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  • Hume and legitimate beliefs
    ↪JuanZu
    One opts that not even God knows what my next question would be?
    So if the universal mind cannot have perfect knowledge, we as mere mortals cannot posses it as well.
  • What caused the Big Bang, in your opinion?
    ↪an-salad
    My own belief is that the universe never actually started in the BB... as the song goes there's no beginning and there's no ending...
  • How can one know the ultimate truth about reality?
    ↪PeterJones
    So what is that: "The knowledge you are seeking lies beyond sensory data, trustworthy or not."?
  • How can one know the ultimate truth about reality?
    ↪PeterJones
    Beyond sensory data, are you alluding to 'faith' here?
  • How can one know the ultimate truth about reality?
    ↪Arcane Sandwich
    well you know my hallucinations might tell me something about reality... who knows. :-)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7PKRjrid4

    BTW, I took both the red and blue pills... :-D
  • How can one know the ultimate truth about reality?
    ↪javi2541997
    Well, why not to dare to question my senses if I may hallucinate something etc then my senses can be fooled.
    If my senses can be fooled then how can I trust my senses?

    To tell you the truth I was diagnosed with schizophrenia some 22 years ago, I lost touch with reality; so it makes me wonder what is indeed real and what is not.
    I spend too much time in the computers anyways...

    Perhaps I should take a break and watch Venom... that Homological Algebra can be quite tiresome...
    :-D
  • A -> not-A
    ↪NotAristotle
    Don't know. There are all sorts of logics out there.
  • Does Tarski Undefinability apply to HOL ?
    The problem with higher than first order logic, is that they don't have a complete proof theory.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_logic
    (under MetaLogical results).
  • A -> not-A
    ↪NotAristotle
    In the logic you are using can we use modus ponens as an inference rule?
  • Believing in nothing.
    ↪flannel jesus
    As Einstein once said "everything is relative". I believe in everything and in nothing. There was once a poster called grady from physicsforums who in his signature wrote:"why should I believe if I can just disbelieve".
    I don't know to what to believe anymore, so many faiths, and that's my truth. :-(
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHHvEksC7oc&ab_channel=NuclearBlastRecords

    But Einstein also said "God doesn't play dice", i.e he disbelieved Quantum Physics is the correct picture of reality. Are there any mainstream physicists nowadays who disbelieve Quantum Physics, I don't think there is such, but no one understands it (as the saying goes). Who was it quoted that he likes the "shut up, and calculate" interpretation?
    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shut_up_and_calculate
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgY-dpDKiJI&t=734s&ab_channel=JediMasterGeoff

    Sometimes, I do believe that I am God though.
    As Aristotle said:
    https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/aristotle_399587

    Yeah Long live the Misanthrope!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFug3xQBKAk&ab_channel=NuclearBlastRecords
  • Believing in nothing.
    ↪flannel jesus
    That's it, I don't know what is a "sane person".
  • Believing in nothing.
    ↪flannel jesus
    Define to me "sane person".
  • Believing in nothing.
    ↪universeness
    I know. You gotta love Logic!
  • Believing in nothing.
    A classical song:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSbKNkPlrxk&ab_channel=fallenleaf25
  • What is real?
    ↪180 Proof
    The existence of God.
  • What is real?
    something can be real to me but not real to someone else.

    That's what I am getting at.
  • What is real?
    Reality is what you believe to be real, in short.
  • What is real?
    ↪Vera Mont
    Let's see if I can't depend on my senses to gather what is real then I left with my mind.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ab_channel=Metallica

    And I might hallucinate, but the hallucination is my reality.
  • Solipsism
    ↪Moliere
    You,I,me,him,her, everybody needs some recognition cause being all alone is quite a freitening thought to bear. But eventually all our are dear loved ones will perish and die... :-(
  • Solipsism
    And when I think about it, now I just might be talking to myself... :-D
  • Solipsism
    ↪Moliere
    When you think about it really. In philosophy there are only questions and no answers. As opposed to maths,physics,engineering and logic where there should be a definite answer to every question even if the problem is unanswerable, then answer is that it's unanswerable.
    So I think I contradicted my self here, and philosophy does have answers that we cannot answer those question really, that is the answer.
  • Solipsism
    ↪Moliere
    Quite hilarious, ain't it?!
  • Solipsism
    ↪Moliere
    Don't be so humble, you are a genius!
  • Solipsism
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVnOz7i-JA
  • Solipsism
    :-D
  • Solipsism
    ↪Moliere
    You didn't but I did.
    so yes you did.
  • Statements are true?
    If you want to write it in Doxastic Logic's notation then it's: from Bp being true you can entail that p is true.
  • Statements are true?
    ↪Alkis Piskas
    The Socrates theme was a reply to Banno's DisneyLand YT film.

    Anyways, the Liar paradox can also be regarded as both true and false.
    As long as you or I or him believe something to be true, then it's true.
  • Statements are true?
    ↪Alkis Piskas
    It doesn't matter if it's true for others, as long as you or I or him believe it to be true.
    Besides of course tautologies and contradictions, and statements like "I am a Liar" which are by definition always true or always false.

    As for Socrates I am not even sure he ever existed, perhaps he is/was a fictional character...'
    What's the difference between fiction and reality in that case? it depends on what do you believe of course...
  • Statements are true?
    Something is true, if you believe it to be true.

    Obviously Av~A is true and A&~A is false. Other statments are contingents, as in are not a tautology nor contradictions.
    That's all there's to it really... :-)
  • Aristotelian logic: why do “first principles” not need to be proven?
    ↪javi2541997

    Well, you need ro assume something, don't you?

    Unless you want to assume the empty assumption of not assuming anything... :-)
    In which case you cannot argue anything.
  • Can you prove solipsism true?
    In what type of Logic do you want your proof to be served to you?
  • What does "real" mean?
    ↪frank
    Like our conversation.

    Reality is habitual hallucination, whatever that means... :-)
  • What does "real" mean?
    ↪frank
    Does Jack think the bartender is real or not?
    You are contradicting yourself.
  • What does "real" mean?
    ↪frank
    So he's not real, because he doesn't believe the bartender is real.
  • What does "real" mean?
    ↪frank
    How do you know?
  • What does "real" mean?
    ↪frank
    Then he's real.
  • What does "real" mean?
    ↪Agent Smith
    Real is what you believe to be real.
  • Reflection schema
    Another book which should be on every logician shelfs is Logic of provability by George Boolos. I started reading it years ago, I believe this should be covered there not sure 100 percent because I never finished reading this book. I read it back in my undergraute years as a student of maths and physics combined.
  • Reflection schema
    I am not sure this is addressed in those books. But are you acquainted with peter smith's book and Smullyan's books?
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