Harry Hindu

It's not just that. Nothing is an imaginary concept. Nothing is actually something - an idea. What about zero probability (ie. impossibility)? Is impo...

So I'm experiencing my brain? Here I thought I was experiencing the world the whole time. Is your post in my brain or in the world that my brain acces...

Right. You can point to humans. Can you point to god or nothing? Try doing the same thing with the concepts of god and nothing. There are conceptions ...

Because they are part of the flow, or one of the things that flows (changes), relative to the flow of the other things inside the block. It's not time...

This is typical KK. Are you and Banno long lost twins? Why don't you learn about epistemological probability. Probabilities are simply degrees of beli...

I was already there in my first reply to unenlightened. It just took you a while to realize it.

Except when the mechanics of probability and randomness are what are being questioned.

I should also add that discourse in one domain should not contradict the discourse in another domain. All knowledge must be integrated.

Right. So, computational logic and propositional logic only differ in the rules they use to refer to, or express, beliefs. You can still make commands...

I just dont see whats so difficult in explaining your use of terms . Random is a term that assumes that your choices are probable, so you didnt really...

Discourse and ideas are still about something, even when talking and thinking about nothing. Zero is just another concept about the quantity of someth...

Its your thought experiment with words that already assume what your thought experiment is trying to prove.

If you have five pigs in a pen and I steal all of your pigs, you don't have nothing. Air now fills the space where the pigs were. You have yet to show...

That's odd, because you seem to be saying that the way things truly are is that Einstein and I are wrong.

But you just showed that NOT one bachelor does not equal nothing, but one of something else. You're moving the goal posts. Does this mean that your im...

I'm asking, how is something randomly chosen?

So what? Different languages have different rules for the same symbols. We can still translate the meaning and end up saying the same thing in differe...

How does one select one at random? If we knew all the pre-existing conditions, like the position of the balls vs. your hand. If you knew all the pre-e...

An error is a fallacy.

Yes. Probabilities are just concepts related to our ignorance of the causal relationships of which we are talking about. To say that there is no way o...

What you said here is incorrect: Then not something isn't necessarily nothing. I did explain myself. I said, that I don't see how you could set out an...

Seems like a silly question to me. I don't see how you could even set out answering such a question.

Is not a bachelor a married man or nothing?

Probabilities are just ideas stemming from our ignorance. Reality just is a certain way. It's not more probable to be a certain way than another. It a...

And nothing is an idea, therefore nothing is something. Is a vacuum something or nothing?

I don't see how this follows. How does the number of configurations of things make something more likely than nothing? Exactly. What came before deter...

NOT some thing isnt necessarily nothing either, but can be some other thing. Prove that nothing is anything other than a thought - which is something.

Not everything is not necessarily something. It could possibly be nothing as well. Contradiction. It is more accurate to say that there is always some...

What are you trying to accomplish when using the logic of propositions vs. the logic of commands? Do both not express some sort if belief? but then it...

Everything encompasses something. Everything = All (some)things.

The question was, "Was Galileo doing science before he published?" I learned a long time ago, in a philosophy forum far, far away that you are more in...

The distinction is meaningless in regards to the question of why there is something rather than nothing. To say whether it is more or less likely that...

Everything entails something. The latter is a contradiction. Nothing is not something that exists. One might say that existence is the opposite of not...

Looks like both are saying the same thing. Not sure I'm really understanding your question. The absence of one thing doesn't mean nothing. It means so...

My reply to unenlightened showed that A needs to be defined prior to A = A + 1, or else the statement is false (it returns an error). You can't use a ...

So Galileo wasn't doing science when he devised the modern scientific method and performed his experiments in private, away from the watchful eyes of ...

It assumes nothing can exist, or that something can come from nothing, but we know that to be wrong, therefore I don't see how asking such a question ...

Thats a different question that your formula doesn't address. It also seems like a useless non-sensical question. How useful do you expect the answer ...

The key to understanding the relationship between philosophy (metaphysics) and science (physics) is to realize that philosophy is a science. And the c...

We do have the answer. Something exists. Therfore, this whole endeavor is unnecessary.

So you are no longer interested in the subject if it no longer resides in the domain of philisophy and becomes part of the domain of science. I can un...

Start off with the basics. When you have a thought of red, is the thought a color or a word? But then words can be colored scribbles. So is red a colo...

That's an unfounded assumption. How did you come to the certain conclusion that something existing and nothing existing are equiprobable outcomes?

Which is akin to what I've been saying. The more specific we are with our definitions, the more falsifiable those definitions are. To assert the exist...

I wouldnt need to look everywhere, only where swans live, or in its genetic code where there would be the potential for non- white feathers to be expr...

And if it's neither, then the statement is verifiable and falsifiably shown to be nothing other than an unjustified belief, which is to say that it is...

Did anyone understand the article? I'm responding to your examples. If you're examples aren't good representations of what was said in the article, it...

We could just say that one of the characteristics of metal is that it expands when heated. Anything else would be, at best, semi-metal. We can simply ...

It seems to me that both sentences are describing both things, because both sentences say the same thing, just from different views.

Correspondence is a mental activity. When you use words, you have a belief about how words are used. But what about when you need to use a screwdriver...