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I think it had something to do their animosity toward higher education, and, as you say a basic hatred of college professors. The Koch brothers are fi...

I wonder what they think those with a PhD in philosophy should do. Be like Socrates and harass people at the mall? I think that if potential students ...

Because I am not yet that cynical. Perhaps four more years of Trump and I will be. I don't think it is because people don't care about the truth, it i...

I didn't. There are some who think it is an easy way to make a living with lots of free time. There was at time talk of adjuncts forming a union. I do...

The number is how many of whatever it is we are counting. If I count the number of fingers on one hand and I count correctly the number is 5. That is ...

While the Republicans are anxious to declare the end of the investigation, I do not think that Mueller's testimony accomplished what needs to be done....

Traditionally, adjuncts were experts working in other fields who brought their knowledge to the classroom. Since there is now a shortage of academic j...

Both are dependent on us to determine, that is, to know or be informed of the number. In neither case is the number a potential number except with reg...

We might say, for example, that the number of bacteria in a petri dish is potentially thousands or tens of thousands. Whether one is platonist or not,...

My issue is with what you call "potential numbers". The number of pieces of fruit in the bowl or the number of seeds in the pieces of fruit in the bow...

Once upon a time, long, long ago, before Trump that was supposed to have mattered to Republicans, although the truth is that the Democratic administra...

I agree. To fill it out a bit. Based on Revelations a "new Jerusalem" is one of the signs of the Apocalypse according to Evangelicals. One of Trump's ...

Many of these students are ill-prepared for higher education but there is a persistent push to get students to attend college. Higher education has ad...

2+2=4 is not a "Platonic relationship". That 2+2=4 is true, according to mathematical platonism is due to the nature of numbers. The relationship is m...

I took your statements to be about Darwin and evolution, not your own beliefs on the matter. I have always found this claim to be problematic. It may ...

The Origin of Species says nothing about the origin of life. This is an important point that is often overlooked. Whatever his beliefs in God may have...

I have become one.

Since the topic of this thread is Trump I will refrain from saying more about Warren.

I am going to leave it there. This thread is not the place to discuss economic realities.

As others have said, education in the US varies widely, both in an between public and private schools. I cannot speak of elsewhere. A few observations...

Yes, there is are all sorts of problems inherent to it, but it is a common belief. This is something the Federal Reserve is dealing with now. The econ...

Being smothered to death by a blanket though does not seem like a good way to go.

Sure, why not.

I prefer the term arch. It was a joke. Don't take it personally. I won't name names or initials.

Aw shucks.

This is a big part of what the story of Job is about. It is by no means a modern conception of deity. See also Elie Wiesel's discussions and play abou...

18. In #17 he said: How are we to reconcile these statements? Is it immediacy or mediation? #17 begins as a view from the end or completion, a view wh...

I think our poor little three year old has suffocated under her blanket. It seems that no one has been paying attention to her.

I do something similar. I start with what I think he is saying and then go back to the text to see how well that squares with what it says. It may see...

There is a difference between an opinion and an informed opinion. Common sense is not sufficient when what you are offering an opinion about is someth...

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It is common wisdom that the better the economy the better the incumbent president's chances of being re-elected. There are worrisome signs that Trump...

I do not wish to defend mathematical Platonism, but I think you misrepresent the position. The problem stems, at least in part, from jumping from Aris...

It is not a question of accepting Spinoza for an explanation of what Hegel means by substance. I introduced Spinoza because of what Hegel goes on to s...

You are avoiding the question. Science does not simply "assume its principles". It determines them through observation, hypothesis, testing, theory, m...

17: I trust that everything I have said in this discussion is taken as tentative, but here it may be necessary to state it. I have worked and re-worke...

Where do you imagine these principles come from? After a full paragraph on Platonism you said: This is not a "Platonic relationship", it is simple ari...

Once again, the title of your topic is "The Foundations of Mathematics". Those foundations are not in modern mathematical theory or methodology. Greek...

The title of your topic is The Foundations of Mathematics. The neoplatonic One Identified as God has nothing to do with the foundations of mathematics...

In the Greek arithmos a number is always a number of something. A number tells us how many ones or units. This is why Aristotle says that two is the f...

16: In its formulaic universality it abstracts from every difference, every particularity, and thus renders everything the same. It is not the univers...

I just looked into this a bit. Hegel says that Kant's Categorical Imperative, his moral formula of universal law, is "empty formalism". It is empty be...

I don't want to derail the topic, so I will only make a few quick comments. I would be glad to discuss the issue elsewhere. While I agree that the For...

Thank you Tim. That was most gracious. Perhaps one of these days I will be obliged to return the favor.

The next few paragraphs further develop this. 16 begins:

I did not think of the intentional breaking of instruments as a "form of expression". But if it is your only instrument then unless or until you get a...

The wiki article on Naturphilosophie might be helpful, particularly the following:

You are correct in that the idea is not static, it does not follow, however, that anyone or anything, any system, that claims to "have" it, is wrong. ...

Point, or should I say tip, taken. But as the sculpturer of yourself you begin with the material you have to work with. While I agree that these thing...

15: This is a continuation of 14, of the: ... opposition seems to be the principal knot which scientific culture is currently struggling to loosen and...