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Of course many things are certain in the way that we ordinarily use the word “certain.” It is certain that you are reading this now, that you do not have five heads, that 2 + 2 = 4. I argue, however, that in a more demanding sense, the sense that should be applied when we are evaluating the effect ...

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." Oscar Wilde I'd like to interpret its meaning. I'm not interested so much in what the sayer meant by it, as what it means to me...or to you, and I don't really believe in inherent meanin...

Nicodemes, I should be honoured that I'm the next most interesting thing besides geometry on this forum for you. And I am (honoured, that is lol). But as I wrote before, this shop is now closed. Welcome to the forum. Enjoy your stay. I'm going to take everyone's advice now, and kill myself. Bye bye...

Someone noticed this earlier, your thinking is very black/white. That's fine, there's always going to be such thinkers in the world, as well as those who attempt to transcend it. Now, even if antinatalism couldn't be seen as anything other than an imposition, which it easily can, I'm maintaining, so...

For most people, most of the time, the desire to reproduce, as well as the desire to have sex without counting the costs, as well as the long term benefits, has, is, and will continue to trump the fear of 'imposition', as you put it, in all likelihood, and to think this'll ever reverse itself, is a ...

It's unfortunate modern physicists have gone down that road. They left themselves with no option once they accepted a logical absurdity as a fact of nature. They assumed that because the speed of light was OBSERVED TO BE a constant irrespective of the relative motions of the observer and his observ...

I'm doing away with a fundamental distinction and division of the two. What you're saying is hardly breaking news in philosophy, Nicomedes, because this is simply Kant 101. My own field is in the philosophy of science, of which the philosophy of mathematics is a significant subset, and most philoso...

Geometry doesn't exist in an objective sense, as in, there are spheres, pyramids, cubes and so on out there, nor in a, transcendental sense, if you will, like Plato's forms are supposed to exist. Presumable you accept they exist in some way? In an Ideal way, maybe? Such things are analytically true...

A triangle is thought to be the simplest straight lined, symmetrical shape we can see, draw or imagine. Thing is, not only has no one ever seen or drawn an objective, that is, a physical triangle, but it's doubtful we're capable of imagining one either. We can't see one or draw one in nature, becaus...

Geometry doesn't exist in an objective sense, as in, there are spheres, pyramids, cubes and so on out there, nor in a, transcendental sense, if you will, like Plato's forms are supposed to exist. There are no cubes out there, no one has ever seen a cube, or even anything resembling a cube, nor is an...