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Thanks, that was very interesting. OK, so my understanding is that one sentence that hits (true,true) for isNotProvable is the sentence that asserts t...
October 11, 2019 at 20:57
OK, so to go back to the third step in your initial post, K could be isNegative. And so isNegative(%M) is false. Then, per the fourth step, any false ...
October 11, 2019 at 13:11
So a very long sentence could have a Godel number above 10^20 (say, "0=0 and 1=1 and ... 10^20=10^20"). And that sentence could be true or false. But ...
October 11, 2019 at 09:12
OK, to briefly recap: The sentence "12>3 ; 12-3>3-3 ; 9>0" is a proof of the theorem "12>3". So the sentence "12>3" is both true and provable. It thus...
October 11, 2019 at 08:05
Cool. No problem with that. Thanks! Very clear. Meaning that ideally every true statement has a corresponding proof and every false statement has no c...
October 10, 2019 at 08:50
I think either something about the form of the sentence (e.g., HasAnEvenNumberOfLetters) or about the derived Godel number as a number (e.g., your ear...
October 10, 2019 at 00:12
I like what you're attempting here. The first two steps seem okay to me. On my view, this is a category mistake. Sentences aren't the sort of things t...
October 09, 2019 at 13:52
There could be any number of reasons why a particular interpretation prevails. Epistemology deals with the norms for assessing claims, of which power ...
October 07, 2019 at 03:55
Yes, but how is that culture developed? Elinor Ostrom (a political economist) won a Nobel prize in 2009 for her findings on this: Those "community-bas...
October 02, 2019 at 03:39
There isn't a standard. Mind-body dualism is the result of a language confusion. As Gilbert Ryle put it, "Descartes left as one of his main philosophi...
October 01, 2019 at 04:33
It's a fascinating topic. For the details, see Solving a System of Linear Equations Using Ancient Chinese Methods by Mary Flagg. Two quotes from that ...
September 23, 2019 at 05:49
According to Wikipedia they did know about zero but just lacked a symbol for it. As an example of how that might work, suppose you have $2 of assets a...
September 21, 2019 at 15:27
Agreed, the measurements are the data points. Whereas the underlying structure of the world is still a matter of interpretation. Since photons are the...
September 20, 2019 at 01:58
I suppose I don't really think in terms of "subconscious mind" and "conscious mind", I just see mind as an abstraction over an agent's intelligent act...
September 20, 2019 at 01:52
"Consciousness causes collapse" has a history of being associated with quantum mysticism and is generally dismissed by physicists these days. The othe...
September 19, 2019 at 12:34
Thanks! It's even adaptable to your favorite interpretation: Pilot wave theory: An invisible river guides the boat. Many Worlds: There is a boat on ea...
September 18, 2019 at 06:43
For one possible physical picture, consider a river that forks around an island. You could represent the river symbolically as: River = left fork + ri...
September 17, 2019 at 10:39
Exactly. :up:
September 16, 2019 at 06:34
Yes, but it's motivated by the ordinary definition, not an arbitrary choice. I think the relevant characteristic of objects is that they are concrete ...
September 16, 2019 at 06:23
A quantum state contains all the information about a quantum system. For two photons to be in the same state means there is no information, in princip...
September 16, 2019 at 06:21
For the millionaire scenario, the computer randomly removes two wrong answers from the set of three wrong answers. That selection is statistically ind...
September 15, 2019 at 05:22
It says that bosons can share the same quantum state (which includes position). Fermions can't share the same quantum state but they can still share t...
September 15, 2019 at 04:32
Fundamental particles can occupy the same space at the same time. See identical particles. I, at least, consider particles to be physical objects. Her...
September 14, 2019 at 21:35
As I see it, you should be indifferent to keeping or switching in the modified game. My reasoning: If you initially correctly pick the door with the c...
September 13, 2019 at 23:23
As you probably know, accounting for change was a major issue for the ancient Greek philosophers. As Parmenides (and Plato and Aristotle) would have a...
September 13, 2019 at 10:51
Sure. You may find this comparison of the various interpretations useful, of which de Broglie-Bohm theory and Many Worlds are the main deterministic i...
September 11, 2019 at 09:07
Not quite - whether there are multiple versions and what is considered real is an interpretive issue. What is universally agreed on is more like this:...
September 11, 2019 at 04:48
Classical physics and quantum physics are incompatible descriptions of the world. Though classical physics provides a good approximation in many macro...
September 11, 2019 at 04:15
OK, you're deflationary about determinism. Which is to say we either have equations and procedures to make predictions about a system, or we do not. T...
August 26, 2019 at 12:43
I think the example of the light switch/light bulb system captures the definitions you gave in your opening posts. That is, determinism (or non-determ...
August 25, 2019 at 06:46
To answer that question, I think it's useful to consider a simple system and how it would be represented. Consider a light switch that is connected to...
August 25, 2019 at 03:52
Going back to this. Is your claim that this temporally prior form is itself separate from particulars? If so, then why would that not be a Platonic fo...
August 17, 2019 at 22:34
So Aristotle gives a concrete example in Physics Book 8 where he describes a man who moves a stone with a stick. Consider this in terms of a golfer hi...
August 17, 2019 at 22:26
For Aristotle, knowledge comes from experience in the natural world.
August 14, 2019 at 12:48
Perhaps you could specifically quote where you think Aristotle argues this. If you simply mean that there is potential for things in prior (actual) st...
August 14, 2019 at 12:15
No, it is Aristotle's immanent realism that denies that 'forms' and 'types' exist in separation from particulars (though they can be considered separa...
August 14, 2019 at 11:08
While they are given independent accounts in Aristotle's writings, some commentators do consider them to be equivalent and that is one of the interpre...
August 14, 2019 at 10:24
The world isn't grounded in the active intellect for either Aristotle or Aquinas. Both were realists about the world (which contained concrete particu...
August 11, 2019 at 07:46
Just my quick thoughts here, but if the unmoved mover is identified with the universe itself then, from the universe's frame of reference, it would ha...
August 11, 2019 at 07:27
The context here is Aristotle's hylomorphic particulars. Aristotle rejected the existence of anything separate from hylomorphic particulars - and spec...
August 11, 2019 at 07:11
That may have been fine with Aristotle who had a natural theology and located his unmoved mover within the universe. As he wrote, "the things nearest ...
August 11, 2019 at 05:56
Yes they are thought to be incompatible since Aristotle explicitly rejected Plato's theory of forms . The difference is that Platonic Forms are indepe...
August 10, 2019 at 05:51
Dualism assumes there are entities that have a reality independent of particulars. In this context it's the Platonic Forms (which Aristotle rejected)....
August 10, 2019 at 05:13
I was wondering when the discussion would bring in the unmoved movers or active intellect. There's nothing like an excursion into theology or philosop...
August 06, 2019 at 12:19
Yes he refers to all of those things. However I'm asking for specific quotes that would demonstrate your claim that they are separable from particular...
August 06, 2019 at 12:09
For Aristotle, form is the correlate of matter and they are not separable from particulars. You can only consider them in separation which is a differ...
August 05, 2019 at 07:12
Dualism doesn't follow from Aristotle's examples. The soul is not separable from the body - it is always the particular that acts (and thus is the loc...
August 04, 2019 at 23:04
Thanks. The issue has motivated me to dig more into the literature on Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics. The relevant passage in the chapter you r...
August 03, 2019 at 12:22
Can you provide a reference in Aristotle's writings where he asserts this position (that these forms are actualized by the human mind)? Also, perhaps ...
July 28, 2019 at 12:44
What's to exaggerate? Aristotle famously rejected Plato’s theory of forms and proposed his own theory in its place. Note that his conclusion is not th...
July 27, 2019 at 05:07