Heidegger

In a message dated 11/29/2008 11:00:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
Purely as an example - as an ex-British Army infantry sharp-shooter I was
told and observed in (rapid-fire) practice, that when a rifle fires bullet after
bullet (it is more pronounced in a machine-gun) the barrel heats up and
expands the internal helix-shaped pattern in the […]

[Jud]: In itself the term uncertain means: not established beyond doubt;
still undecided or unknown. Still undecided does NOT mean that whatever
is currently uncertain will remain so for ever.
[Joe (new)]: you repeat the error of substituting idiosyncratic
definitions for terms used in a technical context.
‘indeterminancy’ is a better translation of Heisenberg’s principle than
‘uncertainty’ precisely because the […]

In a message dated 11/29/2008 11:47:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jpolanik at nc.rr.com writes:
[Jud]: In itself the term uncertain means: not established beyond doubt;
still undecided or unknown. Still undecided does NOT mean that whatever
is currently uncertain will remain so for ever.
[Joe (new)]: you repeat the error of substituting idiosyncratic
definitions for terms used in a technical […]

29/11/2008 _jPolanik at nc.rr.com_ (mailto:jPolanik@nc.rr.com) writes:
[Joe]:
philosophers got their idea of the deterministic clockwork universe from
Newtonian physics; and, the idea of determinism as it applies to humans still
lingers in contemporary philosophy of consciousness even though the physics upon
which it was based has long since been overthrown.
[Jud]:
And where we may ask can […]

In a message dated 29/11/2008 11:36:59 GMT Standard Time, jPolanik at nc.rr.com
writes:
Antonio,
what you say may be true; but, we have no other way to overcome the
mistakes made during previous importations.
philosophers got their idea of the deterministic clockwork universe from
Newtonian physics; and, the idea of determinism as it applies to humans
still […]

27/11/2008. _Zgmet at yahoo.com_ (mailto:Zgmet@yahoo.com) writes:
Hi Jud,
Always nice to speak with you, especially when we have little disagreements..
Vive la difference!
Hi Georges, I feel the same about you mon ami Georges - vive la difference
say I too.
Georges:
However, here we have not a difference, but a simple misunderstanding, which
would […]

In a message dated 11/27/2008 5:23:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
By Leipoethos of Heiraphytna
(aka. Jud Evans)
Translated by Samuel Screever (1821-1892)
Copyright © 2006 Jud Evans. Permission granted to distribute in any medium,
commercial or non-commercial, provided author and copyright notices remain
intact. PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE
TAURORHUPOS An Athenian thurifer of Socrates - an amiable sermonising […]

Language vs Logic 1: Isness, Nominata and Quantifiers.
Jud,
you seem to object when someone exercises the right to think logically
rather than reasonably — as *you* define reasonable. nevertheless, the
fact is that evaluating the soundness of an argument and evaluating the
truth of its premises are separate operations; and, I reserve the right
to do either.
recall the context […]

Moral Absolutes
Who believes that the following acts are *bad?*
1. Torture
2. Slavery
3. Child labor
4. Child murder
5. Stoning of adulterous women
6. Beheading of men […]

In a message dated 25/11/2008 _jPolanik at nc.rr.com_
(mailto:jPolanik@nc.rr.com)
writes:
Language vs Logic 2: Truth and Validity
snip
Jud:
Whereas the predicational logician is so concerned to ensure that the
conclusion does or does not follow from the given premises in order that the
argument can be declared *sound* or *unsound* the philosopher concentrates not so
much on the […]