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That really depends on the definition of the term "objective". If the degree of objectivity of a shared belief increases with the number of believers,...
July 13, 2019 at 12:19
The theory (Q) is justified by its experimental test reports (P). Therefore, P => Q. The universal claim is not justified by visiting all cases in the...
July 13, 2019 at 11:28
Yes, I was only dealing with standard, objective methods for knowledge justification. It may be possible that knowledge is subjective. A belief may be...
July 13, 2019 at 10:23
I remember French fighter jets bombing Khadaffi's troops in order to make sure that the rebellion would succeed. It is not that I particularly liked K...
July 12, 2019 at 15:50
Hardy already admitted exactly that, in 1940, in "A Mathematician's Apology". It is not a secret: Hardy preferred his work to be considered pure mathe...
July 12, 2019 at 11:34
Concerning the coherence theory of truth, I agree with Bertrand Russell's objections: Perhaps the best-known objection to a coherence theory of truth ...
July 12, 2019 at 11:12
Numbers are still language. Diagrams are not. Bourbaki sought to ensure the purity of mathematics by axiomatizing and algebraizing. Bourbaki does not ...
July 11, 2019 at 21:25
Statements of reason, pure or not, will have to be expressed in language. Otherwise, they cannot be communicated. The term "purity" in Critique of Pur...
July 11, 2019 at 16:39
The real, physical world is something that will always be systematically eliminated from mathematics: Abstraction in mathematics is the process of ext...
July 11, 2019 at 12:46
Axiomatic thinking is meant to be used for abstract, Platonic worlds. It is not a tool for justifying statements about the real world, which are suppo...
July 11, 2019 at 11:27
Science is a growing collection of theories that can be justified by the scientific method. At any point in time it is a set, but over time it is a ch...
July 11, 2019 at 03:36
Your views on Islamic law reflect your ignorance on the matter. Furthermore, by shilling for the ruling elite, you completely lose credibility.
July 11, 2019 at 02:26
I think that Kant is the greatest epistemologist ever to have set foot on this earth. I also consider him to be the first epistemologist to have made ...
July 10, 2019 at 11:49
Dum Diversas (English: Until different) is a papal bull issued on 18 June 1452 by Pope Nicholas V. It authorized Afonso V of Portugal to conquer Sarac...
July 10, 2019 at 03:37
Islamic law has stiff maximum penalties for serious misbehaviour. Criminal justice is governed by sentencing guidelines. A maximum penalty of electroc...
July 10, 2019 at 02:59
Islam emerged out of Messianistic Judaism, i.e. Ebionite Christianity. That is why Hans Joachim Schoeps wrote: Thus we have a paradox of world-histori...
July 09, 2019 at 15:04
We do not have these basic universal axioms. We have no access to the Theory of Everything (ToE), also called, the Preserved Tablet of Wisdom. If we d...
July 09, 2019 at 14:53
Secular law is a concoction by the ruling elite at whose core core you can find a bunch of corrupt banksters. Of course, it suits the ruling elite abs...
July 09, 2019 at 14:11
There is also a merely mechanical reason why it does not work: Gödel incompleteness theorems. I am actually not against the use of meaning, i.e. infor...
July 09, 2019 at 03:13
V.I. Arnold is a constructivist heretic. I had to cringe when reading his article. Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by d...
July 08, 2019 at 03:57
The term "mathematical science" is an oxymoron. A theorem is either mathematics or science but can never be both simultaneously. The two epistemic met...
July 08, 2019 at 02:54
"Applied math" is not math. If the object of mathematical language is the real world, it is not math. It is something else that merely uses mathematic...
July 07, 2019 at 22:30
The term "mathematical truth", with the term "true" being defined by the correspondence theory (CT) of truth, is actually an oxymoron. A mathematical ...
July 07, 2019 at 22:01
Yes, agreed. This problem is ignored and considered unimportant until our perception -- being an abstract model itself -- suffers from a serious abstr...
July 07, 2019 at 03:18
Physics does not use the axiomatic "method". Physics uses mathematical formalisms to maintain consistency in its theories, but has actually nothing to...
July 06, 2019 at 15:55
The lambda calculus was first described by Alonzo Church: Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician w...
July 06, 2019 at 11:17
"Philosophy" is exactly the type of term that layman dictionaries tend to get completely wrong. The person who wrote the definition, simply did not un...
July 06, 2019 at 04:24
No. The first thing will be to pick a subject for your degree, while the very concept of subject as some kind of subdivision of the world of knowledge...
July 06, 2019 at 03:57
A number is an abstraction that always emerges in a Turing-complete axiomatic system. For example, in the core axiomatization of functions, i.e. the l...
July 06, 2019 at 03:39
Mathematics, science, and history are not subject matters. They are epistemic domains, i.e. the sets of knowledge statements -- with knowledge a justi...
July 05, 2019 at 22:38
Number theory is no longer the dominant axiomatization in mathematics, and has not been for over a century (Dedekind-Peano). Nowadays, it is set theor...
July 05, 2019 at 22:21
Muslims believe that the divine destiny is when God wrote down in the Preserved Tablet ("al-lawh al-mahfooz") (several other spellings are used for th...
July 05, 2019 at 15:43
What we see, i.e. the input signals we receive, create some kind of model in our heads, i.e. an abstraction of the physical world. With all complex ab...
July 05, 2019 at 15:12
Say that L is the set of all possible expressions in language, then Lr is a subset of L in which the language expressions seek to be isomorphic with t...
July 05, 2019 at 04:35
I assume that the book is copyrighted, but I have still found a summary. Gödel's procedure is actually just a special case, i.e. merely an example, of...
July 04, 2019 at 22:09
The terminology is confusing in this regard, because metamathematics is defined as a subdivision of mathematics, while metaphysics is defined as non-p...
July 04, 2019 at 21:21
Ok, understood. I can only say that it is not the dominant view in mathematics, which is staunchly Platonic. There is a fringe philosophy, called cons...
July 04, 2019 at 12:37
I can only disagree. What about Game of Thrones? Doesn't the television series bathe in language? Does it even pretend to be about the real world? It ...
July 04, 2019 at 12:28
In fact, the term "Platonic" is just a figure of speech to refer to an abstraction, i.e. a mere language expression. I just use it to distinguish them...
July 04, 2019 at 12:14
Logic does not operate on real-world observables. It operates on statements, which are not real-world, but language objects that live in their own abs...
July 04, 2019 at 11:24
Proof is context-sensitive. It is only valid in the abstract, Platonic world in which it necessarily follows from its construction logic. For example,...
July 04, 2019 at 11:14
The real problem is that the proof is in violation of proof theory. Proving a theorem amounts to demonstrating that it necessarily follows from the ex...
July 04, 2019 at 11:05
It was probably quite predictable that a bout of scientific and technological progress would make some people, and even cultures, much more arrogant t...
June 24, 2019 at 03:43
You have (at least) two possible starting points. You can start from Euclid's classical axiomatic basis in geometry, or else axiomatize from number th...
June 22, 2019 at 07:13
I suspect that Socrates himself would have rejected the view: "Everything Socrates ever said, must be considered philosophical, because it was Socrate...
June 21, 2019 at 04:47
Yes, I agree. Furthermore, we do not really need to solve the problem. We would only need to show some progress, and give them impression that the app...
June 21, 2019 at 04:26
Yeah, that is why a highly simplified strategy is easier to implement. Check if the theorem is already known to be provable, and then it is not intere...
June 20, 2019 at 09:07
In my impression, we would need a function F that returns the a priori likelihood that any arbitrary theorem s is provable from theory T. From there o...
June 20, 2019 at 04:02
In the viewpoint that math is about symbol manipulation formalisms, we may not even be interested in the concept "meaning" as some kind of corresponde...
June 20, 2019 at 03:36
His argument is surprisingly closer to the examples Gettier gave, than it looks like. Gettier manually concocts what physicists call an entanglement, ...
June 19, 2019 at 11:25