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Aryamoy Mitra

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I know, right? At times, his grandiloquence renders his statements indecipherable, with sentences that are paragraphs long (at least in translated var...
April 01, 2021 at 08:54
First and foremost, stating that any philosopher insists upon the truth of a particular stance, without eliciting any caveats or underlying evidence, ...
April 01, 2021 at 08:08
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March 31, 2021 at 17:45
I can certainly rationalize the majority of your assertions (albeit under specific presuppositions). I'm inquisitive, nonetheless, with regards to thr...
March 31, 2021 at 16:18
Change, when preceded by an acknowledgement of self-inadequacy, is invaluable.
March 31, 2021 at 13:24
I concur, with regards to the generality. Most Existentialist doctrines, as far as I've witnessed, readily concede to the tragic ramifications of bein...
March 31, 2021 at 12:42
Resentment is a sentiment, in consequence of having observed a detestable motive or act; in and of itself, it doesn't accord any degree of moral virtu...
March 31, 2021 at 11:44
This isn't an elementary introduction to Classical Mechanics; this is Inflationary Cosmology, with an emphasis on Hubble's law. I'm not contradicting ...
March 29, 2021 at 09:28
I'll no longer be partaking in this conversation; it's as though Einstein was never born. I concede to certain nonstandard narratives in history havin...
March 28, 2021 at 17:14
First and foremost, I'd like to concede that there already exists a concrete, formalized Philosophy of Mathematics, that illuminates how philosophical...
March 27, 2021 at 19:41
Of course - some of my misgivings may stem from overly fixating on their idiosyncrasies, and ceasing to gauge the landscapes they really are. It's lik...
March 27, 2021 at 16:06
I did - and whilst it's a novelty relating to a statement first imparted more than 4 decades prior to my arrival, it's unsurprising that this particul...
March 26, 2021 at 19:35
Exactly. I'd far rather cease to a defiance of a medical practitioner's oath (with the foreknowledge of its possibility), than succumb to my own parti...
March 26, 2021 at 18:25
Your cynicism can be commiserated with, and your maxims too; your reductionist assertions, however, not.
March 26, 2021 at 17:59
Is that an archaic movie quote, or something of antiquity?
March 26, 2021 at 17:40
I'm a naive 17-year old, who couldn't fathom attending an hour-long undergraduate Mathematics lecture, sans being utterly stupefied and overwhelmed. T...
March 26, 2021 at 17:10
That's what I was dwelling over, too; educational accreditation shouldn't be conflated with being a 'professional', albeit the overwhelming majority o...
March 25, 2021 at 15:40
It's not as though I'm exalting mathematicians to an unassailable pedestal, and insulating them from the haphazard thoughts of the 'ordinary man'. I'm...
March 25, 2021 at 15:26
Pardon me, for not properly citing the source; here's the mystical entity, from which this passage stems. For everyone else's following (and that of m...
March 25, 2021 at 07:23
Can you pinpoint how I've faltered? I ask, since (5) was at the heart of Gödel incompleteness. As a clarity, are you refuting the original exposition?...
March 25, 2021 at 06:18
What does 'are' mean? Superficially, it's not easy to unravel; if one is downtrodden, then is being downtrodden interchangeable with demonstrating a s...
March 25, 2021 at 06:12
I'm not familiar with topological spaces, but they are a counterexample to the (otherwise) quantitative norm that several mathematicians witness. I'm ...
March 25, 2021 at 06:03
Of course. Political concerns are often what encourage atheists to be evasive of religious ideals, in combination with their irreligious personalities...
March 25, 2021 at 05:52
They remain an aberrant interpretation; whether they are valid, or not - is determined almost exclusively by how you rationalize standardized and reco...
March 25, 2021 at 05:48
Admittedly, that may have been an imprudent sentence to commence with - and I apologize for its brazen nature. I was merely seeking to pinpoint (falsi...
March 25, 2021 at 05:09
Quite truthfully, after engaging in this discussion, I'm not sure I understand probabilities as well as I thought I did. You're right - I haven't been...
March 24, 2021 at 21:40
Statistical probability is (for all necessary objectives) a formalism, that underlies the intuitive notion of a 'likelihood' (as you've discussed). Yo...
March 24, 2021 at 21:17
Droves of atheists (and anti-theists) renunciate merely the social consequences of organized, religious structures - as opposed to the (indeterminate)...
March 24, 2021 at 19:56
That's an enthusing idea, but what does numericizing and geometrizing Philosophy entail, precisely? We can't ascribe predetermined quantities to abstr...
March 24, 2021 at 17:41
I never foresaw a page-long explanation, but it was most certainly worth it. I'm affixing the entirety of it herein, with a few observational comments...
March 24, 2021 at 17:11
Thank you; these are invaluable.
March 24, 2021 at 16:50
That may be, but I was merely seeking to reassert the epistemic character of Mathematics, as a discipline. It's not as though two, distinctive modalit...
March 24, 2021 at 15:19
That's certainly a thought-provoking analogy. If the notion of Gödel divisibility was of an exact accuracy, though, one might witness a multitude of s...
March 24, 2021 at 15:11
Wait - isn't that tremendously ambitious? Words themselves can be made precise, but the sentences they're placed in are far more subjective. In order ...
March 24, 2021 at 14:53
Having read your delineation, I'm conjecturing that Identity Theory encapsulates the two, following meanings: Certain mental states are engendered by ...
March 24, 2021 at 14:42
Atheists (and I may be resting this fallaciously) are individuals solely identified by a non-belief in God; whether they find God heartwarming or auth...
March 24, 2021 at 14:23
They may bear mathematical significance, but is their invocation necessarily in a mathematical context? Even if they aren't (strictly), though - one c...
March 24, 2021 at 14:15
It's an excellent resource, for anyone seeking to immerse in the concept. If only the particulars were that elementary, though - Gödel might have devi...
March 24, 2021 at 14:09
That's an engaging talk, and certainly an unsophisticated introduction of the idea. It may consist, nonetheless, of certain oversimplifications (which...
March 24, 2021 at 14:02
We don't reside in a world, that confers any value to evidence anymore. I'm not denigrating anyone, but @"Gary Enfield" is adhering to a nonstandard i...
March 24, 2021 at 06:40
At this pace, we'll witness every letter of the English Alphabet being summoned for denotation (under this thread). It's invigorating, though. When I ...
March 24, 2021 at 06:18
This is terribly unprincipled. F=MA is a Newtonian approximation, that disintegrates in special-relativistic (or for that matter, general-relativistic...
March 23, 2021 at 14:44
I'm inquisitive, though; is your decisiveness on this subject predicated solely on mitigating against the eventuality of your own demise, or is it at ...
March 22, 2021 at 19:58
Yes, that's what I meant with the term 'corollary'. First-order logic, in most contexts, cannot exist without an underlying propositional logic (once ...
March 22, 2021 at 14:00
Press the button.
March 22, 2021 at 08:56
I was merely shortening (with 'self-consistency'), how I communicated the notion of a (system) proving its own consistency; it may not have been of ap...
March 22, 2021 at 06:29
Why is it speculative, though?
March 22, 2021 at 04:14
Neither of them are terminological, in the first place. Here's the crux of the question I was posturing - insofar as arithmetic expression and consist...
March 22, 2021 at 04:09
That's virtually what the question's intent is, though - whether one would render the end of the human race, instantaneously - with no immediate senso...
March 21, 2021 at 20:34
Firstly, I'm apologetic for the personal adversities you have had to confront, and I'm thrilled that your family remains intact and well. If anything,...
March 21, 2021 at 20:17