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You sure bristle about it quite a lot yourself. What's the meaning of the LEM, according to you?

Artificial doubt, manufactured doubt, is a problem. Well grounded doubt is not. If there is doubt about the seriousness or the origin of the doubt, ma...

For one, I was correct, and you would long have realized it if you weren't so contrarian. For two, your little experiment made you look like you were ...

Never heard that line. There's no taboo that i know of on criticizing big pharma.

I can agree with that. Capitalism mechanically leads to an unhealthy concentration of power. I still welcome the attention paid at long last to malari...

They've cheated before therefore they can't produce a useful vaccine. Understood. Now that I think of it, my wife cheated on me once. Gonna throw her ...

Great news!

Thanks for the info. Anything else you want to share? I must congratulate you for learning, at long last, to use the quote feature. Well done!

No offence, but I think you pay too much attention to naïve materialists. You know, the kind of people who think their selves (i.e. themselves) don't ...

I consider myself an empiricist, and yet I accept the existence of concepts. Am I doing something wrong?

You know, maybe with a little good will you would be able to understand what I am saying. It's not that complicated. Otherwise, have fun with the othe...

The math involved in structural engineering have changed overtime. If in one of these changes, them engineers postulated that anything mathematical is...

I wouldn't call it pointless to point at one consequence among many. Your choice of word. But we agree on the rest.

I think it's always a good idea to ask precise questions; that was the sense of my input.

:-) That's something I do too: post here a song brought to mind by a discussion on another thread.

Indeed, race is not a valid biological concept. Rather it is a cultural concept i.e. a social construct. Which doesn't mean it's moot, but there's no ...

I think he asked: Did we invent or did we discover chess? This I read as a parallel to the question of whether math are invented or discovered.

As already explained, this is not really the question at hand, rather it is a bit of a caricature of the more general question at hand, which was: How...

The point is that allowing contradictions as fine and mellow in mathematics would contradict the LEM.

Fair enough. As I said, if anyone wants to build a parallel form of mathematics where the LEM does not apply, I see no objection whatsoever. As long a...

Wonderful. On my side it feels very good to agree with Turing -- enigma buster & war hero, inventor of the computer -- and to disagree with Wittgenste...

Why then, i guess your answer to Wittgenstein ought to be: don't dispose of the LEM, it's useful...

Wittgenstein is literally asking why should one be afraid of contradictions in mathematics. What you or the author are saying, I don't know. I would a...

He is saying that the LEM is not always useful. So? We should give it up just like that? When you find out that your cellphone cannot mow the lawn, do...

Ridiculous.

I don't read this in the only (?) direct quote provided in that article, which reads as follows: (emphasis mine) Also from the article (though not a d...

If that's what LW was saying, i.e. that we can in practice tolerate a few inconsistencies here or there in math as long as we know how to deal with th...

That's because you take the whole question of 'can the liar's paradox break bridges' a bit too literally. The real question hidden behind this tag lin...

Why yes. What's in our mind may at some point translate into real material structures like bridges, that are designed by someone using mathematics. If...

Mathematics are in our mind, and science and technology too.

If you want to allow contradictions in mathematics, you need to include in your axiomatic the possibility that two mathematical statements contradicti...

Nevertheless, allowing contradictions at the level of foundations would result in contradictions permeating the whole body of mathematics, and in the ...

Beethoven's Hymn to Joy, by the Red Army Choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAzU2gZcyzY

I am indebted to you for those Rage Against the Machine clips. I never listened to them much before. Keep them coming.

Good foundations are not absolutely necessary to build a good house, but they make it easier. When I was in first grade, my teacher was an old woman w...

Good one. Maybe antirealists are only realist about antimatter, but not about the other stuff? ;-)

I guess common sense and patriotism aren't for you then. Ciao...

Yes. Hard to understand why anyone would dispute Turing's point. If one allows contradictions within mathematics, they will spread everywhere, in all ...

Maybe you could write to the Pentagon and ask them to gently slow down their vaccination efforts, so you can better spread your ideological bullshit?

You disagree with yourself, though. First you vaccinate, then you argue against vaccination online... Not very logical all that, and quite confused.

That is a very bizarre idea. A debilitated army is what you want? An army sick in bed so that anyone can attack and destroy your nation? The militarie...

You want to see this till the end. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ

Now for an Italian entry, very folkish which is rare in these parts, by Edoardo Bennato. About Utopia I guess. Second star on the right, this is the p...

Maybe a little prudence would have been in order, like not spreading artificial doubt and confusion in the midst of a crisis. That could be a useful l...

Yes of course, it's not perfect. Keeping up with the tempo is important, in real time. More important than perfection. Deviation is also creative thou...

On the first beat of the waltz All alone you smile already On the first beat of the waltz I am alone but I can see you And Paris who beats the tempo P...

I half agree. On the one hand I see no reason to limit realism to semantic realism. Realism is about the existence of a mind-independent reality, not ...

Well then, you must conclude that no statements are propositional.... (says he, propositionally), because all statements in human language are ambiguo...

What's you story Baker? You got yourself vaccinated, then you regretted it?

It's not been debunked yet. We live in a Popperian era. Or we should. Anyone discussing verificationism should check the news: the movement is dead, f...