T_Clark

Yes, that’s just what I was thinking.

@"Banno" explains science and math. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11bEGWU8r74

I took a class in psychological measurement in college lo these many decades. This was how precision and accuracy were described. They are both statis...

This is from “The Black Cottage” by Robert Frost, one of my favorite poems.

A long discussion of freedom of speech probably doesn’t belong in this thread. I’m going to leave it at that.

And the people in power are the ones who decide where that “certain reasonable point” is.

I don’t know what that means.

When you give them an opportunity, the people in power are the ones who get to decide what “sustains the conditions for open, inclusive, and rational ...

As I noted in my response to Jamal, an entire thread here on the forum proposing that the same thing should happen to men did not receive any complain...

It’s funny, this is exactly the argument people use when they want people to stop talking about issues that go against those in power. Every tyranny t...

Once here on the forum, there was an entire thread about how good it would be if we could figure out a technological way to get rid of men so that the...

Good post. I’m not used to seeing anger from you. You do it well.

Ham hocks, which are similar, work really well in split pea soup.

The required justification applies at the time when a decision is required, not at some time in the future when previous justifications have "dissolve...

Your formulation seems unnecessarily complicated to me. As I see it, the purpose of knowledge is to allow us to make decisions, to act, effectively an...

I'll give a couple of examples. One of the most prominent is the capacity for language. Another important one is the capacity for what Konrad Lorenz c...

You think you've got it bad. I live next to a cemetery.

Welcome to the forum. There are plenty of unsharpened blades here on the forum. Judging from your post, you're not one of them. If you've read my post...

This is what I meant to say before I pushed the post button by mistake. There are some of us who think the world is a wonderful place and others who t...

Do you have a source for that information?

Here, wait a second, I'm going to imagine infinity... There, satisfied? Want me to do it again? It's not a magic power, it's just imagination. Nuff sa...

I don't understand how "...every pair of rational numbers is separated by a countably infinite number of other rational numbers." implies "a limit in ...

But it is a great song.

The lyrics were written by Robert Altman's son when he was 15.

In the words of Ray Wylie Hubbard - i’m not looking for God and I just wanna see what’s next.

Who are you to tell me what I am or am not imagining. Just because you can't imagine something infinitely large or infinitesimally small doesn't mean ...

The best expression I've found of the sentiment I'm describing is the Chuang Tzu quote you reference. When I first read it, after already having read ...

Welcome to the forum. Of course what we call knowledge isn't, never will be, and never can be "stable and reliable." This demonstrates that justified ...

Although my focus was on inborn human nature, I specified that it works by interacting with environmental factors. As I wrote: " Human nature isn't th...

You have to use the @ function at the top of the comment box or write it with quotes around t clark.

If I remember correctly, Pythagoras or one of those other Greek math guys calculated pi by dividing up a circle into uniform triangular pie slices. It...

The @ function won't automatically tag my name. I think that's because it includes a space. But if you type it in by hand, it will work.

The aspects of human nature I've proposed are not intended to be comprehensive - they're just examples. I think there's a lot more going on. Humans ar...

I'm not sure what you mean by "alternative continuum." The mathematical interpretation of Zeno's paradox seems straightforward to me. Evaluating limit...

It is my understanding that the appropriate mathematics didn’t exist in Zeno’s time.

My standard complaint about philosophical thought experiments is that they are usually simplistic and unrealistic. Yes, I mean you Trolly Problem. I d...

Matthew 27:45–47 - Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a ...

There’s a difference between asking a question and whining. And I’m not a Christian, with or without quotations.

Geez, this is a free service run by volunteers. To quote Sideshow Bob, what we need here is more thinking and Les Wynan.

Find the draft button. It’s in various places, depending on the particular device you’re using. Push on that and it will show the things that are draf...

Mathematically, the infinite sum of the series in question is 1.

On my systems posts are automatically saved as drafts unless you erase them. It took me quite a while to figure out how to do that.

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Stephen Pinker think we have inborn natures. So do I. Others are skeptical. Emerson calls it our "genius...

Sorry, I don't get it. It seems self-evidently goofy. That's a technical philosophical term. Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems like a simple...

Boy, I tried. I found it impenetrable. As I understand it, the idea of objective reality is metaphysics. It's not our only choice of the way to see th...

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. As I see it, if I can determine a proposition is false, it must be logically falsifiable. I had never he...

Welcome to the forum. Well... I agree with everything you've written, but you'd probably like something more than just that. Like you, I find most phi...

I read the paper you linked and I enjoyed it. The guy writes really well, which isn't the same as saying I understood everything he wrote. What he wri...