On 6/7/2013 10:41 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink
elephant exists?
Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is true (ala
Bruno).
The belief a flying pink elephant is pink is
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 09 Jun 2013, at 11:20, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 08 Jun 2013, at 17:55, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/8/2013 1:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 08 Jun
The metaphysics of Leibniz, in contrast to the view of Materialism.
[Comments greatly appreciated]
There are two domains of being according to Leibniz:
physical existence and mental or nonphysical existence.
In contrast, modern Materialism holds that there is no nonphysical or
mental
The metaphysics of Leibniz, in contrast to the view of Materialism.
[Comments greatly appreciated]
There are two domains of being according to Leibniz:
physical existence and mental or nonphysical existence.
In contrast, modern Materialism holds that there is no nonphysical or
mental
A disturbing article from 2005:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
The reasoning seems sound to me.
Cheers,
Telmo.
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On 09 Jun 2013, at 20:48, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/9/2013 12:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 08 Jun 2013, at 17:55, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/8/2013 1:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 08 Jun 2013, at 05:15, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Yes, if there was a text of
On 09 Jun 2013, at 20:58, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/9/2013 5:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Then fictionalism can make sense only if we assume some basic
physical existence, or reality, as the not explicit contrary of
fiction.
Yes. Fictionalism is probably right about mathematics - but it's
Ontologies: Leibniz vs Materialism on various topics (a first attempt)
[Comments welcome]
Topic Leibniz
Materialism
ExistenceMental + PhysicalPhysical
only
Nominalism
ONTOLOGIES : LEIBNIZ VS. MATERIALISM (a first attempt)
[Comments welcome]
TOPICLEIBNIZMATERIALISM
Existence Mental (Nonphysical) + Physical
The nonphysical is beyond spacetime, the physical is within it.Physical, only
in spacetime
SpacetimeExists only around particlesExists everywhere
Hi cherdevey
Computer code can do about everything, but
in physics, it just describes behavior, is not the behavior itself,
an issue that Tegmark is exploring.
According to my Leibnizian thinking, possibly as well as that of materialism,
mathematics only describes, not controls, behavior,
On 6/10/2013 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 09 Jun 2013, at 11:20, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 08 Jun 2013, at 17:55, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/8/2013
On 10 Jun 2013, at 18:25, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
On 09 Jun 2013, at 11:20, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
On 08 Jun
On 6/10/2013 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jun 2013, at 18:25, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 09 Jun 2013, at 11:20, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno
So numbers do not exist?
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 10 Jun 2013, at 18:25, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/10/2013 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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On 09 Jun 2013, at 11:20, Telmo
On 6/10/2013 1:06 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
So numbers do not exist?
They don't exist like elephants do. They may exist like Christmas or Sherlock
Homes do.
Brent
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