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Devans99

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Discussions (63)

Cantor’s Mistake

January 03, 2020 at 18:49 8 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Infinite Bananas

December 31, 2019 at 12:18 204 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Cantor’s Paradox

April 30, 2019 at 06:49 38 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

On the photon

April 01, 2019 at 10:28 37 comments Philosophy of Science

Infinite Being

March 04, 2019 at 23:12 21 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Time has a start

February 11, 2019 at 23:46 32 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Calculus

November 27, 2018 at 10:33 42 comments The Lounge

Time is real?

July 13, 2018 at 20:16 7 comments General Philosophy

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In: Thread closed mid-post!  — view comment
How?
June 25, 2020 at 21:30
In: Divine Command Theory as a Moral Framework  — view comment
Maybe we have to define amoral? I know my definition and it is certainly not 'not believing in God'. But let's go with that definition for now. I'll t...
June 25, 2020 at 20:53
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Quote it for me... I will demonstrate you are wrong!
June 25, 2020 at 20:30
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
WHERE?
June 25, 2020 at 20:28
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Other people on the forum got it. One did anyway - he said so. Your problem is that you are not willing to spend sufficient time considering ideas out...
June 25, 2020 at 20:27
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
WHERE EXACTLY ARE YOUR COUNTER ARGUMENTS? I just demonstrated perfectly that infinite past time leads to a contradiction. You have not pointed out a s...
June 25, 2020 at 20:24
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
My guess is its all randomly generated - God initiated it (the BB) - what he initiated was brute force generation of life. The idea being that we woul...
June 25, 2020 at 20:23
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
[ How exactly can you demonstrate something is nonsense if you don't even understand it?
June 25, 2020 at 20:19
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Oh my... How can something be larger than something that goes on for? Think it through carefully please!
June 25, 2020 at 20:17
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
You have not understood my arguments. None of your counter arguments have had any merit.
June 25, 2020 at 20:09
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Look how can something be BOTH: - Greater than than X - And not greater than X At the same time? - that's a contradiction!
June 25, 2020 at 20:08
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
You are not paying attention clearly! If you wish to establish how many points are on a line, its LINE LENGTH / POINT LENGTH. For a line segment lengt...
June 25, 2020 at 20:05
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
What are you talking about! Look at the statement: 'Nothing can be greater than all finite numbers; they go on forever' That means: 'Something must be...
June 25, 2020 at 19:57
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
You think I'm a 'kook'! Thats funny. Take this! (please kindly read it carefully and think it through - its important): 1) Mathematics defines points ...
June 25, 2020 at 19:54
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
I'm just pointing out that if you cannot possibly disprove something as incredibly unlikely as a unicorn, how can you possibly disprove intelligence b...
June 25, 2020 at 19:51
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
BUT MY WHOLE ARGUMENT IS ABOUT INTRODUCING NEW EVIDENCE! You are just not reading or understanding my posts at all! Not sure there is much point conti...
June 25, 2020 at 19:44
In: Divine Command Theory as a Moral Framework  — view comment
Divine command theory could perhaps have two interpretations: 1) Everything that happens is explicitly commanded by God Or 2) Somethings that happens ...
June 25, 2020 at 19:16
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
But we must combine evidence here: - We know that the chance of heads is 50% - You have introduced additional evidence that the chance of heads is 50%...
June 25, 2020 at 19:11
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Can you disprove the existence of unicorns for me please? Have you been there then? Which holiday agency was that? Well I admit this is where I am stu...
June 25, 2020 at 19:04
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
They could both be the shooters. You do just not read my posts properly I think... 50% chance Mary did it = 50% chance John did not do it So when you ...
June 25, 2020 at 18:58
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Well a lot of factors go into making a watch. It's incredibly unlikely to happen by chance. And a lot of factors go into making a life supporting univ...
June 25, 2020 at 18:54
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Good effort! But that's two separate propositions: - Is John the shooter? AND - Is Mary the shooter? Its just fine for it to be 75% probability for BO...
June 25, 2020 at 18:39
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
I don't agree. If you found a watch on the beech that told the time, would you conclude: A) By some random co-incidence, particles have arranged thems...
June 25, 2020 at 18:29
In: Divine Command Theory as a Moral Framework  — view comment
Interesting! I am new to it forgive me, from wikipedia: "Divine command theory (also known as theological voluntarism) is a meta-ethical theory which ...
June 25, 2020 at 18:24
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
But there is no option with the fine tuning argument - the BB happened once and will not be repeated for our edification. And the 20 or so fine tuned ...
June 25, 2020 at 18:03
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
I would rather put it as: 'fine tuning does not exist' is a scientific myth. But that has all been covered above. But that's all the evidence we have ...
June 25, 2020 at 17:25
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
The die example is not very good, but what I mean by additional is that: - there is a 25% chance that he's guilty because of fingerprints on the knife...
June 25, 2020 at 17:10
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
No I am not saying that the 'probability increases to 20%'. I am saying that there is a 10% probability of a 10 (because of 10 sides) and AN ADDITIONA...
June 25, 2020 at 16:47
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
So it has a 10% chance of 10 because it has 10 sides. But there is an ADDITIONAL 20% chance of 10 because its weighted. You can't just add 10 and 20 a...
June 25, 2020 at 16:37
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
You are missing the whole point of my argument! I'll try one more time: 1) The die has a 10% chance of landing on 10 (because its 10 sided) 2) IN ADDI...
June 25, 2020 at 16:27
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
If a die has a 20% chance of landing on 10 due PURLEY to the fact it is weighted. You also have to allow for the addition 10% chance of a 10 (due to t...
June 25, 2020 at 16:23
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
No. I am trying to construct an example where there is a boolean question with a skewed distribution and then there is a completely separate piece of ...
June 25, 2020 at 16:20
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
You are just not getting it! Try this: - We have a die with 10 sides - 10% chance of getting 10 - It is weighted towards landing on 10 - represented b...
June 25, 2020 at 16:10
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
1) We have evidence that 50% of people up for trial are in fact guilty. 2) Then we have separate evidence that indicates 50% likelihood of guilt (prin...
June 25, 2020 at 16:03
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
- Say 90% of people up for trial are actually guilty - Then we have a piece of evidence saying, by itself that there is a 50% chance of guilt. Its wro...
June 25, 2020 at 15:58
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Quantum cosmology is the synergy of GR and QM - two completely incompatible theories. So quantum cosmology is on shaky foundations. Quantum cosmology ...
June 25, 2020 at 15:53
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Approach does not make sense to me - we have 60% guilty to start with. Then we say a piece of evidence additionally makes it 25% likely that he is gui...
June 25, 2020 at 15:44
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
is the approach I am using. Not quite sure what you mean with .
June 25, 2020 at 15:34
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Look at it this way - spacetime is either a deliberate or random creation. If its random, then it resulted in the start of time, the Big Bang and the ...
June 25, 2020 at 15:31
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
I don't believe in random so that just leaves the creation of spacetime as a deliberate act.
June 25, 2020 at 15:06
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I am trying to combine separate pieces of evidence into a combined probability estimate: 1) We have a completely independent first piece of evidence. ...
June 25, 2020 at 14:59
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Thats just bonkers - spacetime cannot have existed forever - so how exactly do you have it a 'not a creation'?
June 25, 2020 at 14:47
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1) There is an initial estimate of 50%/50% based on the fact that people at trials are 50% likely to be guilty. 2) Then the initial estimate is adjust...
June 25, 2020 at 14:44
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
I assigned an initial probability estimate of 50% / 50% to the question 'is the universe a creation?'. Let me ask you, what initial probability estima...
June 25, 2020 at 14:36
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Its really not related - the first piece of evidence - the probability of 10% because it is a 10-sided die, is replaced completely by the second piece...
June 25, 2020 at 14:33
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Its a binary question, we have no data on the likely distribution of the answer space, which of the following initial assumptions is most reasonable: ...
June 25, 2020 at 14:24
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
This does not really seem related to my calculation. My calculation is for combining separate pieces of non-overlapping evidence that support a partic...
June 25, 2020 at 14:18
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
We have no data on the distribution of the answer space for 'was the universe a creation?' - so assuming it is normally distributed (50%/50%) is corre...
June 25, 2020 at 14:12
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I'm not criticising relativity, but QM seems immature - a work in progress. And as you say, the two are incompatible anyway. So any theories that comb...
June 25, 2020 at 13:15
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Consider the boolean question 'will the die come out as a six?'. Obviously there is a 1 in 6 chance it will. Contrast that to the 'is he guilty?' ques...
June 25, 2020 at 13:09
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