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by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:31 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Well, firstly I don’t think anybody is out to trap you as such, but simply wants to understand your position. I can tell the difference betwen those who are looking to understand, and those to are looking for a gotcha, thanks. Given all conditions, wouldn’t a certain conclusion be undeniably tr...
by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:21 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Dig yourself out of your defensiveness just long enough to understand that I am not attacking you or your position; I am just trying to get to the truth of the matter. It's not defensiveness, it's frustration. If you were interested in getting to the truth of the matter, you would have gotten to it...
by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:52 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

So does that always leave open the possibility that at some future date a specific claim of absoluteness may present itself that you will be unable to refute, and maybe even agree with? Indeed. Just as the possibility that I am really Alexander the Great, having time-traveled into the 21st century,...
by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Emotional experts
Replies: 14
Views: 2607

All communication is manipulation of some sort or another -- it's all an attempt to elicit some sort of desired response from other people. The question is, what sort of response; more specifically, how is the goal of manipulation aligned with the other person's goals. The difference between exploit...
by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:22 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Well, you said you wouldn't formulate it as an absolute, which (of course) you would not be able to do without falling into the paradox, but then seemed to assert in a different way that nothing is absolute... Since you are not stating it as an absolute assertion, what do you think could be absolut...
by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:16 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: eccentric?
Replies: 34
Views: 4636

My 2 cents

What annoys me personally is that Sher used my name, and my argument, as an excuse to make a completely BS proposition, without even understanding what my argument was, or how her abuse of 'eccentricity' has nothing to do with my use of 'infinity'.
by vicdan
Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:05 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Victor, do you believe that absolutely nothing can be absolute?
Stop it with these sophomoric traps. See my response above. I have specifically addressed this point, OK?..
by vicdan
Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:24 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Victor, I would like to express what I think is where you come from; that is, what is the crux of your over all understandings and realizations. ‘Nothing absolute can be said in any absolute sense, however, truths can be established, but truth itself is contingent, hence no true absolute-ness can...
by vicdan
Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:27 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Re: My take

Although Quinn probably had some greater existential truth in mind, outside any formal discipline, I don't think it's correct to say "a=a isn't the base for anything". He was talking about logic (albeit informal) and using 'A=A' to say that any thing is itself and not something else -- as...
by vicdan
Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:51 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:I would like to hear the A=A one if it is at all listenable.
Might be a good idea -- to provide the 'outtakes' section, or perhaps just the raw recordings en masse, merely labeled for a modicum of coherence.
by vicdan
Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:52 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Reasoning Show - Miscellaneous Discussion
Replies: 300
Views: 343522

My take

I pretty much agree with that. It was a solid enough opening show, but I would only rate my own performance as 6 out of 10. That middle section in particular, although amusing in its own way, could have been done better. Oh come on, David, most of that show was basically the second session, a week ...
by vicdan
Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:07 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Genius Podcasting
Replies: 109
Views: 185060

There's something oddly Ukranian about that post... haha Do you know what Sib does there, Victor? That is, what his academic field is? Plasma physics. Specifically, plasma fluid dynamics, IIRC. I just looked at UNH physics department, though, and I can't find him. I would have to check my old mail ...
by vicdan
Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:59 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Genius Podcasting
Replies: 109
Views: 185060

Cognitive degeneration

I saw this and just had to reply... That was quite an interesting interview with Pearce- re the affects of TV, computers and so on on kids. "Researchers found that twenty years ago young people could distinguish between 360 different shadings of a single color category like red or blue. Today i...