Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-juil.-12, à 17:02, John Clark a écrit : On Fri, Jul 27, 2012  Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You just evade the definition of free will that I gave to you, You're going to need to be a lot more specific than that. I'd need to use scientific notation to count the number of

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-28 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You goal does not seem in discussing ideas, but in mocking people. That is not true, my goal has two parts: 1) Figuring out what you mean by free will. 2) Figuring out if what you say about free will is true. I have never completed

Re: On the assumption of the Plurality of Numbers

2012-07-28 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/28/2012 9:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: This is a degeneracy problem, everything looks, acts and even is one and the same thing, so how is there any differentiation that allows a plurality to obtain? 0 ≠ s(0) ≠ s(s(0)) ≠ I need to explain myself on this claim for

The Unreality of Time

2012-07-28 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
John Ellis McTaggart The Unreality of Time Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17 (1908): 456-473 I have learned about the McTaggart's A- and B-series from John Yates. http://www.ifsgoa.com/ Now I have found the original paper by McTaggart in Internet:

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-28 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/28/2012 4:23 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: John Ellis McTaggart The Unreality of Time Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17 (1908): 456-473 I have learned about the McTaggart's A- and B-series from John Yates. http://www.ifsgoa.com/ Now I have found the original paper by

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-28 Thread meekerdb
On 7/28/2012 9:46 AM, John Clark wrote: It is relatively random in the first person perspective, like the first person indeterminacy, So all you're saying is that in this thing you like to call first person indeterminacy the outcome of the simple multiplication problem 74* 836 is

Remarks on an idea on First-Order Logical Duality

2012-07-28 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Bruno, From http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/awodey/preprints/fold.pdf First-Order Logical Duality we read: In the propositional case, one passes from a propositional theory to a Boolean algebra by constructing the Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra of the theory, a construction which identifies