PugJesus@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 16 days agoYou're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatieimagemessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up1687arrow-down120
arrow-up1667arrow-down1imageYou're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatiePugJesus@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square47linkfedilink
minus-squareddplf@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agoI think the issue is purely semantical and if we had a way to discriminate between the ultimate infinity from the subinfinities, the whole paradox would become completely irrelevant It’s an interesting exploit of not having that distinction though
minus-squaremoakley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoI was told by a philosophy professor that to understand the paradox, I should read Wittgenstein. I couldn’t figure out Wittgenstein.
I think the issue is purely semantical and if we had a way to discriminate between the ultimate infinity from the subinfinities, the whole paradox would become completely irrelevant
It’s an interesting exploit of not having that distinction though
I was told by a philosophy professor that to understand the paradox, I should read Wittgenstein. I couldn’t figure out Wittgenstein.