Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, Oxford 1980, p. 200:
. . . when Cantor introduced actually infinite sets, he had to advance his creation against conceptions held by the greatest mathematicians of the past. He argued t...
This post adds nuance to what I said earlier. I continue to uphold the Potentiality Principle. I have never seen a good argument against it. But there is a question about when the principle first finds purchase. Certainly not before ...
My title is my thesis. This post has a prerequisite, The Question of the Meaning of Life: Distinctions and Assumptions. Read it first.
Extreme Subjectivism
We should distinguish between an extreme and a moderate version of the ...
One of the striking features of Daniel C. Dennett's Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Viking 2006) is that Dennett seems bent on having a straw man to attack. This is illustrated by his talk of the "deformation" of th...
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