This is only a part of Frege's sentence model. He specifically excludes "concept words" from this part. God (capitalized) is, obviously, a proper name...
You mean they don't see themselves acting irrationally. Of course. If they did, would they act that way? When I say that people act irrationally, that...
What this and other recent and not-so-recent events show, I think, is that in times of stress people often act irrationally; self-destructive forces p...
It's an eye-opener, isn't it? Keeping the phenomenological perspective in mind helps to not get oneself confused with language and clever abstractions...
As you noted, these what-if questions pop up in different contexts. In the 1980s paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould raised this question with respect to...
I think the way Penrose explains the situation makes it clear that it is only superficially paradoxical: There is no "difference that makes a differen...
I think that your main worry here is the relativity of simultaneity, the conventionality of clock synchronization protocols in SR. The only time when ...
Her current age is not a meaningless concept, just under-defined. Pick a reference frame - any reference frame - and the ambiguity will disappear. The...
I don't know which part of what you wrote he had in mind. As I already pointed out, you equivocate between a trivial (but wrong) descriptive statement...
ETA: Corrected the formula: \frac{1}{2}+\sum_{i=2}^{\infty}(-1)^{k_i}(\frac{1}{2})^i, where k_i is 0 or 1 We should be able to prove a stronger claim ...
His sum, the one he claims can only converge to a rational number, is something like this: 1/2+\sum_{i=2}^{\infty}(-1)^{k_i}(\frac{1}{2})^i, where k_i...
How is this "objectively an error?" You have not shown this. Your argument is that a closed system will by necessity converge towards a stable (static...
By the same token, my hypothetical acceptance of the contrary proof could be "based in a failure to see that its unsound, a mistaken understanding." I...
It's not odd and it's not dogma. It's just straightforward logic: If Cantor's proof is correct, then his result is a theorem and therefore it is right...
No, I haven't read your proof. I don't need to, because I have read and understood Cantor's diagonal proof. That's all I need to know that Cantor is r...
That's a far cry from "nothing," especially when you add some sort of periodic state change, as you do further on. And it isn't anything that any cosm...
First, to be clear, your argument is not, strictly speaking, against what you wrote in the title, that there isn't "more than one infinity," because y...
You are just playing with words here. No one would describe a ball rolling downhill as trying to get to a more stable state, except metaphorically. No...
You are right that we can learn by means of logical arguments implications of which we were not aware, even though they were always "contained" in the...
You are trying to do two contradictory things at the same time. On the one hand, you are trying to make your statement trivially true, so that you can...
But you cannot just define goals. I as a moral agent select my goals according to what I judge to be good or bad; you cannot unilaterally define my go...
You keep repeating this, but it makes no sense whatsoever. It is trivially true that every thing either changes or it does not, but no normative state...
You are making it sound like corruption, but this is just how language normally functions: in the most general, informal context words have multiple u...
If you say that the probability is 0.5, then you are saying that you have no more reason to believe one way than the other. And you appear to deduce t...
Again, just noting that something is improbable is too unspecific. Something, somewhere is always probable or improbable, depending on how you look at...
Probability can be used to decide whether to believe something - arguably, probability is nothing more than degree of belief (according to the epistem...
Migration has a lot to do (and will have even more to do) with climate. People flee from lands that are stricken by severe droughts, floods, hurricane...
If quantum behavior is different in natural settings and in research settings, then it is not not the quantum behavior that we know from quantum physi...
What does it matter if it isn't? The proposition itself is not a scientific hypothesis or theory, so you can't turn it on itself. This is a common but...
While everything that you wrote up to this point is very reasonable, this is pure sophistry. It's like saying "you can't fight death." A truism, of co...
"Citizen science" is a thing, and I think scientists, by and large, welcome that. But most good citizen science is just what you might expect someone ...
I think (I hope) that we are adaptable enough to survive this crisis without actually diving ourselves to extinction, as other species and populations...
No, they are not. If you are talking about QM, and entanglement specifically, the mechanisms have been laid out out in theory decades ago, and have si...
Euphoria? More like weary skepticism, that was my impression. And at this point there is not much hope for it. UN Emissions Gap Report: "The 1.5°C goa...
It's a big and to my mind unjustified leap from reported "synchronicity in the brainwaves" to "contradict a thermodynamic interpretation of nature." I...
You know, when you repeatedly encounter what looks like a special term in a largely unfamiliar area, the smart thing to do is to look it up, instead o...
There isn't any exact or even approximate methodology. There isn't even a definition of what philosophy is that would match most paradigmatic examples...
Like I said, atomic theory is already quantum. If memory serves, we have analytical fully quantum solutions for the hydrogen atom in special cases, an...
It appears that the reasoning for your conjecture is summed up by the following flawed but rather common line: X (in this case consciousness) is myste...
I am not sure what you think the role of quantum effects are going to be in modeling perception "directly." I mean, quantum fields aren't qualitativel...
Yes, and I don't see how this is a modal argument (the size of the universe wouldn't be relevant for that). His language here is sloppy, but he is, I ...
I think it's pretty clear that he is making an ontic claim - he says so himself (it's a "purely existential" statement). He is tilting against the win...
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