Now, def. 5. is interesting. Can facts be contradictory, in themselves? Or--as is often maintained--is it simply our various conceptions or opinions about what the facts are? I mean, if facts actually contradicted each other then this circumstance would easily account for why the Republicans & D...

<After lunch> Logic has its utility, but not so much as was originally hoped for by its creators/discoverers. Really, it serves as a set of stepping stones from one purported truth to another. But if those stepping stones don't make it all the way to the river bank, the "ground", then how ...

Harry, did you ever see a movie called "Second Hand Lions"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXn5-r8mj-s This little excerpt is a little out of context, but it nicely encapsulates your view, I think. I'd say that utility is the only reason I believe anything by choice. Of course, not all my ...

johnson,

I already saw that on TopDocumentary.com

I did find it entertaining.

The point being, not that God is assumed by me! But that this law is a basic assumption, or postulate. It has no further explanation that I have seen, but is taken to be a self-evident proposition, in the same way that a theist commonly assumes the existence of God, or others might simply assume the...

Under assumption 1b) we see (I hope) that the Law of Noncontradiction has precisely the same degree of explicability that God has. (Which isn't much, from a theistic POV. God is a given, and so would this law be, in the same way--being that they are "joined at the hip".)

Robert, I still don't know if an imaginary number can really be considered even or odd. Are odd and even just properties of integers? I guess you must mean complex numbers, since 2 i is even, and 3 i is odd, just as in the real integers. But the Gaussian integers (aka complex integers) have a couple...

Robert, Upon consideration, I thought your contribution was very much what Robby was asking for, locally. But the gist of our previous interaction at Amazon was about how we go about coming up with these ideas. Yours was so concise and dense that it left no cracks into which we could wedge any expla...

Robert,

Are you a Process Theology guy?

BTW, thanks for your input on the .mp3 matter. Did you happen to listen to them? Did it help you understand my analogy?

(Apparently, others found them to be somewhat helpful.)