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A sort of love-hate thing. But again, the folk doing the bad physics are not always the folk doing the theology.
April 30, 2021 at 03:51
That's true; but the folk doing the bad physics don't seem to be the folk doing the theology...
April 30, 2021 at 03:49
Yeah, nuh. I don't want a nice cool drink of ideas on a hot day. You're on your own there.
April 30, 2021 at 03:46
Well, all you are saying is that the word "water" could be used to refer to other things besides water - sure, i could name my goldfish "water". But w...
April 30, 2021 at 03:19
I don't think anyone claims that.
April 30, 2021 at 03:15
Interesting, but not something with which I am familiar. Cheers - might look into it sometime. That water can refer to something else doesn't seem rel...
April 30, 2021 at 02:47
Well, no; they are two different references to the same sort of thing. It's important to express such things well, so that confusion does not follow. ...
April 30, 2021 at 01:20
That doesn't explain the predilection for doing it badly.
April 29, 2021 at 22:01
Others have noticed that the vast landscapes of human history, experience and culture provides unexpected perspectives, differing connotations, and - ...
April 29, 2021 at 08:47
Good for you. Thing is, the SEP stuff I shared shows that philosophy is far broader than you would allow. All you have done is stipulate that "philoso...
April 29, 2021 at 08:13
Oh, sure. I think you are being chauvinistic. I'm happy with that.
April 29, 2021 at 08:08
Nuh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA6PipY1c74 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elefie.html#c3
April 29, 2021 at 05:18
The speed of light can be derived directly from Maxwells' equations. That is, it is as much a part of physical law as F=ma and v=u+at.
April 28, 2021 at 21:10
:rofl: When reading Meta's views on physics, one should keep in mind that he rejects the notion of instantaneous velocity.
April 28, 2021 at 21:07
Yeah, racism is a bit strong. Chauvinism would be a better noun for what you advocate.
April 28, 2021 at 20:24
AH, But antiismism is an ism; and hence self-negating.
April 28, 2021 at 09:08
Take a look at the Stanford entry. It presents a history of the movement from materialism - the mechanical model of, say, Descartes - to action at a d...
April 28, 2021 at 09:04
It's apparent you didn't read the text. Oh, well.
April 28, 2021 at 08:15
...so you are an ismist. You espouse ismism.
April 28, 2021 at 07:29
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles by Lewis Carroll (1895)
April 28, 2021 at 07:25
Hmmm. Excuse my error, then. One might do well to keep in mind that Meta rejects the notion of instantaneous velocity. That's in the middle of a discu...
April 28, 2021 at 07:04
Again, you use the word "imagine"; I'm not at all sure what it is doing. I think I can "picture" zero dimensions - it's the point of origin of a carte...
April 27, 2021 at 21:00
You've misunderstood. But that's what you do. General Relativity is about curved space-time, but you treat that as if it were an ad hoc hypothesis add...
April 27, 2021 at 20:24
Hmmmm. So now you are saying that those rules for language, the ones it doesn't have, also vary from one language to another. You started by claiming ...
April 27, 2021 at 20:10
They are correct for any observer. The laws of physics dictate the speed of light. Hence, if the laws of physics are the same for all observers, then ...
April 27, 2021 at 09:23
Maybe. Seems far more likely that you haven't quite grasped relativistic physics. The assumption is that he laws of physics are the same for every obs...
April 27, 2021 at 08:40
But see https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/527587 ...multiple examples.
April 27, 2021 at 00:52
so your argument is that you friend the car mechanic has a shit philosophy, and hence we ought not consider Eastern thought as philosophy.
April 26, 2021 at 23:00
And as a result you include too little in your definition.
April 26, 2021 at 20:53
'mercan cowboys were also mostly black or Mexican. Myth making at work again.
April 26, 2021 at 20:52
Small beer was the common drink - in the place of water - for centuries because it did not cause dysentery. Small beer is beer. Your recipe for beer a...
April 26, 2021 at 20:45
That's much as I have argued elsewhere. But you invoked Kant: ...incidentally summoning @"Mww". Now these two views look incompatible to me. On the on...
April 26, 2021 at 20:37
You made the claim, after Kant, that space does not have properties. General Relativity treats space as having the properties - being curved to calcul...
April 26, 2021 at 20:22
A non sequitur.
April 26, 2021 at 20:14
Well, the point was roughly that SEP is a bit of a paragon of philosophical thought, yet it includes various articles specifically about non-Western p...
April 26, 2021 at 09:46
Well, let's take a look at SEP: Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western Science and Chinese Philosophy African Ethics Latinx Philosophy Latin Amer...
April 26, 2021 at 09:19
Yeah, not so much. The thing about illusions - the bit that makes them an illusion - is quite specifically that they are not real. So no, they are not...
April 26, 2021 at 06:52
It's kinda in the premise... But it seems you are starting to understand. Again, you can't have an illusion except in contrast to reality.
April 26, 2021 at 06:33
Indeed; and the point is that in fact you can only get hit by the real truck... Think on it a bit*. Really? (Pun intended...) Of course it is zero - t...
April 26, 2021 at 05:42
Indeed, all very well-covered territory, the stuff of neo-phyte wet dreams... (see what I did there??) Tell me, given the choice betwixt the illusion ...
April 26, 2021 at 05:14
April 26, 2021 at 04:37
A what now?
April 26, 2021 at 01:49
There are gluten-fee beers. They do not contain barley. Do you know how to ride a bike? How do reason, belief, ground, and argument fit here? But more...
April 26, 2021 at 01:11
Why? Two points - it's not clear what it means to claim time exists, or does not exist. Could you mean that it doesn't exist in the way unicorns don't...
April 26, 2021 at 01:06
What? Who has who's troops?
April 25, 2021 at 22:09
...imagine... It's unclear to me what imagination has to do with dimensions. The dimensionality of an object is, roughly, the number of coordinates ne...
April 25, 2021 at 22:03
What a shame.
April 25, 2021 at 21:54