... Yes that is nothing but meaningless nonsense. ... Yes, this is better but it's a statement about ontology. The problem is, if we have established that the...
I want you to understand how I see the world. I only have two categories of hats that I wear at any one time. Propeller (scientist) Beanie (philosopher) I have...
... Well, you can look it up, even offline, y'know. books are still legal and available in many jurisdictions! As I keep saying, there are many varieties of...
Hello, here I forward a post from MindBrain group; interesting reading... Re: [Mind and Brain] Re: A question of validity Dear K, please excuse my slowness in...
... Calling each other names? Yes. Doing good philosophy? I think I am, you think you are, bozo thinks he is... yet we continue to disagree to the point of...
Josh: What happened to rigor? What happened to formality? What *happens* to computation without these? Your statement that nominalism comes in many different...
... Huh? We continue to seek all these things. Computation proceeds in reality, the rigor and formality are our problems, meta-problems. ... First, I offered...
... I gave you what I would call a "formal" definition of behavior-ism via contrast to computational-ism. I was very proud of that. I thought I did a very good...
... Yes they are and these "problems" are not acceptably solved by providing ambiguous concepts attached to official sounding labels such as "nominalism". That...
... Yes I did. As for the rest, John, you've pretty much lost me, and we seem to be boring the rest of the group, so why don't we let it slide for a while. ...
... <john_j_gagne@...> wrote:> > ... But the problem is that you also call ideas that you are unable or too lazy to understand nonsense and word salad as well....
... Well, you present two different cases for word salad-ism ;o) In the first case I'm unable, but you make no effort to explain why this might be the case....
... By the way Eray, I predict that the real test of GR will involve the gravity waves predicted by GR. If we don't find them GR is in serious trouble. But it...
... Can be either or both. Words never have meaning without active processes in the reader. ... But your argument against nominalism has never been valid, not...
... <mailto:ai-philosophy@yahoogroups.com> , "John J. Gagne" ... Your response acknowledged that you might be unable to grasp the concept and yet feel no...
... Well, I agree, as should have been obvious from the reasons I gave to Jim B. ... Sure, how could it be other wise? IOW, as apposed to what, inactive ...
... That is not true. Your message to me ommitted any personal responsibility for not understanding what another person tries to explain to you, and you went...
... Noted... including the spell check. Thanks for your patients. But don't expect much improvement in my spell abilities. I'm sure it's a genetic deficiency,...
... What's the difference between the first set of two isms and the second set of two isms? computationalist instrumentalist nominalist physicalist In other...
... Tell me in some detail just what it means for you to be an instrumentalist, give me an example of your instrumentalism as it relates to doing AI, and you...
... I'm not at all sure I can agree with this statement. You would further have to differentiate an instrumental-platonist from an instrumental-physicalist....
... I would say that computation is Platonic. It is based on axiomatic elements. I also would like to say that I am sometimes a nominialist and sometimes a...
... John, for some reason. has chosen to ignore the opportunity to learn more about nominalism, and instead he has reverted to painting it as an absurdity...
... The dualistic elements of platonism are characterized by appeal to essences or ideals. Plato used logic, but that does not mean that anyone who uses logic...
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