"I am studying Hegel and am struggling to understand Hegel's dialectic and his claims of objectivity" Take heart, Bertrand Russell had the same proble...
I'm not sure that your distinction between "listening to people" and "listening to arguments" will withstand critical analysis. There is certainly a v...
I'm recalling a British comedy movie of the 1950's called "The Man Who Liked Funerals". One of the characters says: "Remember the family motto: first ...
Your mistake is to confuse "deductive" and "inductive". Modus Ponens is a deductive argument; if A and B are indisputably true, then C follows necessa...
"Thou" sayest that your post is unnecessarily confusing... this is, of course, a classic question in religious and moral philosophy: is a thing good b...
“The foundation for knowledge must be something from which we can go about doing inquiry with agreement on some propositions.” Pure gold, but it is no...
A big subject, indeed the biggest. I would like to advise against taking the Cartesian "Universal Doubt" as a criterion for anything. You'll have noti...
Not sure I quite got the gist of this, but ?137 is not guaranteed to be a rational number, because it is an approximation. The absolute value might be...
I don't want to rain on a parade, but I think you would be extremely courageous to build a philosophical arguement on Cartesian Scepticism nowadays. T...
What a jewel in the mud this thread is. Only three posts; an intelligent question, which attracts two intelligent answers, and no further comment real...
Sorry, please wait while I gather my wool and my needles! Although I suppose there is a mathematical aspect to the question: should justice be reducib...
"If true equilibrium is reached then “push” and “shove” (the equals and opposites) are equally matched and therefore nothing actually happens." You ne...
Ouch! I wish I could think of an intelligent response. Of course, there are logical similarities with Russell's Paradox and the Cretan Liar. But right...
I think Agent Smith has made the most intelligent comment in this whole dialogue. "Logic" describes a deductive or inductive system of evidence-based ...
"If its any help, the "number" of points inside a cube is the same as found on one of its defining edges (lines)." Can you develop that a bit further?...
"If there were a finite number of things on 3 axises, could that same information be represented in a single line?" Yes indeed. You might read up on G...
"It wasn't until they shifted their perspective of mathematics from "truthbearer" to "useful tool" (roughly) that negative numbers started to become a...
"Being able to reason in exactly the right way may be useful for some people, but not all." Tobias, can you even hear the words which are coming out o...
Ok,,, I am familiar with expressions like btw and imho and fyi, but I would never have guessed that "grok" means "get the picture"...! But Sam26: it i...
To return to mathematics for a moment, polarity first becomes significant when we develop the relational number line out of the natural number line. T...
If you have been bitten by a dog on your only encounter with a dog, then of course you are wise to treat all dog encounters with caution in the future...
"If all the numbers in your calculations are such that they cancel out and leave you with a nice whole number answer, you're (almost) guaranteed to ha...
Assuming this is a current post... Please try to explain your thesis in natural-language terms, in the way that Bertrand Russell did in his Introducti...
I do not have the expertise to address your post, Newberry, but you will find that, like me, there is nobody reading this forum who is actually compet...
Why do you say it's obvious? I suppose "I think, therefore something exists", could be considered as self-evident. But that isn't what you mean, becau...
You need to express more clearly which "properties" you are referring to, I think. The simple arithmetical operator <> already expressess a non-equiva...
"Studies suggest that we are gradually becoming less intelligent." I think the average philosophy forum thread would certainly support the contention....
How about an elephant hanging over a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy? How about the question: does God love a thing because it is good, or is it g...
I think this thread may be re-inventing a 140-year-old wheel; if you google "the eternal recurrence", or "Henri Poincare", you should find some inform...
(and unfortunately, few mathematicians are really familiar with any of them). — alan1000 "Is this opinion or fact? Please state your references if the...
Marigold23, your question is expressed in such general terms that it is impossible to answer in less than 5000 words. The answer depends upon the natu...
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