PugJesus@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 days agoYou're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatiemedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1679arrow-down120
arrow-up1659arrow-down1imageYou're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatiemedia.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareddplf@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 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-up2·5 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.