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Once structured programming eliminated spaghetti code we had to give up spaghetti code programming yet what remained was sufficiently expressive to express anything that need be expressed. Likewise when representing the set of all conceptual knowledge in a directed acyclic graph. Any repetition of ...

X is a type of Y. X does not have self reference. Y has self-reference. Therefore X has self-reference? We are talking about your coding standard. Does your coding standard allow self-reference. Yes? No? Maybe? Sometimes? If Y is allowed to have self-reference, why is X not allowed to have self-ref...

If coding standards prevent infinite loops then infinite loops will not occur in any programs conforming to these programming standards. Coding standards do prevent infinite loops. I already told you that. Total functional programming Coding standards are also a form of Linguistic prescription . Si...

What we call objectivity, does not exist among humans. What we call objectivity is just a group of people with the same subjective opinion. But subjectively agreeing does not yield perfect objectivity; just limited agreement in a limited group. Even if every human being on earth agreed to an idea, ...

The body of analytic knowledge is delineated by: Every (formal or natural language) sentence that can be verified as completely true entirely based on its meaning is an analytic sentence. still a problem based on its meaning (context) still requires another set of meaning/context, etc. and you are ...

You apparently lack the capacity to understand these things. The Prolog system of stipulated relations between finite strings already proves my point. Prolog is a context that approximates reality through a recursive effect initiated by the individual(s) who developed it...try harder. The body of a...

What we call objectivity, does not exist among humans. What we call objectivity is just a group of people with the same subjective opinion. But subjectively agreeing does not yield perfect objectivity; just limited agreement in a limited group. Even if every human being on earth agreed to an idea, ...

There is a crucial division between the past and present vs. future.Reality only happens or has happened- it does not exist in the future. If it has not yet happened, it is not real, other than as a mental concept. This is also true of time. TIME ALWAYS STARTS NOW. Future time does not exist other ...

Fella called Edmund Gettier made a career out of mangling the archaic view that knowledge is justified true belief. My view is that paradoxes and logic generally is about as interesting as a dose of clap. Anyone who doesn't share that view might want to google 'The Gettier Problem'. If Gettier's go...

Philosophy prior to the presocratics has to be explored more.

No, not, at all, that is simply not the way that it works. Provide an argument as to why relative to what context...dont do the "no because I said so" bullshit... You apparently lack the capacity to understand these things. The Prolog system of stipulated relations between finite strings already pr...

Plato's Atlantis myth, like all myths, is grounded in something. I say "Egyptians! Egyptians!" but most likely they hijacked a philosophy from some prior civilization. I currently see the legend of Atlantis mainly as a mixture of three Egyptian memories: - the "First Age", Zep Tepi which is address...

The use of the ∞ is only for the extended real numbers, and it's just a notational shorthand that we could do without, at the expense of wordiness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line In principle - all of this is true. You can devise any alphabet/notation/functions and as all M...

It is self-evident that concepts exist. There is no paradox when these concepts are encoded in language. Actually there is because the language itself becomes a context thus for every statement I make, including this one, it is always true and false. No, not, at all, that is simply not the way that...

Read Whitley strieber's "The Key"...it is a fiction philosophical book but deals with the nature of hyper advanced computing from the perspective of the ancients (in some sections).