ing you so at least that worked. I'll continue to quote you as Ryan here ...
I found the vid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Z9UnWOJNY. I didn't want to watch the whole thing so I skipped to 12:00 and he said that "in the ...
You keep baiting me by posting bad math. I like talking to you too even though I don't understand the points you're trying to make Why not? Explain to...
There is no first nonzero positive real. The open unit interval (0,1) does not contain its greatest lower bound. Any math major can tell you that. The...
Some kind of use-mention problem no doubt. I deleted the post I wrote. Here's the updated version. First, we must both be frustrated by now. You expre...
Thanks for the info. I was not able to get past the JSTOR paywall even though I have a public JSTOR account (the kind they deign to give to us unwashe...
Ryan, I only quoted this to mention you. I've noticed that when I hit the @ button and enter Ryan, your handle doesn't come up. Do you know why that i...
This is not a productive conversation. "What lockdowns?" is not a serious response to any of the material in this thread. It'll take a few years befor...
This is a bit speculative without some sort of indication or hint of specifics. For example as I mentioned, I've looked into constructivism a bit, whi...
Thank you for the references. Your post actually gave me a glimmer of understanding as to what @"Metaphysician Undercover" is talking about. And for t...
I don't understand intensional versus extensional with respect to math (or anything else for that matter) but I've been trying to explain to @"Metaphy...
You're the one getting foul, as shown by your initial response. And if you don't think there have been lockdowns in the US in the past year you're eit...
I think we're done then. Just out of curiosity though, how do you develop a theory of the real numbers without infinite sets? Even the constructivists...
No they're not. In functions from the reals to the reals (ignoring the multivariable case where this terminology doesn't make sense) the instantaneous...
That's my belief. We save a life today and kill two tomorrow. The WSJ just published an article the other day. The Lockdowns Weren’t Worth It There’s ...
This is exactly where you go off the rails. There is no "infinitely small tube." This is your ignorance speaking again. Nobody is making any claims ab...
It's by design. I mentioned in another thread that I just happened to watch a video about Edward Bernays, Freud's American nephew, who was the father ...
I don't think physics in its present form is amenable to methods of formal logic because there are no axioms for physics. Axiomatizing physics is Hilb...
A car whose speedometer reads 40mph is going 40mph at that moment even though that's a mechanical approximation. But as I say I'll concede you've move...
A moving body has an instantaneous velocity, even though our formalism requires two temporally separated measurements. But, I'm willing to concede tha...
Just an artifact of the decimal representation. Doesn't mean anything. Roman numerals had drawbacks, decimal representation has drawbacks. Every notat...
A year of hysterical media propaganda has really messed with people's minds. I watched a Youtube video last night about Edward Bernays, the father of ...
They're tragic to the deceased's friends and loved ones. I'm willing to stipulate that the covid deaths are bad but so are the collateral deaths and m...
Was it Stalin who said a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic? He'd know, he killed more people than Hitler but he was FDR's goo...
So you're no longer talking about cameras but rather quantum sensors? It would be better if you dropped these labored analogies and just made your poi...
Oh boy my mentions have piled up tonight. I wanted to respond to this before diving back into the maw of the slavering mob I triggered by daring to ex...
"I went down to the demonstration ... to get my fair share of abuse ..." I'll close for the evening by linking and quoting a nice article by Jonathan ...
You know, this is more tricky than it looks. Suppose you have a long exposure time. Then you'll see a blurred image, and you can work backwards to det...
I believe the numbers are up this year. A lot of statistical sifting will happen over the next couple of years and maybe people will get more perspect...
Careful, you're going to end up in the same barrel of opprobrium that I stepped into. Whatever you do, don't be thoughtful. Hey seriously I'm feeling ...
Mostly the ones here. The famous philosophers of math know a lot of math, like Putnam and Quine and so forth. I may have overstepped a bit. Having jus...
If you can dial down the insults for a moment, is it selfish of me to care about the locked down kids killing themselves because the can't go to schoo...
Bullshit bullshit bullshit. People who think they know better but don't are a great source of evil in the world. You know that liberal condescension i...
That's a really nasty remark with little or no thought behind it. Don't you have compassion for the victims of the lockdown? It's a lot like environme...
I agree. I believe I asked the OP what they meant by existence and don't believe I've gotten an answer. Ok then you are in agreement with my point. I ...
Well the hell with the kids then. They ain't dead so eff 'em. I stand by what I wrote and expect to be vindicated by history once the hysteria passes....
Please see my response to @"tim wood" above. I stand by my claim. Do people have any idea of the effects of the lockdown on substance abuse, domestic ...
This is exactly the kind of mindless response I expected. I pulled a few links in support of the point I made, which you can read or not. The links re...
In the end the lockdowns will kill far more people than the virus ever did. The entire episode's been an exercise in mass hysteria and social control....
I understand that, and I'm objecting to the usage. Then we're in agreement. And the reason I mention it is that it's all too common for people to use ...
What does it mean? Infinity has particular technical meanings in math. If you're using it as a synonym for "lots and lots" or "really really big but s...
The phrase "infinitely more likely" is incoherent. It's meaningless. And worse, it obfuscates thought. It's a phrase that literally short-circuits pre...
What do you make of 1/3 = .333...? Can't you distinguish between a number and one of its representations that you don't happen to like? After all 1/3 ...
Because there are SOME subjects in which more study implies more knowledge; and others where it doesn't. If you study more math you know more about ma...
I don't think your post addressed what I said. A universe without a particular rock is a little bit simpler than the one with it. But it's not "infini...
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