Brent wrote 2-2-14:
*Finite means finished, complete, boundedBrent* Sounds good enough for me. Except for the 'complete': an incomplete statement can also be finite. Thanks John M On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:46 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/2/2014 2:36 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > You just scolded John Mikes for assuming he knew what reality is. > > Brent > > Brent: could you refresh my aging memory and 'quote me' with this stupid > misunderstanding? > It was last time yesterday when I wrote the opposite. > > > Here's the exchange:--------------------------------------- > > JM: I appreciate the mathematical truth (reality) but do not substitute > it for *REALITY* (of which my agnosticism fails to know more). > > > BM: But mathematical truth is not substituted for reality. i show that > the machine's epistemology is already richer than the mathematical truth. > > Then, yes, for the ontology, IF we assume comp, then the mathematical, > even the arithmetical reality, is shown to be complete. > But we stay agnostic on this, as we stay agnostic on comp itself. > > Somehow you seem to be non agnostic on the question of reality. You seem > to talk like if you knew that reality is not the arithmetical reality. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > I do not joke about being agnostic, > especially in cases what I 'assume', like 'the existence of a reality'. I > call it 'infinite complexity' > and would really appreciate to learn your definition of the "finite". (Not > mathematically, of course). > > > Finite means finished, complete, bounded > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
