I am glad to announce
CREATIVITY'2019
the 1st World Congress of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy
in Honour of Newton da Costa's 90th Birthday
The event will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 8-13, 2019
Everybody is welcome to join us for a major philosophical event in one of
the mos
List:
I discovered over the weekend that Fernando Zalamea's former student Arnold
Oostra has proposed some relatively simple adjustments that make
Existential Graphs (EGs) compatible with intuitionistic logic (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic), rather than classical
logic. As J
Jon, Ben, List,
I am finding this exchange most interesting and valuable. Unfortunately,
I'm leaving for a holiday tomorrow and haven't the time to draft even a
note regarding anything substantial concerning it.
But I will note that in the paragraph just following CP 6.264 which Jon
quoted a snip
Ben U., List:
BU: Peirce's _reason_ for thinking space and time continuous was that he
thought that the process of thought is continuous. Insofar as that was at
the basis of his argument for Synechism, John S is right, many of us would
be reluctant to say that physicists ought — even without spe
Jeff D, John S, list,
Jeff, I think that you're correct that quantum mechanics is not at all
so contrary to continuity as people sometimes think. As you say, QM has
been reconciled with special relativity, leading to quantum field
theory. It is the Lorentz invariance in SR that demands continu
