So, we readily assume causality when "one object produces the other" ... ... but only when it habitually does so. In other words, when you regularly s...
There may be a danger in thinking like that. The core claim in religion, the belief in God, is about the origin of the real, physical world. Religion ...
Well, my own staunch resistance against incorporating any premature semantics into mathematics, especially en provenance from physics -- which is undo...
That is quite an anti-Platonist view. Mathematics deals with counting of not anything in particular. In the abstract, Platonic world of number theory,...
On the one side, I do subscribe to formalism: Formalism holds that mathematical statements may be thought of as statements about the consequences of c...
Math is not about quantities, or numbers, and in that sense, not about values. Only number theory is. Furthermore, number theory is, in and of itself,...
The application of math in the real world is itself not math but always something else, such as physics, engineering, and so on. Math supplies a burea...
This unnamed authority was David Hilbert: It has been claimed that formalists, such as David Hilbert (1862–1943), hold that mathematics is only a lang...
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Ok. Point conceded. The verificationists, i.e. the Logical positivists within the Vienna Circle, have managed to taint the term so badly that it now c...
When I was 14 years old, somewhere in the 80ies, my father came home with a second-hand Apple IIe computer, which had two floppy drives but no hard di...
The term "usefulness" is quite controversial in mathematics. I tend to agree with Hardy on the matter: I have never done anything "useful". No discove...
I can perfectly see how you were tested for your academic attainment. I just need to take a look at the multiple-choice questions you were supposed to...
Meaning, i.e. semantics, are not always a useful goal. The best part of advanced mathematics and metamathematics is about removing all possible meanin...
I was educated in Europe. The short answer: there is probably no difference worthwhile mentioning. The core of an education system revolves around how...
Well, if Aristotle said this -- I guess he did, and there are other links who say that he did -- he will most likely have done that somewhere in 'Meta...
It may be your kids, but that does not mean that you have a say in what the ruling elite's indoctrination machine will teach them. The populace gave u...
In the philosophy of mathematics, formalism is the view that holds that statements of mathematics and logic can be considered to be statements about t...
They are trying to do that, but this approach has not succeeded until now. There is the Wikipedia no original research and neutral point of view polic...
I have found a reference here: Aristotle also popularized the use of axioms (self-evident principles requiring no proof), claiming that nothing can be...
In my opinion, mere predictive modelling without establishing causality should not be counted as science. Only observations en provenance from control...
If you justify the axioms, then the justifications will become the new axioms. Your strategy simply leads to infinite regress. That is why the axiomat...
From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists, makes up 23% of the mass budget of the Universe, clusters strongly to form the load-b...
The page in Britannica is good starting point to answer your objections: Axiomatic method, in logic, a procedure by which an entire system (e.g., a sc...
These people have already invaded the academia. Examples from the link: University of California, Berkeley University of Denver Syracuse University So...
The (Abrahamic) theological argument is that God does not have a physical incarnation. Therefore, anything that has a physical incarnation cannot be t...
In "Beware the Big Errors of 'Big Data'", Nassim Taleb creates a beautiful visual representation of the problem: We’re more fooled by noise than ever ...
Agreed, but charlatans, such as the ones in the stock market, must not be able to repurpose that capacity to claim scientific status. Most physics is ...
Yes, but just the title sounds already impossibly inept: "Is dark matter theory or fact?" I am not even going to read it. Furthermore, this article is...
This would only be possible if God deterministically responded to a particular input with the same output. In that case, it would be a function. If yo...
Well, other religions may have physical gods, but the Abrahamic ones, i.e. Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, clearly don't. The creator of he...
The journalist whom you referred to is not a scientist. He is just some kind of sycophant. Furthermore, only when authoring experimental test reports,...
Fundamental physics can be tested experimentally. If a hypothesis cannot at this point, then it is a topic of scientific research, in which they will ...
In experimental testing, you must be able to strictly control the inputs: outputs = theoretical_function ( inputs ) When you feed the inputs into the ...
This is one of Nassim Taleb's pet peeves: Theory is born from (convex) practice more often than the reverse (the nonteleological property) Science is ...
Well, I meant to say the subatomic structure of ... Sorry, I did not realize that it sounded so ambiguous. You actually pointed out a real problem. In...
It depends what subatomic particles it is about. Chemistry makes extensive use of the subatomic structure of electrons, and atom nucleus in terms of p...
Can you link to any particular publication in order to clarify what it is about? The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge t...
Arbitrary observations cannot be used for the purpose of validating scientific theories. It is not possible to establish causality between input and o...
You may be confusing peace with pacifism. Pacifism does not lead to peace. Pacifism only leads to contempt. Peace can only exist in mutual respect, an...
I certainly agree with what Hrvoje Nikolic writes on the matter: Fundamental randomness as a myth Of course, if the usual form of QM is really the ult...
Science is every proposition that can be justified by experimental testing. Science is an epistemic domain, i.e. all knowledge that can be reached and...
It is the same question as: Does true randomness exist? At a macro-level, randomness is deemed not to exist: What we normally call “random” is not tru...
Mathematical physics is still physics. It is not axiomatic. It will ultimately still be experimentally tested. The amount of mathematics used by physi...
I think it is. Beauty certainly signals health, even though it may signal other things too. In a more primitive, more natural society, the ability to ...
Well, then we can ask ourselves the question: Is knowledge about knowledge, i.e. the metaknowledge, itself knowledge? If it is itself justified, then ...
The question is: What is the knowledge-justification method in epistemology? Pattern matching, just like in science, but instead of matching them to r...
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