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Time to walk away, @"TonesInDeepFreeze".

You just went back to square one again. I give up. Have a chat to @"Metaphysician Undercover". Sounds a bit like you might have common ideas. He has s...

"Shut up and calculate" - isn't that the physicist's advice?

So it's a puzzle or perplexity rather than a logical paradox. Fair enough. I think @"Agent Smith" has something more formal in mind, since he wants it...

Why? The maths works. What more is there? But infinitesimals are established opinion.

There's nothing paradoxical in that. It's just odd, not paradoxical. A topic for investigation, not @"Agent Smith"'s broken maths or broken logic.

The SEP article on continuity and infinitesimals is set out in an historical order. It gets complicated. Ah dinnae ken. There might be some stuff in i...

I have a basic understanding of Continuity. Get on with it. Where's the paradox? Where's the (p & ~ p)?

Still not seeing it.

Your question makes no sense.

How, exactly?

Infinitesimals are nonzero. Think that was mentioned. That's not begging the question, that's called a definition. Life's too short for this. 0.0001 i...

But infinitesimals do not have zero length. So that's not what is happening.

No. No, that's irony. Still not seeing a paradox.

No. Infinitesimals are "explicitly not zero".

...so the paradox is that Wolfram mathworld has a different definition to you.

Then why does Wolfram say

Then set it out.

Curry's paradox does not directly involve negation. Yablo has a paradox that explicitly does not involve self-reference.

That's not a thing.

You haven't given any reason for leaving my other dozen reads to pay attention to yours.

...but of course, we do not have to deify anything. We can just admit that we don't know. If nothing else it would save space on this forum.

Your text is a shallow and meandering sequence of mock aphorisms and rhetorical questions. Get to the point.

My apologies for sounding a bit curt in that last post. it's just that it seems to me that you have not actually set out the issue clearly, but nevert...

No, it doesn't. 2+2 still makes 4, regardless of Russell. Indeed. Take @"TonesInDeepFreeze"' advice and study up on logic some more. There is a lot to...

This is ill-phrased. (P & ~P) does not "break" logic because it is not a theorem. That is, it cannot be deduced in classical logic. A situation in whi...

One does not often quote Sky News...

No.

It is with tears in my eyes that I have to report that Craig Kelly has lost his seat. He managed to gather less than eight percent of the vote in his ...

For those in foreign parts, the Liberal Party only governs in coalition with another party, the National Party. The National Party is the remnant of v...

The Coalition has always been a schizophrenic compromise between liberal and conservative. So the question now is if the Liberal party will return to ...

We are singin' and dancin' down under.

Seems that there are four greens in the House of Reps, along with a block of environmentally-minded independents whom the Labor Party will need on sid...

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Frydenberg is gone.

:wink:

Four Greens in the Lower House...! That's nice.

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Dutton might be losing Dickson. SO sad...

A couple of hours to go... Or three more years for this thread?

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There are good reasons to think not, after Davidson; but perhaps.

See the examples I gave.

I made use of some of their work on neural networks in a masters thesis concerning knowledge and ethics in organisations. I rejected their eliminative...

Again, you are reifying what people do; that strikes me as a poor way of approaching the problem.

and all: Evil isn't a substance.

You cherry pick examples.

You have gone to your usual position of mangling several distinct issues together. So I'll go back to my original reply to you on this thread:

Typically on leaving a cult the ex-member will go through a period of despair before beginning to put their life back together. Of course, not everyon...

See the OP.