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You sound like Chuck Tingle. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Hv0P3K-oL._SY445_SX342_QL70_ML2_.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51dlkUus9d...

:love: :rofl:

That isn't strictly speaking true, it's just that the generalisation of the concept of planar figure which applies to circles is so vast it doesn't re...

Ironically enough this is similar to one of Lakatos' quips in Proofs and Refutations. I can't remember the exact wording, but he pokes fun at mathemat...

I meant it as two complementary aspects - treating a definition exactly at its word to see what it entails. Sometimes this will entail something that ...

I reread the first one and I completely forgot the horror of realising the hand gesture the guy's mum makes to wake the kid up is the same as the one ...

Makes sense. Almost every panel has a palpable sense of wrongness.

Sort of happy. Happier than I expected for the story. It's a manga. Overall story is about intergenerational patterns of child abuse. The main charact...

I learned that Blood on the Tracks published its final volume last September, and I binge read it this evening. Hands down that's the most disturbing ...

I won't participate, probably, but I will watch the thread like a hawk to ensure it stays textual if you like @"Antony Nickles". If you're leading the...

I have invented a logic in which there is no other guy and no one knows who they are.

@"Leontiskos" - 's linked paper here seems to interface with your position much more explicitly than Russell's paper. The argument is quite sequential...

I did enjoy it. It is also written in a very entertaining way. I would need to read it a few more times to follow the argument though.

You forgot that Euclid specifies a circle as a plane figure. I realise you're not going to accept that a great circle is not a Euclid circle, or that ...

Absolutely crystal quote, thank you.

My position was that there are circumstances in which it makes sense to say there are square circles, perhaps even that there are circumstances in whi...

Only one type of logical law, all systems provide instances of? Only one type of truth, all systems provide instances of? I don't like it, or believe ...

I suppose there's a distinction between "having the same underlying concepts of truth and meaning and law" and "having different laws", maybe all the ...

I think it's a confusion regarding the connection of meaning to truth, and about truth. It might not be a confusion, it could be an insistence on a un...

Understand them as you usually would. + and times are spelled out in the field axioms (see classical definitions). Add that subtraction of a is equiva...

To be clear you would have been compelled to deny the great circle was a circle by only using Euclid's definition of it verbatim, I would not have!

Sure. Here is a quibble proof argument. Where's the issue?

Those are quite different I believe. There's no attempt to change the verbatim meanings of argument terms in @"Count Timothy von Icarus"'s repair, in ...

So a logical nihilist might say "Aha, "this sentence is false" disproves LEM!, we cannot use propositional logic". and Russell invites us to say: "I'm...

But... P & P => Q entails Q in propositional logic, who is denying this? It does not seem Russell is: And footnote ten: The logical consequence relati...

That makes sense. Equivalence classes of pre-images of projections under some relation seems like a cool idea.

With you. Yeah.

Nah it looks fine. I'm just confused, it's doing away with the centre by providing an equivalent construction of the centre. Which is also fine, I jus...

I don't think that's an issue at stake at all. If no principle holds in complete generality, they may still hold in certain well understood and well d...

Indeed. It doesn't seem meaningful to claim that the axiomatic systems are true or false in toto. But nevertheless, if there is a single unifying, biv...

It breaks down ambiguities in a concept, attempts to clarify and resolve them, and if the resolutions contradict each other they are presented with th...

It's just a question of understanding the detail for me. 1) So I pick a point A in 3 space A={0,0,10} as {x,y,z} coords. 2) I place a plane cutting th...

The validity of Russel's argument depends upon the interpretation mechanism you apply to the sentences in it, and their terms. The first formalisation...

@"Bob Ross" I want to "yes, and" Eric's comment. Even if you grant that a being is a member of the human species, that does not mean they count as a p...

I just want to clarify that hashing things out with people you're having issues with in the thread you were discussing stuff in is A-OK in my book. It...

Bringing up petty grievances in public counts as that. I'm castigating you for it not in terms of "you're gonna be banned immediately for doing it", b...

God's sake Carlo I told you not to come in the shoutbox bitching about other members. It doesn't do anything good for the site. As said, if you have a...

Yep! It turned out a property that uniquely characterised straight lines in our normal kind of space also applied to spheres, and it makes great circl...

Yeah it has some good sides to it. The idea that some cunt is going reality bending nuts over a bird's nest they saw is honestly quite wonderful.

Nope. Yep. The AI prose is more self contained (mine was an excerpt), none of its imagery is confused; its synesthetic elements unambiguously predicat...

That would at least be delightfully painful.

It somehow puts the wrong thing in the right place in the wrong way.

It creates surface level impressions of good fiction prose and poetry. It's a very odd experience, it looks like good prose but the sentence construct...

Lol mine. Trying to get it to write mad things is a cringe inducing exercise.

It is very regular when you try to make it irregular. As I've spoken with it more I've been writing more disordered prose. I run a horror roleplaying ...

This was cool. I would need to sit down with some algebra to understand it properly though. Regarding the projection - there will be a lot of degrees ...

Yes. Like Hamiltonians and Lagrangians. Do the same thing differently.

I would quite like you to draw this. I don't think I am imagining it accurately. I was imagining a cone, yeah. But now the variability makes sense giv...

Fairy muff.

Deletion is shorthand for considering different sets - or using the set division operation. The sets I'm referring to were \mathbb{R}^2 and \mathbb{R}...