Exactly. So the satisfaction of some other objective is what truly governs play. If the rules no longer suit it, they are changed. The rules are a con...
If I state that there is a rule "I must not tread on the cracks in the pavement", but then, on finding my step too ungainly I make another "I must not...
Plausibility and 'making sense' are both subjective judgements too. What one person finds implausible and making no sense, another may be able to see ...
I wouldn't claim anything on the subject. I would defer to my epistemic betters. The point I'm making here is a psychological one. That which is evide...
As I said, we're back to a series of bare assertions without any support. An assertion. An assertion. This is a waste of my time if we're just going t...
No, you could claim that as you can 'read into' the words any additional meaning you like. This is evidenced by the fact that critics can read meaning...
But we evidently don't. We come full circle to the root cause of the problem, you presume that the world must be exactly how it seems to you to be. Yo...
No, words would seem to have at least one objective meaning (or limited cluster of meaning). But all words have this. The soliloquy from Hamlet and th...
It says in Wikipedia that... "Galileo concluded that the ideas of less, equal, and greater apply to (what we would now call) finite sets, but not to i...
They mean that which they are used for. But generally no, they do not mean the same thing, but they do both mean one thing. As such the 'depth' of bot...
But none of the paradoxes you've referenced here remain problematic. In fact most of them seem to be resolved by ZF or ZFC theory which, I understand,...
The fraudulence is not in the reading of depth, but in the illusion that some things produce depth whilst others don't. I mentioned these stories to s...
For a start, these two statements contradict one another. You clearly do know of objections to your argument. Presumably Cantor, and those who follow ...
Yes, that would be exactly how I imagine I would feel. In a situation of such little data, I imagine I would very much lack conviction. A lack of conv...
I wasn't asking for a repeat of your assertion, I was asking you to address the counter arguments of mathematicians. What do your opposition have to s...
Well, that is everyone's question. If you have money, you must decide what to do with it, you can't not. One of those choices is o give it to someone ...
But I had a load more like that lined up. The imagery in some of them was quite masterful. Not just one, dozens. And even when they had the obvious fr...
But you're not discussing this, you're just repeatedly declaring it to be the case. You haven't addressed the arguments of those mathematicians who ad...
Yes, we all know what you think. This is not your personal blog, it's a philosophy discussion forum, so unless you have something to discuss, rather t...
According to your idiosyncratic definition of infinite. According to your idiosyncratic definition of infinite. According to your idiosyncratic defini...
Agreed. I was going to make the same point myself, but was more annoyed by his style than by the substance of his argument at the time, so didn't tack...
Someone else making the decision is even more removed, so it would be easier to not interfere (if that's what I felt like doing). With another person ...
Really. What is the point in you posting if all you're going to do is just tell us what is and is not the case? I honestly want to know what you post ...
Yes, because I wouldn't feel as bad, but the extent to which I wouldn't feel as bad, I think, would depend on what would need to be done to save them....
Again your religious faith in the art critics blinds you. ...was the response of one art critic to the random daubings of a chimpanzee which the journ...
It doesn't matter what it is because of. The only relevant question here is whether one ought to do what one can about it. If I can take money from th...
OK, so infinity cannot grow, or have anything greater than it, so the universe's size/age/whatever cannot be infinite. Fine, the universe's size/age/w...
Not sure what you're getting at. The above was by way of an explanation as to why I'm not a utilitarian. The calculation process quickly becomes littl...
The point was that if a large enough number of people are deciding that the benefits of continued existence do not outweigh whatever harms they are ex...
Yes, but less so. It depends on what would need to be done to save them. All actions have consequences, and the further into the future we look, the m...
That presumes a preference for continued existence above all else which the rampant suicide rate immediately proves to be erroneous. Continued existen...
Exactly. Every time someone tries to delimit art some artist will go outside of those boundaries and they will have to be redefined. People can, and d...
Or they don't agree with you about what a promise means. Your arrogance is restraining your philosophical investigations. If you continue to simply pr...
All of which supports the argument that some entirely subjective decision is being made, first about what we are actually going to do, and second abou...
Lots to reply to and not much time today, so I might expand on some of this later. First I think I ought to justify and circumscribe the discussion. @...
Yes. We either all die together or no one dies at all. It's called solidarity. I'm not a utilitarian. I don't 'deduce' that killing is wrong by some k...
Of course. How does the statement of one person's subjective intention become an objective requirement on the world at large? Why ought they keep thei...
As I said. The entire mathematical community disagrees with you here. Rather than just make another post about it in a slightly different way, why not...
It is accepted by virtually every mathematician that there are an infinite number of negative integers, there are also an infinite number number of po...
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