Banno

@"god must be atheist" Do what the doctor says, and take the drugs.

If "1" refers to an idea, then it is an idea shared. Else your idea of 1 would not be the same as mine. So what sort of thing is that?

You keep saying that, as if it were an argument. But we have: And yet, we can Calculate Instantaneous Velocity So we conclude that either physics is w...

Well, with a bit of work it allows us to find an instantaneous velocity... among other things.

Backtrack the conversation.

@"NOS4A2", did you reply to this?

Take a look for yourself.

We have @"jgill".

I see Harry found Sam's new thread.

Part of this thread is working out what finitism is.

I'm not at all sure were you are going with this.

Well, that's not right, is it? We count things all the time.

So you want to argue that all utterances can be given a propositional content - perhaps*. But the salient point is that some utterances do other stuff...

That's a bit too fast, but in being wrong, might be the gist of what is going on. It's worth talking to a child about infinity to see the change in th...

And that's without talking about butterflies.

Sorry, Meta, that's just wrong.

Yep. Along with all the physicists and engineers and mathematicians since Newton.

Come on, Meta.

There are infinities.

This is why you can't have nice things.

its already BB's best ever thread. https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/discussions/2849/bb100 Frightening.

You ain't gonna last long.

Well, that's wrong, for starters.

Yeah, that's the sort of thing I've been trying to work out. I'm gathering that the point is moot. For my own part, I'm thinking that the extension/in...

Oh, fuck.

Yep, so you have said. And yet, we can Calculate Instantaneous Velocity So we conclude that either physics is wrong, or Meta is wrong.

This is the bit that I've been unable to find clearly articulated. But it seems to be what is being argued. It seesm to be...

Wiki.

, , , It's odd, that claiming not to be able to think about things is now so popular a way of thinking about things.

A mathematician and an engineer are sitting at a table drinking when a very beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the bar. The mathematician sighs...

We can play all day. In the interests of moving the conversation along... You say Yet the USA has the worst of Covid-19. SO presumably it was somehow ...

If each step takes half the time of the previous, reaching the wall won't be a problem.

Think on that question. I've already said that "Banno" (a word) can be used to refer to Banno. SO what is it you are asking?

Your choice. My interest here is in how you justify your position.

Sure, and on this we might agree - I think @"StreetlightX" made the same point against one of my earielr posts; or was it @"180 Proof"? Anyway, the po...

It was by way of contrast with . Language can be about stuff. It's just that it can do other things as well. This in contrast with what might be @"Har...

Perhaps. That's certainly a pop notion now. But then, it's exactly the sort of thing an unreflective boor would say in order to avoid interrogation.

What is it with 'mercans and old white men?

That's a pity. You've reinforced my prejudice that Trump's supporters are unreflective boors. Let me start, then. A scapegoat takes away one's sins. S...

Banno thinks that "Banno" can be used to talk about Banno.

See 3.3 The Later Wittgenstein on Decidability and Algorithmic Decidability SO a Turing Machine could be set up to calculate 1+1, and would halt - hen...

I'm not following this at all. Are you claiming that we do not talk about infinity? OR that such talk is no more than sounds? , ? What's this about?

Sometimes we do talk about infinity. When we do this, we are using finite objects - ink marks and sounds. So...?

If it is a pointer, it can be used to point to anything. Which seems odd.

Well, there would indeed be an error in thinking that charity was nice. I may have been a bit rough on Harry; in my defence, on the occasions in which...

Well, I asked nicely. And there is this thing in philosophy were philosophers reflect on their ideas. But perhaps you are not up for that.

Yes. However see 6.211, from the Tractatus, in which he talks of mathematical propositions being nothing unless used. That's gotta be a harbinger of t...

Thank you. Now, since you are of a philosophical disposition, go back and have a look at your reply and tell me, what are the forms of the arguments y...

Dang. Least you could have done is have a go.