You’ve got a point. However, what I really mean is this: There certainly are many people who have the resources (time, money, energy, asf.) to do usef...
By the sentence "the sun is identical to itself", I mean that the Sun is the selfsame thing as itself. This concerns only the Sun itself and has nothi...
It seems that what you mean by “Law of Identity” is not the same as what I mean by “Law of Identity”. Why I mean by that expression is the law that ea...
What, then, is an example of a trivial truth? True, but when you say I have to counter: The Identity Law isn’t a law about the meanings of terms, is i...
Actually, patterns do very much exist, and they can’t die, either. The laws of quantum theory tell us that information is preserved, and patterns are ...
It’s actually because I love my family and am thankful to my parents for having begotten me. Why shouldn’t they be happy? By all means, they should! O...
Of course it isn’t necessarily trivial for us, but for logic (witcraft), any two logically equivalent propositions are basically the same, and since a...
Importantly, I can “see” the thing meant by ‘4’ and the thing meant by ‘5’, but I can’t “see” any entity x which is a mind and stands behind any accou...
Well, it certainly isn’t old-fashioned or outmoded for me :smile:. But aren’t all lineages equally old, namely billions of years? (I’m splitting hairs...
Try to say “5 is odd” and “six is even” at the same moment. Well, when I was little, I thought to myself that almight includes the ability to make som...
It means being true by the laws of logic and thereby true in a very strong, very necessary way. Actually, the two are equivalent, and I think that you...
Of course I’m a man. After all, I’m called “Tristan”, and I signed my very first post on this forum with the masculine (manly) a-stem “Tristanaz”, whe...
I don’t really want to go into the details there because it isn’t the subject of this thread, but I regard categories, properties, and other universal...
(my boldening) You express your right feeling for the truth of LNC in the words emboldened by me above. In order not to be wrong, you first have to di...
Well, when I’m in radical-questioning-mode, I regard eveything as a hypothesis, inlcuding the Law of Identity and even this very statement. However, w...
I’ve always wanted to go on with this thread, but I had been putting it off and forgetting it at times. Interesting ideas. You’ve got a point, and it’...
:confused:??? Well, regardless of whose opinion it is, it is false, plain and simple. If you had kept up with mathematical developments in the last ov...
Perhaps, but if there is a contradiction, where is it? Also, speech is important, but let’s not overestimate its importance. We know Existence itself ...
Actually, conjunction is a bit like multiplication, whereas it is exclusive disjunction (EITHER-OR, XOR) which is a bit like addition. And like multip...
Who said that they would? I’ve only done a certain mental activity which I interpret as telling my fingers to type that post and send it, and I hypoth...
I’d say the mind, and I’d most probably stay with the one who has my wife’s mind. However, more importantly, I’d hunt for the mad scientist or thought...
Interesting question! I think that you seem to think of conjunction (AND, ?) as akin to addition (PLUS, +) and of logical negation (NOT, ¬) as akin to...
No, not at all, but everything must be either black or not black, and either white or not white. No, not really. Precise (Narrowkiry) mathematical the...
Firstly, check out this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eke#Etymology_1 to brush up your English. Secondly, it’s no wonder that this talk is just gett...
Not even I, the friend of Anglish (Anglisc), have heard of it :wink:. Let’s just use “he”, for orspringlily (originally), the so-called “masculine” ge...
Well, if he knows that he knows nothing, then on one hand, what he knows must be true – otherwise he couldn’t know (wissen) it –, so he indeed knows n...
Eking (Addition/Amendment): (the ekings below are in bold typeface) “Reckonil” (cf. Theech "Rechner") is the right English word for “computer”. “To re...
Let’s not lose sight of the topic of this thread, namely Platonism and platonism. Let’s first talk about Platonism, the philosophy of Plato. This phil...
reply to my posts or quote me, I get notified of your answers.] Are you saying that Damascius (Damaskios) was a rationalist? Anyway, Damascius’ though...
I don’t think so, for I didn’t assume LEM; rather, I proved it with the help of LNC and LDN. These two, in turn, follow directly from the wist (essenc...
@"Gary M Washburn" I find the Shape (Form, Idea, Widea) of Contrariety indeed spellbinding. Let’s now apply it to itself in a way: If everything isn’t...
Well, LEM follows from LNC (the Law of Not-Contradiction) and LDN (the Law of Double Negation) like so: For every proposition A, it’s true that if 0. ...
The word “Shape” with an uppercase ‘S’ means the same as “Form” (with uppercase ‘F’) and “Idea” (with uppercase ‘I’), as in “Theory of Shapes/Forms/Id...
It’s true that Jungle Law seems to be the ultimate law in this world, but that doesn’t mean that we should simply accept it. After all, we hope to hav...
Yes, I agree. That is indeed a good aspect of Rome. Compare that to the (for the most part) very ethno-supremacist ancient Greeks (Diogenes of Sinope ...
You’re right, that’s very likely human nature, and it’s a main reason why almost all empires are bad as far as they are empires – after all, the empir...
True, and that’s the thing; we aren’t actually referring to individual papers. The expression does refer to something, though, and that something must...
Well, I do admit that I’m not (hopefully only yet?) wise, not even remotely, and so my thoughts are still full of vagueness, so it comes as not surpri...
Well, I could be dreaming up all those other people with whom I talk, couldn’t I? Or, to be less radically solipsistic, how would anything change for ...
That’s actually not my position. I hold that there is no such thing as a concrete object, and that all things are abstract. The only beondes ("things"...
It’s true that most (though not all) ancients very likely had less to far less moral knowledge than most (though by far not all) moderners do, just as...
But I believe to have shown that you do. How else could we do that which we call “talking about even odd numbers”? There are no even odd numbers, and ...
I don’t know for sure*, but I’d say yes; what takes shape in a cloud chamber has the property meant by the word “cloudhood”, but it also depends on wh...
More broadly, imperialism is by its very wist (nature, essence) very wrong and unrightwise (unjust) – in most cases –, for it involves one folk steali...
Another important thing is that there aren’t simply “the Romans”, but different individuals with different merits and demerits among them. For instanc...
It is important to see both the merits and the demerits of an entity, be it an individual, a state, or an institution, and to realize that merits are ...
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