Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-21 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 21 Sep 2009, at 23:48, m.a. wrote: > >> *And when pressed as to exactly how the Heisenberg compensators >> worked, the spokesman replied, "Very well, thank you."* > > :) > > That's the problem. Star strek teleportation has been invented well > before Bennett & Al. dis

Re: list archive

2009-09-21 Thread Wei Dai
I've placed a compressed mbox file at http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/everything-archive/. Add everything.bz2 to this path for the full URL. (I'm trying not to post the full URL directly so the email addresses inside won't get harvested by web robots.) It should be complete as of now. I'll updat

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Sep 2009, at 23:48, m.a. wrote: > And when pressed as to exactly how the Heisenberg compensators > worked, the spokesman replied, "Very well, thank you." :) That's the problem. Star strek teleportation has been invented well before Bennett & Al. discovered quantum teleportation, and a

Re: list archive

2009-09-21 Thread Miroslav Dobsicek
As have Russel wrote .. mbox is a type of file with certain structure for storing emails. 1. step open your email client, create a new folder, eg. FOR-MIREK, *copy* to this folder desired emails 2. step a\ Thunderbird (Mozilla) Dive into the depths of your hard drive, find where Thunderbir

Re: list archive

2009-09-21 Thread russell standish
Its a unix mailbox format. Used by various unix mailers, such as elm, pine and mutt, etc. If you use a browser (Mozilla, Seamonkey, and presumably Thunderbird) to read you mail, you can often find mboxes in the .mozilla/$profile/.slt/Mail/$server or .mozilla/$profile/.slt/Mail/Local\ Fold

Re: list archive

2009-09-21 Thread m.a.
Mirek, What's an MBOX and how do you send it? marty a. - Original Message - From: "Miroslav Dobsicek" To: Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:31 PM Subject: list archive > > Hi everybod

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-21 Thread m.a.
And when pressed as to exactly how the Heisenberg compensators worked, the spokesman replied, "Very well, thank you." - Original Message - From: "ronaldheld" To: "Everything List" Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:30 PM Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology > > Bruno a

Re: list archive

2009-09-21 Thread Miroslav Dobsicek
Yes, but a local copy would be much better. I am used to search emails quite extensively, tagging, printing ... mirek Jesse Mazer wrote: > You can see a list of messages by date here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/everything-list@googlegroups.com/maillist.html > > > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009

RE: list archive

2009-09-21 Thread Jesse Mazer
You can see a list of messages by date here: http://www.mail-archive.com/everything-list@googlegroups.com/maillist.html > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:31:14 +0200 > Subject: list archive > From: m.dobsi...@gmail.com > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > > > Hi everybody, > > I had a hard disk

list archive

2009-09-21 Thread Miroslav Dobsicek
Hi everybody, I had a hard disk failure recently and lost my archived emails approximately from May 2009 up to now (few months). Could somebody who is keeping all the emails from this mailing group send me an exported mbox or something similar? Thanks a lot! mirek --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-21 Thread ronaldheld
Bruno and others, here is how a Star Trek transporter work(taken from Memory Alpha): A typical transport sequence began with a coordinate lock, during which the destination was verified and programmed, via the targeting scanners. Obtaining or maintaining a transporter lock enables the transporter

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-21 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2009, at 02:49, Brent Meeker wrote: >> >> So does being "pure thought" mean "without a reference", i.e. a >> fiction? As in "Sherlock Holmes" is a pure thought? > > > Consider the Many world theory of Everett, or the many histories of > comp. Does it make se

Re: The seven step series

2009-09-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Sep 2009, at 17:00, I wrote: > On the set N^N of all functions from N to N, Cantor diagonal shows > that N^N is non enumerable. > On the set N-N-comp, the diagonal shows that N^N-comp, although > enumerable is non computably enumerable. > > OK? take the time to swallow this, and ask

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Sep 2009, at 02:49, Brent Meeker wrote: > > So does being "pure thought" mean "without a reference", i.e. a > fiction? As in "Sherlock Holmes" is a pure thought? Consider the Many world theory of Everett, or the many histories of comp. Does it make sense to say that Sherlock Holmes exis

Re: After Finitude

2009-09-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
The title is bizarre because it is really "finitude" which makes such sort of construction coherent and non ad hoc, through the constructive transfinite. Some people could object, also, that in the transfinite, there are model where the "totality of thinkable" is thinkable. But in general, w