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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...
July 26, 2017 at 12:38
No, it's not. It's a Venn diagram, which is what you asked for.
July 26, 2017 at 09:56
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...
July 25, 2017 at 10:41
/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...
July 25, 2017 at 06:49
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...
July 25, 2017 at 02:30
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...
July 23, 2017 at 23:21
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...
July 17, 2017 at 22:44
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 ...
July 17, 2017 at 22:32
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 ...
July 17, 2017 at 22:23
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...
July 16, 2017 at 23:25
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...
July 16, 2017 at 22:53
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...
July 10, 2017 at 07:54
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...
July 07, 2017 at 03:10
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...
July 07, 2017 at 01:13
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...
July 07, 2017 at 00:59
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 ...
July 07, 2017 at 00:56
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...
July 07, 2017 at 00:48
Wouldn't it be half the set of propositions, since half are true and half are false?
July 06, 2017 at 23:43
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...
July 06, 2017 at 23:02
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...
July 06, 2017 at 22:47
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...
July 06, 2017 at 22:31
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...
July 06, 2017 at 22:22
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...
July 06, 2017 at 22:14
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...
July 06, 2017 at 09:38
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...
July 06, 2017 at 00:37
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...
July 05, 2017 at 23:00
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...
July 05, 2017 at 22:51
The paradox arises from the fact that the logical language being used is unconstrained second order, and IIRC second-order logical languages are incon...
July 05, 2017 at 03:08
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...
June 27, 2017 at 11:03
Really? Then it appears there's no hope of my persuading you towards a more open-minded view, since you know more about what I think than I do.
June 27, 2017 at 04:26
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...
June 27, 2017 at 03:52
not very well at all. Firstly, because aliens are claimed to manifest physically, it defies reasonable expectations based on our scientific knowledge ...
June 27, 2017 at 03:08
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...
June 27, 2017 at 02:37
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...
June 27, 2017 at 01:48
Happy to engage. What is your claim and its supporting argument?
June 27, 2017 at 01:17
Yes.
June 27, 2017 at 01:06
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...
June 26, 2017 at 22:22
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 ...
June 26, 2017 at 08:26
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...
June 22, 2017 at 22:38
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...
June 22, 2017 at 11:12
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...
June 22, 2017 at 10:38
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...
June 22, 2017 at 09:16
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...
June 22, 2017 at 07:47
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...
June 20, 2017 at 23:13
My understanding is that nobody knows right now whether blockchain will be a genuine disruptor that mostly replaces existing payment systems, or a fad...
June 19, 2017 at 22:24
I have vague memories of seeing a survey that reported exactly the opposite. Scientists reported significantly lower levels of belief in God than the ...
June 19, 2017 at 22:13
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...
June 19, 2017 at 07:49
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...
June 18, 2017 at 23:18
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...
June 18, 2017 at 11:08
One needs to maintain the distinction between terms, which represent objects in the domain of discourse, and formulas, which (speaking roughly) have t...
June 17, 2017 at 22:12