Where B is the operator for belief, you can be without or with beliefs for proposition p: 1. someone does not believe p: ¬Bp 2. someone believes not p...
Like disbelief that Santa is real is a belief system? Like a clean bill of health is a disease? • absence of theism: newborns, the Pirahã people, some...
Gave me a good grin: Noah From The Bible Didn't Retire, So This Likely GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Doesn't See Why You Should Samantha Lachman HuffPos...
Me? Any will do, depending on context I suppose. ?0 is a quantity that's not a real number, and ?0 is the quantity of naturals/integers/rationals ?1 i...
To simulate the universe in every detail would require more than just the simulation itself, presumably a good deal more, considering what we know abo...
A. assume infinite past moments B. then there's no 1st moment C. or 2nd ... or nth moment D. so A can't be numbered with a 1st ... nth moment E. ? You...
I'm not so interested in your analogies per se, I'm just pointing out that the argument you keep posting doesn't work. The argument I've commented on ...
, the worst that can happen if we act, is no worse than doing nothing, but could be better. (Wouldn't it be cool if we don't have to do a thing, and c...
We don't go shit where our children eat either. What's the worst that can happen if we act on climate change? What's the worst that can happen if we d...
Not "atemporal", then. "Atemporal" mind doesn't make sense anyway. You can come up with falsifiability that we can go out and check tomorrow? (y) (the...
Hm. Wouldn't the supposed fine-tuner of the universe have to be uniquely fine-tuned to create fine-tuned universes? Surely can't be mere coincidence.....
Then you'll need a proof without going by that. FYI, not that it matters much, I harbor no particular personal belief either way. I'm just pointing ou...
I suppose we can be grateful to some of the Arabs and Muslims for attempting to keep ancient Greek writings alive during the Middle Ages, the Islamic ...
Neither logic, mathematics nor the scientific methodologies have any inherent dependencies on Christianity. That's just hijacking. ("if you can't beat...
As shown, we already know some things about mind (versus whatever else), and these are inherently contrary to "atemporal". Special pleading. So, we're...
Example square circle: "atemporal" mind. It's more or less the opposite, if you will. Where body (for example) is object-like and spatial (left to rig...
Sure, which is not proof. Maybe? I've just addressed a couple of them — Leibnizian sufficient reason and your mathematical induction (and similar) — n...
I'm thinking lack of (or poor) education is a factor. We know that educated women have less children, for example, so it's a factor in overpopulation ...
A different deduction, then. Cool, let's have it. (y) (Despite the connotations, mathematical induction is fine as far as deduction goes.) Let's have ...
Then what's 1st and nth about here? ? So, without such a 1st moment, you can't number such moments like that. (y) (though whatever indexical numbering...
If ... ... then a 1st moment is "undefined". Then you've started out with a contradiction. Anyway, still no proof, then. Leibnizian sufficient reason ...
Gah non sequitur again. Sure they can; you can use whatever numbering. Let's put up a temporal flag pole (indexical) at 1970 Jan 1st 00:00:00 UTC, and...
Just did ... 1. suppose there's no 1st cause 2. if there's no nth cause, then there's no n+1th cause 3. so, by induction such causes don't have such (...
Not so. You've shown that such causes don't have such (definite) numbers, that such causes aren't numbered so. (y) But 3 is a non sequitur. (That's ro...
, looks (to me) like you want to show that you can't number all such moments non-indexically, but then you call it a day there, still no contradiction...
You haven't. Mostly just something like "... which is impossible", no contradiction derived. The opening post started out with Leibnizian sufficient r...
"Wigner's Friend" reminded me a bit of the twin paradox, though they're very different. The former is still very specific in setting and results, wher...
An atemporal, "eternal" cause of a universe that has a definite age (like 14 billion years) is incompatible with the principle of sufficient reason, s...
Merely declaring so is much like saying the Moon didn't exist until onlookers noticed it in the sky. We differentiate perception and the perceived; al...
Whether they can be said to exist or not, these are abstract objects, not my sandals. :) The formalisms, theorems, etc, is how you treat them, you don...
, MathJax is supported: \displaystyle\frac{1}{3} = \displaystyle\sum_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \frac{3}{10^n} = 0.333\cdots where \mathbb{N} does not include...
, just in case you're new around here, these things come up every now and then — Zeno "impossible!" ? "paradox" 1/0 ... — usually due to some misunder...
(I suppose your inquiry itself is meaningless, if identity was abandoned; not just your inquiry, every inquiry.) There cannot be anything in particula...
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