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No it isn't. Indirect realism says that what we see is not the apple.

It suffices as a refutation of indirect realism. What we see are apples, not mental images of apples. Seeing an apple is constructing a model of that ...

The representation is the machinery, not the seen object.

Notice that the conclusion, that we see "only first-person phenomenal experience with subjective character", is not argued for but merely asserted? Yo...

Seeing an apple is constructing a mental representation, if you like - it depends where one places the Markov Blanket. But one does not see a mental r...

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Just that. Again, what we see is the apple, and not a memory, a sense datum, a representation, an image, or anything “in the mind”. Sure, the causal c...

For a convergent series the sum is defined as the limit. There is no residual “infinitely small difference” between the sum and the limit. The sum is ...

No. There is no principled theory/practice gap here. “Approaches the limit” and “equals the limit” are not in tension. Introducing “rounding off” does...

The fact that no partial sum equals 0 does not imply anything about whether the limit exists, or what it is. Limits routinely exist even when no term ...

If you include the assumption that direct perception requires temporal coincidence between perceiver and perceived. There is no need to do so. What on...

No. Nothing to do with rounding. Your failure to understand mathematics is not our problem.

I'm not seeing why this should be difficult. The suggestion was that someone traveling at near-light speed would have a different experience to someon...

It comes back to whether what we see is an apple or a mental-image-of-an-apple. But that's a infelicitous question.

:wink: It would appear slowed down. That's what he equations say, and what empirical observation supports.

Watch them on TV.

fucksake. What, if anything, in the supposed paradoxes of motions from Zeno, is not answered by limits, infinitesimals and calculus? I suggest that wh...

The twin paradox is a result of the relative acceleration of the traveler. The OP is only asking about inertial frames of reference. You are adding an...

Consider: Such an observation would be mediated by a signal from observed to observer. That signal is either subject to the Lorentz transformation, in...

Michael has used a bit of rhetoric to put those opposed to indirect perception on the back foot. They feel obliged to defend "direct" realism. What on...

From their frame of reference it's you who is traveling close to the speed of light. Are your thought processes slowed in respect to the movement of y...

Summary: falsification applies to universal sentences, such as ?(x)(fx?gx). For an open domain, no amount for evidence can show that everything that i...

Travesty.

:grin: No one will get that reference.

Cheers.

Does anyone care whether the right whingers vote for The National Party or One Nation? And this. Hanson has made herself a movie. :meh:

@"Jamal", so how goes it?

You never taste oysters as they are in themselves; your only taste of them is mediated by your tongue... :meh:

Don't look at the sun directly, kids. It's bad for you. Use a pinhole camera, or a properly filtered telescope. :meh:

Nuh. Swans are black. The white ones are foreigners.

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Oh, frank. Ok.

And yet they are countable. Look it up.

The natural numbers are countable. As is, there is a bijection between them.

Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor show how much the Liberal party have learned from their trouncing at the last Fed election by setting aside personal am...

Interesting metaphor. Does that make the real numbers like a tube of sausage mince? :chin: Cheers. Interesting chat.

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Any chance of Sussan Ley still being Liberal leader in a week?

I think this is important - see how what we are up to changes what number system we are using?

Herein lies much confusion, that can be sorted by looking at quantification. Again, it hadn't occurred to me that this would be problematic. It's quit...

Again... Well, what I was pointing to is the difference between a numeral and a number is in the use to which it is put; one counts with numbers, not ...

Again, it hadn't occurred to me that this wasn't obvious... do we want natural numbers or counting numbers? It's not needed, as such, unless you have ...

I was using "procedure" as a generalisation of "function". Where a function will have exactly one result for each input, a procedure need not. I hadn'...

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Why not? I have nothing in my pocket, therefore I have nothing. :meh:

Yes, you read these threads as people and their interactions rathe than as about ideas.

A no to what? Set your account out. Say something. Do the work.

, maybe. But hang on. We do look at a thermometer to see if it is cold. How then is it that thermometers do not measure cold? There's an equivocation ...

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:grin: Enough with your suggestions; say something. We've shown how quantification can be handled without invoking abstract objects at all — it’s rule...