At this point on the existence wave, we have more propensity (1) to be than not to be. Whether when the wave turns round it will eat up what is, or si...
This is in chapter 10, pp 224-250 of Tim Button & Sean Walsh, Philosophy and model theory, Oxford 2018. Typical footnotes refer to: - Vaananen J and T...
Examples so far have not incorporated a participle. In my lifetime I heard the phrase "to square the circle" far more often than "a square circle". No...
Yes, most of the "paradoxes" from that period are just riddles. Another example I like is "all Cretans are liars" (a play on a prominent personality o...
I'd have loved more maths of all kinds, but authorities tell you what not to do when you are stressed out at age 15 or 16 and have no guidance in asse...
That was a smattering of web pages, plus a few newish second hand books I saw. I suppose the people that write these things don't understand "elementa...
There must be a sort of "existence wave" in which we currently tend to exist rather than not exist. I gather mathematicians point to a "moment" when p...
Round squares look round because their squareness is "recessive". They simply have an extra level of abstractness from Pegasuses. All language always ...
Some old fashioned books would even have Venn diagrams, with a little commentary / labelling: you can show a lot of ifs and buts on those. The latest ...
I like this idea a great deal, even though I don't follow the equations. It's a sort of relative relativity. I've been fascinated by this since infanc...
Truth leads to degrees of knowledge, not the other way round. Truth means things like consistency and non-contradiction, both internal and external. A...
Isaac, classical mechanics was found by Faraday, Maxwell and co. getting on for 200 years ago to be a special case of something bigger. (I have been r...
Terrapin Station, bad planning has been going on on this planet for thousands of years, in my hypothesis. I think any number of people will have intro...
The universe is only semi-deterministic as there is so much contingency everywhere. Ayer pointed out that an obstacle to free will is constraint, not ...
The latter. I had lengthy first hand experience. The cadres "induce" the subalterns to transfer their "affections" from the previous authority to them...
Ariel, the older you get, the more chances you will have to try it out! Be open to serendipity in thoughts occurring. Don't replace analogies or metap...
Uncanni, thank you for the wonderful Hillel quote which has been my own viewpoint for a long time now. (Everyone else - I'll bring details to screen -...
The Mad Fool, 1 - I am sure all theories contain subtleties which however are not beyond our faculties to contemplate as we help each other along. The...
Additionally, and not in any way diminishing the foregoing, there is the poignancy of change. At ten one often dreams of independence but familiarity ...
Surely Euclid's theorems were provisionally held to be as good as proven until we realised they are a special case of something bigger. Likewise Newto...
Surely there must be a version of what people in their heart of hearts want from "empiricism" or "positivism" that acknowledges and benefits from the ...
I increasingly do as you describe, and at the same time I think about my cheese sandwich, my pot of tea, my wonderful home, my fabulous shelves of boo...
I often read the last chapter first and then the chapters in reverse order. This helps me form a mental scheme of logical relations. I speed read nowa...
The other thing I meant to mention is, sometimes a religious leader will wield the falsafa trope - claim that when adherents or observers wish to appl...
Your supposed refutations don't hold water but more importantly this is a Prussian and Hegelian question. Your Qabbala sources are drawing on whatever...
But they do "choose" their gender in the parlance of officialdom, from the falsely slimmed down menu foisted on them. The stated alternative of "gende...
Some Hindus, most Marxist-Leninists (as in Cambodia) behave like the OP describes, are they "Abrahamic"? The agnostic atheists like GMBA, are they "Ab...
Eiwar, my own gut feeling is that there probably aren't any metaphysical questions that are solely verbal. Verbal questions are fun with words (anothe...
Karl Popper and John Eccles (a brain expert) wrote The self and its brain, pubd 1977. Popper claims he doesn't subscribe to "thinking substance" becau...
I've known some good experts (including neurologists) but I know what you mean, it all too often works out like that. I knew what ontic was but couldn...
This is about degraded versions of capitalism. Free will is when we decide to consult our reason about our options, including our options about our me...
In this case Derrida has a good instinct. It is indeed a power thing. Ontic means what I go through and what happens to me, ontological means running ...
Thought experiments are valuable for suggesting possible subject matter for notions or abductions towards potential hypotheses, so they are a lot of s...
I have got hold of Stanley Jevons and a couple of other decent books. When I get a chance I'll list lots more. There are dozens upon dozens! I wish I'...
2. So you admit your point was not categorical after all !!! Admit you have NO IDEA who these people are or why they shouldn’t continue to call themse...
PU, I love the poem! Daniel, I think the aesthetic is to help our intuition in the sense of seeing. As for "mystic" apologies for my being non-Ryle-He...
1. I know lots of Christians who say that other Christians are idolators. What about them and where are their emotions and their sin in this (as if it...
A rationale that is a series of statements of "information" to pick up is one thing and another is when the religion has higher claims in way of life,...
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