I am reading this series and suddenly realized that Mercy, Justice and Fair are citizens of this 2nd-order-logic. As well as the “6” number. This is why they are imaginary and non-existing in the physical world. To most of you this comment would seem trivial but it just shows I am really enjoying my reading and thinking :)
Alex_Arendar
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Guys, I am not a physicist but I have problems with understanding this:
There would be no hypothesis in your hypothesis-space to describe the standard model of physics, where space is continuous, indefinitely divisible, and has complex amplitude assignments over uncountable cardinalities of points.
Is that a proven known thing that space is really continuous and indefinitely divisible?
claiming that most people don’t have the concept of an argument, and that it’s pointless to try and teach them anything else until you can convey an intuitive sense for what it means to argue
This is something I can observe everyday in my life. Probably I am less lucky then other guys and in my surrounding there are not that much “respected partners” who are able to listen and not rudely immediately disagree. So yes, it seems like most people don’t have the concept of a proper argument. But that way I also did not have thsi concept for a long time. We all learn and change. The easiest way is to say “people are rude and dumb and there is no point in trying to change them”. But in real life one cannot just change his surrounding, change the location, change the work and colleagues, change friends. If you want to have more “respected partners”—try to educate those you already have.
Hi, my name is Alex. I’m not that smart as ppl posting articles here. My ability to properly challenge the captcha only from 2nd attempt while registering here in LW proves this :) So I was learning math when being student, now working in IT. While typing this comment I’ve been thinking what is my purpose of spending time here and reading different info… and suddenly realized that i’m 29 already and life is too short to afford thinking wrong and thinking slow. So hope to improve myself to be able learn and understand more and more things. Cheers to everyone :)
For a person who already escaped from religion a thought about “What general strategy would a religious person have to follow in order to escape their religion?” is like a thought about how to make all people on Earth stop eating meat for a vegetarian person. Not a very constructive thought. If one starts thinking about such general strategy then one implicitly sets a goal to somehow assist all religious persons to escape from their religion. But that kind of goal is not necessarily a good one :) Instead, a person who already (or from the start) escaped the religion, can spend that time to look for more people with similar minds.