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A plenum is a space filled through and through, with no true gaps or voids in between things, though there may be different stuff (or different amount...

Okay, I'll give this one more try, because I'm a sucker for difficult students apparently. There are three people, Alice, Bob, and Chris. Each of them...

Someone else tag me out, this guy can’t be taught.

To be fair I didn’t notice that you got it right after you got it wrong, so I’m glad it was just a momentary mistake and not a fundamental misundersta...

Please stop with the condescension. This is standard logic I’m trying to teach you, not my own argument I’m putting forth for debate. You can read all...

The very first line of the post I was responding to was:

It is probable that you own every time-traveling car ever built on Earth, and that you also own none of the time-traveling cars ever built on Earth, b...

Everything doesn't imply at least one thing, because there might be zero things to begin with, in which case everything in that set of zero things is ...

Forget about the Venn diagram. That's just for illustration but it seems to only be confusing you more. (For the record though, I'm not saying you hav...

Short version is that back when presocratic philosphers were arguing that “all is fire” or “all is air” and so on, Anaximander introduced the idea tha...

Only the fourth category you asked about involves empty sets. The rest involves any sets. And this is bog standard logic, nothing of my own invention....

Everything and something are overlapping states, as already described. The area outside the circles is an interesting thing in modern quantitative log...

To get a broad acquaintance with the history of the field and its range of thoughts, I think these are probably the most important authors to read: So...

Xtrix makes a very good point, and also if I am recalling correctly, Chomsky has been open about not thinking that he personally knows the exact corre...

I figured that’s what you meant, my response was directed more at John than you.

Fun fact: iron working wasn’t unknown in the bronze age, it’s just that bronze was a better metal, but people switched to iron when bronze became proh...

You’re arguing against something I didn’t say. Think of a Venn diagram. The left circle is “something”. The right circle is “not everything”. The slic...

Anarchy means “no rulers”, not “no rules”. No rules would be anomie.

I’m disappointed that nobody in this thread seems to know what anarchy actually is. It’s not disorder or chaos or lawlessness. It is radically democra...

Our current landfills will become mines of resources to be recycled, creating a circular economy, as soon as it is easier to extract those resources f...

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Terms have have overlapping but no one coextensive meaning. “Something” just means “not nothing”; “everything” just means “nothing not”. If nothing is...

I didn’t realize I was creating an inconsistency, so I leave it up to another poster (first comer) to decide to reject either my axiom or John’s.

None = not some = all not = not nall not Some = not none = not all not = nall not All = none not = not some not = not nall Nall = not all = some not =...

The product of any two integers is omega. (Where omega is the first number bigger than any integers).

I wasn’t suggesting that a particular company necessarily has to be good to its employees to be highly profitable right now, but that actual overall e...

Actually from what I've read, the longer the shift the lower the efficiency (work per time). I would expect that in many cases, overall efficiency of ...

Today's Existential Comic reminded me of this old conversation: http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/WittgensteinSolvesPhilosophy.png

That is the correct attitude to take, but if one finds oneself fixated on death and unable to just live like that, distracting oneself to break the fi...

Unfortunately I see a high probability that it is not. Existential dread seems a much realer and more widespread thing than I thought for most of my l...

It’s been a long time since I read it but that was my takeaway from it and where I first got that idea of bullshit being different from lies.

Agreed. As I summarized earlier, the liar is intentionally trying to make people believe something false, whereas the bullshitter doesn’t care if the ...

Invest it in or loan it to people starting businesses doing what? Manually doing all the things the robots are already doing, bringing us back to a pr...

I think in the very long term that’s probably correct, but in the shorter term that would come about through the ways I already listed. My scenario 4 ...

That would count as art yes, and it would be highly successful from the artists POV, but not from the patrons POV, who did not intend to have that rea...

The whole point of Moore’s paradox is that it is not logically contradictory for something to be true and yet someone believes otherwise, but if that ...

Would that make concern trolling a kind of bullshitting? Pretending to care when you don’t?

I mentioned this already when you brought it up in another thread, but my objection to your answer to the problem of evil is that it hinges on the hum...

In my proof the rules I used were modus ponens (for step 3) and reductio ad absurdum (for step 4).

Given a equals not a, if we suppose a, we can conclude not a, and therefore conclude both a (which we supposed as a premise) and not a, a contradictio...

1. a = ~a 2. *a 3. .: ~a 4. .: a ^ ~a

Science tells us what solutions are possible, engineers have to actually make those solutions happen, entrepreneurs have to fund those engineers in or...

Found art, sure. (It wasn’t made to be art, but it can be presented as such). Thanks for your responses!

I wasn't meaning to offer criticism, just pointing at some people who have written on the topic you're asking about.

As I see it there are basically four possible outcomes of complete automation: - The rich own all the automatons, including killbots, and nobody else ...

We only need loans because some people have all the wealth and other people need to borrow it from them. This is a remedy for that situation. But to t...

I was disappointed (when I first saw that video, back when it came out) that it didn't end up actually listing all the numbers. In fact, it left out a...

The libertarian socialist / left-libertarian trend of solutions is to change what rights to property are acknowledged, where we're not taking things a...

Much of socialist or communist thought is all about reconceptualizing social relations, especially property relations. I suspect you're imagining "soc...

I call this task, the inspiration of the will to actively pursue the good, the moral, the just, or the state of the will being (or the process it of b...