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:up: Thank you for these posts. Cornford's epochal work still had shadows of Kant, especially in being mindful of the unknowable noumenal universe and...
February 04, 2023 at 14:36
The problem is not with the mathematical physics of quarks but with the licentious use of exist and know which should not be allowed to seep into phys...
January 27, 2023 at 08:57
Yes, according to my personal decree of morality, subject to revision but absolute for each judgment of course. Like the baseball umpire's call of bal...
January 22, 2023 at 19:35
Although I don't think you can demonstrate either a universal natural law of animal behavior nor that the laws in your country are the same as in mine...
January 22, 2023 at 11:19
Fitting regular hexagons together in a circle makes 6 hexagons plus 1 more emergent in the middle making 7 hexagons. But on the surface of a soccer ba...
January 09, 2023 at 14:12
Because analysis of propositions without content is empty and empirical content without formalism is blind?
January 01, 2023 at 14:59
Mathematical probabilities are calculated. Empirical probabilities can at times be theoretically estimated based on looking at the actual world. Proba...
December 23, 2022 at 14:53
With AI the issue of creativity pokes a hole in the narrative of an extreme material-mind dichotomy. The intelligence of the machines improve graduall...
December 22, 2022 at 17:13
Statistically speaking, All sheep are black (based on a sample of 1 of course) All people have straight black hair Shakespeare is alive and well in Ch...
December 21, 2022 at 13:48
Creativity is just a word for a platonic abstraction of a mind process we share with all living animals of bringing to action or to words hidden meani...
December 21, 2022 at 01:10
Creation is a struggle to bring to light ideas that might emerge from the formless depths of one's mind. Some ideas are merely new rearrangement of cu...
December 20, 2022 at 08:13
For the photon without distance and time how can there be speed of any kind? Is the photon everywhere at once?
November 25, 2022 at 02:30
According to the maps, the Zaporizhzhia high dam which has a hydroelectric plant and supplies water to Crimea is now in the Ukrainian controlled area....
November 10, 2022 at 05:33
(2) equivocates "our" in meaning. Not all action can be known. My action may or may not be filtered to me but other actions are always filtered.
November 09, 2022 at 08:15
In other news, A surprisingly near black hole about 10 times more massive than our Sun has been found just 1,560 light-years from Earth, which is abou...
November 08, 2022 at 20:51
^^^ It's for real. :(
September 26, 2022 at 17:48
It's the perspective of most scientists, if you ask them.
September 26, 2022 at 11:34
Scientists are sometimes quick to leap to hyperbole when singing the praises of their megabucks projects even if results can only be seen in comparati...
September 26, 2022 at 11:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0
September 26, 2022 at 09:59
The multiple universe models are driven by mathematical logic as extensions of cosmological theories. The parameters of those theories turn out to be ...
September 18, 2022 at 14:44
There is a reality for each and every model, as implied and expressed by the models. Not the other way around. Choosing to call one of these realities...
September 18, 2022 at 14:23
This BBC article pushes some of the same facts, but much of it is still speculative due to the paucity of legitimate military sources.
September 15, 2022 at 11:20
Hopefully Putin gets a day older each day until he doesn't.
September 14, 2022 at 21:38
In February, Putin met with Xi in Beijing. Now, Xi will meet Putin somewhere in Central Asia just a month before Xi is poised to cement his place as t...
September 11, 2022 at 12:59
Fair enough, and so is everyone else. :brow:
September 10, 2022 at 14:51
After eliminating the possibility that the world 'exists', however you take that word, something else must be the case. No?
September 10, 2022 at 13:01
May not be as hot as airport infrared body images :gasp: but this link gets into how they might be spotting the earliest high-redshift galaxies with n...
September 09, 2022 at 20:39
I take it you must mean dis-solved?
September 09, 2022 at 14:06
With circular reasoning. Perhaps a label for endless but not quite infinite in a physical sense ? For physics, isn't that the driving force behind qua...
September 09, 2022 at 08:39
Hubble and Webb will work together to showcase the universe across multiple wavelengths of light. https://twitter.com/i/status/1567204230464684033
September 07, 2022 at 14:09
Is my wastebasket a set ?
September 07, 2022 at 09:35
Sounds about right because the world of all that exists should not be a mathematically flat set ?
September 05, 2022 at 21:56
Yes. Realism demands that objects have fixed properties just so lack of contradiction can distinguish truth from falsity. This is etched in stone. App...
September 02, 2022 at 09:51
Analytic-synthetic judgment comes with logical difference. Snow is black shocks because it is contradictory to white and thus supposedly logically imp...
September 01, 2022 at 18:50
How is this an analytic proposition? Because if it is taken to be analytic then it is circular at best and shows nothing. However, if it is synthetic ...
August 31, 2022 at 23:48
I gather most of us confuse the higher moral expectations of Scandinavians with our own looser standards? If Sanna Marin is ousted as PM would you thi...
August 31, 2022 at 01:09
Sheet-as-sheet is stronger :strong:
August 30, 2022 at 07:42
Narratives are spawned from current culture, that of the many, for simple widely acceptable public Wittgensteinian consumption, else from private refl...
August 28, 2022 at 16:30
Absurd, isn't it? Perhaps now she will get the paparazzi following she deserves for having put Finland on the map again. Fame and notoriety are the sa...
August 26, 2022 at 16:32
Webb telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe "if the profusion of early galaxies is real, astronomers may have to fu...
August 25, 2022 at 01:49
It was a weird choice of name to begin with, like renaming a scenic bridge after a local politician's father including the first and last name. Cyclop...
August 24, 2022 at 01:18
JWST’s “Shrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate” Has Astronomers Very Puzzled CEERS-1749 is either the earliest and most distant galaxy ever seen by a long way,...
August 23, 2022 at 21:36
Maybe we should expect little green intelligent robots built for the longevity of space voyages but who would come without superfluous morality chips....
August 20, 2022 at 01:26
Or would it be more likely that they come to exploit whatever they can find here? Somehow they will have achieved technology that we can only dream up...
August 19, 2022 at 17:58
is a slippery slope. Many physicists and philosophers deny that psychology is a science by either physicists' or philosophers' standard, or for that m...
August 14, 2022 at 23:03
Ignorance is bliss.
August 13, 2022 at 20:47
.. Whether particulars are momentary or fixed can be seen as the key difference between Plato's and Aristotle's philosophy. For Plato, particulars par...
August 10, 2022 at 10:25
I am, but I'm not so sure about you. This universe is in motion but there could be others. All is physically connected but in a limited way. Although ...
August 09, 2022 at 21:54
Which gives rise to the obviously correct supposition that mathematics is empirically based. Possibilist and fictional but still empirically biased.
August 09, 2022 at 14:41
No matter. :cool: I just posed a question to think about. Philosophy is all about missing questions not 'truth'. It's aporia.
August 09, 2022 at 11:57