... Hi Eray, Not Materialism. In my opinion, Pratt argues for dual aspect monism, building on the implications of the Stone Representation theorem. ... What do...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 15, 2013 4:50 pm
... No, it is just an admission of idiocy and philosophical incompetence. Pure idiocy to think that somewhere sets and numbers exist as independent objects....
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 15, 2013 5:01 pm
Dear Eray, Why does there need to be a "somewhere" for these independent objects to exist? Is the physical universe that you observe the sum of all that could...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 15, 2013 5:45 pm
Dear Stephen, Does that question even deserve a reply? I've heard that there are idiots who take Quine-Durhem indispensability BS seriously. I submit that they...
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 15, 2013 9:39 pm
... Hi Eray, It was you that stipulated by your claim that mathematical objects had to exist 'somewhere'... I submit that there is no such a thing as ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 15, 2013 11:28 pm
Yeah, keep thinking an AGI is easy to program. :) ... -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 15, 2013 11:30 pm
And indispensability thesis... is false. I won't waste my time discussing those silly superstitious viewpoints. I have much more important matters to attend...
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walto
walterhorn
May 15, 2013 11:58 pm
Hilary tries to explain to the uncomprehending Eray why it is his anti-holism that is actually bullshit, not Quine/Duhem: "Holism is...in the first instance,...
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 16, 2013 1:15 am
... Silly boy, one does not program an AI. One creates a system that can learn to program itself. ... -- Onward! Stephen I apologize in advance for the gross...
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 16, 2013 1:16 am
... OK, then point me to an online discussion of your argument for my reading. ;-) ... -- Onward! Stephen I apologize in advance for the gross errors that this...
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 16, 2013 1:33 am
... Hi walto, Does Hilary try to ground and center (in a accessible world) the entity that has this "vocabulary"? If he does not, ISTM, that his argument is...
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 16, 2013 1:38 am
More on Hintikka: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-epistemic/ ... -- Onward! Stephen I apologize in advance for the gross errors that this post and all...
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Stephen P. King
stephankrieg
May 16, 2013 3:25 am
Hi Eray, A few remarks... You wrote: "SA claims that in the future post-humans will be so powerful, that they will be able to create realistic physical...
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walto
walterhorn
May 16, 2013 10:28 am
... Hi. ... Putnam is very prolific. He has written about nearly everything that philosophers write about these days (maybe not aesthetics--I'm not sure). I...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 17, 2013 12:56 am
Are you an idiot of some sort who is unable to read? What does it write here? "Let us review the premises before we get to deeper mistakes and methodological...
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Anssi Hyytiäinen
anssihyytiainen
May 17, 2013 1:01 am
I'm not sure why you feel so strongly about the whole thing, since the world's full of silly speculative arguments and thoughtless philosophy. I guess that's...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 17, 2013 1:18 am
All of it is anti-scientific. Holism, non-reductionism, mathematical Platonism. These are essentially creationist ideas. I'm still looking for this deep...
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Voice of Aristotle
examachine
May 17, 2013 1:24 am
Thanks for your thoughtful post. The problem is a generic one, it is a problem shared by all intelligent design arguments, therefore although it's obvious that...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 17, 2013 2:23 am
For the record, I banned this troll for idiotic statements like this, but also deliberate misrepresentation of my views, in addition to lame attempts to elicit...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 17, 2013 3:54 am
I'll answer the importance part about physicalism where I think SWM demonstrates some creationist tendencies. The nukes are a-go! On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:31...
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walto
walterhorn
May 17, 2013 11:07 am
... Lumping all of those together makes no sense to me. How is holism connected to any of the others. In the excerpt I posted, Putnam argues that anti-holism...
W> ...I understand that you don't like his support of the indispensibility thesis. I don't discuss philosophy of math myself--it's out of my area of...
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walto
walterhorn
May 20, 2013 11:06 am
... I agree with all that (unsurprisingly). And it's put better than I did. I'd just add that in comparison with Carnap, Quine is a naturalist's naturalist....
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 21, 2013 1:01 pm
I am opposed to the Platonism of these two braindead armchair "philosophers". http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/#1 (P1) We ought to have...
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walto
walterhorn
May 21, 2013 2:21 pm
Eray, we know you disagree with those two premises. You may be right about that (though you don't deign to give any arguments--as usual, you just...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 21, 2013 10:38 pm
Ok, that's fair. It's only because of the lack of imagination of Platonists that they think P2 is true. I have, in the past, several times, explained why that...
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walto
walterhorn
May 22, 2013 1:53 pm
Again, not one word of your post has anything to do with holism, which you (in your cute way) maintained was akin to creationism. I (again) respond that it is...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 22, 2013 5:33 pm
Dear Walto, What makes you think I should agree with anything Putnam says? He strikes me as a platonist and dualist and that's truly creationism. What's cute...
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walto
walterhorn
May 22, 2013 6:24 pm
I don't want to be put in the position of defending Putnam. He's held nearly every possible position on every subject. Not that long ago I asked him a...
