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Interesting to hear you arguing against the concept of truth. Well moral relativism is the ethos of the age, I suppose.

We can agree to disagree, but I don't understand why you think probability 1 is "empty." Well, the prosaic applications of math to everyday life are n...

They couldn't kill Trump so they're going to kill Biden. Bring in Andrew Cuomo and give him the old ventilator treatment. Remind me why your party (te...

Interesting. You don't believe in the word truth, or that anything in the world is true, even outside of math?

That's a curious statement. Trump is not a free trader. You asked what Trump did that I disagreed with, and I mentioned tariffs. He's big on tariffs. ...

You keep saying that. You have not yet articulated it in a way that makes me believe you are saying anything sensible. Well I'm cycled out on this I t...

5 is an attribute of the fingers on your hand, would you grant me at least that? I think of fingers as a physical instantiation of the concept of 5. B...

I was only relating what @"Metaphysician Undercover" said. Of course it doesn't make sense :-) I'm not really too expert on formalism versus Platonism...

Did you think your work was "about" anything? Or pure symbol-pushing? I'm pressing you on this point because I don't believe you did not believe in th...

Ok! You're an anti-computationalist like me. I don't believe we're ever going to "upload our minds," I don't think we live in a computer simulation, I...

I did invite the person who asked to remind me of incidents or policies I'd forgotten. It's possible. I give you the same invitation. I didn't like Tr...

The country got upset because the MSM hysterically broadcast Trump's border crisis. I personally watched the same MSM be silent during Obama's identic...

Most important, all things being equal. There might have been a good war among all the bad ones. WWII gets credited with being a war that needed to be...

We shall see. As Martin Luther King said, The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Of course it can take a long time. Stali...

I'll see your Trump cages and raise you Clinton and Obama's militarization of the souther border, which has caused untold human misery. The Dems have ...

Choosing Pence. Choosing all the disloyal people he did. Being so pathetically ignorant of how the government works and what a pile of snakes DC was t...

The difference is that the NYT always supports the warmongers. Trump's off that train.

Again, you are upset about words, something Sessions said on a right wing talk show. You can't prove he wasn't just saying that to (a) deter immigrant...

Yes, good point. And he's softened on the abortion issue. He says to leave it up to the states. That's upsetting some hard core pro-lifers, but where ...

They're closely related. A self-awareness and the ability to have preferences and desires, and to be able to act to bring them about. I'm using soul i...

Sometimes they are pretty much interchangeable and other times not. It depends on if it's an "if and only if" definition or not. The axioms of group t...

That's funny. @"Metaphysician Undercover" just told me that formalism is just a deeper kind of Platonism. Which actually makes sense in this context. ...

I may have messed up the order of some of the paragraphs. I don't think I can hold up my any of this any more. I will bow out now. Thank you for the c...

I've noticed that some posters have personal obsessions with others. For me, when I find it unpleasant to interact with someone, I just don't interact...

That was not my point. Mathematicians don't use the word true in their formal work. But when you make a discovery, don't you feel that you are discove...

Can't you dial it back for five minutes?

So your best argument against me is a hypothetical scenario you just made up. If you had actual facts, or an actual argument, you'd make it. Well I'm ...

Uh-oh, insert Biden joke here.

I was a full-on liberal Democrat then, and I was fervently against that awful, misbegotten war. And I still resent Obame for not holding the Bush admi...

You mean when a black cop shot an unarmed young white woman to death? If the races were reversed we'd still be having riots. Time will tell. If there'...

As usual you confuse what Trump SAYS from what he DOES. He's a negotiator. He puts up skyscrapers in Manhattan. How do you know he wasn't expecting hi...

Credence, or subjective degree of belief. You ask 10,000 specialists in analytic number theory whether they think the Riemann hypothesis is true. You ...

Looking ahead, you wrote a long post. To which, in my own verbose style, I will reply to at length para by para, increasing the overall length of the ...

But of course you yourself know that's not true. I assume you think of your research as discovering truths about abstract mathematical structures that...

I try to keep an open mind and take the good with the bad of all, say, a bit eccentric posters. I hope that is not too uncharitable to @"Tarskian". Am...

This is one of those times a def is an ax and vice versa. You can say probability is the study of measurable spaces with total measure 1; or you can s...

I stipulate that: 1. This is a very hip and TED-talky idea going around; and 2. I personally disagree strenuously; but I concede that I can't prove it...

If you reject my retraction and apology, that is your right.

Ok. But you know in this case we can. We can interpret probability as credence, the subjective degree of belief, which is an epistemological claim rat...

Last week they said Biden is unfit to lead. Who are they for, Harold Stassen? What's the point of the Times wasting 5000 words to yammer about Orange ...

Did I get my convos crossed? My bad. No matter. It's all the same, really. Whatever it was, I can let it go.

Earlier you said there was something off about using 1 as a probability and that .999... = 1. But that's two uses of the same number 1. So I don't see...

Those corrupt math professors. Something must be done. Pure math is math done without any eye towards contemporary applications. That's a decent enoug...

I make many misteaks :-)

It's relatively short. You can skip most of the technical bits. I did. He's awesome.

Absolutely. Obama is a saint and a lightbringer. Trump is Orange Hitler. That's the distinction you are making. I knew about Obama's cages in 2014, so...

Racism? Not catching the reference. The Floyd riots? J6? Something else. Maybe you didn't see the videos of them being let in. I did. Um ... what? The...

My deficiency, I'm sure. I'll retract it then, as an alternative to arguing the point. Or if you consider the second clause as adding fuel to the fire...

Yes ok, a true proposition has prob 1 and a false one 0. I don't see how intermediate probabilities could apply. Unless, say, we could poll a bunch of...

So many articles, so little time.