I just don't understand the insult culture around here. Over the past couple of years I've had to take extended breaks from this forum because someone...
Wait ... @"tim wood" was confused about THAT?? I didn't mention it because it's so obvious, at least to anyone who would jump into a discussion of bij...
What? There's no order-preserving bijection between and (0,1). Yet there is most definitely a bijection But why would I need to Google bijection? Perh...
There is no contradiction. The definition of cardinal equivalence is that there exists at least one bijection between the two sets. I don't know why y...
I'm not sure I understand your point. Some examples that come to mind: * The unit interval can be bijected to the interval but neither set is well-ord...
If you have a reference to the roll call for the Continuing Resolution I'd appreciate it. I had read that AOC voted for the bill and then that she twe...
Too bad you still haven't heard it. A while back someone screeched, "Trump put kids in cages!" as evidence that Trump is uniquely bad. It's a very com...
It means that if you get your news from MSM sources you're missing a lot. Here's a story from yesterday that caught my eye. A UN report came out on Mo...
Or as Bertrand Russel said, "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are sayin...
Thank you for being so gracious. Not always my experience around here and I appreciate it. Let me see if I can respond directly to your plucked chicke...
I can only implore you to carefully re-read what I and others have written. Perhaps Cantor's beautiful ideas will come to you at some point. Perhaps n...
It doesn't. Do you agree that there exists at least one bijection from E to N? If you agree, then you must agree that E and N have the same cardinalit...
It's a definition. It can't be right or wrong. You do agree that there exists at least one bijection between N and E, namely f(n) = 2n. You agree with...
No, that's a great source of confusion. If there exists a bijection between two sets, even a single one, even if there are plenty of functions that ar...
The people who came in legally and worked to establish themselves resent those who jump the line and are rewarded for it. Isn't that perfectly sensibl...
Yes and no, mostly no. The problem is that the US demand for illegal labor far (far!) exceeds the supply of legal slots available by law. One might th...
Like I say I find argumentum at linkum, or argument by flinging links at each other, tedious.There are sources out there to support pretty much everyt...
That's still perfectly consistent with my point. In every situation there is the seen and the unseen. We can SEE the percentage of blacks who came out...
Black an Hispanic employment under Trump is way up. I'm not providing a link because I don't think a philosophy forum should be a link/counterlink bat...
You can assume what you like. What's true is that I've given up interacting with you. Your persistent rudeness reflects badly on you. I'm fully aware ...
I love the Patster. He gets a bad rap (racist, Nazi, etc.) I don't mind even if there's something to it. He has many redeeming qualities. He's brillia...
Thank you. I'm grateful for any understanding and agreement. About anything. But I have the title now. "Confessions of a non-deplorable Trump supporte...
I came here tonight to append a note to my previous post, which I composed in my mind before I saw this ... ahem ... remark of yours. It changes nothi...
I don't agree with that claim. During the 2016 campaign he went to the NAACP meeting and asked for their votes. "What have you got to lose?" he asked....
Never did, never would. I have this explanation for my politics: Hillary was 100% correct when she said that half of Trump's supporters are a basket o...
If California were in play in a presidential election I wouldn't cast a protest vote. And I would burn in the fiery pits of hell before I'd ever vote ...
We're not talking about chairs. Four chairs over here are different than the four chairs over there. Once again you are avoiding the question. We are ...
Playing the old "so you're saying that ..." game. A low form of argument practiced by people who think "gotcha" is clever. Trump often says things I w...
You should give me a reference. If this is from some branch of philosophy or some philosopher's idea, let me know what that is. As it stands I think y...
That is very funny. As in ironic When I wrote those two paragraphs I used "means" and "refers to" as synonyms. You take me to be saying two different ...
Well ok. I understand. We can say for example that, if we agree on an alphabet of symbols, such as the English alphabet, in some sense every possible ...
Well it's definitely about the racism of the US against our neighbors to the south. Very long history. Wars fought. Not the thread to get into it. I t...
Interesting point. In recent years Congress has become weaker and the presidency more autocratic. You may recall a certain recent Democratic president...
Your argument, as I understand it, is that when Obama separated and caged kids, he was doing it for Just and Wise reasons; whereas when Trump does it,...
Didn't really want to go into the past thirty years of border policy. You lost me on the wealth disparity question. What I'm talking about is that the...
Oh no! Thank you for asking. I agree with Hillary that HALF of Trump's supporters are a basket of deplorables. She's entirely right. I'm in the half t...
Won't waste my time. Go look it up. Jeh Johnson, Obama's immigration guy, admitted a few months ago to reporters that Obama built the cages. This is e...
I can not relate this sentence to anything that I know nor to anything that makes any rational sense. I hope you'll forgive me, I cannot continue this...
I haven't read any of this thread and only looked at this one post. I happen to have an interest in the US/Mexico border, being a Californian who's ma...
You've just swapped in the term numeral for number. That's a particularly low form of false argument. It's like saying that two isn't two because some...
I understand what you're saying. You're wrong about mathematical objects. The number 2 is identical to the number 2. The number 2 + 2 is identical to ...
Can't answer that specifically but there are other examples of the same thing. The Latin word for pebble is calculi, which gives us calculation. When ...
Yes of course. Moby Dick is based on the true story of the Essex, a whaling ship sunk by a whale. All fiction is based on reality. Even science fictio...
I see no good faith on your side (claiming my typo isn't a typo??) but I'll stipulate that you disagree. I'm done with this thread. You should, in the...
You deliberately re-quoted exactly the line that I apologized for, explained as a typo, and corrected in my previous post. Why? You do know you're str...
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