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Trying to give examples of 'non-mathematical' math from the canon of mathematics is a poisoned well. But I did try to give some demonstratively weird ...

Well no. There's nothing like what there would be if all the mathematical forms instantiated in the same way. Which really raises the question - when ...

If the platonic realists are right, the name of that junkyard is the Platonic realm of forms.

You just thanked me. There is no need to thank me again within 3 words. But thank you for thanking me, and thanks. I will close the thread now.

It got caught by the spam filter, I restored it.

But how mathematics looks as a category theorist is quite a lot different from how it looks like under the aspect of set theory. Say, to a category th...

As I read it there are two complementary thrusts; one is showing what kind of crazy thing the elemental plane of mathematics is (would be) and that it...

There are other foundations of mathematics which are currently in use. Even one which highlights explicitly that mathematics studies relational struct...

I heard that the Great Goat is in a goat pen, but really it's the rest of being which is in the pen.

I think we meant different things by indeterminism. In the paper's sense of 'a single past can be followed by many futures', the translational time sy...

Doesn't really matter what point I'm making for the purposes of the discussion, seeing as it's moved on. All I'm saying is that mapping t->t-T is a sy...

See the point. Perhaps I'm too poorly attuned to physics to see much of a distinction between a time symmetry and a radial one.

Specifically it's that no force (0 vector) is applied as an initial condition while the ball is at the apex that leaves room for the indeterminism.

I think the discussion moved on, but I wouldn't trust using the higher derivatives of radial displacement here to mathematically isolate a cause for t...

Marx analogises value to weight: which is similar in function to the earlier analogies of chemical formulae and area, and like area exhibits a propert...

continuing developing the account of the equivalent form of value. This references that when 'x is worth y', the way the value of x is expressed is as...

I don't think this is too different for Marx from the two islands example. We're in a state of transition between two socially necessary labour times ...

That sounds really interesting, Maybe you should make a new thread for it?

Thank you for your input. The questions are interesting, but I cannot do Marx while drunk. You will have to wait a bit.

The stakes in Marx's value theory are how do commodities obtain their values in a capitalist society. He's especially interested in how money gets its...

The analysis begins with the trade of one item for another. The items which are traded are called commodities. Commodities have a technical sense here...

If there's anything I write that you don't understand feel free to ask questions.

You make interest in what interests you by explaining it well.

You'd make some really good posts if you put more effort in explaining everything.

Responding to (2) first: There are scenarios where the assumption that the value of a commodity equals the socially necessary labour time doesn't hold...

Banned william123 for being a spammer caught by the spam filter.

Honestly, if there weren't so many duplicate threads I wouldn't've merged yours with another; there would have been no need to. The reason I chose to ...

I hadn't clocked on that Sap was S. Huh.

As some way towards compromise I have inserted Snoring Kitten's comment in the thread with a disclaimer before the replies in the first page of the di...

The reasons I made lots of merges were: (1) There were a lot of active discussions on the front page with essentially the same content. (2) The ones w...

Your discussion is still active and on topic though.

Marx moves onto discussing the equivalent form more deeply. Subsection 3: 3. The Equivalent form of value Marx begins by restating the duality between...

Merging @"Andrew4Handel"'s observations on religious morality to here:

I don't think any of the maths I've done so far makes predictions as such, though there have been a few nice theoretical results. One is that a system...

(1) He already does look at it mathematically. See recent post going through points I-III in the relative form, Marx is explicitly talking about how o...

It also makes sense that if an organisation wants to increase their power and influence funding is required. Moreover, greater spending power makes 'g...

I'll trust you on it. It makes sense that if an organisation wants to grow it needs to expand its revenue.

I usually operate under the assumption that responses to a thread try to be on topic. Thing is, I can't tell because you never spend enough words deta...

I have no idea what point you're making.

Another thing to note is that the elementary form of value alone doesn't necessarily obey the following constraint: V(x)=V(y) <=> xTy With this assump...

Subsubsection B: Quantitative determination of Relative value This section largely consists of Marx specifying the algebraic structure that holds of t...

Subsection summary: the relative form of value, nature and import of this form. If x use value 1 is worth y use value 2, x use value 1 stands in the r...

Marx continues linking value to labour: Mostly repeating things I've already written about. He does however draw attention to a distinction: labour is...

If you're talking about gurugeorge, , he was advancing a white ethnostate and the inferiority of blacks. Like anyone who knows how bad this looks, he ...

More on salvation from @"tenderfoot", merging from 'Possibility of Obtaining Salvation after Death'

@"andrewk" did the most work!

If it ends up with things veering far too off topic, the off topic replies can be split into a thread of their own. Forgot we had a split function too...

I can't undo it, nor would I if I could. The two threads were examining different definitions of atheism. You can continue talking just as before.

Now that you're all talking about the same thing as before I'm going to merge this thread with 'How do you feel about religion?'. Comments from @"Bria...

I think most of the posters in this thread, @"Akanthinos", @"LD Saunders", are mistaking the reasons people who grow up in cults believe, or more gene...