Recent content by Mycroft7

Wait, what's the difference? If you to mean "cull" as kill off the less desirable individuals, and "positive breeding program" as only allow the more desirable to breed, then there wouldn't be any difference in result, surely? And if not, then what DO you mean by each?

Obviously I haven't been clear. I pretty much agree with all of the above. Zeno is saying that one CAN approach the problem in this certain way, and therefore one MUST approach it in this way, because, as you say, ignoring a paradox doesn't make it go away. Aristotle and Newton, each in their...

Inasmuch as any mathematical description is going to be originally derived from observation, I agree with you. It is impossible to measure with infinite precision, therefore it is also impossible to be 100% certain that our mathematical descriptions are accurate. However, I don't think it means...

The way I see it, those are fundamentally unanswerable questions, which I assume is your point. And when I say unanswerable, I don't mean merely that possible answers are unverifiable, I mean that there is actually no answer that makes sense at all. For example, "God made the universe and its...

In my experience, a more accurate formulation might be: The more intelligent a person is, the more likely is he to notice fundamental flaws in his own reasoning, and less likely to think he can really explain anything at all to ultimate satisfaction. To think one has all the answers is...

Ah, but he does. If you didn't have to treat it as infinite, then there would be no paradox. But the paradox lies in phrasing it such that you do. In order to go the whole distance, first you must go half, etc. I used those terms because they are the closest translations to what Aristotle...

There are at least two ways of dealing with Zeno's Paradoxes, which really, any professor of philosophy (or mathematics, for that matter) certainly ought to be aware of. First, says Aristotle, there is the distinction between potential infinite and actual infinite. Potential in this case...