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Trinity Stooge

['Member']Joined: April 11, 2019 at 21:07Last active: September 28, 2019 at 01:38None discussions8 comments

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In: Man created "God" in the beginning  — view comment
"The Tao is what exists as an undivided whole. People break it up into the 10,000 things..." Through what agency? If, for example, I am undivided and ...
September 28, 2019 at 00:20
In: What is the difference between God and Canada?  — view comment
God has Doubting Thomas, but we got Stompin' Tom.
June 10, 2019 at 04:03
In: Wholes Can Lack Properties That Their Parts Have  — view comment
To clarify: What we quantify is neither brick nor wall nor Earth nor Moon. What we quantify is apparatus.
June 10, 2019 at 03:03
In: Wholes Can Lack Properties That Their Parts Have  — view comment
Huh? It's definitely a property of Earth that it weighs 3kg on a brick, say (because of its mass). And it's definitely a property of the Moon that it ...
June 10, 2019 at 02:46
In: Wholes Can Lack Properties That Their Parts Have  — view comment
In the original post we used our magic scissors to part a semicircle from a whole circle, and later we used our magic sledgehammer to part a brick fro...
June 10, 2019 at 01:21
In: Wholes Can Lack Properties That Their Parts Have  — view comment
Heavy or light makes no difference. Quantity is not a property of things, but things are a property of quantity. If there is no thing to quantify then...
June 10, 2019 at 00:32
In: Wholes Can Lack Properties That Their Parts Have  — view comment
Weight is a property of brick, and more weight is a property of more brick.
June 09, 2019 at 13:06
In: Wholes Can Lack Properties That Their Parts Have  — view comment
Your reasoning seems backwards. The semicircle is as much a whole as is the circle, but consists of more parts. The circle consists of two parts; a li...
May 31, 2019 at 08:49
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