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Yes, let's agree on that, for the sake of argument; or we could (equivalently) discuss the "perceptions" and "thoughts" of the computer. , for the sak...

:ok:

Leaving my better :razz: question aside, and going down your road of assuming brain states to be elements of a digital syntax, which I must admit is a...

Ok, but data are only digital or analog relative to system. They are symbols or values that are digital when interpreted as elements of a discrete syn...

They come in peace :nerd:

Better, a symbol system... Although it might be an excision from a 'larger' analog system. (Here, page 126, though it may not show. Can't find a pdf.)...

:rofl: Don't worry, , we got yours too. (we did ??!)

Haha, Balloon Calculus

Me neither, in respect of whether it counts as a 'real' proof. Isn't this a live area? I thought that article was going to update me, but it wasn't qu...

It states a sentence, as a conclusion, and it exemplifies ("shows") a pattern of inference. Which is justifying ("showing") the conclusion, but not ju...

It exemplifies the pattern, yes? So, shows an instance.

Wasn't that the credo of Dewey et al, yes?

Proving and discovering?

Ok. :grin:

And this couldn't as easily happen with words? That the person doesn't hear/think them thus but hears/thinks them so? (The quote is from a contrast of...

If only there were a fact of the matter, to be right and wrong about... A population of word-use events, from which to sample appropriately. And if it...

But also unable to increase the sum of human happiness, which one has almost certainly just measurably reduced.

Pointing a word (or other symbol) at more than one thing.

Sure, we hope it will. I just said don't assume that, and don't perpetuate too many myths about the supposedly narrower question in the process. Carry...

And coherent? That local problem solved, now cast the net wider? That move always disappoints me. Always cast wider, sure, but don't assume we've dril...

Agreed. I disagree. It might just be recognising soundness as a self-evident virtue. Another modus ponens (aside from the one being justified) needn't...

Me too: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/377693 Different to this, though? https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Enduring-Scandal...

Undeniable. (I'm guessing.) Decade-specific fantasy. (I'm guessing.)

Love jazz, hate jazz-ism - the assumption that there are this and that musical natures or essences, and we should care whether this instance or kind i...

To be fair, "such things as unicorns" usually expresses impatience to clarify exactly what, if anything, can possibly be referred to, given that meani...

By "unicorns" do you perhaps mean unicorn-stories, or unicorn-pictures? Or something more psychological such as unicorn-ideas or unicorn-thoughts? Or ...

Trouble is, a unicorn can be the first but not the second.

Ok, is that like their Romeo copping off with their Tybalt, and it working as drama, perhaps... or it being canonical? Or is it, after all, a matter o...

Haha, ok.

:roll: (seems the nearest emoticon for "unconvinced"... don't mean "roll")

If you like. Although wasn't Frege and Russell's logicist project roughly (I think I'd better stress the roughly) about construing them as kinds of qu...

Numbers construed how? As fictional characters, or concrete quantities?

Incredible, Shirley? (I know you're a stickler.)

Exploring of apparent implications under threat of reductio ad absurdum in order continually to clarify, revise and construct? https://thephilosophyfo...

What, exploring of apparent implications under threat of reductio ad absurdum in order continually to clarify, revise and construct? If only! https://...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/334932 How so? :ok:

You said that before. Please elaborate?

My struggle with that one may be due more to my philosophical prejudice against attitudes than to any capital problem for the sentence. Can't quite te...

More like, that some error threshold imposed by the Planck length is represented as fixed. That would be a dp thing rather than sf?

Yeah fine. They both cause rounding errors, but Planck length would be a dp thing rather than sf?

The internet told me floating was sig figs not dp?

Helpful post, thanks. Possible typos: t = 0 to t = T? They then? Obvs. Fixed not floating, then? (And fixed by Planck length, if I understand you.)

Damn! I thought it was droll.

I long ago gave up the appalling vanity of trying to stay awake whilst meditating, but lately I have, perhaps ironically, become moderately skilled at...

Hence the joke of the original title of Life of Brian: "Jesus: Lust for Glory".

https://www.theonion.com/scientists-successfully-teach-gorilla-it-will-die-somed-1819594897

No worries.

Forgive me. (Describe me as forgivable!) I was impatient to debate the content.

To be fair, "wrong" brings to mind countless specific descriptive indications: examples of actions or behaviours that are indicated, described, denote...

Nothing exactly. Why would you expect that a word's applying to an object in a language deserved some exact explanation or justification or definition...