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Well, it is a little bit more elaborate than that. First, you have that strange conclusion that occurs when you represent sentences as numbers. For ev...
October 08, 2019 at 02:28
I cannot disagree more. Seriously, it simply does not work like that. A system such as logic is not the real world, and does not even try to correspon...
October 08, 2019 at 01:55
Well no. It is possible to talk about logic as an abstract system. You can certainly look at what happens when you change the axioms of logic. That is...
October 07, 2019 at 15:50
Plato already complained about that. So, he wrote that allegory of the cave. There may be a good reason why we only see Platonic-cave shadows. It may ...
October 07, 2019 at 15:34
Agreed, and the worst is that they think that they are going to use logic for that, which is a system of which we cannot possibly explain the reason f...
October 07, 2019 at 15:09
That is obviously debatable. Still, whatever the level of restrictions exists, it cannot be increased. You do not have that guarantee when politicians...
October 07, 2019 at 14:53
Well, it is exactly by inventing new laws that the State manages to encroach on people's freedom. The core concern of libertarianism, i.e. the loss of...
October 07, 2019 at 10:59
Why doesn't one person accept the job of documenting it on behalf of everyone else? I am very wary and also suspicious of the refusal to commit to an ...
October 07, 2019 at 08:35
It requires a system of 14 axioms, i.e. 14 unexplained beliefs, to make propositional logic possible in the first place. Without such system of unexpl...
October 07, 2019 at 08:14
Well, next-door to Thailand, in Cambodia. I have never had a look at how the Thai do things, actually. I only have some kind of vague familiarity with...
October 07, 2019 at 06:26
They have temples, i.e. a particular type of buildings. So, there are obviously people who take care of practicalities surrounding these temples. I am...
October 07, 2019 at 06:15
God is a system-wide premise in a religious system, i.e. a religious theory. Atheists do not seem to grok the concept of "system" or do not even under...
October 07, 2019 at 05:47
The rejection of unexplained system-wide premises degenerates in the complete inability of building systems or deriving conclusions in such system. Fo...
October 07, 2019 at 03:14
The Southeast Asian country in which I live, is largely Buddhist. My wife is Buddhist. My in-laws are Buddhist. In my opinion, Buddhism is first and f...
October 07, 2019 at 02:35
The term "common-sense morality" creates the impression of referring to something rather undocumented. If it is not worth documenting, why use it in t...
October 06, 2019 at 16:17
It really depends on whether there exists a list of forbidden behaviours. For example: Some right-libertarians consider the non-aggression principle t...
October 06, 2019 at 11:30
Nay saying surprisingly often works. Nassim Taleb has written quite an interesting article on the matter: The most intolerant wins. Society automatica...
October 06, 2019 at 10:37
Let me try. Concerning "omnipotence", there will necessarily exist a provable language expression: I am omnipotent. On the condition that omnipotence ...
October 06, 2019 at 04:03
Yes, in a sense that the symbolic language of first-order logic is obviously less prone to ambiguity. No, in a sense that some of the most famous proo...
October 05, 2019 at 22:25
Yes. In my impression, there is a price tag to telling lies. It is not cheap.
October 05, 2019 at 16:20
I think that the real power is in consistency. There is of course the assumption that the truth is consistent, but you can simplify the matter by just...
October 05, 2019 at 16:04
Yes, agreed. There is something specifically problematic with the liar sentence ("This sentence is not true"). Imagine that you could define the True(...
October 05, 2019 at 12:10
Roughly speaking, in proving the first incompleteness theorem, Gödel used a modified version of the liar paradox, replacing "this sentence is false" w...
October 05, 2019 at 05:20
There is an important colonial-history element to the problem. The incredible patience of Beijing has been absolutely commendable. Furthermore, the ru...
October 05, 2019 at 04:24
Without a complete set of extensive system-wide premises, which will then generate a system, i.e. a theory with its conclusions/theorems, this kind of...
October 05, 2019 at 01:43
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The lease was up and the handover is a done deal. The rock was going to be returned to China; and now it has. After expiration of the transitional spe...
October 04, 2019 at 11:16
The lease was up and the Brits were going to leave. Maggie negotiated endlessly to make the handover as smooth as possible. In my opinion, she did a b...
October 04, 2019 at 05:31
Differences between American and British English: mean In the U.S., mean usually describes someone or something that is unkind, cruel, or violent: "It...
October 03, 2019 at 04:07
Anything that further increases the power or even just the credibility of the ruling political class is not desirable. I don't trust them, climate cha...
October 02, 2019 at 05:44
A legitimate morality is a complete axiomatic system with system-wide premises. Producing theorems outside the confines of a complete theory is not su...
October 02, 2019 at 05:31
It is probably the opposite. If laws have to be continually updated, then they are most likely wrong in the first place. For example, we have not upda...
October 02, 2019 at 05:17
The justification has to be purely syntactic. I am currently still looking into what it means for alternative functions F(x): ? ? F(°#(?)) is provable...
October 01, 2019 at 06:27
There is something very syntactic about the proof. The starting point is the diagonal lemma, which says: °x is the numeric encoding of number x #(?) i...
September 30, 2019 at 08:23
"Fitra" or "fitrah" (Arabic: ?????; ALA-LC: fi?rah), is the state of purity and innocence Muslims believe all humans to be born with. Fitra is an Arab...
September 28, 2019 at 03:57
The three main, accredited knowledge-justification methods are: axiomatic (logic) scientific (experimental testing) historical (witness-deposition cor...
September 27, 2019 at 15:11
I already explained the epistemic conundrum surrounding this type of questions. It is obvious that, in classical epistemic terms, everybody is merely ...
September 27, 2019 at 12:24
With 17 times less testosterone in their blood, women obviously do have a different sexuality. It is incomparable, actually. Their sexuality is obviou...
September 27, 2019 at 12:01
There is a lot of literature about the "cock carousel". Google search has a lot of hits: https://www.google.com/search?q=cock+carousel. There are also...
September 27, 2019 at 11:57
Well, in my impression young girls actually are indeed too stupid for that. Furthermore, they get badly manipulated by school and media into doing thi...
September 27, 2019 at 11:34
The amount of money you make, matters way less than how you manage your income/expense streams. Someone who saves up 25% of his monthly income will af...
September 27, 2019 at 06:02
Ha, but there is no mechanical procedure for discovering a testworthy pattern. That is where other, unknown mental faculties kick in. What procedure w...
September 27, 2019 at 05:36
The really annoying people in that debate are the ones who mistakenly believe that their particular views are universal. Those are usually the same pe...
September 27, 2019 at 04:51
The idea that AI will "take most of jobs" conflates two mental activities. Let's for example look at the job of a mathematician: (1) discovering a new...
September 27, 2019 at 01:49
In my opinion, all of our current beliefs about the real, physical world are resilient Platonic-cave shadows. They are really good at resisting falsif...
September 26, 2019 at 15:28
Two systems could have one or more common rules but still generate substantially different outcomes. In that sense, a single rule out of context does ...
September 26, 2019 at 08:14
Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive f...
September 26, 2019 at 06:38
There is a definition possible for the term "definition". The definition for term X is a predicate function that accepts arbitrary input S and will re...
September 26, 2019 at 06:25
If only proof were justification, then we would have no justification at all for empirical propositions. Yes, but proof never provides a truth about t...
September 26, 2019 at 05:36
The meaning of your argument depends on the meaning of the terms that it uses. By not strictly defining these terms first, you refuse to make a commit...
September 26, 2019 at 05:15
So, Geach's misconception becomes an excuse for not having to define essential terms in a proposition? It is trivially easy to connect the one ambiguo...
September 26, 2019 at 02:38