Recent content by Prometheus

I don't understand this. Communism is an idea and a political system. It is an abstract concept. People kill people. Guns kill people. How can you claim that an abstract idea has killed people?

I never said that I have any problem with Kant's argument. I quite agree that logic cannot prove the existence of god. In fact, I made this very point in my first post of this thread. What I did not buy is cogito's phraseology, wherein he claimed that Kant made a proof without including the...

Axioms are not only not required for logic, they are not appropriate. It is for this reason that logic is not appropriate to the real world. Logic is a method of establishing relationships. In order to map this to the real world, axioms are applied. The appropriateness of the logic is then...

OK, I understand your point now.

I can't figure out what topic this post might be relevant to. If it is indeed relevant to anything going on in this thread, please specify what.

You may well be right. However, how do you know that you are right. ALL of the news that I hear suggests that only a small fraction of the combatants are non Iraqi. I just read that 5% of US prisoners are non Iraqi. What is your wonderful source of information that I, reading as I do on this...

I do not want to disagree with your assessment. However, I would also like to opine that history and religion play a part. Islam has a long history of terrorism as an option, and has used it far more than other peoples of other religions over the centuries.

I disagree with all of these. I think that these are not love, but attributes of love, and that furthermore they are the attributes defined by a person who is extremely different from me. You are far too abstract for me, and I personally do not feel a great deal of attraction to your personal...

Excellent. The difference is that with a differential in spatial motion, it is possible to move into the future at a different rate than another person, and therefore to "move into his future", so to speak. If you define the speed of light in purely spatial terms, as you do, then I agree...

Not really. The difference is the word fast. If we move at all with respect to the earth, then there is a time differential with respect to the Earth and all things that are stationary with respect to the earth. There is also a time differential with all things that are moving with respect to...

My original point was that logic could not be used to prove existence in the real world, such as the existence of god. I would also accept the existence of trees or whatever. You jumped in the middle of this thread with your statements, leading off on a tangent. I accept you arguments about...

Then I guess that there never was any real disagreement, although it seemed so.

Take all of the equations and make them of the form d= ... Then, you can put the two non d sides of the equation together to create 2 pairs in which d is elimintated entirely. You can repeat with these 2 equations to eliminate one of the other variables. This will leave you with 2 variables...

I have no problem with that. I am still thinking from the standpoint that what he has presented has no ability to demonstrate proofs about the real world. It is an interesting game with words, but that is what I accepted as given at the beginning of this thread. Can he use this to prove that...

Repeating what you said makes no more sense to me than before. I still disagree with it. Why not expand your thinking, to see a wider scope of possibilities? Rather than repeat what you said, why not address what I wrote, as I did for what you wrote? You do not need to agree with me, but...