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Of course you do, because you keep avoiding this question: What form does "All bachelors are unmarried" take in your mind? How do you know that you're...
January 03, 2020 at 14:42
If its everywhere, it universal. Objects appear in my visual field as an instinctive act - without any intent of objectifying anything. It isnt cultur...
January 03, 2020 at 14:23
I dont understand why people still resort to pointing to long-dead philosophers claims as if they'd say the same thing knowing what we know today. Tha...
January 03, 2020 at 14:08
Why? Beings are made of inanimate matter. The only difference is the complexity with which some thing is affected by the environment and then reacts t...
January 03, 2020 at 14:03
Double post
January 03, 2020 at 13:53
I explained why. Pay attention. What vase would be large enough to keep putting in 10 balls while only removing one? The vase would have to be an infi...
January 03, 2020 at 13:53
Stop avoiding the question. I already pointed out that blind people use braille to feel the words. The tactile sensations are empirical and are the in...
January 03, 2020 at 13:40
I'm only reiterating what you seem to have said. You avoided answering my questions and cherry-picked my post, so you're not clarifying.
January 03, 2020 at 13:36
Then what form do their, and your, thoughts take? How do you know you're thinking?
January 03, 2020 at 01:20
Qualia is not output. It's the input. I have no idea what this means. Your links are imply that I should be looking these trends up in a dictionary. I...
January 03, 2020 at 01:19
It's is because we are visual creatures. Most of our information about the world is provided visually. Our visual field has more distinctions within i...
January 02, 2020 at 21:59
Of course we see the output. They are the nerve signals that get sent to the limbs to take action, or to the mouth to speak, etc. I did say that the o...
January 02, 2020 at 21:54
Are you being purposely obtuse? I'm not talking about what the words are about. I'm talking about the words themselves. You would never know about tho...
January 02, 2020 at 21:45
Double post
January 02, 2020 at 21:39
You physically can't keep putting 10 balls in a vase, while only removing one. It's an unrealistic thought experiment. I'm not talking about any type ...
January 02, 2020 at 21:39
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Then why form your reply as an argument rather than an agreement. If what you are saying is that we are saying the same thing differently, then just s...
January 02, 2020 at 21:15
Objects are what is. Subjects are about what is.
January 02, 2020 at 14:20
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You don't know what redundant means. What are you saying when you say x? Are you just making a sound, or does the sound symbolize something that isn't...
January 02, 2020 at 14:15
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Yes, saying something redundant about x. X is a symbol and symbols are already about something. A symbol can't be about itself. Then its not a symbol,...
January 02, 2020 at 04:18
Seems like you and everyone here in this thread is trying to argue for their own objective truth - informing readers how things truly are, and even ho...
January 02, 2020 at 04:11
So the boundary is other universes. Time is relative change. Change in each universe is relative to the other, so time and space would encompass the m...
January 01, 2020 at 13:23
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Then make a better argument. :up:
January 01, 2020 at 13:20
A server. A display screen is only one type of output that a computer can use. They can also produce sound, printing on paper, 3-D printing, tactile s...
January 01, 2020 at 05:19
You're not reading my entire post. I asked how you learned and use language without using your eyes and ears. When you read instructions on how to ass...
January 01, 2020 at 04:31
There can be no infinite collections in reality because an infinite collection of something would leave no room for anything else in reality. The infi...
January 01, 2020 at 04:22
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They're both saying the same thing. The latter sentence just says it twice. Redundant.
January 01, 2020 at 04:04
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Showing something that we already know is redundant. Redundant information is not useful. Harry Hindu: Hello, I'm Harry. Who are you? Mac: Hello, Harr...
January 01, 2020 at 01:30
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Like I said, that doesn't show us anything that we didn't already know. x = x is no different than just stating x.
December 31, 2019 at 20:31
I thought you were talking about bananas, not reality. You're moving the goalposts. Reality can be infinite, but if bananas were infinite is reality j...
December 31, 2019 at 17:37
Sure, numbers can go on forever, but a row of bananas? Impossible. One is imaginary while the other isn't. You're confusing the two.
December 31, 2019 at 17:32
An infinite collection has no start and no end.
December 31, 2019 at 17:25
:confused: And algebraic symbols have curves and circles and lines. 6 + 0 = 6 You draw the symbols on paper, or repeat them with auditory symbols in y...
December 31, 2019 at 17:23
This is another one of those philosophical "problems" that is a misuse of terms. How does one add a banana at the beginning of a row of infinite banan...
December 31, 2019 at 17:13
We are visual creatures. We think in mostly visual forms. Our thoughts have form and those forms are the same as all of the sensory impressions we are...
December 31, 2019 at 16:27
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Right, so x wouldn't be your name in this case. X would be your physical self and your name would just be one of the combined variables. You = human +...
December 30, 2019 at 20:49
If my beliefs contradict yours, who determines whose belief deserves to be protected? I've been called things that I'm not and I dont try to take away...
December 30, 2019 at 20:45
Seems to me that this definition is saying that gender is a property of a culture, not a body. So to change your gender would require you to change yo...
December 30, 2019 at 16:24
Sure, there are genes that have nothing to do with sex, because our sex is only part of what it means to be an sexual organism vs. an asexual organism...
December 30, 2019 at 16:15
How does she know it wasn't raining while Bob was hosing the window? Bob hosing the window isn't justification for it not to have rained earlier. This...
December 30, 2019 at 16:00
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Sure. X is your name. But then what if someone else is named Mac? The differences between the two Macs is their differing combined variables, not thei...
December 30, 2019 at 15:49
I come from "both" (they are not separate) the "world" of science and of programming (computer science). Programming is useless until you put the prog...
December 30, 2019 at 15:42
Not science, politics. I already showed that science proves that two genders are the biological realities. The traditional diagram is also political. ...
December 29, 2019 at 14:43
Exactly. Which is to say that justification is the only requirement for when someone uses the word, "know". I think we got mixed up again. Are we talk...
December 28, 2019 at 14:31
Provability requires observation. Axioms take some kind of form in the mind, or else how do you know you have them? The forms they take are the forms ...
December 28, 2019 at 14:16
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I don't see how X=X represents how we identify things. This is essentially saying Mac=Mac. What does this tell me that I don't already know? If I were...
December 28, 2019 at 14:02
What about a computation that results in a number with an infinite number of decimal values? It seems to me that word-use along with number-use are ap...
December 27, 2019 at 17:00
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Really, show me a excerpt from a book on evolution by natural selection that refers to the reflexive property of x=x. x=x is the reflexive property. x...
December 27, 2019 at 16:47
Then your talking about something that no one knows anything about. So how does one get to know it is raining? How can you claim that your belief is t...
December 27, 2019 at 16:41
How is 3+3=6 useful for knowing how much of my income the government wants? If the government wants 50% of my income, do I just write 50% on a sheet o...
December 27, 2019 at 16:33
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It appears that you are confusing biology with mathematics.
December 27, 2019 at 16:30