Recent content by rizdek

BH, Thanks for a very interesting view. Hopefully you won't mind if I use it sometime in my various web discussions?

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I agree with you. I wouldn't have called out atheists HERE at this website, because of all groups, most seem to have shed NOT just their belief that a god exists but even beliefs of what a god might even be. That, I think, is a useful outcome of atheism. I not only don't think there is a god...

This seems to be a variety of the many Zeno's paradoxes. Maybe it could be called Zeno's Zero Probability Paradox? Once it is thrown, it no longer has the chance of landing anywhere, it is destined for a specific point. But per the hypothetical setup, even that specific point isn't real, it...

It seems, then, that modal logic is very much used in every day life...we just don't think of it in "modal logic" terms. It allows us to accommodate uncertainty, to err on the side of safety, to make decisions with less than complete information and even enjoy life as in, "I'm not sure I will...

There is a dumb question thread in the science forum. This is a dumb question in logic. I guess I understand that the ontological argument for god makes use of modal logic. And I guess modal logic has something to do with imaging worlds and whether things could happen/exist, must happen/exist...

But we know what is shorter than the tallest building and taller than the second tallest building, don't we?

"I don't understand the first one. " by Archimedes The first one means that you didn't dismember any of the Ye family and stuff them in your basement...the plural of Ye is Yes. If it has been Smith, You'd have answered No Smiths.

Yes is a water based natural lubricant that you didn't want to buy. edit...sorry I posted this before I realized the puzzle had been solved. I looked up "Yes" as a product and found it here: http://www.yesyesyes.org/products.htm

Thanks to all who have responded. Loren, I'll try to do some more research on that enzyme that checks the copy as it's being made. It sounds interesting.

At another website I sometimes peruse, I see this as something this person thinks is proof that this error correction code could not have evolved. "It is impossible for DNA error correcting systems to have evolved because error correcting systems rely upon intelligent selection of reference...

Reminds me of a joke I heard recently. It's a heaven joke. St Peter is coming out of the pearly gates; about to let folks in. There are two signs showing where men should line up. One has a sign saying, "Men who did what their wives tell them to do." The other sign says, "Men who did what...

But it is fascinating for me, anyways, to discuss some fiction stories with folks who really get caught up in analyzing, defending and judging the actions of fictional characters. They often go way beyond what the author wrote to justify/condemn a given person for their actions. They imagine...

The only come back I've heard that makes sense is when someone says, "The fool has said in his heart, 'there is no God.'" is "The wise man says it out loud." What I didn't know was that this verse was apparently in Anselm's mind when he came up with the Ontological Argument for God. See here...

It might be interesting to consider that there is more than one personality in an individual. I'm not talking schizo...but there is the group personality that might sound a lot like it's just following the crowd...and that occurs in all areas. One can hardly exclude the group peer pressure of...