Re: Re: The I Ching, a cominatorically complete hyperlinked semantic field(mind).

2012-08-19 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The barrier between religion and ordinary life, like the one that suppossedly exist between gods and ordinary life is conventiona. If it is true that men have an instinct for religion, this is not governed by a switch that is put on when in a temple or when it is reading esoteric teachings. It is

Re: On comp and the is-ought problem of Hume

2012-08-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:08, Roger wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal This is probably just my ignorance of what comp is, but there seems to be a discrepancy between comp, which fits with Plato or Platonism, and real life, which actually fits more with Aristotle. Plato is ought to be and Aristotle is is in

Re: Is convergence a unique test for pi ?

2012-08-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:19, Roger wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Yes, you can square the square root of any number to test its accuracy, but there are a variety of algorithms used to calculate pi. Which is correct ? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi The value obtained is assumed to be true if

Re: Whatever happened to the Higgs boson ?

2012-08-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:38, Roger wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal There is ontological genocide here of everything but numbers. Yes. It is not so a problem, as what we consider real from inside is not the ontology, but the bigger epistemological reality which emerges from the ontology, whatever

Re: On puppet governors

2012-08-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:55, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Aug 2012, at 14:46, Roger wrote: But humans are not entirely governed from outside, they have their own agendas. We have a top level agenda:

Re: The I Ching, a cominatorically complete hyperlinked semantic field(mind).

2012-08-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Aug 2012, at 11:15, Alberto G. Corona wrote: The barrier between religion and ordinary life, like the one that suppossedly exist between gods and ordinary life is conventiona. If it is true that men have an instinct for religion, this is not governed by a switch that is put on when

Re: Is convergence a unique test for pi ?

2012-08-19 Thread smitra
Citeren Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:19, Roger wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Yes, you can square the square root of any number to test its accuracy, but there are a variety of algorithms used to calculate pi. Which is correct ? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Re: Re: Dasein

2012-08-19 Thread John Mikes
Back to the language-misunderstandings! *There is a problem* does it mean *NOT HERE*, but *THERE* do I see the problem, or rather (as I do guess): - *a problem exists* - ? German is not English. *Das DASEIN* is not the infinitive with a local monitor,:( da sein) rather a composite *NOUN. *

Re: On puppet governors

2012-08-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:55, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Aug 2012, at 14:46, Roger wrote: But humans are not entirely governed from

Re: Reconciling Bruno's Primitives with Multisense

2012-08-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/19/2012 4:30 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2012 12:51 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: I understand that 2+2 = 4. I still cannot explain how and why I understand 2+2 = 4. 2+2=4 is easy. I understand 2+2=4 is quasi infinitely more complex. Dear Bruno, As I see it, the quasi-infiitely more

Re: Reconciling Bruno's Primitives with Multisense

2012-08-19 Thread meekerdb
On 8/19/2012 2:43 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/19/2012 4:30 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2012 12:51 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: I understand that 2+2 = 4. I still cannot explain how and why I understand 2+2 = 4. 2+2=4 is easy. I understand 2+2=4 is quasi infinitely more complex. Dear Bruno,

Re: Reconciling Bruno's Primitives with Multisense

2012-08-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/19/2012 6:03 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2012 2:43 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/19/2012 4:30 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2012 12:51 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: I understand that 2+2 = 4. I still cannot explain how and why I understand 2+2 = 4. 2+2=4 is easy. I understand 2+2=4 is quasi

Re: Reconciling Bruno's Primitives with Multisense

2012-08-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/19/2012 12:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: You don't really 'come to the idea' at all though, you assume it from the start. There is no theory for why or how numbers would dream, only the assumption that they do. [BM] Here I absolutely disagree. The theory is that I am