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Your posts in this thread have been excellent! For the uninitiated, the curse of dimensionality is a problem that occurs when fitting statistical mode...

We're talking about linguistic analysis, a philosophical method associated with the ordinary language philosophy movement and Wittgenstein. Some paper...

Though I will ask for sources on this use of local exponential trend? Genuinely curious. I can see the appeal of having a model that splits the time t...

I can't really be bothered continuing this.

There was an uptick in growth today and yesterday in Italy, it doesn't swamp the downward trend in new case number acceleration when averaging. What I...

Putting more symbols on it. Let C be the set of continuous functions over \mathbb{R}, then define the function d : C \times C \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+...

The growth of coronavirus isn't exponential in Italy. The acceleration of the number of new positive cases has steadily been declining since the quara...

Looked at this some more. A general explanation seems to be "the arc length functional is not a continuous functional in the infinite norm (uniform co...

For those of you that don't give a crap about the epidemiology, the FTSE100 has plunged down more than it did when the 2008 recession hit, and more qu...

Me too, I do not have the analysis fu for that.

Seems mostly fine to me.

Insofar as logic is understood as the study of methods of reasoning, yes. Humans have been able to reason long before we could write.

Logic studies methods of reasoning. Logic is to reasoning as culinary science is to cooking.

Let's grant that this is the core principle of philosophy. Is it connected to philosophy's manner of becoming disconnected from how things are? I can ...

You are right, it's a sufficient condition for the failure of the arc-length functional to respect the limiting procedure, not a necessary one. I beli...

(1) People sell a thing at a price, people are aware of the price it was sold at (this is a stock market mechanism), this establishes a standard that ...

Not doing one type of calculation consciously does not imply much about doing other calculations. Not being aware of doing one type of calculation imp...

What are the historical invariants of philosophy as a folk practice then?

So the reason I brought up the manifest image and philosophy's role in negotiating and modifying it is as follows. Say that you want to distinguish th...

None really. You don't fit well into any of them.

Agrippa's trilemma is a classic philosophical move though, not something extra philosophical. It seems to me like you want to have your cake and eat i...

Seeing syllogisms as ways of deriving new behavioural commitments from old ones makes a lot of sense. The "binding glue" of a syllogism is ultimately ...

Well, this is sort of off topic, but anarchists generally restrict themselves to disliking unjust hierarchies, rather than hierarchy in general. In so...

Out of interest, how would you view something like a syllogism from this anthropological perspective? All men are mortal. Socrates is a man, Socrates ...

I arrange the forum into a few tendencies. There's the Wittgenstein monster. There's the libertarian keyboard warriors. There's the leftist keyboard w...

I dunno. It probably fits into the grand tradition of overblowing the significance of one's own insights. Non-philosophy's probably destined to become...

I guess one difference with Laruelle (in this context) is that he's interested in neutering one specific dialectical move - or a class of them -, so t...

When you say core practices, what do you mean? As an example, you can point to a few things that are core practices/doctrines of Catholicism. (1) The ...

Outright rejection of specific theistic claims and simply-withholding belief in the divine in general aren't mutually exclusive. Believe (not (theisti...

The same problem happens with multiplication. 2 * x = 1 Has no solutions when x is a natural number. That is, there are no multiplicative inverses in ...

Every point in the line becomes a "corner", so there are no corners. More precisely, S(n)=\sum_{i=1}^{2n} I\big(\frac{i}{2n},\frac{i+1}{2n}\big), when...

This is neat. I just wrote the staircase after n refinements as a sum of 2n scaled indicator functions. S(n)=\sum_{i=1}^{2n} \frac{i-1}{2n} \big(\frac...

It is a folk tradition, which while providing a necessary perspective, isn't sufficiently precise to demarcate it from any other folk tradition. That'...

Lazy questions are bad posts. People can't engage with them, unless they manage to be stupid at the same time.

Step 1) Re-evaluate all values in the palatial capacity of your wisdom. Step 2) Live as a mild mannered office clerk.

What happens after the confusions are dispelled? Does that speak to the veracity of the cleared ground, or is it simply a case of being better off to ...

How could a time be like anything else? :chin:

So I don't wanna shit on linguistic analysis totally, and it's an extremely important tool to check when "thought is not gaining traction on being" (p...

If the remit of linguistic analysis is a critical imperative that intervenes upon already established philosophical questions, arguments and claims, i...

So it seems like we both reject (A1) The only methodology in philosophy that makes in all topics and subtopics is linguistic analysis. Because there a...

Why is Russia supporting Trump?

Why is Russia supporting Warren?

Something that makes me deeply suspicious of this whole endeavour of subordinating conceptual analysis to the analysis of word use is that an idea can...

I don't know that there is an everyday use of words that maps neatly onto the distinction between direct and indirect experiences. Whether perceptions...

Maybe there are two senses of it. The particularised one: (1) A belief B of a person P in a context C is properly basic if and only if P cannot doubt ...

Would you agree that the distinction between a direct experience of X and an experience of X differ only insofar as direct experience of X is not medi...

My friends Anna and Joshua both hear God. The use of the word "god" isn't determined solely by its attachment to a private sensation, it's rather than...

What distinguishes a direct experience from an experience? Nowadays we've got means and arguments to doubt things like possession by spirits, God's ex...

This is a greedy reduction. The use of the word God isn't determined solely by its attachment to a private sensation; it's rather that when someone se...