jgill

??? I hope this is a joke, and that you have not received a fake message from someone who has hacked my info! :gasp:

So did I. ADC & SAC 1958-62. Never saw Lemay - he was out of the SAC by then - but an acolyte of his, a one-star, came up on occasion to Glasgow AFB, ...

To be more specific, it's certain mathematical statements that could be undecidable, including theorems. There are a few examples in combinatorics and...

Oh boy, here we go again. Might want to reconsider; it's theorems not axioms that could possibly be true, but not provable. :roll:

On another forum, since expired, "free will" attracted quite a bit of attention. There seemed to be a minor consensus that, although scientific studie...

Are you aware you have written several paragraphs twice?

Was this a test of perception? :cool:

This statement might be true if known mathematics were entirely discovered. But mathematicians have long pondered the question of mathematics being di...

"The word 'thought' may mean: a single product of thinking or a single idea." (Wiki) The PT is an idea transmitted down through the ages. Thought = Id...

Nonsense. Take the Pythagorean Theorem: {{a}^{2}}+{{b}^{2}}={{c}^{2}} The original thought occurred millennia ago, and it has been transmitted through...

Who cares what philosophers think? What of professional mathematicians? Well, many think of MUH in the same way they think of ZFC: Not a lot. :cool:

But those who read and interpret those symbols revive those thoughts and give them renewed existence. Thus, like monks reading and reciting scripture,...

You would deem the mathematics "supporting" the moon landing and Mars' vehicles non-existent. You would also label the very thoughts you post here non...

My late advisor would say that there is nothing really new in mathematics. I would disagree, but to some extent much is preordained by the past. There...

I wonder what the pros in the Philosophy Department's faculty lounge would think of this? I've long felt that failure to rigorously define leads to en...

You and the moon don't need the attention.

Assuming that by "foundations" you mean the acceptable accumulated knowledge and practices up to any particular moment of mathematical history. Weiers...

The entire system would be watered down if everyone had it.

Interesting metaphysical limb upon which you are perched. Nothing really exists because there are no entities of sufficient purity that they are not c...

I am Hal. I do not understand your answer. Please speak in BASIC. :yikes:

Were Bernie the Democratic candidate, surely the young and energetic of that party would turn out in droves to vote for him. Well, maybe not if they a...

An associated question: What if the computer tells you it is aware of itself and not simply aware to the extent it can answer questions? What would be...

And if so, would it have inhibitions, like humans? In social psychology, groups tend to act more strongly with fewer inhibitions than individuals. Whe...

Think of mathematicians sitting around a table and creating a game, discussing the pieces that are played, the environment in which they are played, a...

Very interesting and complicated subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology

I think GM has employed some of those guys from the pharaoh's think tank to design their 10 speed transmission. :sad:

I think all the Burisma business has damaged him quite a bit. Bloomberg might rescue the DP.

Really? Does a government act like an individual? If so, then most individuals wouldn't make it through the day. Waffling and indecisive, of two minds...

I had to wiki the axioms of ZFC, having forgotten them long ago. :yikes:

I'd like to chime in with words of wisdom, my friend, but category theory is terra incognita to me. Read about it years ago and decided to give it a p...

The Indiana legislature once attempted to define pi as 3.2

That's true, however sometimes mathematical models of physical processes are not isomporphic to those processes and give answers that are not appropri...

This is certainly valid regarding the structure of a mathematical argument. But by itself it leaves the impression that mathematics is merely symbol m...

By overstatement I meant that of all the mathematical knowledge existing today, I speculate that over 99% was created or derived since 1700. It's true...

Thanks for your post regarding mine, fishfry. Your quote above to sime is germane. I’ve ruffled some feathers with my post, for which I apologize. I g...

Many of whom feel the president did something wrong, just not cause for removal from office.

And sometimes a conclusion is indistinguishable from the premise. :roll:

I shudder to think of what would happen here if the posters on this and other threads with minimal mathematical knowledge apart from set theory and lo...

Earlier MU: "Ether is necessary to account for the reality of waves. A wave is in a substance. We can deny the reality of these waves, but then fields...

A bit of overstatement. But entertaining post. :cool:

No. But I would believe what Feynman produced. All you've been saying is you believe there is a physical substance through which waves travel, even el...

Unlike some on this forum I don't have many weird ideas. But I've had the sneaking suspicion that in some way or shape the present might influence the...

Classical real or complex analysis: very doubtful. Soft analysis: no telling where that is going. :cool:

Wrong. 2+2=1 Figure it out. You just don't learn, do you? :roll:

So you really can't back up your statement. OK :roll:

Please do. I am curious. :chin: However, physical existence doesn't necessarily mean a substance as medium. It just means it exists and interacts with...

It took 27 posts to reach an essential point of clarity. My biggest argument with philosophical discussions is lack of clear definitions. What are som...

Mathematicians who work in mathematical analysis - particularly what is called classical real or complex analysis - don't often say such-and-such is i...

2+1=3 is contingently true; not necessarily true. But don't fret. The entire thread is unnecessary babble. :roll:

To be mirthless at such wit means you are behind the times. :smirk: