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Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:48 pm
If a man wants to go to hell, why should God stop him? Would he be loving if he forced us to accept his love?

Are you saying we need to take out a restraining order on God?

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:47 am Mathematics is a subset of symbolic logic.

Did you miss the memo from Gödel?

I don't think the average American gives New Zealand much thought. And if they do, they think it's Australia.

From my experience dealing with many people on this forum, I think there is large group of people here who are convinced that the following is a principle of logic: "Personally insult anyone who disagrees with you and who asks for evidence or a coherent argument to justify your position. The m...

-1- wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2018 12:09 pm I don't think that prior to the McCarthy era, there were any leftist Americans ...

FDR.

The universe has been said to have everything in it. The universe does not have an algorithm that can determine whether an arbitrary Turing machine halts. Nor does the universe contain an algebraic procedure to solve an arbitrary fifth degree polynomial. There are plenty of easily described things ...

In reality, as I argue, I do not believe number and space are separate Number and space. The discrete and the continuous. That's the question, all right. And I agree that their integration is key to the mystery of the world. and a metaphysics based upon this unification would provide a logical foun...

Given that all birds are animals, And some animals are pets It follows that, some birds are definitely pets Is this argument valid invalid?? You know ... if you're studying elementary logic and you have this question ... I would like to know, what do YOU think? The reason I ask is that the answer i...

I'm proud to say that weed's legal in my jurisdiction.

Science Fan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:34 am
The world is literally descending into the same mindlessness that it did in the 1930s and 1940s.

Yet the Democrats voted to give Trump more ability to illegally spy on citizens. How do you explain that? Could it be that the Dems don't even believe their own bullshit?

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:52 am
Last I heard, a more powerful collider will replace the LHC.

Well I guess that negates everything I said then.

You'll have to specify which physics experiments you're referring to. Again it seems to me you're cherry picking as I can't imagine you mean all physics experiments. The experiments at the forefront of knowledge. The ones that require building larger and larger colliders to reach ever higher energi...

No question that science is fluid. This leads to the next question: how do we tell the difference between science and nonscience or science and pseudoscience? Does science have limits? The limits of science are undergoing profound reevaluation. In physics we've reached the end of our ability to do ...

Since science only accepts tenets that are falsifiable, a small chance always exists that any tenet of science is false. So yes, science does not prove anything. That's all I'm saying. In math, a proof is a proof. If you prove that a given set of axioms proves some theorem, that can never be falsif...

Greatest I am wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:17 pm Republicans. Do you really want a leader who is a creationist?

Trump could not have been elected only by social conservatives. Trump was elected by people who wanted a leader who wasn't Hillary. Trump continues to be exactly that.