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The argument is not formalized. When you try to formalize it you will see the problems I mentioned. By saying "God is the ..." you assume God exists (...
August 19, 2017 at 21:39
The sentence "God is the greatest being imaginable" when formalized looks something like: "There exists the greatest being (entity) imaginable and is ...
August 19, 2017 at 15:13
There are roughly two methods of science, I hope we all agree in that. One is the empirical and the other is the theoretical (axiomatic in my book) me...
August 16, 2017 at 12:21
You have put this into words perfectly. (2.) is my main concern. We have to shout out that the system is corrupt and is run by thieves and worse. They...
August 06, 2017 at 20:37
I'm from Eastern-Europe so the flaws of education and wage-slavery are strongly present. I think, however that majority of the world suffers from that...
August 06, 2017 at 18:19
I think grades and wages are the same in the sense that they support the system which is itself immoral by the above definition(?). Yes they are compl...
August 06, 2017 at 17:55
I would say paying for something is a necessary pain. Buying unnecessary stuff only to be the king of the hill causes unnecessary pain. Maybe we could...
August 06, 2017 at 14:50
The proof is correct. Your premises however are not equivalent with the English axioms because you need one more predicate to express "x wants to suff...
August 01, 2017 at 11:25
Jeah my problem is not the rating system itself but how it is done today. My English just simply sucks so I can't express myself well enough. You and ...
July 31, 2017 at 12:54
You have a point. But if we want any kind of debate to take place then we need some kind of "rating system"; namely we have to rate a sentence "true" ...
July 31, 2017 at 11:36
I did not say I wasn't brainwashed. In fact the things I wrote and being brainwashed by the educational system are consistent in my opinion. A lot of ...
July 31, 2017 at 11:14
Interesting that somebody voted for grades being moral and salary being immoral. I think they are basically the same the only difference is the age of...
July 25, 2017 at 15:09
I totally agree. I would add a little note to that it is impossible to fully understand or logically derive some important scientific statements as a ...
July 25, 2017 at 14:55
(1) The honest answer is I don't know. However it is widely accepted that a very small % of people own the majority of goods. I would say corporations...
July 25, 2017 at 14:39
Thank you for answering my question! I will have to re-read your post several times to get a better understanding of it. However here is a short answe...
July 25, 2017 at 13:38
I have been doing a lot of other stuffs lately so I couldn't learn enough about these reflection principles. I will read more about them for sure. But...
July 15, 2017 at 22:40
Only those go to Valhalla who die in battle.
July 14, 2017 at 05:53
Thanks Nagase your answer is top notch as always. I dont wholly understand this thing about local truth predicates but sounds interesting. I Will read...
July 05, 2017 at 18:25
In my first post I formalized your argument and turned out the deduction is incorrect. Maybe you got the right intuition but we need a logic to create...
July 05, 2017 at 11:15
Your logic seems to be accepted and understood by a single person in the world therefore it is not a classical one.
July 05, 2017 at 08:48
I don't understand why did they choose that single sentence to show the absurdity of the argument. Since EVERY formula is provable in a contradictory ...
July 04, 2017 at 23:38
I think "everything" doesn't have a logical definition. Like in mathematics you can define "everything" within a system with the equation x=x (at leas...
July 04, 2017 at 19:34
I accept Nagase's answer on arithmetic truth. If the mathematics we do is formalized within PRA then the problem of the truth of existence in PA is so...
July 04, 2017 at 19:06
I think there is nothing paradoxical in the possibility that there are true sentences which are not knowable. The absolute conistency of arithmetic or...
July 04, 2017 at 17:32
The goal of the argument was to show that {(KP),(NonO),(A),(B),(C),(D)} is inconsistent. To show that they looked for a contradiction. At step (6) the...
July 04, 2017 at 13:03
I interpret your axioms as follows: 1. x --> ?K(x) (All truths are knowable ie. it is possible that somebody knows x at some time.) (axiom) 2. P (Prop...
July 04, 2017 at 11:49
Aw i didnt know that. Thanks. I dont know where my idea came from.
June 24, 2017 at 05:04
If truth in arithmetic means provability in ZFC then it is false that every PA formula is either true or false. Thats odd. What kind of "truth" concep...
June 23, 2017 at 20:37
My main goal is not to define existence but to find a logic without the anomalies mentioned above. Or at least to formalize my problem (about mathemat...
June 23, 2017 at 19:13
Thank you for the recommendation. I Will read it. I have only seen a bit from the mathematical side. I need to discover the philosophical side yet. Ed...
June 23, 2017 at 18:40
Thank you for answering! Yes that's it! I Think we have to give up mathematics at some point and enter the realm of metaphysics. Because in the defini...
June 23, 2017 at 18:20