Michael

You don't need to figure it out. You need to actually do it, whatever's going on in your head. Just as you there's no first number to count to, making...

I don't know what you mean by a mathematical task. Walking 1m requires physically passing through the 0.5m mark, and before that physically passing th...

If I want to count in order the 1/(2n) numbers between 0 and 1, which is the first number I count? If I want to move from 0m to 1m which is the first ...

The problem is that it is no more possible to pass through each 1/(2n) unit of distance than it is to count each 1/(2n). It's a task that can't even s...

If motion is continuous (and space infinitely divisible) then I must pass through each 1/(2n) unit of distance (even if I don't stop at them), and sur...

Or the paradox shows that reality isn't as we think it is, e.g. space isn't infinitely divisible and/or motion isn't continuous.

It doesn't resolve the dichotomy paradox.

If it's impossible to pass through in order the rational-numbered distances between 0m and 1m and if it's possible to travel from 0m to 1m then when w...

I'm claiming that it's impossible to count in order the rational numbers between 0 and 1 and that for the exact same reason it's impossible to pass th...

I’m looking more at the dichotomy paradox. We can’t say that it’s possible to count in ascending order the rational numbers between 0 and 1 by using t...

Perhaps the flaw is the premise that motion is continuous? Perhaps motion is possible precisely because distance isn’t infinitely divisible.

That solution begs the question as it takes as a premise that some finite distance can be travelled.

I don’t think that’s true of all his paradoxes. It’s not about time but about completing (or even starting) a supertask. From the Wikipedia article:

So you care more about the life of the foetus than you do about the life and health of the pregnant woman. Others are the reverse. How are we to deter...

The decision has to be approved by a physician who should be unbiased and guided by his medical expertise. Why should we require certainty? Medicine a...

Our options are: 1. Abortion after the second trimester is not allowed 2. Abortion after the second trimester is only allowed if the mother's life is ...

Is it more dangerous than not allowing a woman whose health is at risk from getting an abortion (after the second trimester)?

It doesn't specify. But it does seem to just be codifying the ruling in Roe v. Wade which includes this section:

The bill states: In fact it still requires a doctor for the second trimester: I believe the only way someone other than a doctor (but still a health c...

That one at least does specify that " allows for abortions up to the point of birth if the life or health of the mother is deemed at risk or the baby ...

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong law, but the text of this bill says: So termination up to the due date is only permissible if the mother's life or heal...

Maybe I should move my money into a stronger currency, like the Vietnamese Dong.

Hopefully the Government and Parliament change their minds. It is projected that a no-deal Brexit will throw the UK into recession.

I meant pass an Act of Parliament to revoke Article 50 if a deal is not approved. The ECJ ruled that:

I was optimistic that Parliament would veto a no deal Brexit and revoke Article 50 when it became clear that a deal won't be made. But then yesterday ...

According to Sap it's just a negotiating tactic and they'll relent eventually.

I'm yet to hear an answer to the question I asked you earlier. I'll remind you of our exchange.

I'm not making an argument from the law. I'm making an argument about what we value.

So we're concerned about the potential future of the foetus (to be a deformed child). Yet a lot of those who are pro-life say that it isn't reasonable...

Yet that tends not to by why we condemn pregnant women who smoke. It’s nothing like the person who decides to kick a football against a window where w...

The same can be said of the pro-choice who accuse the pro-life of dictating what women can do with their bodies. Do we not all admonish pregnant women...

Got my raise :up:

So it’s unlike the hypothetical case of a police officer shooting someone they believe, incorrectly, to be carrying a gun, when it’s actually a toy - ...

So it’s acceptable to criminalise abortion after 28 weeks but immoral to criminalise abortion after 10 weeks?

What about after 10 days when the blastocyst becomes an embryo, or after 10 weeks when the embryo becomes a foetus? And if pro-life proponents genuine...

I don't think it right to say that human dignity inheres in anything. Rather, like any value, it's projected onto others by us. Some value the life of...

Had abortion been legal my mother would have aborted me. That would have been a grave injustice to the world, and so it is right that abortion wasn’t ...

:lol:

Not enough info. What are the tax brackets? How much are the expenses for things like food, clothes, and gigolos? Does she live in a neighborhood with...

He already gets more pay than me. He ain't that lucky.

Unlike Brexit I'll have a plan in place before I hand in my notice.

Lawyers don’t wear shoes. You all have cloven hoofs. Or is it your version of stamp collecting? Probably with the owners’ feet still inside. I know ho...

Nah, being spiteful to someone being paid more than me would make me feel even more pathetic. I'll just tell my boss that I want to be paid more and i...

I just got a pay rise two months ago after my promotion. Although it's actually currently half a pay rise as I don't get the full amount until May. An...

My company just hired someone new who’ll be working under me (cause I’m the lead) but they’ve offered him more money than they’re paying me because th...

Can’t be followed through without consequence either. And as I’ve said before, my crystal ball is telling me that the consequences of Brexit - especia...

The government must remove the prospect of the catastrophe of Brexit.

Doesn’t have quite the same ring as “I have a dream”.

You mean something like "If I had a daughter then she'd be..."?

Yes, there are consequences. But so what? Those consequences don't entail that God is forced not to make the stone, that omnipotence is incoherent, or...