Sadly, John, many people don't get the existence question!
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:18 PM, John Mikes wrote:
> Laughing stock: how can so many excellently educted and smart(est)
> scientists SERIOUSLY debate on farces like flying pink elephants?
> JM
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:28 PM, meeke
Laughing stock: how can so many excellently educted and smart(est)
scientists SERIOUSLY debate on farces like flying pink elephants?
JM
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:28 PM, meekerdb wrote:
> On 6/11/2013 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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>> On 10 Jun 2013, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote:
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>> On 6/10
>From the video: "What we do is we use the story of math, which is very good
and very complete"
I think that summarizes the error of fictionalism. To believe math is a
human created invention requires believing that everything we can ever know
about math comes from the starting assumptions we cho
On 6/11/2013 1:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jun 2013, at 22:49, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 1:06 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
So numbers do not exist?
They don't exist like elephants do. They may exist like Christmas or Sherlock
Homes do.
Is Sherlock Holmes a human? Please give us
On 6/11/2013 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jun 2013, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jun 2013, at 18:25, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 09 Jun 2013, at
ROADMARKERS ON THE ROAD NOT TAKEN (LEIBNIZ VS MATERIALISM)
A.EXISTENCE
LEIBNIZ-- Mental (Nonphysical) + Physical
MATERIALISM-- Physical, only in spacetime
B. REALITY
LEIBNIZ-- Only mental is real
MATERIALISM- Only physical is real
C. SPACETIME
LEIBNIZ Exists only around physical bodies
M
Leibniz's later position on monads : as not infinitely nested but as having a
bottom, a final resting place
Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber
Review by: Justin E. H. Smith
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the Hi
On 11 Jun 2013, at 09:14, Roger Clough wrote:
Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber
Review by: Justin E. H. Smith
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of
Philosophy of Science , Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2011),
On 10 Jun 2013, at 22:49, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 1:06 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
So numbers do not exist?
They don't exist like elephants do. They may exist like Christmas
or Sherlock Homes do.
Is Sherlock Holmes a human? Please give us your theory of human, so
that we can dis
On 10 Jun 2013, at 22:06, Stephen Paul King wrote:
So numbers do not exist?
Why?
In most elementary (first order) theory of arithmetic, you can prove
the following:
Ex(x = 0)
Ex(x = s(0))
Ex(x = s(s(0)))
etc.
Bruno
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
On 10 Ju
On 10 Jun 2013, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jun 2013, at 18:25, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
On 09 Jun 2013, at 11:20, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9,
Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber
Review by: Justin E. H. Smith
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy
of Science , Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 153-157
Published by: The University of Chic
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