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I agree, and if you read the paragraph carefully, you'll see that that's not what it says.

I haven't gone through this idea carefully, but I'm moderately confident there is no 'reasonable' mathematical model in which a spatially infinite uni...

TJO the human reaction to dramatic landscapes - which we distinguish from beautiful, peaceful ones - is generally filed under the category of the 'Sub...

A fuzzy, shifting melange of Vedanta, Buddhism and pan-psychism. I try to meditate but am hopeless at it. I am better at chanting, which I find quite ...

Well I think I have a spiritual disposition (although there are some on here who believe I am an unreconstructed reductionist, despite my protests to ...

Because most of us care about others. Morality has nothing to do with 'earning salvation' unless one belongs to a handful of particular religions.

The set of possible outcomes from an infinite sequence of coin tosses is uncountable. It has a natural one-to-one correspondence with the real numbers...

In an infinite sample space, Probability zero is not the same as Impossible. The term 'almost surely' was invented to cover exactly this case. It is a...

I can think of two different uses of 'fact'. In both cases its use is to make an important distinction, but they are different distinctions. case 1: F...

Love is unconditional. A loving parent gives their child what is necessary for their flourishing, without conditions. If God is Love, and Salvation is...

An easier response is to note that it is your friend that is making the positive claim, so the onus is on him to prove it. There is no obligation on y...

Goodness me, do I need saving? From what? My original sin perhaps? Oh dear. Or am I to be punished by a posse of Aristotelians, for having the unmitig...

What is required is that any defined terms used in the proof have exact, objective definitions. However it is not mandatory to use any defined terms. ...

A definition can't enable or disable the proof of a point of any interest, as any proof that uses the defined term can be converted to one that doesn'...

Maybe that's another key A vs non-A difference. My non-A position is that there's no such thing as a correct or incorrect definition. For a non-A the ...

That difference in standard of proof is part of the divide. It appears that the As and non-As differ in that respect. There's no point in arguing over...

From a quantum mechanical viewpoint, nothing always happens. The most we can say is that the probability of it not happening is negligible. But we can...

There will be a straightforward explanation involving physics and chemistry and the interactions of particles of certain types. I'm afraid this is get...

Every particular set of circumstances happens only once. Each match strike is different. There is no 'always and consistently' to explain. For a parti...

I don't understand the relevance to A vs non-A. An explanation for the match lighting up is that heat arises from friction between the match and the m...

It goes straight back to the A vs non-A divide. The As believe that reality has those aspects and that they have objective meanings, and the non-As do...

This thread has petered out. It became apparent - after a long discussion - that if one accepts the Aristotelean view of the world, in which notions l...

Well, not no-one. There are plenty of people that are concerned about that - you and me for a start, and probably other contributors to this thread. I...

I got the impression that Agustino lived in the US, in which case the answer to that question is 'Not really' (ref state governments disenfranchising ...

If you want to use the word 'proof' in that bizarre way, then go ahead. There's no point in discussing it further.

Yes, unless one finds the statement meaningless, which covers the second statement. What, exactly, is the negation of the following statement? 'The pr...

No. None of those statements follow from what I wrote.

No, I would not say that. No, I would not say that. I don't even know what it means. No, I would not say that.

That is your interpretation, which you are entitled to make. But I do not make that interpretation. I am content to simply describe the processes that...

I'm afraid I didn't understand that post. In particular I can't parse the second sentence. The one bit I did understand is 'what is the process descri...

Are you able to accept your differences with them as just a reasonable difference of opinion, or do you think they are all objectively wrong and just ...

We resolved that already. Arguments can be proofs or dialectics. Proofs have to meet that higher standard of definition. Dialectics do not. The Aristo...

I agree with all of your post up to the last para - quite strongly in fact. I regret the prominence of scientists like Krauss, Dawkins and Hawking who...

You're entitled to that view. I think you are taking too wide an interpretation of 'meaningless'. Science is useful and it is also beautiful, to those...

Even a practising scientist is not in a position to make such a statement, unless they have worked in every scientific field. If you have not studied ...

Not at all. Nobody is denying he had a huge influence, just as Galen did with Medicine. The fact that medical schools no longer teach Galen's beliefs ...

I have no idea what that last statement means. But if you are trying to argue that the definitions in Aristotle's metaphysics are as formal as those i...

All of these have formal definitions, as you well know. Go to the wikipedia page on any of those terms, go to the section entitled 'Definition' and yo...

There is no ambiguity. You are misunderstanding what an interpretation of QM is. That's understandable, as the word is used differently there from how...

Whether a definition makes sense is about whether one sees the reason for it, and how it might be used. That is different from the question of whether...

It sounds from this post like you have some particular examples in mind. Can you post them and we'll discuss. My expectation is that the predictions w...

I can agree with that. I have not read Aristotle's physics or metaphysics for the same reason that I have not read any astrology texts - because the e...

The trouble is that this requires yet another Aristotelian leap of faith, to believe that the word totum means something exact and objective that can ...

Would I be correct in guessing that Sachs ia an Aristotelian. The trouble with so many Aristotelian expositions is that they often use an example rath...

The concept of boundary only makes sense in a continuum. It makes no sense for elements of a discrete set. If time is discrete there is no continuum, ...

Do we though? How do we know we don't experience time like a movie, at 24 frames per second (or perhaps, 24,000). I don't think I could tell the diffe...

This is not necessary. Time could be discrete, like the integers, or like popes.

Jorn, what is your opinion of Shoemaker's claim that time without change is possible? It seems to me that for there to be no change the universe would...

That's not my understanding of Many Worlds. My understanding is that all the possible different worlds already exist, and we are in either a world whe...

'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent' Isn't Wittgenstein's famous line an observation rather than an adjuration? Note that he used th...