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The logical structure of causal chains. One simply cannot prove that every event has a cause, since doing so would require one to list every event and...

Well, @"Metaphysician Undercover" hasn't addressed the two proofs from the OP. All he has done is to assert that 1/9, and other fractions, are not num...

:cool: Another approach would be to pull philosophy out and put logic at the centre; the flower then has order, structure or pattern at the centre wit...

It might be interesting to revisit surreal numbers, as mentioned by @"tim wood". These are constructed by two limits, the left part describes some seq...

:grin: A trite reply, as was expected. You missed the point of the example, as is your habit. Well, no; what you did was explain how you use the word ...

Any such systematisation will inevitably cede completeness in order to maintain coherence. The best feature of your diagram is that economics is diago...

Sex as economics.

That this is mine seems to be inevitable, as much a part of being human as having hands. Entertaining prose.

Creationism is for cretins. But both the systematising in which @"Pfhorrest" engages, and the notion of inevitable progress that you might be espousin...

What?

Indeed, Meta delights in obtuse objections.

No. @"Pfhorrest"'s diagram has philosophy at the centre, which is exactly wrong. Philosophy is the stuff around the edges, where what is to be said is...

Not so much. Philosophy is no at all useful, but it is inevitable. It's not useful because as soon as it becomes of use it ceases to be philosophy. It...

Communism cannot work because property is a basic part of human psychology. "Mine, Mine, Mine!": The Psychology of Property

Nothing but wishful thinking, for reasons that others have set out. Justice is not an inherent attribute of the universe. If you want justice you will...

Mathematics consists in explicit patterns. Proportion and relation are elements of these patterns. Hence mathematics sets out a multiplicity of patter...

Hang on - you can't have it both ways; you can't both say that we know how it works and yet we don't understand it. If we know the answer, what exactl...

All we have as evidence for the impossibility od three being divided by nine is your insistence. Further, I am certain that dividing none by three is ...

Everyone here does that. No, what I'm curious about is the apparent absence of humility. Given that others have thought about these issues - many othe...

@"Metaphysician Undercover", are you aware of how... eccentric... you view is?

But equally, if you bought 1 small pizza would you complain because you expected to get the same quantity as 1 large? None of what you have said makes...

No, I'm not following. It seems that on your account we can only use the word "quantity" to apply to discreet individuals: one pie, two pies, and so o...

Oh - I thought for a minute I had it, but no, I'm not following. 1/9 must be 1/9 of this or of that, but 1 need not be one of these or one of those - ...

So one pie a particular quantity, but 1 is not?

Gorgeous! Divide the pie amongst the nine of us - but none for Meta, since a ninth is not a quantity of pie!

Runeberg has it right; Judus was the greatest of all men, choosing damnation in order to implement God's intent; his choice and fate displays to all t...

Oh, indeed. Meta also cannot calculate an object's velocity, either, since for him the notion is absurd. I pointed this out long ago. It is important ...

So 1/9 is a number, even for Meta, but 0.111... is not? And this despite their being equal? Is this Meta's claim?

...and there's Meta's problem. Family Resemblance.

Hm. So present the object 1; that object to which "1" refers. Then your point will be made. But you cannot. Numbers are not objects. "1" does not refe...

Stealing that.

How Heidegger Can Make You a Better Guitarist

thought that might happen.

Indeed. Perhaps you are beginning to understand. Of course, "later" is only one aspect.

You dream of an instrumentalist utopia?

Hmm. Fractured porcelain, or aluminium cranial Faraday Cages?

When you ask something like "what is time?" you are asking "how do we use the word 'time'". Now, any and all of the definitions set out in words here ...

There you go.

I'll show you later.

35-6 "This is a physical object" not an empirical statement. If it has any use it is in setting up the language games of empirical statements. Not sai...

30-33. Method. When faced with an impasse, sentences that don't get us any further, ask "what it would be like to think like this?" What would it be l...

The conservative fear of change?

Argh. Is this why one needs God, so that one can have good and evil, Us and Them? So that one can avoid acknowledging that the choice is their own? Go...

But isn't your use of "pencil" also "subject to (your) personal experience of the concept and that is why (you) use that term... "? One wants to do so...

And why the need to worship?

Indeed. So why call it "God"?

and yet Odd.

Not at all sus, that. We don't want all that ethics getting in the way.

...so, you put "god" in so as to confuse the issue. Bring in all that baggage then claim it doesn't matter.

That' a start.