On Sunday, 27 June 2021 at 07:32:06 UTC-4,
timba...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 6:51:37 AM UTC-4, Eram semper recta wrote:
> > On Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 12:52:51 UTC-4, Eram semper recta wrote:
> > > Any intelligent person can't help but be dumbstruck by the stupidity of mainstream academics.
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> > > In the talk page of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mathematics)
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> > > you'll see them arguing amongst themselves about the definition of set. Some are content to call it a "primitive concept" which is laughable because primitive implies a chronology:
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> > > primitive: relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something.
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> > > However, "primitive" itself is a questionable concept because it depends on *time* which is meaningless without matter and almost constant repeatable action.
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> > > Mainstream orangutans are satisfied to categorise "set" as a primitive without even thinking about any of the consequences. They imagine this act gives them the right to dismiss a proper definition for the primitive concept, that is, in their syphilitic brains, one need not be too concerned about the definition of a primitive concept. Absurd and ridiculous.
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> > > Primitive concepts have definitions! And to be primitive is relative to a given time period.
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> > > Thus, if we try to start with the primitive notion of set, we see that it is a bunch of baloney:
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> > > "A set is a gathering together into a whole of definite, distinct objects of our perception or our thought—which are called elements of the set."
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> > > That definition prohibits a set without elements, but what the fuck are elements? Chuckle. Ultimately, we come down to the actual word that should have been used, that is, "object", but this still fails in the above ill-formed definition.
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> > > Turns out the morons of mainstream could not come up with a definition, so they designed circular definitions and rules (or the beliefs of ZFC) in an attempt to define set. Only problem is that set is used over and over in the 9 beliefs beginning with the very first belief.
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> > > In my brilliant presentation, I prove there are no axioms or postulates in sound mathematics:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vlU-PJeIk672bFwZyULD1ASTRFF3jXg8
> > Mainstream cranks are like Donald Trump supporters - the more evidence you show them, the more they are convinced their conspiracy theories are true.
> Whether your presentation is falsifiable or not, it is a serious attempt at least and you deserve credit for your work. And it is clearly a piece of work.
Thank you! I appreciate the acknowledgment. However, I'll tell you this: the work is not my own! All I did, was to place in perspective the concepts realised by the Ancient Greeks. And more importantly, I wanted to make it clear that the Ancient Greeks were not "gods" but humans and had they not realised these things, eventually other humans would have realised the same or at least had the potential to realise the same, because perfect concepts (noumena) exist independently of any sentient thought. To wit, if the entire universe perished with all sentient beings and a new one appeared with new sentient beings, do you think they would realise these perfect concepts any differently? Would pi no longer be the magnitude realised when an attempt is made to measure a circle's periphery using its diameter as unit? Of course not. Pi would be the same whether we thought about it or not.
So I do not take any credit for this presentation. However, I would like the mainstream to acknowledge they have been wrong about many things, especially with regards to the foundations.
At the end of our journey, we want to leave behind a world better than we found it.
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> Set theory as a bridge over to and from philosophy and possibly back and forth to physics is relevant.
> The idea of starting from nothing and building up principles is rather different that starting from the universe and settling for a small part to study.
> The human is roughly a blank slate at birth.
I think we are born with the KATIS (knowledge acquisition through inferential suspension) feature. Other animals do not have this. Their actions are preprogrammed, hence instinct. KATIS is dynamic and reprograms itself - a sloppy analogy because our brains are not like computers and there is no algorithm which can reprogram itself.
> That we spend the first quarter of our lives downloading and getting programmed: this is a terrible system that we all have been through.
Getting brainwashed - yes.
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> Concepts which can stand freely ought to stand freely and be introduced and trained into our minds in this way. When shared aspects of such free-standing knowledge form a principle the question arises as to whether that principle is free-standing. Various curricula ensue. At some level diversity ought to be maintained and discussed. That said, if a false belief is exposed or a fraudulent system ensues then a conflicted state has to be identified.
Right!
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> The issuance of the point as fundamental may be challenged. If for instance I were to shrink say my pencil down it would approach the quality of a point, yet wouldn't it still be a pencil? I suppose in reality we could arrive at the realization of the atom, which is still not actually a point; we might arrive at the electron and still admit that there is more quality than a point. Returning back to the pencil we see that the electron is more like a pencil than it is like a point. A point is like nothing; particularly in its ideal state of smallness, as is the line. The idea of Euclidean thought as very fine work in order to attempt geometrical perfection versus say the work of a carpenter who knows better than to refit a joint a thousand times in the name of perfection: I do believe that this was the original sensibility of Euclidean geometry that is now lost on an unskilled population. Within mathematics we likewise see that epsilon/delta is presented by some as proof of perfection, while in reality to me it is an acceptance that close enough is good enough, and if you like you can do better.
Well, epsilonic arguments don't actually prove anything. These are merely an unremarkable confirmation of pre-acknowledged facts. For example, the standard limit definition for the derivative:
0 < |x-c|<delta => |f(x)-L|<epsilon
is just a statement of the definition in a very flawed form. For starters, it is circular because L must be known and L happens to be the derivative.
So it's all misguided knowledge which students never understand but thanks to KATIS, they are able to store away until such time as one reads about the right way in the New Calculus.