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A language game is just something that we do with words that also invovles stuff in the real world, and that can be treated in a somewhat discrete way...

A curious observation... But then, you can't make observations, so...?

I agree! ...oh.

Well, we can agree that there is no point in continuing with this conversation.

What you have proved here is that since I play with infinities, I am an infinite being. Thanks!

Yeah, not any. Propositional calculus is complete and sound. What I took exception to was He didn't. Because that theory of everything is not what he ...

So set it out.

Yeah, you're right. Damn, he's on to us.

Sometimes on this forum all one can do is laugh and walk away.

WTF?

I say 9.8 m/s. But then, of course, I'm assuming an acceleration of 9.8m/s/s. And that's gotta be wrong, since an object can't accelerate without movi...

SO - tell me the answer, and how you arrived at it.

A 1kg mass is released from a height of 300m. What velocity will it reach after 1 second? Obviously, since at 1second, the mass cannot move, its veloc...

:joke: Indeed. But look to who is on which "side". How do you work out the velocity at t2 if the velocity at t1 is always zero? :rofl:

We agree that an object has a location at a particular time. We agree that the location does not change at an instant. Where we disagree is that there...

They are quite different things.

The logic here seems to be... Physics applies to what is alive and physics applies to what is not alive; Therefore physics cannot explain the differen...

I won't disagree with that. It's a loser sort of causation then Sam needs to make his argument work, I think you might agree. As for the laws of physi...

So, ??

Indeed. It's reached a point where excusing him is culpable.

Reduce the stream to a single particle every minute. Send through a particle. It goes left. What caused it to go left, and not right?

Yep.

ALignment in the tables is an obvious thing. They are a bit hard to read.

@"Sam26" Sweet.

Seems far too charitable. If he were just some fool on Twitter, you might have had a case... ...oh, wait.... no, I'll stand by my other comment. There...

Kudos. I'm sure those around here are more than capable of providing you with plenty of opportunity to be satisfactorily cantankerous. Ah. So. Explain...

The principle of charity recommends that we interpret another's utterances in such a way as to maximise agreement. SO if some idiot says - not that th...

Yeah, it is. It leads to the confused reply he gave to my OP: There's a certain coherence in what he is saying; and it is said with such conviction. I...

:grin:

Oh, ok. Well, instantaneous velocity is such a commonplace in physics that it is usually just called the velocity. Wittgenstein talks of a picture hav...

How's your maths? It's just how fast something is going at some particular time. It's a basic bit of physics. So, no.

So be it.

SO do you agree with Meta that there is no such thing as instantaneous velocity?

Not something I'm familiar with... :wink:

It helps me to procrastinate...

Well, damn. That don't make for a discussion if all we do is agree.

OK. Was there a point on which we disagree? Perhaps not.

I've been reasonably satisfied with the replies of those who seem to know what they are talking about - @"Sam26" and @"jgill" in particular. I've come...

Yeah. See how delta-t becomes zero? So your average is a division by zero. I don't know how to help you see the error you have made; my replying to yo...

Sure. But that fact that someone can add one to any number does.

There is a point where the absurdity of what is said is such that ridicule is appropriate.

The page you referenced quite explicitly sets out the difference between average velocity and instantaneous velocity. Fuck, there's even a diagram.

So... you are asking what I think Pneumenon meant that Wittgenstein meant at https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/404886 ? We were trying...

I'm lost. Not sure what you are asking.

It's from Searle.

The important bit... There's your problem.

Digestion cannot be reduced to stomach. So what?

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I can see why you would want to change the topic.

Here's my argument: you and physics cannot both be right. Which to choose, which to choose....