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20 May 2013, 4:31 am

Aren't there some blatant exceptions?



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20 May 2013, 7:39 am

Such as?



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20 May 2013, 8:53 am

Do you really expect Sciu to find such exceptions?



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20 May 2013, 11:53 am

If they're blatant, shouldn't it require very little effort to do so?



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20 May 2013, 1:16 pm

Now, how would he (or anyone else for that matter) decide which cases are blatant exceptions? Isn't the case at hand one about the existence of anything at all? Doesn't calling existence of something rather than nothing an exception to Occam's razor violate something fundamental?



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20 May 2013, 1:25 pm

Aren't you overthinking this concept?



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20 May 2013, 2:07 pm

How do you see this concept?



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20 May 2013, 2:08 pm

Isn't it just a concept? How can you *see* any non-physical idea?



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20 May 2013, 2:10 pm

Mind's eye?



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20 May 2013, 9:27 pm

Is that just a noun phrase and a question mark?



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21 May 2013, 1:17 pm

Did I just spend the whole day trying to find an overarching counter-argument in the form of a question?



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21 May 2013, 1:18 pm

Can I say "yes" without losing the question format?



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21 May 2013, 1:31 pm

Er... How did I come to think about Bertrand Russell who tried to find a way to express the statement "The cat is not on the mat" without using any negations?



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21 May 2013, 1:33 pm

...What?


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21 May 2013, 1:34 pm

Is it possible to express the complement of a set without defining the complement as a negation?



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21 May 2013, 1:35 pm

Didn't Mr. Russell spend hours and hours with this very question?