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im not directly saying if something is possible it must be realized my point was, in logic, if the 'unknown' exists forever (as an unchanging principle of reality), then logically we can never know everything which exists it follows that we cannot 'remove' any possibility from an unknown reality (s...

Neither doc, my wife's sister, actually

Wow, for once doc and trixie agree! So, have a peace pipe...

Ginkgo wrote:I mean to say I am sure you are making a worthwhile contribution.

That's ok, Ginkgo. Always read very pleasantly all of your posts

Ask muslims, darling

Well, I think Trixie is right. Not that many people choose to be ignorant on purpose, but they simply choose to live without making themselves questions like Trixie's and other's on this forum, for instance.
I look at my brotherinlaw, he's sooooooooooooooooo happy

First of all, sorry to be so long responding to your comment of 6 March. My excuse is I didn't notice that you were addressing me in the middle of several exchanges with Trixie. I did mention reason a couple of times. I said: "Why does reason prevail? Because we naturally seek society, and bec...

Hi everybody, Consider universe as infinite. This means it has no beginning, no ending, no borders, no center. In every point you will be in it, you will have infinite points in front of you, infinite points behind you, infinite points below you, inifinite points above you, you will have inifinite ...

In the everyday [non-Platonic] world an infinite number line is never completed (simply extended as needed), and accordingly at any of its stages where there's a point with an equal quantity of units on both sides, there is a candidate for a temporary center. Obviously this skirts around any ideali...

Infinite as "immeasurable": An expanse which is continually growing or continually being divided thus avoids definite quantification. As well, an expanse which actually is completed and fixed (and accordingly finite), but which is susceptible to eventual decay, could still be so large tha...

Hi Arising_uk, Thanks very much, I had given up on getting any sensible answers form this site! Yes, I was heading towards seeing how this line of reasoning could reach Wittgenstein's conclusion. However, to reach this conclusion you have to realize that all propositions are based on our intuitions...

There is no doubt that backwards travel is a contradiction in meaning. One thing is know is that we can travel forwards in time. We are all of us doing that at this very moment. The faster we travel the faster we travel into the future. At close to light speeds, were it possible, we would be able t...

I don't think long time travels are possible, but short, like micro seconds, the further back the more energy or whatever is required. This is something rational about time travelling. I know at Cern are making experiments in that way. It certainly is a starting point. According to theoretical phys...

We can't go back in time to change the past, but we can rewrite time in my view by resolving its foundations, so instead of pyramids with sands from the hourglass under them, we can focus the river of time into new flows by standing it on purple rocks from an Overseer's royalty on green-glass, ever...

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