SophistiCat

I would disagree with that. You are taking the Cartesian route here, correct? In that case, granting the soundness of this strategy for the sake of an...

If you are not an expert, then it is generally reasonable to defer to the opinions of experts, plural. When there is no general agreement among expert...

It's almost a throwback to The Rite of Spring, isn't it? Messiaen was an original. I am not familiar with a lot of his work, but even from what I have...

The finale is a riot of excess! Interesting, never heard of him. Reminds me of Scriabin. Thanks! Huh, another from the Scriabin/Medtner school, and al...

Turangalîla! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4eeMZBInY @"Noble Dust"

What about bouldering?

Academia teaches more than just Aristotelian or Classical logic. More to the point, for the "general human interpretation" I would look towards lingui...

First, I am not sure whether you are actually talking about the so-called B theory of time or about eternalism - these are not the same. According to ...

I think your thesis "stick to finitism when teaching basic math" misses the obvious point of how incredibly messy and complex finitism is, both as a m...

I thought this was intended as a philosophical post, seeing as it was posted on a philosophy board. My mistake, thanks for setting me straight in such...

It is not clear what this question is asking. One way to read the question might be "What produces the most suffering for the most people now and in p...

I am afraid the "poverty" here stands in for the opposite of thriving or happiness, making the choice rather trivial and non-specific. I think you rat...

To be clear, the contention isn't necessarily metaphysical. The prospects for Nagelian inter-theory reduction - the derivability of "phenomenological"...

IIRC the mammoth Principia didn't get quite that far, although @"Pfhorrest" probably wouldn't want to start as far back and proceed as rigorously as W...

Max Tegmark in one of his mathematical universe papers sketches a hierarchical roadmap of this type (leading to fundamental physics, natch).

What's the end game - something like Quantum Field Theory? Quantum gravity? Anyway, even if we accept the premise of the "mathematical universe," ther...

Why would you find that surprising? Few experimental studies are duplicated. Anyway, epigenetics in general is not controversial, and hasn't been for ...

This seems to be too thin for a philosophical basis. Can you elaborate? Not the specific meaning of "subject/object" (I think we have clarified that p...

This sounds plausible if we don't get into details, but that doesn't amount to inevitability. Staying at the same level, unencumbered with expertise, ...

Your OP was pretty empty of substance, and you haven't added much to it in the follow-up, instead directing us to your website and podcast for details...

Then why are you here? Just to plug your podcast? This is a place for discussion. If you are not interested in discussion, then go away before you are...

@"Wayfarer" is right, in natural language "A is B" can mean different things, depending on context. It can indicate class membership (people are anima...

There is some sense in what @"Mac" is saying. You are right that when we assimilate the concept of equality/identity (whenever and however that happen...

Oh boy, you are one of those 0.999... =/= 1 people. Never mind then.

Agreed by whom? Reformed epistemologists like Alvin Plantinga? ("Properly basic belief" is Plantinga's term that makes sense only in a very specific e...

What do you think an "infinite sum" is then if not the limit (if it exists) of the partial sums? The standard view of the positional notation is that ...

I can't even hazard a guess as to how you think "most people" define "0.333~" (I am more accustomed to the ... notation, but I assume you mean the sam...

You just pushed this back from X to properties of X, but that doesn't really change anything. Just do a variable substitution: let Y designate what us...

Depends on what you mean by marking off distance on a ruler. If you mean real rulers and real markings, then it's kind of hard to even talk about exac...

I think you are not giving due attention to the language angle that was proposed in some of the answers. The very meaning of equality and identity in ...

Yeah, that's why I am looking for a helping hand :) I might just end up plowing through it unassisted, but from what I have heard about this book, I f...

Just to elaborate on one aspect of the question, in mathematics and logic equality is introduced axiomatically, and self-identity is (usually) part of...

This is too convoluted. Imagine that your consciousness is eternal. Done! The thing is, you can imagine many things, including things that are counter...

What are 'integers' in your game? The way integers are usually defined/constructed, they come with addition already baked in.

You said more than that; this is just your go-to defense: to invoke the mysteriousness of infinity, like some invoke the mysteriousness of God. And ye...

Capping off the year with Time Regained. Took me most of the year to get through all of A la recherche... (though I read other things in between). Thi...

In the first precedent of its kind, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (where, as our reliable sources tell us, no one takes global warming seriousl...

Sorry, I was rude. Let me give it another try. This is an antiquated definition, suitable perhaps as an informal introduction to the topic, but not su...

No, seems like you are only interested in playing dictionary games. You can join the other idiot then, I am not interested.

I guess this turns on the question of what sort of an answer we are looking for: descriptive, explanatory or prescriptive. If descriptive, then reduci...

That's not the definition of an axiom, as you ought to have learned by now if you were paying attention.

You put 'axiom' in inverted commas for good reason, even if you didn't understand it. That all numbers are rational wasn't an axiom - it was a definit...

Atomic theory in its recognizable form is pretty recent (I don't count ancient atomists who were speculating in a vacuum). It was shaped and criticall...

I think this is a mistake. In order to make sense of a phenomenon - modal talk - you pick a simple formal model that captures some of its structure, a...

Agree, nodding in the direction of modal logic by rephrasing the problem statement using possible world semantics is ass-backwards when answering some...

There is no denying that human psyche is variable and mutable, both on the historical and the individual human scale, but that doesn't make us blank s...

Oh, so you've had the time to google null hypothesis in the meanwhile. Good for you, maybe you won't be making such a fool of yourself the next time a...

Oh brother :roll: I suppose the null hypothesis for an entomologist that discovers a new fly species is that these flies are spontaneously generated b...

But no one takes seriously the possibility that some biological feature is not evolved, let alone the stronger proposition that it could not have evol...

Your question is unclear. There are any number of hypothetical features about which we could say with a high degree of confidence that they could not ...