Gregory

Well i mustered the stamina to read the rest of the article. I don't feel like the author really gets Descartes (he is too into modern physics for tha...

Which turtle do you want to focus on?

I read half the Stanford article on Descartes Physics. This below is the important stuff so far. I have three more sections I will read tomorrow (I go...

Lol, true. It actually says in the first paragraph of the Stanford article "It is this unique amalgam of both old and new concepts of the physical wor...

I just corrected the grammatical errors in my last post Anyway, you proposed a generator. That word means a person who generates. Then you say "find s...

I'll be upfront. I don't like Aristotelians. They claim to everyone they can prove that personhood is beyond this universe that is not embodied HERE. ...

Well that's a contradiction. I'm saying everything, physical and abstract, is both finite and infinite at the same time and this has huge consequences...

Nop And nop. There is no proof there is super daddy out there, or some guy with a long beard and a long toenail. There simply isn't any evidence your ...

2+2 is two numbers making a process. One might think of this process when they think of four. The whole subject is stupid and Kant should not have mad...

No way! I just tagged you because you were "openminded and pluralistic about math" in the past with me I only read it in the Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

Kant said the same thing :) Synthetic vs analytic They most certainly do No, that's a psychological claim

On no, I have more to say. I feel like math lovers have so many equations in their heads that they can't see obvious contradictions at times. Take Gab...

I wasn't surprised when I watched Vsauces video specifically on Banach-Tarski, because it is just the conclusion to be drawn from Zeno. Kants second a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUnNaQTfZE That video is good because he is smart and has great visuals on this. I don't see how someone can watch th...

I might be able to do the paradox better than Zeno did. To get from A to B you have to go half the distance, since if there is any distance at all it ...

https://www.academia.edu/343657/Inevitability_of_infinitesimals There's the article, I got the name slightly wrong. It goes into a lot of stuff. Very ...

Which of his books talk about points and quantity? Wikipedia says Whitehead wrote stuff that was wrong about wholes and parts, while Husserl wrote goo...

Great post. I'm tending more towards Hegel than Aristotle though.

Im not sure what you mean. An abstract number can be divided into infinite fractions. So can a brownie. The brownie clearly is finite though, while 1 ...

Well I tried to read over Alezandre Bolovak's article The Inevitability of Infinitesimal but I could my grasp her main argument. Check it out on Googl...

Let me try. Euclid is assuming he can construct ADB as identical to ACB and then show the contradiction with how angles add up. I am not sure Proposit...

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Nagarjuna "Let us take the claim that something can be proven to be true on the basis of other facts known to be ...

This answers my objection. Thanks If patterns are all we see, then this example is of complex patterns. The ground, however, of it might might be subj...

If you have all the fractions from 1/2 to the infinitesimals (what are they?), you can add them up to make 1. 1 can contain that infinity because it's...

The human mind seems to organize the pattern through reflection and "noticing". Although the mind is "noticing", this is not enough for me to say the ...

Thanks for the post. People are capable of seeing space thru proper eye adjustment and intuiting. Time can never be seen. We only feel it. The infinit...

Addition: The finite seems to contain the infinite. But how the infinite got contained in the finite is a physical, mathematical, and philosophical pu...

"Nagarjuna reminds his readers, all change in the world, including the transformations which lead to enlightenment, are only possible because of inter...

Tonight I've been reading about Nagarjuna on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I feel like most of us on this forum are Westerners. Modern phys...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-physics/ And the man who directly tried to refute his whole philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entrie...

Well I had a thread a few days ago that got closed because I claimed math maps out the impossible and that the opposite flip side is true of every mat...

I'm reading Hegels lesser logic and just got his greater logic in the mail. The latter has the smallest print I've ever seen and there aren't even pag...

But if objects are trans-finitely infinite, how can they remain finite as well

When I say for example that 1+1=4, I mean it esoterically. When Hawking says time acts as a fifth direction of space, he is talking as a scientist. He...

Objective idealists have no problem with the beginning of the universe. Neither has Hinduism or most non-theist religions. A materialist would say tha...

I might have struck at something you guys will find interesting. If time goes back through descending fractions, as has been suggested here and by Haw...

Maybe potentiality is like an infinitesimal

There can't be a potentiality infinite past. Unless it's a koan of sorts, it's a contradictory statement

"What is the perspective of the universe from the mind of a bird?" John Lennon Maybe a bird would experience force and gravity differently with his bo...

Descartes wanted one principle to rule the material realm. A clock was his favorite model. It's clearly incomplete though. What about time before the ...

Descartes thought everything in the world worked through leverage. Newton said "no, because for every action there is an equal reaction so there is mo...

Very good. Tetens, who lived in the 17 hundreds, said: "The idea of a body set in motion, which neither acts upon any other body nor is acted upon, le...

All we can go on is sense data, says empiricism about physics. How one views that data is entirely philosophy as I see it. What does a theoretical phy...

I think the whole is prior to the parts (in order to avoid Zeno's paradox and establish the unity of the object against complete Shunyata), and yet fr...

I love Heraclitus. Someone can regard a jungle as entity, or a branch of a tree. It's all about one's personal perspective. The world has all the real...

An accidental infinite just means "one with God supporting it". An essential one is one without God. Thomists make it easier for people to think of th...

Douglas Hofstadter I think argues in his books that we can avoid paradoxes in set theory (and Godel too of course) by realizing we are not mechanized ...

Hawkings solution is like jgill's above. Imagine the sequence of events as a segment (not a line). You go back further and further towards a limit but...

I agree partially with your stance. Even many scientists, as you said a couple of times, say we create the world. But I don't believe anything is nece...

. Your post is Spninozian. But I object to the ending when you say infinity implies necessity