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RIP Jackson :sad:

Beyond my pay grade. :smile:

Since this seems to lie at the foundations of your paper it would be good to make it a bit clearer what you are talking about. I'll ignore the infinit...

A waste of philosophical energies. :meh:

Quick answer: insomuch as there are existing patterns in the world that we identify and attempt to codify with mathematics. But applied math can go an...

Sorry to be picky, but applied math goes beyond physics. Physics, in fact, almost has its own math.

An example would help. Intriguing.

It depends on how you join. I was sent to the U of Chicago for twelve months to be certified as a meteorologist (weather officer), all expenses paid p...

See why I love this forum? :cool:

Actually, philosophy should seek help wherever it can be found. :meh:

I was being optimistic. Of the 15,000 or so who have joined the site perhaps a few would read the thread and post up.

Four in a Row Game

Friedrich Nietzsche was an artillerist in the German army during the Franco-Prussian War.

This assumes a linear causation chain. I.e., no other cause for B exists. If C also causes B, then A can be false and B true, and still A, like C, cau...

This essay might get a larger following if all this infinite stuff were in mathematically acceptable nomenclature. Just a thought.

A little like quantum field theory. We are excitations in a reality field. Neat.

Yes, I agree, although using simple percentages is near the lower bound of the definition. At this intellectual level grocery shopping might be, "Well...

Still no one coming forward saying, "I was a grunt and now I am a philosopher"? Mostly grunts came from conscription (draft) and that came to an end i...

Dummies. :snicker:

With his fleet of SUVs and flying all over the world? How could that be?

Not really using math, just guesstimating probabilities. In any event, the idea is dreadful. :roll:

I got mine from Colorado's Land Grant University over fifty years ago for the sole purpose of staying in Colorado (I was a dedicated rock climber with...

I was thinking of those who post on TPF.

In a social setting suppose a very famous and compelling person, say, "William", attracts followers. "Jack" wants to be close to William, but must pus...

True enough. My father and I both earned the degree - in different areas - and he always called it his "union card". The PhD requires original researc...

Kinda looks like philosophers tend to avoid military service. Oops! Forgot about Wittgenstein, Descartes, Socrates, Heidegger, Feyerabend, etc. More r...

Interesting to see if anyone who was actually a grunt posts here. I was in the USAF but far from being a grunt, so I can't comment from experience. He...

You do write the most interesting posts. This is related to catastrophe theory as well. A frightened guard dog teeters on the edge of attack or retrea...

Most of those systems iterate a single complex function. My approach has been infinite compositions of differing functions, producing imagery like the...

OK. Your presentation focuses on real world chaotic behaviors that can be approached probabilistically or statistically, not with a more precise itera...

Math aside, this part looks interesting. I'd like to see it expanded upon.

I don't see how you conclude The lengthy and frankly overwhelming article is about biology and probability as far as I can tell without reading it car...

No it doesn't. :roll:

But the Lorentz factor is always positive, so how can that be? :chin: Nevertheless, you're on an amazing roll. :clap:

Increasing entropy, I suppose.

With my scant knowledge of philosophy (or metaphysics) I can't tell whether Bob is out on the cutting edge or is being cleverly deceptive, ala Sokal a...

:chin:

Light moves slower than your minivan :rofl:

Which one? When?

In a journal?

It doesn't. It depends on the medium through which it travels. It can be made to creep very slowly indeed in the laboratory.

And complicated by the fact that different contexts could mean different superordinate circles.

:up: Says it in a nutshell. Things Greta Thunberg didn't think of when she became aware of the problem at the age of eight.

I am happy you have finally found a number to use in place of infinity. You could show us how that works with the Lorentz factor. :cool: This has to b...

Thanks. It's a matter of chains of encompassing superordinate categories with possible overlaps, I suppose. If so, I can see where you deal with infin...

An asymptotic relationship requires a function g(x) where Lim f(x)/g(x) =1 as x becomes infinite. Or something similar. A reference for this would hel...

Did you warn Jackson at least once, or did you simply ban him?

This seems arguably non-mathematical. "all numbers that end . . ." is still unbounded in the traditional sense. If, on the other hand, you mean positi...

You got me wondering if anyone does this line of research anymore. My conclusion, rarely. Here are a couple of papers, the second being more a survey....

The expression on the right is a way of summing a divergent series. (assuming we know what you mean with the notation)