http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/-t1.htm What is infinity anyway? why the heck is pi so important? is the law of the undistributed middle really all that it's cracked up to be? 'Reducing mathematics to logic? Are you nuts?!' and waddup with non-Euclidean geometry? and so on... Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:06:41 GMT 10 http://illiweb.com/itest/logo/default/default4.gif http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/-t1.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/khan-academy-t1955.htm Conrad
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(ht Gary North)]]> Formal Sciences Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:06:41 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/khan-academy-t1955.htm#27862 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/khan-academy-t1955.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/if-2-5-9-t1896.htm Conrad ... then how much is 4 + 6? Formal Sciences Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:58:57 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/if-2-5-9-t1896.htm#27040 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/if-2-5-9-t1896.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/scientific-versus-actual-too-typical-method-t1016.htm eye2i2 ]]> Formal Sciences Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:07:42 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/scientific-versus-actual-too-typical-method-t1016.htm#14960 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/scientific-versus-actual-too-typical-method-t1016.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/comfort-with-meaninglessness-the-key-to-good-programmers-t1244.htm Conrad very interesting article Quote:Dehnadi and Bornat's thesis is that the single biggest predictor of likely aptitude for programming is a deep comfort with meaninglessness: Quote: To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. In the test the consistent group showed a pre-acceptance of this fact: they are capable ... Formal Sciences Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:40:56 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/comfort-with-meaninglessness-the-key-to-good-programmers-t1244.htm#18939 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/comfort-with-meaninglessness-the-key-to-good-programmers-t1244.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/in-our-time-about-incompleteness-theorem-t1163.htm Conrad here]]> Formal Sciences Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:47:04 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/in-our-time-about-incompleteness-theorem-t1163.htm#17688 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/in-our-time-about-incompleteness-theorem-t1163.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/dark-matter-a-thought-t874.htm SteveL The majority of the mass in the universe is supposed by physicists and astronomers to be made of a mysterious substance called dark matter. We know this because we have computed that the amount of gravity operating on stars rotating within their galaxy exceeds the gravity produced by the mass of the galaxy itself--by a very large margin. My thought on the matter: perhaps gravity exhibits properties at very high masses. I am not a scientist, but does anyone have a thought on this? ... Formal Sciences Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:02:07 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/dark-matter-a-thought-t874.htm#11829 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/dark-matter-a-thought-t874.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/time-slows-down-t427.htm mike barskey A few scientists have come up with a theory that the universe's expansion is not accelerating, but instead it appears to be accelerating from our perspective because time slows down (and time is faster where we are in the history of the universe as opposed to stars of billiions of years ago whose light we can study). This kind of thing is way above being way above my ability to comprehend, but when it is explained in laymen's terms I find it so interesting! Formal Sciences Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:02:17 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/time-slows-down-t427.htm#4733 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/time-slows-down-t427.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/good-treatise-on-general-logic-t873.htm vichy Are there any modern books or general works along the lines of Aristotle's works on Logic? Just general principles and arguments, examinations of validity and fallacies etc, in the same vein, but not thousands of years old? Formal Sciences Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:12:47 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/good-treatise-on-general-logic-t873.htm#11789 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/good-treatise-on-general-logic-t873.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/does-anybody-here-have-a-chemistry-background-t846.htm mole Or do you know of a good site where I can ask chemistry questions? Formal Sciences Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:25:44 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/does-anybody-here-have-a-chemistry-background-t846.htm#11199 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/does-anybody-here-have-a-chemistry-background-t846.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/how-does-one-test-whether-2-plus-2-equals-4-t243.htm Conrad empirical way, like you would test whether a ball falls down when you drop it. This would make mathematics into an empirical science

Do you people have other ideas on this or agree with it?]]> Formal Sciences Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:45:50 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/how-does-one-test-whether-2-plus-2-equals-4-t243.htm#2149 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/how-does-one-test-whether-2-plus-2-equals-4-t243.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/square-roots-of-negative-numbers-and-more-even-than-odd-num-t19.htm Conrad I'm mathematically quite illiterate and so there will undoubtedly be easy answers to these two questions that I have had since early high school (my teachers couldnt or at least wouldnt answer them either): 1. there are square roots of negative numbers (imaginary numbers): how should we understand such numbers? what are they like? in what kind of universe do they exist/in what kinds of mathematic and physics practices do they have a role? 2. if you multiply an odd and an even number ... Formal Sciences Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:49:09 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/square-roots-of-negative-numbers-and-more-even-than-odd-num-t19.htm#19 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/square-roots-of-negative-numbers-and-more-even-than-odd-num-t19.htm http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/any-physicists-here-t283.htm Anonymous Mike Huemer Einstein's EPR thought experiment refutes Quantum Mechanics and Relativity:

http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/qm3.htm

Any physicists out there who can tell me why he's right or wrong?]]> Formal Sciences Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:56:43 GMT http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/any-physicists-here-t283.htm#2672 http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/formal-sciences-f22/any-physicists-here-t283.htm