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Excellent thread! So we can use "I love you" in two ways; in one, it proclaims my devotion; in the other, it show how to proclaim one's devotion. It's...

I don't follow that. Where does perception fit? Especially since the term does not appear in the Tractates.

This seemed to be where things went astray. My own comprehension of both of mathematics and philosophy is left puzzled; what's the problem for Apo? Ta...

I was interested in this until Apo became so Snarky. It was a good topic.

You hd best fill in the gaps if you want to proceed. There is no mention of perception in "The world is the totality of facts". So it must be introduc...

That's just asking "Who do you trust?"

Indeed, we do evaluate moral propositions. And in the end, it is quite fine to say "I am just certain that it is so; there is no justification." And h...

Which things?

Change "because" to "and". We can write about it. But what is important is that we act.

Not clear what you are asking.

All that would imply is that you chose the wrong logic.

Indeed, that's the trouble with ethics; it thinks it is distinct from other such topics.

Proof - so you are talking about justification. Your question is: how does one justify an ethical statement? I don't see that ethical statements must ...

Here's the mistake you have been making for years, Meta.

I don't disagree. I have shown that ethical statements can be true, and stated that ethics involves action.

Indeed.

Indeed; it ethics, it is not what one says, but what one does that counts. That is, ethics is shown, not said.

Ought you? Then it is true that you ought follow social and cultural norms. That's all there is to this.

So after one gets half way, one continues on to the end. 8-)

SO there is nothing you ought do?

Hmm. Maybe. There are true normative statements.

So my question stands. Someone's disagreeing with a given normative ethic does not tell us about the truth of that ethic; it tells us about the person...

What Meta does is simply refuse to accept the grammatical structure that allows the dissolution of the problem. Good for him. But then the problem bec...

Before you folk wander too far away, have you noticed the similarity between the OP here and over at http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1037/fal...

Any or every?

Not playing, Meta. Go read a maths book.

...as if this were a bad thing 8-) . What he did was to show that such stuff is nonsense. Using this observation to detract from Witti demonstrates a ...

No; because history shows you cannot understand mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2_%2B_1/4_%2B_1/8_%2B_1/16_%2B_?

Not again. Not interested.

You dropped the italicised bit in. One can count the rational numbers without putting them in sequence. Just list the fractions between one and two; 3...

Again your picture is muddled. The task you set was to count the rationals; now you have slid from that to finding the first rational. There is no fir...

So you are claiming that there is no way to systematically list the rational numbers between 1 and 2? But http://www.math-only-math.com/to-find-ration...

I answered you. There are an infinite number - choose any you want.

8-) Whatever you want. And the number of them would be denumerably infinite.

Nuh. The argument, on your own account, is that there are an infinite number of steps, each of finite length, and that therefore the total time taken ...

But you can sum them. Which is what is asked in the supposed paradox.

Is this an argument by analogy? Then it doesn't get you where you want to go. If the length of time it took to count a number reduced as the size of t...

Hm. So wosret is walking the plank?

So let's take on the OP and search for the deeper point. The argument was set up to lead us into concluding either that our logic was wrong, or that r...

Perhaps.

Incidentally, the inevitable appeal to Plank's Length indicates movement down yet another garden path.

But this is not an argument; it is an assertion. You will need to fill it out to turn it into an argument. It appears that the missing assumption is t...

If you take that approach, your paradox also begs the question; it becomes "if it takes an infinite time to travel from one point to anther, then moti...

Here's the rub: you must agree that the sum of an infinite series is not necessarily infinite. So it does not follow that "it take an infinite amount ...

No; and that's were the limits fit into the argument. There are an infinite number of steps between 0 and 1; it takes a specific time to travel betwee...

It seems to me that what you have written here is misguided - an inaccurate picture of the number line. Since a number line is infinitely divisible, t...

SO, what is the metaphysical problem? My suspicion is that there is none, once the mathematics is understood. If I am wrong, then set out the paradox ...

Have a look at a Koch Curve: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Von_Koch_curve.gif How long is the circumference of the curve? But wh...

I don't get why this is a topic. How do folk get through high school without being exposed to calculus?