@autonomous—you know we said “approximately autonomous” right? And that, for various purposes, tires are approximately autonomous, which means things like they can be replaced individually without touching the engine or knowing what type of engine it is. And a tire could be taken off one car and put on another.
No one was saying it’d function in isolation. Just like a person being autonomous doesn’t mean they would do well in isolation (e.g. in deep space). Just because people do need to be in appropriate environments to function doesn’t make “people are approximately autonomous” meaningless or false.
Well, mathematical proofs are support, and they are not at all the same a consistency.
First,l you have not answered my question. What is support? The general purpose definition. I want you to specify how it is determined if X supports Y, and also what that means (why should we care? what good is “support”?).
Second, let’s be more precise. If a person writes what he thinks to be a proof, what is supported? What he thinks is the conclusion of what he thinks is a proof, and nothing else? An infinite set of things which have wildly different properties? Something else?
No one was saying it’d function in isolation. Just like a person being autonomous doesn’t mean they would do well in isolation (e.g. in deep space). Just because people do need to be in appropriate environments to function doesn’t make “people are approximately autonomous” meaningless or false.
You argue from ideas being approximately autonomous to the fact that words like ‘authoritarian’ apply to them, and that the approximately debate, but this is not true in the car analogy. Is it ‘authoritarian’ that the brakes, accelerator and steering wheel have total control of the car, while the tyres and engine get no say, or is it just efficient?
I didn’t give a loose argument by analogy. You’re attacking a simplified straw man. I explained stuff at some length and you haven’t engaged here with all of what I said. e.g. your comments on “authoritarian” here do not mention or discuss anything I said about that. You also don’t mention force.
@autonomous—you know we said “approximately autonomous” right? And that, for various purposes, tires are approximately autonomous, which means things like they can be replaced individually without touching the engine or knowing what type of engine it is. And a tire could be taken off one car and put on another.
No one was saying it’d function in isolation. Just like a person being autonomous doesn’t mean they would do well in isolation (e.g. in deep space). Just because people do need to be in appropriate environments to function doesn’t make “people are approximately autonomous” meaningless or false.
First,l you have not answered my question. What is support? The general purpose definition. I want you to specify how it is determined if X supports Y, and also what that means (why should we care? what good is “support”?).
Second, let’s be more precise. If a person writes what he thinks to be a proof, what is supported? What he thinks is the conclusion of what he thinks is a proof, and nothing else? An infinite set of things which have wildly different properties? Something else?
You argue from ideas being approximately autonomous to the fact that words like ‘authoritarian’ apply to them, and that the approximately debate, but this is not true in the car analogy. Is it ‘authoritarian’ that the brakes, accelerator and steering wheel have total control of the car, while the tyres and engine get no say, or is it just efficient?
I didn’t give a loose argument by analogy. You’re attacking a simplified straw man. I explained stuff at some length and you haven’t engaged here with all of what I said. e.g. your comments on “authoritarian” here do not mention or discuss anything I said about that. You also don’t mention force.