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Constantine, please don't be intellectually lazy. If you have a philosophical question to put here, please state it in your own terms.

Nothing in life is simple, eh?

We are in danger of over-thinking the problem. Cantor was the first mathematician/mathematical philosopher to make full sense of the concept of infinity. Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Spinoza et al were hopelessly muddled in their thinking on this concept. Cantor realised that all of the philosophical probl...

Perhaps my first thought was a little terse.

The proposition (0=0)=1 "reduces" to the proposition 0=1, which is obviously incorrect. Are you perhaps confusing the statement of equivalence with the operation of division? Eg 2÷2=1.

The Law of Identity does not enter into arithmetic; so, 0=0 and 1=1 merely state the obvious. But in no sense is 0=0 equivalent to 1=1, except in logical form, because 0 and 1 are different values.

The proposition (0=0)=1 has no intelligible meaning.

Interestingly, "modern" conveniences have been around for at least 3000 years. Public conveniences existed in Mohenji Daro (Northern India). In Europe, flushable toilets have been found dating back to 3500-4000 BPE.

What the man said. Onyer, mate! That is the closest I have ever seen you come to a rational philosophical position. Just to clarify: the option to reject "self-evident" propositions has always been at the heart of mathematical and scientific progress. The rejection of the Parallel Postula...

What the man said. Onyer, mate! That is the closest I have ever seen you come to a rational philosophical position.

Allah is merciful...

I often think that God must be bored shitless. I mean, life has no challenges for him. There is nothing left for him to achieve. He doesn't have any sexual partner. He doesn't know what it means to read a new book, or feel the thrill of learning something new and exciting. He possesses his qualities...

dattaswami said, God is real and the world is unreal; but can this explain why sure thing Pacific Warrior was beaten 25L into 7th place at Gosford yesterday? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Well, I did once suggest in another forum that philosophy is like malaria, and I suppose addiction would be a similar thing: you might think you're cured, but once infected, something of it always remains in your system, and you can relapse... The novelist Lawrence Durrell once said something about ...

Like Wittgenstein, I became a philosopher by accident (that is the only thing I dare claim in common, I hasten to add!). For me, the more pressing question would be, given the deluge of meaningless, non-rational verbiage which forms the bulk of the posts in the popular philosophy forums nowadays, wh...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 8:16 pm can one ponder about a lake or does that necessarily get too deep?

-Imp

Well, I'm out of my depth, I won't be making any ripples here for shore.

Dost thou renounce Satan, and all his works, and all his pomps? Dost thou? Mmmm? Mmmm? 😇 Inference = Argument. A survey of philosophical discourse, written/spoken, will attest to that. However, the former has fallen outta use, philosophers preferring argument ; perhaps to then be given an opportuni...