A Seagull

Since we have agreed that the truth of a statement is a label and not a property, how can a statement be 'evaluated' to a truth or falsity? Just becau...

The PC brigade are scared of free-speech because they do not have the intellectual capacity to refute comments or opinions that they do not like. Inst...

It is not so much hypothetical as it is my experience. :)

Who is 'feeding a logic sentence to a theory'? What is a 'logic sentence'? - as opposed to a 'non-logic sentence'? What theory are you referring to? A...

Yes, this is exactly right. Without this link words, statements and even philosophy are meaningless.

I prefer to deal with the real world rather than hypotheticals. If someone has said that they have proven something, but the proof is couched in jargo...

No, I just dismiss your hypothetical.

What does 'true' mean in this context? What makes you so certain that the statement is 'true'? At best the statement is not self-contradictory, but th...

Ok so 4>3. What is your point?

Without happiness and misery there is no life. Peace is non-life, ie death.

What makes you think you know anything at all 'objectively'? Isn't it just your ego coming to the fore to think that you do? In any case, why does it ...

Sure, but that doesn't mean that they are 'true'.

The problem is that there is no well-defined or logical process for determining whether a statement is 'true' or 'false'. And without such a process o...

It is nonsense for the reasons cited above.

I would prefer you to admit that you can't answer my questions nor respond sensibly to my comments.

This is what happens when you play with words without meaning or logic...you end up with nonsense.

Why do you claim that this is a 'proof'? What are the axioms and processes of inference for the logical system in which this 'proof' takes place? You ...

Even if we did live in a simulated world, the data relating to the simulated world would have to be stored somewhere, and this storage would have to b...

It is a lot simpler just to start with the natural numbers as axioms. Introducing set theory just complicates things and achieves nothing.

Why set theory? Set theory is pretty uninteresting really, apart from Venn diagrams which are fun and useful. I presume that you are referring to the ...

In teaching maths, I think it is important to make a clear distinction between pure (abstract) maths and applied (to the real world) maths. It is the ...

One needs first to clarify what 'x=x' means. What the claim that x=x means is that in a strictly logical system the symbol 'x' can be 'replaced with t...

If you really want to "establish a ground you can build your beliefs on", you need to avoid reading ancient philosophers, and indeed most modern ones ...

It was Winston Churchill who said this.

What do you mean by 'irrational'? Do you have anything more than a subjective judgement to label someone as 'irrational'? People are actually perfectl...

I think the core of the issue is in in assuming that a line can be constructed from points on the line. If we are talking about pure and abstract math...

Yes you have a good point. It seems that most people do not understand infinity. Infinity just means 'without end'. It is not a number and cannot be u...

Why do you call the categories 'primal' and 'non-primal'? 'Abstract' and 'real' would make better sense as there is a clear divide between the real wo...

The trouble with lies is that they not only attempt to deceive the other party but also lead to self-deception by the liar and a distorted self-image ...

Yellow is the colour of a banana. This is not a definition, it is an understanding, you have to see a banana to understand what it means.

But it is still playing with words. You define words in terms of other words, which no doubt, in turn, can be defined by other words. If you wish to s...

Agreed. It is just another example of playing with words.

I try to avoid debating with everyone, well most people anyway. I prefer to make brief comments to see what response I get, sometimes I get interestin...

Not at all, I am neither irritated, frustrated nor angry. It is all part of the great debate.

I think you are missing the point.

How could you possibly consider it to be false?? Do you think life is easy?? Do you think being dead is hard??? Anyway the quote is from : Nikos Kazan...

Nope, they all are .. including this one.. lol

Mainly because of the reactive force/acceleration of the surface of the Earth upon one's feet and also partly because of the rotation of the Earth and...

As a wise man once said: 'Life is trouble, only death is not'.

Well that is just your subjective opinion.

You are not inertial, you are accelerating towards the centre of the Earth. (There is an equivalence between gravity and acceleration.)

Maybe religion is the problem, not the cure. It is hard to interact effectively with the world if one believes lies about the world.

Religion is a lie; life is wonderful.

The fallacy is that what is supposed to be 'true' cannot be shown logically to be 'true', there is always an element of 'hand-waving' within the argum...

One cannot refute nonsense, it can only be ignored. Many so called arguments amount to little more than nonsense or an arbitrary arrangement of words;...

Well, yes I agree. The edifice of philosophy has become like the fictional Gormenghast castle, where people carry out the proscribed rituals but no on...

What do you mean by 'saturate'?

You don't have to believe either scenario. All you have to believe is that your friend said it. You only have to choose to believe one or the other sh...

It is up to each person to find their own happiness.

Quite so.