You're perfectly reasonable to reject both ATI1 and FTI1. Rejecting a premise does not require you to have a counterproof, as the truth table response...
The problem set-up, which gives the axioms of the system we are working with, does not provide enough information to decide. Hence the statement, for ...
Before making such a statement, we'd need to define what we mean by "the ground". Very difficult, because it needs to be a specific point that is infi...
Thanks MU. yes, all well here. I rarely post now, leaning towards expressing my musings about the world through music rather than words. But I periodi...
Nice thought experiment! There's no paradox in the sense of a contradiction. It just seems weird. When we analyse it closely, we see that all the set-...
As formulated, I don't think it proves anything, because it doesn't tell us WHY Ned decided to not go for a walk. Typically, interest zeroes in on the...
Having been strongly influenced by Korzybski and by e-prime - the work of his disciple David Bourland - I sympathise strongly with your post. As a mat...
Australia does not have compulsory voting. The law only compels you to attend a polling place of your convenience (and unlike in the US, they are very...
The OP relates to a point that is important in mathematics, yet rarely taught. In short: an equation, by which I mean two sets of symbols connected by...
I presume Deutsch means to restrict 'every physical process' to only processes for which the initial conditions can be encoded in a finite sequence of...
The concept of Turing Computability applies to functions between sets of words in a formal language. We cannot apply that concept to the physical univ...
Under Newtonian mechanics, perhaps. But not in other imaginable, mathematically consistent universes. I will describe a trajectory with a definite sta...
The solution lies in the meaning that we silently assume for the word 'paint', which is to cover an area with a layer of liquid paint with a constant,...
For any given initial location X of the ball in a Galton box, there will be some positive number delta(X) such that a measurement of initial condition...
Yes, that seems to me to be a fair characterisation of why Godel's incompleteness theorem is no barrier to progress in mathematics in most areas of in...
indeed. It seems to me that the people who worry over trying to prove the existence of their particular conception of God are just demonstrating their...
I don't accept premises 3, 4 or 5. 3 is contrary to what most cosmologists believe, which is that the universe is infinite. 4 and 5 are assertions of ...
I am not aware that Banno or anybody else said it would be redundant. It is logically redundant, and hence redundant if one believes the only use of w...
I don't know that many people hate her. 'Pity' is perhaps a more apt word. She was a very troubled woman and seemed to have a lot of unhappiness in he...
To whom does it appear as a shining beacon of greatness? To some people in poor countries that would like to be as wealthy as the average American, su...
The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton. Not to be confused with The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, written about 1500 years earlie...
Cultural appropriation lies on a spectrum. Most people, regardless of their politics, would find acts at one end of the spectrum reprehensible, and wo...
I think Terra is referring to the very specific and unusual use of the word 'observation' that is employed in quantum mechanics to refer to what is so...
I do not regard them as being essential to science, and they are not part of the way I look at science. I am pretty confident the many religious, spir...
Really? Then why is it entitled: "The blind spot of science is the neglect of lived experience" rather than, for instance "The blind spot of reductive...
You are assuming without evidence that those who reject the OP are scientifically illiterate. I very much doubt that to be the case. I am scientifical...
Then why bother responding with an irrelevancy? Forgive me for being blunt, but it seems necessary. That magazine article makes claims about science t...
Did you not read my response? What you wrote has nothing to do with what I wrote. You seem to just dodge or ignore the points made against you and the...
'On the contrary'? What does your comment about peer-reviewed journal papers they have written on different subjects have to do with this non-peer-rev...
I agree with Bohm on that, and note that widespread could mean as little as 10%. The gulf between a belief being widespread and being universal and a ...
Regarding the claims they make in their article - that scientists (without restriction or qualification) believe such and such - they know as close to...
It is a blind spot of science in the same way that the inability to provide a good observation of Jupiter is a blind spot of a microscope. What do Gle...
They do. The usual way to ground electrical concepts in intuition is to treat potential difference - (PD) measured in volts - and current, measured in...
Are you under the impression that there is no such thing as base values - that every value can be deduced from some lower-level value? If that process...
It looks like where we differ is about whether death is the ultimate harm. I do not believe it is. I think enforced suffering and trauma can be worse ...
Are you actually going to put forward an argument to support your claim that we should force feed people, or are you going to content yourself with on...
I very strongly disagree with this, and it seems many others on here do too, so at least you should concede that the 'clearly' in your claim is inappr...
For anybody favouring the forceful intervention route, I suggest you watch the scene in the recent movie Suffragette where a hunger-striking suffraget...
Since nobody has suggested we do that, I can't see the relevance of this comment. No they don't. In fact the Independent's report is quite explicit ab...
Given the source is Fox News, that is way too big an assumption for me! Here is a reported from a news source that has some credibility: https://www.i...
I think when Quine refers to a bound variable he is not referring solely to a variable referenced in a formal, symbolic logic expression, but that he ...
There is no difference that can be identified in language, because by speaking about entities that are not taken account of, we are taking account of ...
It depends on what the objection is. Without the crucial 'bound' qualifier, one might object that Quine's statement means we cannot say that any dinos...
I found the following article, about the video in which 11-year old Kaylee gives a lesson on surviving an 'active shooter', mesmerising: https://www.a...
I would look towards someone with a bit more positive of a worldview than Schopenhauer. Thomas Paine was who I had in mind, or indeed any of the numbe...
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