Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Sep 2013, at 19:49, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Science, or at least theoretical physics, is all about explaining physical laws in terms of other more general laws. Either this process goes on forever like a infinitely

Re: Unexpected Hanging

2013-09-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Sep 2013, at 04:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 9:42:54 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Sep 2013, at 18:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:56:12 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Sep 2013, at 11:33, Telmo Menezes wrote:

Re: Unexpected Hanging

2013-09-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Sep 2013, at 04:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 9:42:54 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Sep 2013, at 18:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:56:12 AM

Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology

2013-09-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi spudboy100 Being (mind, life,consciousness, first person singular) isn't part of the spacetime universe. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: spudboy100

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-15 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Me: Feynman predicted in 1948 that the magnetic moment of an electron can't be exactly 1 in Dirac units as had been thought because it is effected by an infinite (and I do mean infinite and not just astronomical) number

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-15 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: As long as you suggest that there are things made of things, you are staying in the Aristotelian frame. Other can suggest that there are no such things at all, just natural numbers relative computations, So you are suggesting that

Re: Question to Russell

2013-09-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:42 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: What is L I F E in your view? Do you want examples or definitions? They are no ironclad definitions, they all have something to do with reproduction and in behaving in complex ways, and such definitions work fine for a