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It's not just philosophy any more, supervenience of mindstates upon brainstates and neural correlates are essentially the same concepts. Whether this ...

Well some solace can be obtained from the sheer amount of data required to deepfake even a short video of a speech. It's unlikely that there'll be wid...

I think Graeber's view is more likely to be correct, though. In terms of discursive strategy, Graeber's view is a pointing out the limitations of a co...

If you're interested in chess, you might like Google's new chess AI AlphaZero, after 4 hours of learning it beat the current best chess engine in the ...

Ok. Well epsilon-N implies 0.9 recurring = 1 anyway. AFAIK it's even true in non-standard analysis. 1 - infinitesimal isn't the same thing as 0.9 recu...

I'm mostly just watching from the sidelines, but I think you slipped up a bit here Banno. A contextually relevant sense of implication might. I don't ...

Great. Thanks. Well worth the read. Considering I've been reading through Jared Diamond's work and David Graeber's it's an excellent summary of their ...

Is this a criticism of the epsilon-delta and epsilon-N convergence/continuity criteria?

In the first case it's easier to think of as a direction. In the second case - for cardinals - they give the size of infinite sets, so yes they are pr...

There are a few different conceptions of infinity in mathematics. There's what the usual infinity symbol represents: \infty, which usually denotes a l...

The strongest argument against this kind of claim, in my view, is what happens when you consider events which predate the advent of consciousness. Thi...

I'm tempted to try to start a reading group for this paper discussing Rosen: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03081079.2012.689466?needAcce...

I have an anecdote from a f2m transexual I used to work with. He kept an eye on the number of times he was interrupted in conversation as a function o...

Yeah this is fair enough. I've been imprecise a few times in the thread, which is certainly a shame since it's a thread about logic; and no one is les...

Yeah. I agree that it's a more precise translation. My motivation for translating the ~B as withholding belief or suspending belief was to highlight t...

not believing there is any x without the property p?

How would you translate it?

I didn't claim your preferences were inconsistent. I claimed Maw saw them as inconsistent and was attempting to make you do something you didn't want ...

Yeah I understand. The number of times I've tried to manoeuvre someone into doing something they don't want to through reason is pretty high, so I'm a...

If Agustino doesn't want to share his company details, don't try to force him to, even if he's being a patronising bugger.

~B(Ex~P(x)) <-> B(~Ex~P(x)) <-> (B(AxP(x)) Do you agree with that holding when B~ <=> ~B (abusing notation)?

They're different. ~B(Ex~P(x)) ~ExB(~P(x)) Agent withholds belief that there is an X which is not P. There is no X which A does not believe is P.

Another crazy thing occurs if you introduce quantification. ~B(Ex~P(x)) <-> B(~Ex~P(x)) <-> (B(AxP(x)) "The agent withholds belief about whether there...

Also, collapsing B~ and ~B kinda removes the point of it being a modal operator...

No... I wanted to show that not believing in a disjunction implies believing in the negation of each disjunct. This is very strange behaviour, and is ...

Also counter models. In a universe of discourse with at least one non-agent ~B can't be equivalent to B~ as ~B is true for non-agents but B never is.

~B(a v b v c) ? B~(a v b v c) ? B(~a&~b&~c) ?B(~a)&B(~b)&B(~c) ? B(~a) ? ~B(a) Is a bit counter intuitive. Bob: 'I don't believe in anything you said'...

You'd probably get quite a lot out of reading Volume 1 of Das Kapital. Not necessarily for the economics, anthropology or social commentary, but his m...

I don't see any intellectual cowardice on Benkei's part. It's just short-hand reference to Marx's lack of belief in a god. You can see some atheist hu...

Everyone ready for international bargain-basement reactionary politics day on all social media tomorrow?

There was a great 2010 satire about radicalised Brits trying to use the same strategy. Four Lions.

There are things about force as a concept -as a real abstraction- which make it highly amenable to analysis with vectors. Fundamentally, this comes do...

Eh, maybe you're right. I still don't think you'd be responding like this in an exegetical discussion. Lurking beneath the water here is 'Sapientia is...

That's how weather prediction works. People fit complicated models of atmospheric pressure changes, correlate it to statistical summaries of current t...

I had nothing to do this evening, so: Big difference between chaotic systems and stochastic systems. Chaotic systems are typically (as a matter of def...

That you frame your 'defence of fisking' as an opposition, rather than as as an inclusive disjunction (possibility of a mixture of methods) is somethi...

Wondering if someone ever fisked 'On Certainty'...

I think fisking has a habit of making more of itself. The easiest way to respond to a fisking is with a fisking, in my experience it is unusual for a ...

@"Sam26" found it in one of his posts. I pissed about with it for a while and replicated/generalised it. Thanks to Sam26 for clocking it.

Take your time. I'd go further and say 'knowing that X' is a mostly artificial construction, it's a philosophical after-image. To me knowing that seem...

Yes! That's the one.

What's known has a funny habit of wavering about like a leaf considered under the aspect of eternity. We can bet on the falsity, in the absolute sense...

Thanks! :)

I am far too happy with my new profile picture.

Yes! That's the one. Thanks! Props to @"Wolfman"

Ah, sorry. That happened a lot. I had the Ultimate Warrior in a top hat as an avatar, he had Hulk Hogan eating spaghetti. I think it's time I became t...

That'd be boring.

YES! Thanks! Shame Schlitz didn't make their way here.

I'd be really interested in that discussion.

Someone with the same avatar. Maybe a different person.