'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Monday, December 29, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 106


106. When I think of what will happen tomorrow  I am mentally already in the future.” – Similarly people think that endless series if cardinal numbers is somehow before our mind’s eye, whenever we can use that expression significantly.

A thought experiment is like a drawing of an experiment that is not carried out.



when I think of what will happen tomorrow – what I do is propose a future specific state of affairs

as to an endless series of cardinal numbers – I propose a mathematical theory

a thought experiment is a detailed proposal for an experiment



© greg t. charlton. 2014.