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I am only vaguely familiar with Plantinga's approach, but the discussion and examples so far remind me of the non-foundationalist pragmatism of Charle...
February 27, 2020 at 21:52
I am attempting to spell out my Peirce-inspired ideas about time in another thread, so I suggest that we continue this conversation over there.
February 27, 2020 at 21:18
Peirce makes another helpful distinction between an event as a definite and entire change vs. a state of change as "indefinitely gradual"; i.e., stric...
February 27, 2020 at 21:16
Eternity usually means timelessness, or perhaps infinite time. I still see no connection with incompleteness and incomputability. Not in this thread, ...
February 27, 2020 at 20:52
I still do not see what those mathematical results have to do with "the concept of time and eternity." Sorry, I do not understand this sentence. Thank...
February 27, 2020 at 20:06
From a metaphysical standpoint, Charles Sanders Peirce drew a helpful distinction between reality and existence. The real is that which is as it is re...
February 27, 2020 at 19:01
Could you please summarize what you have in mind as "the concept of time and eternity from Gödel (self-reference), and Turing," as well as "the parado...
February 27, 2020 at 18:12
No, that is not how "proposition" and "axiom" are typically defined in logic and philosophy. There are all kinds of true propositions, only a few of w...
February 21, 2020 at 23:09
Understood, and people do routinely use "fact" as a synonym for "true proposition." I just find it helpful to maintain a careful distinction between a...
February 21, 2020 at 22:19
I propose instead: A fact is the state of things that is signified by a true proposition. A proposition is traditionally defined as a sign that can be...
February 21, 2020 at 21:51
How would you know? You have not demonstrated any familiarity with his voluminous writings. Nonsense. As usual, bare assertion with no basis in fact. ...
February 09, 2020 at 16:38
LOL! Right back at you.
February 08, 2020 at 01:48
Thanks for confirming that you have no idea how building design and construction actually work. History demonstrates otherwise, as @"fishfry" has poin...
February 07, 2020 at 22:27
I happen to be a practicing structural engineer. What might not be obvious to you and others is that a structure is always designed first, followed by...
February 07, 2020 at 19:00
The Republicans in the room were not allowed to call any witnesses of their own, and were restricted in their questioning of the witnesses who did app...
February 07, 2020 at 18:38
Nothing, but that is not what you said. There were witnesses for the House impeachment--although only certain ones that the Democrats wanted, and many...
February 07, 2020 at 18:12
Impeachment is supposed to be a rare and serious matter. Gathering evidence to support taking such action is the responsibility of the House of Repres...
February 07, 2020 at 17:05
Not really, it is a direct quote from the text itself. The Senate has the exclusive power to determine what qualifies. Of course not; but in my opinio...
February 07, 2020 at 16:32
Too many people are still conflating impeachment with conviction/removal. Arguably a simple majority of the House of Representatives can impeach any f...
February 07, 2020 at 15:38
It is consistent with Peircean pragmatism in the sense that one's purpose dictates how one formulates the hypothetical state of things to be explicate...
February 07, 2020 at 15:20
As applied to mathematics, yes. Charles Peirce adopted his father Benjamin's definition of it as the science that draws necessary conclusions about hy...
February 07, 2020 at 02:55
I am just pulling these out to highlight them as excellent observations. After all, Peirce--the founder of pragmatism--was decidedly non-foundationali...
February 06, 2020 at 15:33
Thanks for the insights and the link.
February 03, 2020 at 02:06
Just a guess, but I would imagine that one typically becomes a constructivist in the first place for primarily philosophical reasons--e.g., dissatisfa...
February 02, 2020 at 23:12
No, the whole point of talking about "true continuity" is to distinguish it from (analytical) "continuity" as defined in accordance with standard set ...
February 02, 2020 at 23:06
The only reality that we can know is what we learn from experience. We formulate hypotheses to explain our experience (retroduction), work out their n...
January 31, 2020 at 14:14
Here is one especially succinct argumentation from Peirce. It then follows from the first sentence that since the present is not an instant, there is ...
January 31, 2020 at 02:13
Line figures, surfaces, and solids can be understood in geometry as truly continuous. We use points to model and analyze them, but they are not compos...
January 29, 2020 at 14:13
Not sure about Aristotle, but Peirce indeed explicitly rejected the notion that continuous time is somehow composed of durationless instants. They are...
January 29, 2020 at 13:47
Introducing numbers already imposes discreteness. Numbers are for measuring, they cannot constitute a truly continuous line. No, again, a line is not ...
January 27, 2020 at 17:27
A set is a bottom-up conception, assembling a whole from discrete parts. True continuity is a top-down conception, such that the whole is more fundame...
January 27, 2020 at 16:35
The Peirceans who are not on this forum, for starters; but it goes back at least as far as Aristotle, who recognized that numbers of any kind are intr...
January 27, 2020 at 14:11
Yes, and I acknowledged as much.
January 25, 2020 at 12:41
Combinations, not permutations; i.e., the different proper subsets, and the order of the members does not matter. For a set with n members, its power ...
January 25, 2020 at 00:37
None of those dictate the peculiar metaphysical definitions that you insist on imposing for terms like "existence" and "object," even in the context o...
January 16, 2020 at 03:44
That explains a lot. Why should I (or anyone else) accept the constraints of your peculiar language? How could you ever make such a determination, giv...
January 16, 2020 at 02:34
No, I am not a platonist; I am not claiming that abstractions exist in the ontological sense. Why keep insisting otherwise? No, some symbols are subje...
January 15, 2020 at 14:49
Incommensurability does not preclude (mathematical) existence. Our inability to measure two different objects (abstractions) relative to the same arbi...
January 14, 2020 at 15:13
They do represent objects--abstractions, not existents. On the contrary, this is Semeiotic 101--in a proposition, the subjects denote objects, and the...
January 14, 2020 at 14:48
Again, I do not hold than there is such a thing as "an abstraction existing as an object." I reject your peculiar terminological stipulation that an "...
January 14, 2020 at 14:04
Again, your peculiar metaphysical terminology is not binding on the rest of us. Apparently not--an object is whatever a logical subject denotes, which...
January 14, 2020 at 03:03
Indeed, that would be mathematical platonism, as I have acknowledged. However, I am not a mathematical platonist--I have quite explicitly denied that ...
January 14, 2020 at 02:01
Perhaps in metaphysics/ontology, but definitely not in mathematics. I have already done so, repeatedly. Perhaps in metaphysics/ontology, but definitel...
January 13, 2020 at 16:34
Wow, this keeps getting more and more ridiculous. No one is claiming that mathematical existence has anything to do with "existing substance." In math...
January 13, 2020 at 14:25
No, it is the study of being, which is not necessarily synonymous with existence. For example, one view is that ontological existence (i.e., actuality...
January 12, 2020 at 16:39
Now we really are going in circles. I see no point in continuing (pun intended). Cheers!
January 11, 2020 at 17:07
By insisting that moments/states are "undefined" otherwise. Time is not composed of days. A day is an arbitrary unit of duration that we use to mark a...
January 11, 2020 at 16:44
You cannot prove that time has a start by assuming that time has a start. Besides, if every moment has a preceding moment, then time cannot have a sta...
January 11, 2020 at 16:06
Mathematicians and philosophers of mathematics, with the presumed exception of platonists, reject the premiss that all "existence" is ontological exis...
January 11, 2020 at 15:58
Non sequitur; having no initial moment/state does not entail having no "defined" moments/states (whatever that means), unless we add the question-begg...
January 10, 2020 at 19:31