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Can you show me a mathematician who has questioned rational numbers like \frac{1}{9}?
June 29, 2020 at 12:46
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June 28, 2020 at 15:27
This doesn't answer my question. Do you think that mathematicians are aware that "the axioms are full of inconsistencies and contradictions. A lot of ...
June 28, 2020 at 12:59
You didn't really answer the question though. Do you believe that generations of mathematicians are aware of this, and yet for some reason continue to...
June 28, 2020 at 08:41
Neither is Trump apparently. Donald Trump Says Joe Biden Is 'Going to Be Your President' Because 'Some People Don't Love Me, Maybe'
June 27, 2020 at 16:10
We know that there isn't. I don't know why you think that you know more about maths than generations of professional mathematicians. With everything y...
June 27, 2020 at 13:10
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June 26, 2020 at 20:48
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June 26, 2020 at 16:27
There's a remainder in my example: 1\div2=0.5\\0.5\times2=1 I don't understand why this is a problem. 1\div9=0.\overline{1}\\0.\overline{1}\times9=1 A...
June 26, 2020 at 12:16
I think because it doesn't explain what is meant by 0.111...
June 26, 2020 at 09:11
0.999... = 1, so you do get 1 by multiplying 0.111... by 9. 0.111...=\frac{1}{9}\\\frac{1}{9}\times9=\frac{9}{9}=1
June 26, 2020 at 07:48
1\div2=0.5 0.5\times2=1 What's the problem?
June 26, 2020 at 05:22
Nonsense can't be understood, that's why it's nonsense.
June 25, 2020 at 20:20
I haven't understand your arguments because they are nonsense as shown here and here.
June 25, 2020 at 20:18
I can safely say that Cantor and Euclid know more about maths than you do. Otherwise you would be publishing your ground-breaking thesis right now, no...
June 25, 2020 at 20:07
You can ignore what I said. I'm replying to you whilst watching TV and wasn't concentrating.
June 25, 2020 at 20:02
Right, got it. You're a kook. I wish you'd started with this.
June 25, 2020 at 19:45
So when Sleepy Joe Biden and his running mate Crooked Hillary cheat to win the 2020 election they can appoint Barack Osama Bin Laden as Attorney Gener...
June 25, 2020 at 19:27
I'm not introducing additional evidence. I'm stating the known fact that there is a 50% chance that the coin will land heads and a 50% chance that the...
June 25, 2020 at 19:19
Not in this case. Evidence C shows that there is a 100% chance that there is only 1 shooter. Yes, and I'm also saying: Evidence A shows that there is ...
June 25, 2020 at 19:01
It isn't fine. If Mary is the shooter then John isn't the shooter, so if there is a 75% chance that Mary is the shooter then there is a 75% chance tha...
June 25, 2020 at 18:50
I've gone over this before. If there's a 25% chance that he's guilty given the first evidence then there's a 75% chance that he's innocent given the f...
June 25, 2020 at 18:22
I really don't know how to explain this to you more simply than I already have. Look at steps 2 and 3: - Say we roll the die 100 times. - 20 times it ...
June 25, 2020 at 16:58
If the dice lands on a 10 20% of the time because it's weighted then the probability that the dice will land on a 10 when it's rolled is 20%. Because ...
June 25, 2020 at 16:42
And I asked you to explain what you mean by there being an additional 20% chance of it landing a 10. The only coherent interpretations of this are 10 ...
June 25, 2020 at 16:33
No, you don't. If a die has a 20% chance of landing on a 10 because it's weighted then the die has a 20% chance of landing on a 10. Just wow.
June 25, 2020 at 16:23
Excuse my French, but what the fuck? Honestly, if the above is your reasoning then you're beyond reasoning with.
June 25, 2020 at 16:21
What do you mean by "an additional 20% chance"? Do you mean that there's a (10 + 20) = 30% chance or that there's a (10 * 1.2) = 12% chance? Because w...
June 25, 2020 at 16:13
This honestly is one of the craziest things I've heard on here. Your evidence is just: 1. 50% of people who are charged with murder are found guilty 2...
June 25, 2020 at 16:07
How do you know this? Or are you saying that 90% of people up for trial are found guilty? Because that's not the same thing. In fact your reasoning wi...
June 25, 2020 at 16:04
You didn't answer my question. Are you saying that in the above scenario there is a 75% chance that the defendant is guilty of murder? Your evidence i...
June 25, 2020 at 15:59
Now that've you've answered my previous question, let's consider a real example. We start from your initial distribution of 50% probability of guilt. ...
June 25, 2020 at 15:53
I'm multiplying the evidence of guilt given by the first piece of evidence (the initial distribution) by the evidence of guilt given by the second pie...
June 25, 2020 at 15:37
Before we continue, clarify something for me. If the initial distribution is 60% chance he is guilty, which of these is correct: 1. 60% guilty + 40% i...
June 25, 2020 at 15:20
Tell me what you think it means for evidence to imply a 50% chance that someone is guilty. Thank God you're not a juror. This is crazy.
June 25, 2020 at 14:46
So why doesn't the first piece of evidence (the finger prints on the knife) replace the initial, uninformed probability of 50% guilt based on lack of ...
June 25, 2020 at 14:36
It's exactly related to your calculation: In my example the initial distribution is 90% the dice roll is > 1 and 10% the dice roll = 1 and the first p...
June 25, 2020 at 14:25
We roll a 10-sided dice. If it rolls a 1 or a 2 I will place a red ball in a box. Before you check the box you consider that the initial probability t...
June 25, 2020 at 13:57
So are you saying that in a world without God then we can't have moral obligation?
June 25, 2020 at 13:44
I'm not saying that the evidence increases the chances of him being innocent. I'm saying that your method entails this. This is why your method doesn'...
June 25, 2020 at 12:52
So when we talk about morality/being obligated to do/not do something, we're just talking about hypothetical imperatives with a goal to better the gro...
June 25, 2020 at 12:46
Uh, yes? Guilt and innocence are a dichotomy. If something shows 50% chance of guilt then ipso facto it shows 50% chance of not-guilt, i.e. innocence.
June 25, 2020 at 12:36
Then read my previous post because I showed you. The math that leads to the conclusion that there is a 75% chance of guilt also leads to the conclusio...
June 25, 2020 at 12:25
Then either we have lots of misleading evidence or you should revise the probability that the evidence suggests guilt. I've already pointed out that y...
June 25, 2020 at 12:05
This calculation makes no sense. Let's say that the first piece of evidence says that he is 50% likely to be guilty. We don't then say 50% guilty + 50...
June 25, 2020 at 11:54
I think this is the fundamental problem of morality. One of these must be true: 1. That something is evil just is that one ought not do it, in which c...
June 25, 2020 at 11:44
Yes, it must, which is why your calculation in 5) is wrong. If the first piece of evidence means he's 75% likely to be guilty then he's 75% likely to ...
June 25, 2020 at 11:28
If 4) means that it is 75% likely he is guilty then it means that it is 25% likely that he is innocent. If we then use your logic in 5) we have 50% gu...
June 25, 2020 at 11:19
How would we approach it then? We look at what John says about morality and we look at what Mary says about morality, recognise that they're incompati...
June 25, 2020 at 11:06
3) would seem to suggest that meta-ethics is a wasted endeavour. There is no one correct answer to what it means to be moral as we don't all mean the ...
June 25, 2020 at 10:58