Potential definitions--Re: Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
Subject: Re: What is 'Existence'? == On 23 Sep 2012, at 12:18, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Stephen, Any idea about whatever is outside of the mind (noumena, thing it itself as Kant named it)before it is experienced as phenomena is and will remain speculative forever. By definition. But this does not prohibit our speculations... 2012/9/23 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The unavoidable speculative nature of neumena makes existence uncertain to the most deep level. All we have is the phenomena, that are mental. So certainty of existence has meaning within an space of shared conscience of believers that have, by various mental processes, certainty of existence of

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Bruno, With components I mean a neutral enumeration of entities. perhaps lebnitzian monads would be more appropriate. Besides numbers + and * I think that is necessary machines or any kind of instruction set + an execution unit? . It isn't? 2012/9/23 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 23

Re: Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Mikes Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-22, 15:52:11 Subject: Re: What is 'Existence'? Dear Stephen and Bruno: (BRUNO: Hmm... Then numbers lives, but with comp, only universal or Lobian numbers can be said reasonably

Re: Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
-- - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-22, 14:05:04 Subject: Re: What is 'Existence'? On 9/22/2012 5:25 AM, Roger Clough wrote: ROGER: Hi Bruno Marchal I think we should only use the word

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/24/2012 8:05 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King What's in a name ? If you have a better word for what I have been calling physical existence, please say it. Actuality. -- Onward! Stephen http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html -- You received this

Re: Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-24, 07:40:08 Subject: Re: What is 'Existence'? On 9/24/2012 6:46 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hi Stephen, Any idea about whatever is outside of the mind (noumena, thing it itself as Kant named it) before it is experienced

Re: Potential definitions--Re: Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
sense in some context, but not when you search a theory *explaining* or enlightening the big picture. You need a criterion of existence for what you take as primitive, and then you can defined the many different sorts of existence which can be reduced to the primitive existence. But you

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Sep 2012, at 13:03, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hi Bruno, With components I mean a neutral enumeration of entities. perhaps lebnitzian monads would be more appropriate. Besides numbers + and * I think that is necessary machines or any kind of instruction set + an execution unit? .

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2012, at 20:05, Stephen P. King wrote: With comp, all the exists comes from the ExP(x) use in arithmetic, and their arithmetical epistemological version, like []Ex[]P(x), or []Ex[]P(x), etc. Can not you see, Bruno, that this stipulation makes existence contingent upon

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * - Is just a mathematical manyfold(Me), few components: equations

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/23/2012 6:18 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * - Is just a mathematical manyfold(Me),

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Sep 2012, at 12:18, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * OK, for the chosen basic ontology. Numbers, and theor additive and multiplicative

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/22/2012 5:25 AM, Roger Clough wrote: ROGER: Hi Bruno Marchal I think we should only use the word exists only when we are referring to physical existence. Dear Roger, I think the exact opposite. We should NEVER use the word exists in reference to what is merely the subject of human

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-22 Thread John Mikes
Dear Stephen and Bruno: *(BRUNO: Hmm... Then numbers lives, but with comp, only universal or Lobian numbers can be said reasonably enough to be living. You might go to far. Even in Plato, the No? content (all the ideas) is richer that its living part. I doubt Plato would have said that a circle is

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/22/2012 3:52 PM, John Mikes wrote: Dear Stephen and Bruno: /*(BRUNO: Hmm... Then numbers lives, but with comp, only universal or Lobian numbers can be said reasonably enough to be living. You might go to far. Even in Plato, the No? content (all the ideas) is richer that its living part. I

Re: What is Existence?

2011-02-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2011/2/12 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com On Feb 11, 11:47 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/11 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com On Feb 10, 5:51 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:20, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi

Re: What is Existence?

2011-02-12 Thread 1Z
On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/12 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com However, they don't exist, so there is no mystery. You just have to pretend they do in order to play certain games. However they do exists... Proof? I can think about them. I

Re: What is Existence?

2011-02-11 Thread 1Z
On Feb 10, 5:51 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:20, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:24 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Maudlin

Re: What is Existence?

2011-02-11 Thread 1Z
On Feb 11, 11:47 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/11 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com On Feb 10, 5:51 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:20, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno

Re: What is Existence?

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:24 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false? The only ontology is my conciousness, and some amount of consensual

Re: What is Existence?

2011-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:20, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:24 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false? The