Of course you can also trace the emergence of quantity to contradictions inherit in sheer, indeterminate being :grin: — Count Timothy von Icarus

if every possible universe exists, then we seem to run into all sorts of undetermination problems and issues that are somewhat akin to the Boltzman Brain problem, although different — Count Timothy von Icarus

This caused Tegmark to revise the hypothesis such that only computable objects exist. — Count Timothy von Icarus

RFBP—really full blooded platonism—can do the trick just as well, where RFBP differs from FBP by allowing entities from inconsistent mathematics. — https://academic.oup.com/philmat/article-abstract/7/3/322/1440511

If we come to have mathematical intuitions and develop mathematical ideas, we do not do so in isolation, so how does this tie back to the world? — Count Timothy von Icarus

it's really not that different from questions as to whether cats, trains, atoms, recessions, communism, etc. all really exist, if they are "mind-independent," — Count Timothy von Icarus

God's Favorite Country — Ciceronianus

miniTrump — Vera Mont

How do you know it was an accurate translation? — Corvus

Anyway, "I am thinking" is no much different from "I think" in terms of not able to link to "I am" — Corvus

And thinking has objects and content — Corvus

What were the content and object of "Cogito"? — Corvus

1. There are historical elements to the testimony in the New Testament — Brendan Golledge

2. Early Christians were willing to die for their belief in the content of the New Testament — Brendan Golledge

"In 1997, William Ryan, Walter Pitman, Petko Dimitrov, and their colleagues first published the Black Sea deluge hypothesis. They proposed that a catastrophic inflow of Mediterranean seawater into the Black Sea freshwater lake occurred around 7600 years ago, c. 5600 BC" — Brendan Golledge

nonchristian sources agree on some of the main points, such as that Jesus was crucified — Brendan Golledge

You are lying. I have experienced suffering myself and have witnessed the suffering of others. Although I have not yet died, I will. You will, too. — Truth Seeker

So, if there are anomolies in the movement of galaxies, they can only be due to matter, even if it is of a kind we have no knowledge of. Because, what else is there? — Wayfarer

(Rationalist) philosophers claim that we have a special, non-sensory capacity for understanding mathematical truths, a rational insight arising from pure thought

Frege, who had quite a bit to say about that, believed in the reality of abstract objects, which nominalism explicitly does not — Wayfarer

So perhaps the 'crisis' is actually a manifestation of a problem at the foundations of naturalism itself, but it's kind of an 'emperor's new mind' type of scenario where nobody wants to admit it. — Wayfarer

Philosophical dualism and mathematical platonism have no such difficulties. — Wayfarer

The idea of an immaterial mind receiving information from an abstract object seems just as mysterious and confused as the idea of a physical brain receiving information from an abstract object.

swordswomen as well, no doubt — Ciceronianus

I would have prevented the removal of my omniscience and omnipotence by you or anyone else! — Truth Seeker

If you had done the tasks on the list, I would be all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful. While I am all-loving, I am definitely not all-knowing and all-powerful. — Truth Seeker

Not done! — Truth Seeker

1. Live forever without consuming any oxygen, fluids, or food.
2. Do things other organisms e.g. tardigrades, dolphins, chameleons, etc. can do.
3. Teleport everywhere and everywhen.
4. Prevent all suffering, inequality, injustice, and deaths.
5. Make all living things (including the dead ones and the never-born ones) forever happy.
6. Be all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful and make all the other beings also all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful.
7. Own an infinite number of universes and give all beings an infinite number of universes each for free. — Truth Seeker

Conclusion is always consequent of the premises. You never conclude something, then list premises afterwards. — Corvus

No publication on Descartes says "I am thinking, therefore I am." That sounds like your imagination.
It clearly says "I think, therefore I am." — Corvus

1. Marque la conclusion d'un raisonnement, la conséquence d'une assertion ; en conséquence, par suite de quoi : J'ignore tout de la question, donc je me tais.

2 ergō, (5) conj. de coordination, donc, ainsi donc, par conséquent : Enn. d. Cic. CM 10 ; Cic. Fin. 2, 34, etc. || [avec pléonasme] : ergo igitur Pl. Trin. 756 ; itaque ergo Ter. Eun. 317 ; Liv. 1, 25, 2 ; 3, 31, 5, etc. || [concl. logique] : Cic. Fin. 2, 97 ; 5, 24 ; Læl. 88, etc.; ergo etiam Cic. Nat. 3, 43 ; 3, 51 ; ergo adeo Cic. Leg. 2, 23, donc aussi, donc encore

quantum physics is incomplete — Wayfarer

Gnomon is asking what title should be affixed to this conversation. — ucarr

A wonderful topic, but I suspect that there is too much here for a single thread — Banno

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He could doubt physical reality, he could doubt the existence of other minds, he could doubt the existence of gods or dogs or whatever, but if he doubted thought, the wall he hits is that that doubt is a thought... — flannel jesus

I do not think the Cogito convincing, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Monday, and Wednesday, I'm quite convinced. Friday and Saturday, I take an agnostic position. Sundays, I rest.

Now, you think the Cogito is grounds for being 100% certain of your existence, on the basis of an intuition... is that right? — Banno

So, do we agree that "p⊃q" is invalid? — Banno

Valid: an argument is valid if and only if it is necessary that if all of the premises are true, then the conclusion is true; if all the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true; it is impossible that all the premises are true and the conclusion is false.

If yes, then do we agree that the Cogito is "I think, therefore I am"? — Banno

If no, then what is the Cogito? — Banno

1. I think ⊃ I exist. (Cogito, assumption)
2. I think. (assumption)
3. ⊢ I exist. (1.2, MPP) — Banno

That as such, it would be circular? — Banno

And it seems we agree that the Cogito is — Banno

Then, returning to the topic, do we have some basis for thinking that this intuition counts as part of the 100% certain knowledge that the OP seeks? — Banno

if determinism is true, then we are determined to assign moral culpability to everyone — 180 Proof

Is anyone actually morally culpable? — Truth Seeker

In that case, X is not actually culpable — Truth Seeker

So are you, in a somewhat constipated fashion, saying that the cogito is not an inference, but an intuition? — Banno

"I think, therefore I am", rendered as "p⊃q", is invalid. — Banno

What you call "the complete argument" is obviously circular. Hardly convincing. — Banno

You are playing on "solid" here, on the he misapprehension that we can only know stuff if we are certain of it, if our belief is indubitable. — Banno

maybe you could come up with a pill to stop the need for that as well. — Sir2u

That is why he wrote Meditations and not Disputations or theorems and problems. By doing this he wanted so send a clear message that he didn’t want to deal with anyone unwilling to join him in meditating and attending closely. Those who are set to attack the truth, just for that sake, are less suited in perceiving it, for instead of properly attending to the convincing arguments which support the truth, they’d be busy with looking for counter-arguments to deny it.

Here's a seperate point, made by Corvus, Beverly and myself, and pretty much unaddressed by others: It has not been shown that the Cogito is valid.

Indeed, in propositional logic, the Cogito would be rendered
1. p ⊃ q
Which is invalid. — Banno

Here's a seperate point, made by Corvus, Beverly and myself, and pretty much unaddressed by others: It has not been shown that the Cogito is valid.

Indeed, in propositional logic, the Cogito would be rendered
1. p ⊃ q
Which is invalid. — Banno

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They are objecting to the "I," — NotAristotle

The first aqueduct was the Aqua Appia, erected in 312 BCE — Ciceronianus

third to first century BCE — Ciceronianus

Hadrian in the second century CE — Ciceronianus

The Iron Age was a period in human history that started between 1200 B.C. and 600 B.C — https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/iron-age

a First Cause implies a Final Cause, produced by the operations of an Efficient Cause, working in the medium of a Material Cause. What could we call it? The First Concept? The god-who-shall-not-be-named inquiry? — Gnomon