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Too deep for me.

I drive down a forest road and see a bear beside it in the distance. No, as I approach it I see it is merely a small tree. What is so profound about t...

Perhaps purity of thought :roll: , or the attraction of living on the dole. :smile:

Most mathematicians brush aside the Russell Paradox and its circumvention by classes. For me, this book would be a challenging read. I went part way i...

Depends upon how "any good or not" is interpreted. Clearly, Derr - a professor in the philosophy department at Clark - has done some good for humanity...

I know the brother of this gentleman: Patrick Derr is an academic philosopher who has definitely contributed to society. He is relevant.

Sorry, late here and I have to go. But the words "convergent" and "divergent" have specific math definitions. "Composed of spaceless points" is more p...

To my knowledge, no. But new aspects of mathematics seem to open up daily. For me, for a and b = infinitesimals, a+b=a, a-b=0. But I have avoided non-...

Well, two distinct points can be interpreted as end points of a line segment. The arithmetic of infinitesimals is different. As part of the hyperreals...

If you do this, please have health insurance. Don't expect society to give you a free ride. If you have an expensive medical procedure and can't pay, ...

One way to proceed is to put up a website that attracts some attention, and have a link that directly leads to a print-on-demand publisher like Blurb....

That's certainly true if you are going through a publisher, rather than self-publishing (e.g., Blurb.com)

As says, publishing is easy. Selling is hard.

They could if they were not rabid about typing Shakespeare.

According to my philosophy prof many years ago this is entirely the wrong approach. Read commentaries first, then the originals. You Kant fail.

Truth in the context of an axiomatic system is that which follows logically from that system.

For those fascinated by dimensions of curves: How can a curve be one-dimensional?

Saw the film some time ago but don't remember much about it - something about crawling through cabinets.

Not at all. Powerful and illuminating. Highly recommended. :cool:

As a Platonic object it exists. It is describable by a contour function. Word babble IMO.

A line through space is continuous in the common sense of the word and exists without causality. But I can interpret the line as a contour "caused by"...

We have internal perspective foundations, influenced by beliefs, that give us "feelings" about reality and are continuously refreshed by interacting w...

Not being presumptuous, but perhaps that gives it vitality to survive. Academic incestuousness diminished.

I'll answer this. There were so many other things happening during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, it must have slipped right past me. I do remember the ...

Well, we do seem to be more and more a Banana Republic, like some of our fellow South American countries. So Trump could go briefly to prison then be ...

I'm curious how you can do that. :chin:

The straight line. There is only one, although it can be placed in various positions in space. Bend it and get curves, of which many exist. A physical...

A little bit of a word game here. In elementary math one can say that the curve in the complex plane, z(t)=cos(t)+isin(2t) depends upon a single param...

Analytic geometry. Algebraic geometry is fairly recent and difficult to digest.

Nomads in America

In a way the future does affect the past, or our knowledge of the past. As time passes we lose information that exists at that point in time. No matte...

As a mathematician who explores the world of complex variables, I agree with you more or less. I have never worked on theory that embodies infinities,...

:clap: :rofl: If you want to go off on your own and be a nomad, either on the road with the physical thrills thereupon, or in your apartment thinking ...

Nice thread on Literary Activity. :roll:

I don't believe that is the consensus among physicists. Such particles exist but a predictive mathematical description of their behavior overrides any...

It's my understanding that retrocausality is only a speculative interpretation of certain things observed at the quantum scale, where cause and effect...

A lot depends upon the idea of "superposition", which has a simple mathematical interpretation. I remain unconvinced, and Wigner himself criticized "W...

A group of physicists devise an experiment, including a device to measure the outcome. They perform the experiment, then cluster around the computer s...

I grew up in an educated family in the Deep South, and was taught to be polite and respect others. No Southern Pride.

It's better they are unaware that's what they're doing. :roll:

Hmmm. Never thought of that. More like the surge of science in the 14th century, including measuring velocity over short periods of time, then resurre...

Not much these days. But being philosophical might help smooth out the bumps in life. The teaching of the sciences embodies the appropriate philosophi...

Yesterday, upon the stair, A hurried man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away...

I wouldn't be too sure about the "abandonment" in actual practice . . . . down deep scientists have ideas they hope will be substantiated by experimen...

Very nice presentation. Metaphysics in the sciences goes on all the time, although most come from actual scientists. I was curious about mathematical ...

Putting things into perspective.

I'm 86 and have talked, argued, debated with myself all my life. As a mathematician that internal dialogue goes on forever. When I was a rock climber ...

Good point. If I answer as a mathematician, I would say a little, but not very much. I already had a PhD before I looked carefully into the subject as...

More so when you write or speak it I suspect. Where does philosophy drift into reflection and, in the sciences, speculation? Are there lines of demarc...