Hi meekerdb
Fine.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
12/1/2012
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen
- Receiving the following content -
From: meekerdb
Receiver: everything-list
Time: 2012-11-30, 14:46:16
Subject: Re: the many faces of truth
On
Hi meekerdb
My reaction is that nothing is perfect in this world anyway.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
12/1/2012
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen
- Receiving the following content -
From: meekerdb
Receiver: everything-list
Time: 2012-11-30,
On 30 Nov 2012, at 13:33, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi everything-list
Perhaps Penrose's emphasis of intution, and the noncomputability
thereof,
is that intuition is is closely related to meaning, to semantics.
I think that a necessary feature of any machine to emulate human
thought
is to be
On 30 Nov 2012, at 15:05, Roger Clough wrote:
the many faces of truth
I believe that there are many forms of truth,
each form depending on how it is defined.
So I guess I am a nominalist. Or a pragmatist.
Same difference.
Russell's and Aristotle's form of truth would
be truth by
On 30 Nov 2012, at 16:32, Richard Ruquist wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
Richard,
On 28 Nov 2012, at 12:18, Richard Ruquist wrote:
Bruno,
Does any or all forms of energy come from arithmetic?
Yes. All forms (in the sense of stable
Hi Bruno Marchal
Yes, the Greeks had some kind of Trinity. So did the
Hindus. But the meanings are different than those of the Christian trinity.
The meanings of the Greek trinity figures
include the Demiurge (Satan, sort of) so are not identical to the Christian
trinity.
And the Hindu Trinity
Hi Russell Standish
Be that as it may, even a study over the last millenium
would be based on inadequate data compared to the
data from the Vostok ice cores. The hockey stick data
used by Gore and others could possibly be a real change,
but it pales in comparison:
http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-sad-state-of-modern-science
November 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM
The sad state of modern science
Two stories today illustrate the levels of corruption that now percolate
through many fields of science, helped by a willing and
On 30 Nov 2012, at 19:23, meekerdb wrote:
On 11/30/2012 1:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Hume uses that argument
as a basis for his dictum:
Reason is, and ever ought to be, the slave of passion.
Meaning that one should not kill just because it is logical, etc.
I agree. The heart knows,
I'm a fan of semiotics as well. Not to be the nit-picking guy but, since we
are talking about symbols and clear communication, it's not technically
true to say that Peirce developed semiotics or that Saussure's work is
called semiosis. I think of semoisis as referring to the actual process by
On 12/1/2012 12:52 PM, John Clark wrote:
Again there is nothing special about an observer in this, the same thing
would
happen if nobody looked at the film, or even if you used a brick wall
instead of
film, because the important thing is not that the photon makes a record
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:03:35AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Russell Standish
Be that as it may, even a study over the last millenium
would be based on inadequate data compared to the
data from the Vostok ice cores. The hockey stick data
used by Gore and others could possibly be a
On 12/1/2012 12:25 PM, Roger Clough wrote:
*
http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-sad-state-of-modern-science
November 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM
The sad state of modern science
On 12/1/2012 7:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:03:35AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Russell Standish
Be that as it may, even a study over the last millenium
would be based on inadequate data compared to the
data from the Vostok ice cores. The hockey stick data
used
On 12/1/2012 5:50 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 12/1/2012 7:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:03:35AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Russell Standish
Be that as it may, even a study over the last millenium
would be based on inadequate data compared to the
data from the
On 12/1/2012 9:18 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/1/2012 5:50 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 12/1/2012 7:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:03:35AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Russell Standish
Be that as it may, even a study over the last millenium
would be based on
On 12/1/2012 6:42 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 12/1/2012 9:18 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/1/2012 5:50 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 12/1/2012 7:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:03:35AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Russell Standish
Be that as it may, even a study
17 matches
Mail list logo
