We may divide truths into two kinds: receptive and consequential. — Zuhair

The fellowship of those consequences from the two input rules is a kind of TRUTH. This is a consequential fact. — Zuhair

Here I'm stating a similar stance that is: Mathematics is the study of consequential truth. — Zuhair

The money available is best dispersed in as many hands as possible. To hoard the money is to rob the other members of it's possible benefits when better dispersed. — creativesoul

Are you saying everything is not predetermined or that we as people will never be able to predict the future to extreme precision due to various limitations? I actually have no concern which is true. I just find the topic interesting. I'm naturally inclined to reject Scientific determinism and/or predestination. — christian2017

Do you know what PD is? Do you have an opinion on its truth or falsity, and knowledge of how it relates to other candidate axioms floating about? — fishfry

You mis-stated CH in such a way as to give me the impression you haven't studied much set theory beyond the basics. — fishfry

My point is that neither of us is remotely qualified to discuss Woodin's work at all, unless you have set-theoretic knowledge far in excess of what you have demonstrated so far. Nor is his argument incomplete. — fishfry

hose technical terms are the meat and potatoes of 20th century set theory, especially of the last thirty or forty years. They're not "beyond existing theories." — fishfry

Your opinions stated here are vulgar and absurd. — Bitter Crank

Bitcoin still only works by social agreement. — unenlightened

You only have savings by the grace of the social contract. Governments regulate promissory notes such that society can rely on them, and you can hold them and exchange them for goods and services. The concept of property is brought into being by the social contract, and without it you own nothing. — unenlightened

The function itself cannot be input as then it does open up the for paradoxes and the circularity that Wittgenstein opposes. — ssu

Y = f => (x => x(x))(x => f(y => x(x)(y)))

(f => (x => x(x))(x => f(y => x(x)(y))))(
 f => (n => ((n === 0) ? 1 : n * f(n - 1))))(5)
//returns 120

In short, incoherent social darwinism 101. If 'the strong' exploiting 'the weak' is akin to exercising one's natural freedom, the 'weak' exploiting the 'strong' is equally akin to exercising one's natural freedom. Oh, what the heck, after all the strong was the weak and the weak was the strong. — hairy belly

You're ok with accepting some financial obligation - to maintain the society you belong to - as long as it is a clearly demarcated amount? — creativesoul

A percentage of earnings? — creativesoul

So, it seems that you do not think/believe that you are in any way at all - outside of scripture - financially obligated to the society you belong to? — creativesoul

Are you suggesting to let the less fortunate and elderly people suffer needlessly? — creativesoul

Are you suggesting that a nation can survive/thrive without some folk paying a larger percentage of their earnings than other? — creativesoul

Less fortunate and elderly people ought be helped. That's one thing. Do you agree? — creativesoul

Governing a nation of people has a cost. That's another. Do you agree? — creativesoul

If you want to say, there are tribes somewhere doing their hunting-gathering egalitarian thing, great. — schopenhauer1

Wittgenstein is rather attacking the heuristic semantic notion of "self reference" in relation to the iterative evaluation of a sequence of expressions via recursive substitution. Unless the iteration eventually halts, the resulting sequence isn't even sentence, never mind a proposition. Yet if the iteration is halted, each resulting sub-expression has non-equivalent arguments. — sime

I depicted no such thing as unlimited liability. — creativesoul

Those who benefit the most from society have the greatest burden of repayment(debt). Without a society, the accumulation of monetary financial wealth is impossible. — creativesoul

In general i hate predestination and i've state previously or in the past why i feel at this point i must accept scientific determinism and predestination (ask me the reasons if you like). — christian2017

You are taking the libertarian approach here, of course. "I owe no one anything! I touch no one and no one touches me. — Bitter Crank

Of course, in your scheme the baby boomers had no obligation to nurture, house, feed, and educate you either. — Bitter Crank

They could have saved themselves a great deal of trouble by not conceiving you in the first place, or having the misfortune of giving birth to you, dashed your brains out on the nearest brick wall. — Bitter Crank

And since you resent the favors done for you, you can start paying for all the products and services which you received before becoming a libertarian. — Bitter Crank

The Alephs aren't fields. Finite fields have absolutely nothing at all to do with this. They're apples and rutabagas. — fishfry

One can Google around. A lot of work has been done by Woodin, Hamkins, and other contemporary set theorists. Work on CH has been ongoing for decades. It just doesn't make the mainstream news. — fishfry

One big new idea is Woodin's Ultimate-L. It's so new and so technical it doesn't have a Wikipedia entry. This MathOverflow thread has some references. Nothing in this topic is comprehensible to laymen, just mentioning it since it's the state of the CH art. — fishfry

Another idea is Hamkins's set-theoretic multiverse.
http://jdh.hamkins.org/themultiverse/ — fishfry

Here's an accessible article that surveys the modern developments.
https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2011/kennedy-continuum-hypothesis — fishfry

Validity of the Social Contract — Pantagruel

Further hijabs don't just symbolize something that conflicts with society's values, they are something that does. Or potentially do, depending on the society's values. — Coben

I can't see the Israelis accepting Hamas's rule anytime soon. I also don't know how much positive change that that would really effect. — thewonder

How will Hamas guarantee law and order and who will possibly agree to the restoration of Ottoman millets? — thewonder

I see what you are saying, but I don't think that that makes the misconception that Jews have a reach of power that could be likened to something like the New World Order not anti-Semitic. — thewonder

I see the point you are making about the survivor bias, but I am unsure as to how you came to the conclusion that you did. I don't think that "antifragility" results that in victims of oppression are given superhuman powers, I guess. — thewonder

I think that the Israelis should abide by some sort of set of terms and conditions which are more or less outlined in the two-state solution, that there should eventually just be one state, — thewonder

ideally Israelis and Palestinians would just form an Anarchist commune and abandon the idea of the State altogether — thewonder

The way in which antisemitism is distinguished, and should be distinguished, from racism, has to do with the sort of imaginary of power, attributed to the Jews, Zionism, and Israel, which is at the heart of antisemitism — thewonder

He was trying to show that it was a problem of semantics and I think this was a little of what wittgenstein was getting at, but it is hard to defend his viewpoint. — Wittgenstein

5.153 In itself, a proposition is neither probable nor improbable. Either an event occurs or it does not: there is no middle way

You will get circularity otherwise. — ssu

Whether citizens should be allowed to dress a certain way is an internal affair of state, whereas the situation you depicted concerns international affairs. — Tzeentch

For let us suppose that the function F(fx) could be its own argument: in that case there would be a proposition 'F(F(fx))'

in that case there would be a proposition 'F(F(fx))', in which the outer function F and the inner function F must have different meanings, since the inner one has the form O(f(x)) and the outer one has the form Y(O(fx)).

In my view, it is a society's right to uphold those values that are fundamental to it. If a certain style of dress symbolizes something that conflicts with a society's values, I consequently see no issue in forbidding it. — Tzeentch

Is it possible to earn money (enough to live, not a lots of money) being philosopher? Is teaching in class the only way to make money with Philosophy? — John Pingo

Western views are everywhere around the world. They're the standard according to which the upper classes of many non-western countries mold themselves. I think it's a little absurd to claim that western views have failed. — Echarmion

The hijab is an instrument of repression. It's not something else. — thewonder

To what degree are such cultural traditions imposed? — thewonder

I also think that a person should respect that people in the region have a myriad of different worldviews which drastically differ from those that we have here. — thewonder

What is interesting is how closely tied mainstream software development practices are to capitalism. — darthbarracuda

But there are other ways of developing software that are less tied to economics - open source software is a great example. — darthbarracuda

The Beth numbers are the Alephs in the presence of the continuum hypothesis; they're distinct in its absence. — fishfry

unlike a significant proportion of set-theorists, who as a result of refusing to get their hands dirty in practical application, end up associating mathematical infinity with the religious idea of eternity. — sime