Janus

I agree that there cannot be inexpressible beliefs, but I would not say that all beliefs are beliefs "that such-and-such". Instead I would say that al...

Perhaps 'kinds' could be thought to be somehow misleading to the unwary. Substitute 'categories' if it will make you feel better. Another, somewhat re...

Yes, it's true that linguistic expressions are also actions.

That's right; there are obviously no non-linguistic beliefs which are expressed; you have simply uttered a tautology that tells us nothing. The only p...

Perhaps you would be better served to simply say 'those which are expressed linguistically and those which are not".

"Concrescence" for Whitehead, if i am not mistaken, refers to the result of becoming concrete.

As I understand it most recorded mystical experiences are given within a religious or cultural framework. Absent any framework there is nothing to say...

I would have gone for a decaying foetid turd, although I'm not sure if even the swine would gobble it up.

It's not a matter of saying everything is information; but of saying that everything contains, or bears, or carries, or embodies, or manifests informa...

It's not really a metaphor, merely a less strict usage. Explain how you think it "obfuscates the subject". The only problem I can think of with such a...

Then I think you're being overly pedantic about the meaning of the term 'deciphering'. There is no incoherence involved in saying that paleontologists...

Right, I already knew that; so what's your point? The fact that they are understood in different ways does not entail that "they exist on different pl...

In the same way as an unseen pile of pebbles is an undeciphered pile of pebbles; something which bears information even if no one has discovered that ...

Do what you would call examples of ordered stuff, for example written texts or ancient tablets, contain information that is independent of their being...

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Of course the information can only come to light in collaboration with a percipient, but it is all there to be discovered. The fact that we could get ...

It contains all the information as to the various compositions, shapes, sizes and weights of the pebbles and their spatial relationships to all the ot...

The pebbles will not all be the same size, so a 40 kilo pile may or may not contain twice as many pebbles as a 20 kilo pile, but it will indeed hold m...

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Matter to who? You or me or....?

Didn't Wittgenstein himself remind us how little has been achieved when all the problems of philosophy have been (dis)solved?

That just sounds like a bit of Zeno-ian silliness!

Yes, I am familiar with that definition as "velocity at some instant". I thought it should be obvious that I was implicitly inquiring if you or Metaph...

What is "instantaneous velocity"? Does it mean anything other than 'velocity at some instant'?

OK, then I'm not sure how feigning agreement would relate to procrastination...but maybe I misunderstood your meaning...

You mean like postponing judgement until you've "inhabited" the other side of the argument?

True, I guess, but I can't see much point in feigning disagreement. :grin:

I don't know; I was merely indicating my agreement with the point you made in the passage I responded to regarding the genesis of the idea of infinity...

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How about "'that one' refers to that one"? Would saying "'one' refers to one" be different than saying "'1' refers to 1"?

:rofl: Oh, it's on account of that infuriatingly flippant, misguided fellow: I understand perfectly. But, yeah, stupid injuries are often the result o...

How the fuck (being more or less housebound I imagine) did you manage to hurt your fucking leg?

Being an Australian and no fan of Morrison; I nevertheless have to admit that he has aquitted himself pretty well during this coronacrisis, apart from...

Yes, I agree that it is clearer; but I would tend to say that one is the concept of the singular or the first. In the usual philosophy of language 'x'...

Thanks, I'll give it a read.

If by "abstract object" you mean a platonic object, then I think you are drawing a long bow in claiming it is the "prevailing view" among mathematicia...

I would rather leave the word "object" out here, because it invites reification. Better just say "abstraction" instead.

I don't see how '1' could refer to '1' ; it is the referrer. not the referent, according to any logic that makes sense to me. I don't see a problem wi...

So,it's a shared idea? What's the problem? Don't we all have (more or less, that is sufficiently) the same experience and understanding of quantity?

Ah, the comfortable refuge of (supposed) authority!

The reification consists in the idea that there are an infinite set of numbers. The ordinary procedure of counting has no logical limit to it; so, it ...

Yeah, it's kind of fully sick Zen.

"1" represents an idea of quantity. Does it follow that "1" refers to an idea of quantity? I would say the answer to that depends on what you mean by ...

If fairly extensive random testing were carried out, would that not give a reasonably accurate picture of just how much Covid-19 infection is in the c...

Ah, but why should accountability go both ways?

The usual litigious American blame game begins (or more accurately: continues)... https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/opinions-china-should-be-legall...

If you're running a business, you need to make a profit. The profit doesn't have to be excessive, but it has to provide you with a living; otherwise y...

I'm not saying I agree with the decision ethically speaking, that is a different questions. To have a rational reason to do something is either to hav...

Sure, but if you are seller and you perceive that other sellers are raising their prices due to increased demand and short supply, would it not be rat...

Right, so the only thing that could countermand that tendency would be governmental or ethical price regulation. And this sometimes happens in situati...