Numbers are abstract, we use them to quantify – map – (both concrete and abstract) objects or their discrete properties (e.g. observed fact-patterns s...
Not "useful" at all as far as I can tell. Scientific research can inform, even solve, empirical problems but cannot definitively answer philosophical ...
No they don't. As I wrote: formalisms ARE USED to measure or describe the regularities of nature (e.g. arithmetic IS USED to count apples in a barrel)...
Map-making does not "contradict" using a map for navigating terrain.. The regularities of nature are concrete matters of fact from which physical laws...
3September24 So even before they had announced JD Vance ... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/03/rfk-jr-trump-vice-president :mask:...
Same old vacuous, ahistorical, Zionist/Likudnik talking points which at least half the current Israeli population (and most secular antifascist member...
Stop. This confuses empiricism with formalism – nonsense (i.e. logic is not "doing work"). More nonsense. Formalisms (axiomatic or otherwise) are abst...
Since 1967 the US/Nato-backed, land-thieving colonist-settler oppressor regime is "threatened" by the apartheid-brutalized oppressed whom the oppresso...
I see no reason to do that. Either succinctly express your disagreement with something I have written that you wish for me to further elaborate on or ...
31August24 Some folks can't tell the difference between eating a shit sandwich and starving themselves (due to low IQ/poor education, ethnonationalist...
"Uncertainty" is epistemic, "incompleteness" is mathematical and "entropy" is physical. I don't think they are related at a deeper – "foundational" – ...
If you haven't already, read Iris Murdoch's short book The Sovereignty of Good wherein she discusses 'beauty (art) as a way of seeing – attention to –...
Welcome to TPF. Afaik, "god exists" only in one's mind "defined" subjectively; thus, there are as many "gods" as there are (ever were) egos. Otherwise...
To prevent life =/= to prevent suffering just as to destroy the village =/= to save the village. Your ANist cowardice and hypocrisy are pathetic, scho...
Pro-forced birth / anti-woman's autonomy aka "pro-life" will be the critical dealbreaker for the majority of women voters across the political spectru...
Read on through the rest of this thread, particularly page 2 (re: my proposals for "existence" and "morality" in the context of (how I understand) Wes...
This question addresses the subject of moral concern: actually living, present persons, n o t possible, future persons (which is AN's category mistake...
Explain what? Your "bad metaphysics" post speaks for itself. Apparently, you've not read this thread from the beginning. A little more than semantic q...
My layman's best guess: only the interaction of the measuring-apparatus and "planck-scale phenomena" is manifestly ontic – quanta (e.g. photons) "pert...
If by "observer" you mean measurement and by "observes" you mean measures, then I think you're correct here about QM. Afaik, "sentience" itself cannot...
Yes, as e.g. Spinoza points out, human knowledge of unbounded (infinite) reality is necessarily perspectival and therefore bounded (finite). Basic epi...
"Life after death.". "Resurrection." "Past lives." "Reincarnation." "Release from the Wheel of Rebirth." Etc Your accusation of "bad metaphysics" is c...
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