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Apart from a certain intellectual dishonesty...

Cheers.

Off topic - We don't have to assume 50/50, do we? Couldn't one start at assuming a 100% probability of heads, leaving it to the Bayesian process to le...

Hm.

No.

Hey, that's a bit rude... ...oh, morMons

p can be false; p can be true. One can believe; one can not believe. Hence, four possibilities: 1) Bp 2) B~p 3) ~Bp 4) ~B~p Six permutations: 1 contra...

I'm aware that I don't see many memes supporting Trump, and sometimes I actively go look for them. But dude, that one is so lame. Surely you can do be...

There's a reason they don't teach Kant in physics classes.

Yeah... just, wtf?

Yeah. Which only makes it weirder.

It's not surprising that a nation that idolises "self-reliance" should find it necessary to enforce laws against negligence. Caring for other people i...

Cheers.

Seems to me you have re-invented Dawkins' memes - from the Selfish Gene.

Well, he's French, so there's that.

Well, perhaps not. I'm not claiming there is nothing extraordinary here; only that our claims to put it into words fail. Too many folk seek to cure th...

Platonism seems to me to be quite misguided. So I;m not sure where we might go with this.

Eminently sensible. I'm working on the Mongolian invasion in Civ. This discussion led back to philosophy of maths, and I'm working my way through the ...

@"unenlightened"?

:grin: I'm sure senility would help.

Here, interestingly, is much the same point I was making to Meta. I suppose the point might be better phrased as: while 2+2=4 does not say anything ab...

But that raises the interesting question of how the view of mathematics implicit in the Tractatus might differ from that found in the later Wittgenste...

Yep, you are right. My defence is that I am speaking in a voice that attempts to parse Wittgenstein into something that Meta might understand. Lies to...

Thanks, @"Sam26". Anything to add about truth tables?

Two mistakes in the one title! Just to check, there is a common misapprehension of relativity that thinks it says that truth is relative to the observ...

I don't think I do. yet, I know you try to finesse this contradiction into some semblance of coherence. We've been there before. Those musings are an ...

Fosters is not a beer Australians drink. It is a beer we export to those with no taste. And no; I won't support my proposition; hence demonstrating it...

Actually I will go back to this: It seems to me that the error Meta makes here parallels the error he makes in rejecting the calculus. See the discuss...

Yes, indeed. I think we have finished. I've cut to the irrationality that lies at the core of your thinking: your rejection of the calculus. And not f...

It's obvious that failing to provide support does not imply the lack of suport.

...And there we have it. The mathematical basis of the physical sciences rejected. Why should anyone take whatever else you say with any degree of ser...

But you take this as implying that change can never occur. And now you will accuse me of constructing a straw man of you; but there it is, in the quot...

What did you make of the article @"unenlightened" cited? It might clarify why associating Wittgenstein with Hume is off the mark.

I do, and I do. You have a fascinating capacity to not quite understand something. Repeatedly and loudly. Here's another: Well, no, it isn't. Except t...

I'm lost. Is that a Gnostic cypher we should know about?

Yeah, sure you did :joke: . I got to page two hundred and fifty something. But yes, the Look remains the most penetrating dismissal of solipsism imagi...

...and here's that nauseating two-faced self-righteous passive aggressiveness modern Christian that we all love.

Well done.

This, in a constipated fashion, shows the bit of reasoning that seems to be entirely absent from Meta's thinking. Perhaps Meta was sick on the day the...

You do seem to have a rather well developed notion of identity, a one which does not meld well with the notions others hold. It's a bit hard to follow...

Explanations are ladders... Is there a ladder that allows us to kick away the ladder? Or is it ladders all the way down? Are the possible paths that L...

:rofl: Maybe, maybe not.

Like, for instance, your identity as a poster on this forum... No one reads Sartre any more.

Me neither. Perhaps the point pertains to puritans. True Scotsman eat their porridge with just salt - that McTagger, he eats his with honey; hence he'...

Existence precedes essence. Your identity is the sum of your choices. It's exactly about identity.

Quite the opposite. The less said about stuff that can't be said, the better.

It's a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff.

Suppose that the block universe is a thing. Everything that has or will happen is fixed in the glue of the block. There you are, stuck in 2020. You ca...

Nothing cause me to go look for my handkerchief...

There's more here, that might be of philosophical interest. Take another all-and-some proposition, a bit of physics mythology: Energy can never be cre...