fdrake

I replied to you in a new thread.

I'll respond in another thread.

The notion that it is 'repeated' is absent from the measure theoretic definition. The 'long-run frequency' interpretation of probability is actually c...

The reason I used intuitive rather than mathematical description was because nobody knows what sigma algebras and measureable functions are.

Ok. This is a random variable: Let (O,S,P) be a probability space where O is a set of outcomes and S a sigma algebra on the set of outcomes, then a ra...

I did not intend you to feel intimidated or patronised, so please try to be less aggressive. My posts aren't intended to be parts of academic papers, ...

Have you taken a class in measure and probability theory?

I'm a statistician.

I wrote that post.

It's a summary of the mathematical definition of random variables and probability in terms of measure theory. Here are a few references. When mathemat...

Mathematically probability doesn't have to resemble either 'the long term frequency of events' or 'a representation of a subjective degree of belief a...

Emotions being required for decision making has already been covered, but your first sentence in the post: can be addressed further. It's quite well u...

I didn't mean to suggest that this surface level observation of a current cultural malaise sufficed for an analysis. You're right in suggesting that t...

There are a lot of things to respond to in your post, but I can give you two immediate thoughts that I had. The disorientation you describe I think is...

I suppose that means you can't defend your assertions any more.

What other interpretations can there be for your statement: ?

Claiming that the laws are changing also requires evidence. To be consistent with current physics, all changes must be within experimental error for a...

You probably didn't read most of my posts in the thread fully, but uncertainty principles occur in lots of contexts. Every time you have a sequence of...

No, we have evidence over a very long period of time. We, roughly, have a paradigm in physics called quantum mechanics which has been around for just ...

I don't actually believe that it's necessary for them to be fixed. If you look at the start of the universe it's predicted that the four fundamental f...

Can you give me some examples of how I have been dogmatic?

dogmatism, noun: the tendency to lay down principles as undeniably true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others. I don't think I ...

I think that post serves as an ad-absurdum for your position. You actually seem committed to the idea that the bone observed now is not the same bone ...

Despite thinking your argument strategy is invalid, and providing a post showing as such, I'll play your game! 1) So you agree it's the same bone now ...

I find it interesting that you responded solely to the trollish bait. Why isn't the observation of a millions of years old bone with a similar chemica...

Bones of dinosaurs predate humans. Bones of dinosaurs are chemically much the same as human bones. There, an observation of a phenomenon from millions...

You never use logic? :-O The constancy of nature is a far weaker claim than nature being already described by an immutable set of equations. All that ...

I have already addressed this argument. It boils down to the following structure: 1) There is no written record that X influences Y before time t. 2) ...

Evidence that there is a world before animal life which obeys the same laws of physics - red-shift. Evidence that consciousness is not necessary for a...

I forgot to address 'interpretations require consciousness'. This is in the context of whether consciousness is required for observation/measurement. ...

1) There are no written records of . 2) There are no written records of before time t. 3)There is no evidence that X influences Y. t must be after now...

There is absolutely evidence that the laws of physics haven't changed since before animal life emerged. For one, the theory of red-shifts makes predic...

The universe hasn't changed in terms of physical laws since animal life emerged. This means there are properties or processes that allow the fuzzy qua...

Whether reality is random or not doesn't have depend solely on the realism of the wavefunction or derived probabilities. There are plenty of examples ...

I would like to say to start with that if probability's interpretation is a quantification of uncertainty, then randomness is trivially part of every ...

Any examples of papers with particularly bad methodology?

I get the feeling, just from the Simondon link you sent, that Simondon is proposing a methodological change in the way we think about ontogenesis. Fro...

I take it that would be prohibitively costly. Edit: Regardless, thanks for asking though. Should've checked the thread before coming here!

Is there Latex support? Can I somehow write things like: \sum_{n=1}^{\inf} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6} ?

Would you prefer to receive the response I'm making in the other thread in this one?

Reading. Will have something to say soon.

Quoting out of order because it best illustrates my point. This is also off topic at this point... I don't think it's possible to give a philosophical...

Glad we are on the same page. Fundamentally I don't see the point in this kind of inquiry insofar as it's speculative though. Will try and flesh that ...

I don't think this is right. Imagine that someone has made a list of justifications (call this set J) for a statement about something and this suffice...

This is reminiscent of J.J Gibson's idea of affordances. Namely that to perceive a thing is to perceive the actions that it may promote. "If a terrest...

I suppose such a commonality would have to be a very abstract one. How abstract? Maybe this can be delimited by finding something that couldn't in pri...

This. A friend and I started a discussion forum for Leftist literature a few years ago. While it had less than 50 members was the most productive time...

I think it should be regarded as a speech act rather than just a truth apt declaration. If someone actually says that, it's got a certain set of illoc...

Reporting in. Despite lurking most of the time it's nice to be here.