A lot of scientists understandably believe that science explains everything. You can't blame them. They've mastered a very complicated and difficult s...
After my previous post, I should emphasize that, though I don't know general relativity, I'm sure that many would agree that Pierre-Normand sounds lik...
What I meant to say was just that modern physics--general relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. is really a complicated, involved specialized subject, a...
Of course I've got Tegmark agreeing with me too, about something else--that this universe consists of abstract facts, along with infinitely-many such ...
Just check your facts before you post. It will result in a smoother and more peaceful discussion. You're getting aggressively-assertive, when you're m...
The distinction between uniform and accelerated motion, relating to why only the spaceship experiences time-dilation, and why its clocks read slow whe...
I'd said; Rich says: Regardless of what's accelerating the spaceship, it's being accelerated to (and then back from) high speed with respect to the Ea...
No. There's no such principle. The spaceship's engines are accelerating the spaceship, not the Earth. Time dilation has been observed in various ways....
Tegmark used to say that it the universe was likely infinite. I myself don't claim to have information about that. Maybe Tegmark has good justificatio...
It would be great if we had a chance to find out, because the situation is otherwise obviously quite hopeless for society and planet. (Not that I expe...
Another way to say this is, I've been emphasizing that the person hirself (himself/herself) is part of hir life-experience possibility-story. ...but i...
Well, I should comment on this: There's certainly a sense in which a tautology isn't useful in a practical way, But they're certainly useful for illus...
I’d said: . — Michael Ossipoff . You replied: . . No, I didn’t say that animals other than humans understand abstract facts. But some animals understa...
Sure they are My Slitheytoves & Jaberwockeys if-then proposition is obviously a fact. But, though it's true, it's still an if-then fact. That's becaus...
Incorrect. When proven, they're established as facts. Yes the "if" premise is a proposition, not necessarily a fact. Likewise the "then" conclusion, w...
That's nonsense. Timeless if-then facts are routinely spoken of in logic and mathematics. The relation between ifs and thens needn't have anything to ...
It's true that there could be fairly nearby civilizations,within robotic traveling-distance, that just aren't interested in it. But, for a spacefaring...
I'm just speaking from intuition too. I'd said: Yes, it fits with the metaphysics that I propose. Some biologists have said that life is vanishingly u...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . If you know that the additive associative axiom is true for the real numbers, the rational numbers, the integers, the p...
I’d said: . — Michael Ossipoff . You replied: . . Yes, I’ve discussed this before, but let me say it again here: . Absolute Anti-Realism is out of the...
Well, a definite name-able size for everything in our physical world leads to this question: Say it's eventually determined that the universe is a 4D ...
Alright, the multiplicative inverse axiom is applicable to the integers, in the (perfectly meaningful) sense that we can apply it to them by evaluatin...
An axiom typically isn't defined only for a particular set of elements and operations, Various axioms are true for, various sets of elements and opera...
Oh, ok, all you're asking is that i show how an axiom could be false in a context in which it is true :D How could it be false, even in principle, in ...
I refer you to my most recent post. Various axioms of mathematics are false for various sets of elements with respect to various operations. In the ex...
When you prove a theorem, you show that, if the relevant axioms are true (and maybe of certain other propositions are true too), then the conclusion t...
Incorrect. 4 isn't defined as 2+2. 4 is defined (most obviously at least) as 3+1 As you might guess, 3 is defined as 2+1. 2 is defined as 1+1 1 is the...
Whether or not you’re the same person you were at an earlier time depends on how you mean the question. As I mention below, I think most would agree w...
It just doesn't seem like the universe, the whole of all that is, in our physical world, would be a piece of space of a name-able size. But, as I said...
No. A fact needn't be about a past event. There's no consensus to that effect. it's a contentious issue. But it needn't be an issue here, because my m...
Incorrect. Your confusion is linguistic. Abstract facts are timelessly true. An abstract fact can be defined as an aspect of the way things (timelessl...
Because birth, the beginning of a life, is so astonishing and miraculous, it's difficult to believe that we were born in a pocket of space that has a ...
For a long time, I didn't believe about the infinite density in a black-hole. Then, eventually, I'd heard it so much, and it seemed so unanimous, that...
I’ll again look up “fact”, “proposition”, “statement” and “utterance”. This time I’ll check many sources. . For now, I’ll just tell you how I use thos...
I don't know about the set-theory consideration that leads you to doubt that there could be infinity in the world. But most physicists must not either...
Yes, and so I didn't say, "If there's a green car out in front then someone must have parked it there." Maybe it just accidentally rolled out of the s...
Sure there were, before there were humans on the Earth. There were facts, but there were no utterances made about facts, because there were no animals...
Yes, sorry about the answer to an obvious misinterpretation of what you were saying. It was deliberate in the sense that I knew that I was replying to...
No, I didn't mean anything other than what I said. I don't think anyone denies that there are abstract facts. Even if you say that they're inextricabl...
Not if it only rains once, with a few seconds of drizzle. Of course not. I wouldn't consider basing a metaphysics on just one fact, least of all a que...
Sorry, it was in other threads that I posted it. Here, below, I've pasted an account of it that I recently posted in a different thread, to answer a q...
Good point. The fact that we don't remember experience doesn't mean that it wasn't there. So we should be cautious what we assume. Anyway, hypothetica...
Let me further answer this: First, though I've been saying that any fact about our physical world can be stated as an if-then fact. But it isn't neces...
Reality doesn't consist of abstract facts. Neither metaphysics, nor anything described by metaphysics covers, explains or describes Reality. However, ...
For a long time it didn't seem to make sense, when we're told about infinite density in a black-hole. And I've had some doubts about whether our Big-B...
Yes, the googology hobby includes efforts to propose more compact and elegant notations for super-large numbers, and, if someday a theorem mentions an...
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