I'm not sure this actually describes a physical system well, or that saying that this is "the ambition of science" says anything meaningful. Maxwell's...
Just as an additional point of clarification... once Mary sees red for the first time (fast forward through all of the "learning how to see" red to th...
It's a bit tough to talk about since in my mind the specs are a bit fuzzy. These tournaments I describe are often playing with some game theoretical s...
If information simply went back in time at all, it would be a "resulting" physical state that is also a "prior" physical state, but being a physical s...
If scientific is the standard and this is the rationale, I would think you should be skeptical of both Napoleon Hill's and Dunning-and-Kruger's studie...
Oh I'm not so interested in the actual Napoleon Hill, as I am in the epistemic standard being employed (though I would like to imagine Napoleon Hill p...
It's a fine point in the mechanics you describe. Suppose we're mulling over three options; A, B, and C. In terms of "effort" they may rank B, A, C; in...
You're mistaken in where your unwarranted assumption lies. This presumes that there are hazy assertions. Under a charitable interpretation, you misrea...
Okay. Your footnote for 1 was here: "Free ... to choose the lesser one" admits to a potential interpretation that the lesser is part of the considerat...
Out of interest, I offer the view that this is a bit too "easy" of a theory, and there's reason to suspect it can't quite work this way (this is quite...
Oh you silly confused soul, seeing liars behind your eyelids. I suppose you also see lies in the fact that 3*3=9, given we're multiplying two threes a...
Yes, but it's quite ineffective... we already knew you weren't here to learn. Along the same lines, I never heard that paragraph after the one you quo...
Good question. 1 is the product of zero primes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_product Where have you looked? Or am I your personal search engine...
MU has a metaphysical theory of numbers, he's a believer in them in the full b-word sense (it's part of his identity... almost literally), and modern ...
What are you talking about, "problem" and "required"? The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states, in the modern reading, that all positive integers ...
... ...while we're on the subject, what does the very next paragraph say? Welcome to the year 2020. So what's the problem? ...so where does that leave...
And you're immune to it? It was meant to be an analogy... primes are numbers, but not all numbers are prime, was the point. But apparently you're even...
Sorry, but we haven't resolved that there's an actual problem here (not to me, or to anyone else here that I've seen). If turtles are animals, why do ...
Lousy example. The number's representation is no more the number than you are a white M in a pink rectangle. You keep telling people to take a look at...
So we can't divide a pizza into 9 slices because the slices don't weigh the same, and we can't divide 1 into 9 because 9 isn't infinity. Sorry MU, but...
It is the case that you do not understand. By just doing so. I gave you an example, which is quite relevant, to help you understand. You ignored it. B...
So, the answer to the question of what the remainder of 0.(142857) is, is that there is in fact a remainder, it's clearly evident, mathematicians ough...
No, your imagine did. There are people who argue against LFW on the basis that there can only be determined and random things... if it's determined it...
What I mean is something like this: ... ...no; blaming the mathematicians for your not finding the remainder is not healthy skepticism. You didn't ans...
Wrong. To persuade is to convince someone that something is true. You are, in my estimation, unpersuadeable; you've invested huge chunks of your time ...
Multiple things. Playing a game. I'm trying to see how much perspective I can give you about your lack of competence in this area... that you're uncoo...
We've been through this MU. We're not debating... you're under the delusion that we're having a debate... that my goal is to persuade you, that I'm tr...
That's quite hedged... "closed" seems to imply not getting energy from somewhere else, and "simple" can mean anything. Regardless, there's not necessa...
Good... you're caught up then. Wrong. The fraction part of a mixed number specifies an exact portion of a unit. We can only say that 3/9=1/3 insofar a...
@"Metaphysician Undercover" <- look MU... free attention, freely given! I think the most important thing here is, what is MU's criteria for truth? MU ...
Unfortunately for you, that's not how language works. English is the language we speak, but it's also a relationship with England, and a type of spin ...
Color me surprised. You're only demonstrating your incompetence, over and over. You're just proving you don't speak the language. Wrong. The exact rat...
It just sounds interesting. :smile: I think we wind up at the same spot. You're correct IMO... I don't think we disagree... I think we're seeing the s...
But that's a false front... people with "opinions" like this don't generally hold the opinions because of the justifications they give; rather, they g...
By definition, division is the inverse of multiplying. Silly MU. Given any integer a; and any nonzero integers b, c, d: \displaystyle \frac{a}{b} \div...
^-- One of those two things is a lie. Most charitably, you're incapable of using the language. ^-- This is straight up paranoia. Deception has two par...
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