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- Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:48 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: Why is 1 not classified as being a prime number ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3111
Re: Why is 1 not classified as being a prime number ?
A prime number has to be divisible by I and itself not just itself which is the case for I But I have also heard that it is simply a convention of mathematics that I is not prime -I thank you a lot, Surreptitious, for your answer. I think the same at the rate of 80%. So we do have the same definiti...
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:56 am
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: Why is 1 not classified as being a prime number ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3111
Why is 1 not classified as being a prime number ?
Hi! I'd like to know why 1 is not classified as being a prime number, and how to really turn this fact down. -I already have an esquisse in large part (although brief in text) of my reasoning, but would like to keep an open question as the title, in a first time, before exposing my concordant argume...
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:45 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3433
Re: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
Hi, sorry I went asleep, yesterday. Since there is no gravity without mass, Yeah, that's the "Since.." which I am re-asking under leading questions. free fall depends upon the relationship between the mass of two bodies. "depends upon a relationship" does not mean anything, given...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 10:08 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3433
Re: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
That's a question.. I think you realise the kind of problem, what is good, to give help. Huh... not sure that cheese is Newton, since Newton is later than Galileo. That is what I remember. But in schools, Newton is taught before, (to break the schoolers criticism, I think). Now, why this monopole of...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:22 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3433
Re: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
I'd like to know how (or if) Newton auto-justified himself I believe he had an arrangement with his housemaid, he paid her a bit extra and she did it for him. -Okay, let's accept it, but.. .."it" what? -I was so enjoyed that some one replied to me, endly, but for a joke missing its own fo...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:31 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3433
Why Free Fall has no dependancy on mass, but gravity, yes?
Hi All, Since monthes, I (re-)discovered an old difficulty. This one substantialised itself to the more recent days. Here it is: Galileo Galilei showed that objects in free fall (further in the text: "fall") had no dependancy on the mass. And then, a guy named Newton, came, and we understo...
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 2:45 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hey Now
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3700
Re: Hey Now
(Probability for TS to answer even "Thanks" between 2 days and 1 week: about 50%. Present half for justification of what I point out; the other half absent, because he prefers to intervene in making any foundation tremble than to construct any somewhat truth himself. I understand better th...
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 1:22 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hey Now
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3700
Re: Hey Now
Hi Terrapin Station, I like a lot your replies, so I went at least (and at last) to welcome you. For a guy who doesn't like writing, you made an exception! Just joined, haven't even checked out any boards or threads yet. I'd been using philosophyforums.com a lot, under this same name, but that site ...
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:15 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Apologies
- Replies: 152
- Views: 37326
Re: Apologies
Wait, some people felt that all apologies were the same in terms of the motivations, sincerity, etc. of the person presenting the apology??? Huh? Who are "some people" for you, and where did you read the remaining ? I had just quoted Greta saying "Some felt that apologies were insinc...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 9:35 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Apologies
- Replies: 152
- Views: 37326
Re: Apologies
Wait, some people felt that all apologies were the same in terms of the motivations, sincerity, etc. of the person presenting the apology??? Huh? Who are "some people" for you, and where did you read the remaining ? Well, in fact am I near to think the same, (even if I do not know where y...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 9:22 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: What is the structure of uncertainty?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8762
Re: What is the structure of uncertainty?
What is the structure of uncertainty? How can we model it? How do we divide it up? How do we understand it as a thing in and of itself? Hi VoT! I remember the times when (I was new here) you was a higher (and more sure) philosopher than me (what is to say very high :) )! But I am somewhat deceived ...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:52 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Mind cannot be created
- Replies: 79
- Views: 19284
Re: Mind cannot be created
First definition of mind: Mind is essence of any being with the ability to experience, decide and act. 1) Intellect is utility of mind 2) This means that it is impossible to understand mind because intellect is utility of mind 3) This means that it is impossible to perform an act to create mind Oka...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Thinking experiment for fun
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1754
Re: Thinking experiment for fun
Hi! Either I am discovering the life, or to reduce the so-called "thinking experiment" to troll is at least approximative... In the proposed situation, it is not about "How demonstrate mathematically that 1 > 0", nor constitute in writing S. M. S. language to mean insults as well...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:33 am
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: Why Zeno d'Elee mistook the humanity for 2500 years.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3726
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:56 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Apologies
- Replies: 152
- Views: 37326
Re: Apologies
uwot's apology thread was presumably deleted due to its toxicity, but it's clear that people were interested in talking about the sincerity and usefulness of apologies. So if anyone had more to say on the subject, they can do it here without the baggage. The story so far ... Some felt that apologie...