Wayfarer

No probs, just wanting to clear up that possibly ambiguous reading of @"Clarky"'s statement.

A bit simplistic. That belongs more to Carnap than Collingwood, of whom SEP says: So Collingwood was not dismissing metaphysics in the way that the po...

Of course! Wasn't suggesting anything of the kind. Sleep well.

You want metaphysics, there's some ;-)

You might find Jaques Maritain's essay The Cultural Impact of Empiricism food for thought. (Maritain, d.1973, was a leading French neo-Thomist philoso...

Still trying to work out who those millions were, and why "Belgiums", especially considering that Belgium is actually a country. :chin:

A lot of that is because he's very hard to understand, and it's a lot easier to dismiss him than to understand him. After all, he's a dead white male,...

No, that's what you've said. You say in your OP, you can't imagine it being any different. That's because you live in a society that has made these di...

But you don't know that. It's quite feasible that the wheel was invented because some Cro-Magnon discovered that you could roll a big rock on logs. Ba...

But you’re assuming just the thing that is in question. You know, ‘the task of philosophers is to wonder at what men think ordinary’. Philosophy asks ...

I was told by a professor of philosophy that the Universe is finite but unbounded. (I believe that is also Einstein's understanding.) It means, you ca...

I was referring to this thread on physics forum. I felt I had spotted an error that the first response set straight but this is obviously not the plac...

What does 'locally realistic' mean? It doesn't make a lot of sense as plain English. Incidentally, I've been reading an article on QBism. As far as I ...

Never mind, I was being sarcastic, which I ought not to do.

Yes, and he provided such a stellar example of that.

Splendid rationale for diversity, but it doesn’t appeal to me. I have to try and say something about my view. Rather than Nietszche's abandonment of t...

I do want to know a bit more about Husserl's philosophy of maths, although I fear that it's a very dense subject. But I don't feel comfortable with th...

Amazing that inventions work so well, then. Or maybe they're all in the mind as well?

Indeed they do. The current top thread is on interpretations of non-locality. Hey, I could spot the error in the first sentence of the second paragrap...

Into what, exactly? With the abolition of the celestial hierarchy there's nothing to be transformed into, except maybe a more intelligent (or should w...

That's because physics forum gives short shrift to anything the classify as philosophy. I've posted there a bit. Thanks for clearing that up. That's w...

So what's the diff? Anyway, I'm not arguing the case, it's a supreme irony that Nietszche of all people has now assumed the status of Sacred Cow.

The popular view is that the Bible promisses to give man dominion over the earth and that Western culture has exploited that to ransack the planet. Bu...

If you don't see the point of Wigner's essay, there's not a lot of purpose me trying to explain it again.

Found it googling 'wayfarer'. Never understand the pull of Nietszche. My view is that if mankind is unable to acknowledge their difference from and se...

was it you I was talking to about Afrikan Spir's book?

I meant to get more of a feel for the Copenhagen interpretation.

We’ll you can throw a rock, or eat an apple, but you can surf a wave. Good pick up. Speculate is the wrong word. But it does concern meanings. You can...

…all of which quite different to ‘substance, a material with uniform properties’.

To do with reference frames and the relativity of time of measurement, I guess. I can only get information from popular science, like Quanta Magazine ...

That is true. But as the article then says. 'the paradox is that a measurement made on either of the particles apparently collapses the state of the e...

Don't be mislead, the statement you've quoted is wrong in every particular, to my knowledge. Review Matt O'Dowd's PBS Space Time video above, he gives...

Richard Maurice Bucke said that the 'superman' was exemplified in those beings who had broken through into cosmic consciousness, 'as far above normal ...

'Ouisia' is a form of the Greek word 'to be', and so the word is nearer in meaning to 'being' or 'subject'. It was translated into Latin as 'substanti...

This is an important point. It comes out much later with respect to the arguments about universals as the mechanism of meaning. As Plato believes that...

I don't believe so. You haven't read the evidence about it. If it was as trivial a matter as you're suggesting, then there would be nothing to discuss...

You can't be sure they will, but just in case, here is the essay you're referring to. Why Wigner says it is 'unreasonable' is because of the sense in ...

that’s how I understand it too. This idea of there being permanent, unchangeable objects - the original meaning of ‘atom’! - no longer holds. So the a...

And you wouldn't be alone in that, but I've long since reconciled myself to it.

The article is correct - information cannot be transmitted faster than light. Yet in the Bell experiments, the correlation between separated particles...

'Instantaneous' means 'no time'. That's why Einstein couldn't accept it. The 'Bell inequalities' experiments confirm that the correlation between the ...

But information is not travelling anywhere. It's not as if the properties of A are being communicated to B - that B can be 'informed about' A. That's ...

Only when imbued with the breath of life, and that sure ain't made from clay. ;-)

I think there's other ways of seeing it. The depiction of God as a vengeful parent punishing people for not bending the knee is something of a caricat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafGL02EUOA

Hanson will scrape in, it seems, but she’s going to be very much on her own. Also wanted to put on the record here that I WAS WRONG about Albanese. IN...

That quote was attributed to me, but they were not my words, it was a quote from John Bell. That is not too far from the advice to 'shutup and calcula...

Good for you.

Just like that! Rabbit out of hat. No further explanation needed, or worth pursuing. Move along.