I don't know why you have suddenly come to believe this. But it's not correct, as Michael points out. If you really want to grow your understanding, y...
I note that both the examples in the OP yield nicely to Russellian analysis. He would deconstruct the first one as: 1. (Claim) There exists a unique c...
/uploads/resized/files/18/f7kpml3s3le8f5v4.png Does this help? Also, I would prefer a genius as a friend, because I see no reason to expect that the g...
Actually, I suppose the sentence should be 'Exists is not a predicate' since 'exists' is grammatically a predicate and 'existence' is not. It seems od...
I can't see any paradox in that, nor even anything surprising. There are many examples where a certain set-up is the best at both extremes of a linear...
Yes, but you would say that wouldn't you Jorn? You are from Denmark, and everybody knows that the Danes, with their ridiculous bicycle-based transport...
Like many words, 'meaning' is a word that means different things in different contexts. Examples are: 'What do you mean?', in response to a statement ...
I think it depends on what, if any, continuity, one wishes to attach to one's idea of reincarnation. If there is no practical continuity attached, in ...
Throwing ALL consideration for efficiency out of the window, there is a more concise coding using recursion. Here it is in R: (findprime<-function(x,n...
The array processing paradigm of R (and other, older languages like APL) allows for compact coding of such problems. Here's an R coding that spits out...
As Sophisticat points out, as soon as we start considering counterfactuals, we get into the devil of a mess. And counterfactuals is what's going on wh...
For those of us who are not scholars of the Enlightenment, but just celebrate it and enjoy reading Hume, Paine and Voltaire, where is this 'Doctrine o...
Oh frabjous day, calloo, Callay - I have found it! Here is the nice clear demonstration that I knew I had read, but could not find, of how unconstrain...
I am a big fan of many enlightenment thinkers, and am tremendously glad that the Enlightenment happened. But I have no idea what 'The Enlightenment pr...
What makes you you think that? Here is the proposition that states the decimal expansion of e. sum (k=1 to infinity) 1/k! = 2 + 7 * 10^-1 + 1 * 10^-2 ...
On the contrary, it is precisely because I agree with that, that I see the set of propositions as containing exactly half true ones and half false one...
That isn't my reason. My reason, which I did give, is that my observation is that most people use the phrase 'a truth' in that way and, in order to fa...
I expect there are truths that no human could ever know, because even the statement of the truth is too long to be held in a human brain. Further, for...
Yes, that seems to follow. It is possible that my interpretation of 'there are' in that sentence may be different from that of a hard-core Realist, bu...
Yes. I could too, but I don't see that that amounts to a mound of beans. Somebody doing something harmful 'in the name of X' is no reason at all for a...
My understanding and, I would venture to guess, the understanding of the person in the street, is that the set of all truths is a subset of the set of...
Progress is relative. We aim to make things better in the foreseeable future than they are now, and to maintain the improvements we have over the past...
Sure. That's why I'm pointing out that the problem doesn't exist in natural language, because the proof is written in formal language. This isn't a ca...
I assume you are referring to this: That post omits the most controversial part, which is the assertion that all truths are knowable, so the post bein...
Sure, we can interpret a sentence to mean whatever we want it to mean. Thus, we can make sense of the famously uninterpretable sentence 'This sentence...
The paradox arises from the fact that the logical language being used is unconstrained second order, and IIRC second-order logical languages are incon...
I don't think many people these days would bother to contest the Son of God claim, since that claim needn't be blasphemous or controversial. When I wa...
What does that mean? Are you saying that anybody that believes they have been in communication with god is 'crazy' (whatever that means)? If so, you'r...
not very well at all. Firstly, because aliens are claimed to manifest physically, it defies reasonable expectations based on our scientific knowledge ...
What is it you want to say about evidence? We have this: to which the obvious answer is 'to somebody else - probably none, and so what?' To the OP que...
Too vague. Different interpretations of the 'in ways' can lead to it meaning anything from simply that the claimant can speak a human language (claims...
Come off it! It was a sneer. We all make mis-steps like this from time to time, when we get riled by what others say. I know I do. Just withdraw it an...
Why do you think that? I am not a Christian now, but I was one a long time ago and thought then that God listened to my prayers and communicated back ...
It's easy to work out. Just write out your favourite version of the PSR and look for where the word 'exists' or 'there is' occurs. Sometimes it's disg...
No we may not. There have been many intense searches that failed to find the sought object, only for somebody to find it in another search years later...
I very much doubt this. I am pretty confident there will be laboratories in which liquid methane is produced or stored for some experimental purpose o...
A counter-example to the PSR would be a proof of non-existence. Proving the non-existence of something is rarely possible, except in maths. For any ph...
I can't see the PSR, in variant 3 or any other variant, being invoked in Willow's post, implicitly or explicitly. In which part of the post do you bel...
I think it depends on whether you interpret a list of rights as Contractual - something that all the signatories agree to try to provide to their citi...
My understanding is that nobody knows right now whether blockchain will be a genuine disruptor that mostly replaces existing payment systems, or a fad...
I have vague memories of seeing a survey that reported exactly the opposite. Scientists reported significantly lower levels of belief in God than the ...
Not quite, but not too far off. Each acquires a meaning relative to our scientific theories. A phenomenon is chaotic under theory T if we could predic...
Interesting. To justify that 'because', it appears that one of your fundamental axioms is: for all X and all Y, if X talks about Y a lot then Y is the...
Not Wayfarer's boss. As a non-citizen and non-resident of the greatest country on Earth, he is not subject to the rule of the Orange One. I imagine hi...
One needs to maintain the distinction between terms, which represent objects in the domain of discourse, and formulas, which (speaking roughly) have t...
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