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['Member']Joined: August 31, 2020 at 20:39Last active: September 07, 2020 at 19:13None discussions4 comments

Bio

Just someone fortunate enough to be trespassing in the halls of academia for the time being.

Favourite Philosopher

Kurt Gödel

Favourite Quotations

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

? Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Comments

This is quite a substantial statement to make. So let's address this first. You must remember that science was first studied on religious motivations....
September 07, 2020 at 10:42
My statement: 'the facts considered in these fields are considered to be true' was put there to say we do not need a consistent formal language to des...
August 31, 2020 at 23:17
So the language I was talking about was the 'language' of first order theories. Now this is a MUCH simplified model of language, simplified to the poi...
August 31, 2020 at 22:35
True, but by this argument this is also a proof against evolutionary theory/ modern medicine/ any other modern science not formalized in this way. The...
August 31, 2020 at 22:21
So I have recently studied a bit of mathematical logic and first order theories. A bit of background: A first order theory is a very specific language...
August 31, 2020 at 21:26