Nice connection!
Sure, but you can only conceive the absence of assuming after you’ve already conceived of assuming.
{0} ≠ {}
But yes, in set theory, both an empty set and a set containing only the element zero are sets.
However, the absence of any sets is beyond the scope of set theory!
An empty set is an absent set (it lacks existential import). If you are assuming nothing, you aren’t assuming anything. If you are assuming something, it’s not an empty set. Therefore, there is no such thing (set) as assuming nothing.
In a sense, yes. An empty set basically means that at least one element had been set but was then removed. That element can even be zero.
First, there was no set:
Then, at least one element was set, so there was “a set” and thereby the notion of a set:
{0}
And then, all the elements were lifted, so now there’s only the notion of a set:
{}
(Of course, this is no chronological, but just the logical order.)
Exactly. Unless, of course, you reify the nothing/mean something like “assuming the existence of nothing”.
That’s right, or—and this is just another way of saying it—an empty set is an abstraction: that which is set, and thereby makes the set “a set”, is ab-tracted (lit. “dragged off”).
Not unless there’s already someone who has assumed things and thereby knows the concept of assuming. Grammatically speaking, that is.
questions for you;
does the empty set exist?
is the empty set equivalent to the use of the word nothing?
did I prove the existence of the empty set?
If the empty set is a placeholder for something that is not yet, you’re just gonna have to wait and see.
If that is the case, there must be some justification behind the placeholder. Did the justification involve good reasons and evidence? What if it isn’t an empty set (not even a “not yet” but an “already always”) and you just don’t acknowledge the member that gives it existential import, or the essence/predicate that the member is demonstrating in the first place? Is it because you don’t give proper weight to the reasons and evidence, because your worldview isn’t based in reasons and evidence, and so rules out any reasons and evidence that would support a different worldview (leaving you stuck with an empty set)? Or is there some other biasing factor you haven’t controlled for?
“All I know is that I know nothing… yet.”
“You ain’t seen nothing yet!”
“You got another thing coming!”
Depends on what that means. The empty set is a placeholder. Every set contains the empty set as a subset. For instance, the set {1,2} contains the set {} as a placeholder for the element 3, so that we can add that element to the set, making it {1,2,3}. And then it still contains {} as a placeholder for any element it does not yet contain—the element 4, say.
Even if the set in question is the set of all numbers 1—and therefore can only be {1}—, it still contains {} as a subset, for the sake of any and all other elements it could hypothetically contain. Again, the empty set is simply the concept of “a set”. Therefore, it must be {} and contain {}—in other words, it must hypothetically leave open the possibility of at least one element inside it, otherwise it would be “” and not “{}” (without the quote marks, of course).
Again, it depends on what that word means. The empty set is like the use of the word “nothing” in the sentence, “I searched my cluttered desk for a paperclip, but I found nothing.” Of course the person didn’t find nothing in the sense that he found not only no paperclip, but nothing else, either (there being at least the desk and the clutter on it). It’s just that the set of all paperclips the person found on his desk is {}.
Sure! After all, if the empty set didn’t exist, the set of all empty sets would still be {}!
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I added these two to my proof at the end of the circumstantial evidence section;
Jesus said “give to the poor”, if we make sure the poor have food and shelter, then it will be less likely for them to steal from others or to needlessly suffer. Having this intent creates fellow feeling and good will in society.
"Jesus said “give to the poor”
That’s a nonstarter, though. There’s not supposed to be any poor. They 'sposed to have jobs.
But worse would be to encourage the working class, who’s already being shorted by the kings and emperors and feudal lords and capitalists, to give more of their money to the poor unemployed lumpenproletariat.
‘Give to the poor’ is not the absolute worst advice there is but it is pretty fuckin’ bad.
Immeasurably better advice would be “… and i sayeth unto you: reclaim your property from the bourgeoisie!”
I give handfuls of change to dudes at the light, though, all the time.
…be nice to your mom.
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There is no such thing as nothing as a starting point you fool.
You exist because you need to exist to claim that you don’t exist.If you claim that you don’t exist then you are a liar who exists!!! Just because you exist and YOU DO EXIST doesn’t mean that you possess life.You can be spiritually dead and claim things.Don’t confuse existence with life.They are separate.
You are clueless when it’s comes to philosophy,science and and psychology.Atheists are no good at any of these disciplines.They make their own BS up as they go along.
“…be nice to your mom.”
I thought of a way to speed up her death the other day when i was at the vape shop buying her overpriced crap from the sand n*ggaz.
She prefers vape oil that’s 6 milligrams of nicotine because it’s stronger than the 3 milligram stuff, but she’ll take the 3 milligram if that’s all they have.
So i was thinking: because of her high nicotine tolerance, she’d have to hit the vape twice as much to get the buzz if she’s vaping the three milligram instead of the six. This means she’d destroy her lungs twice as fast (what’s left of em).
Pretty smaht, yeah?
Lol, i remember when i was literally crawling across the floor dragging trash bags outside because she wouldn’t take the trash out. Remember that? Lol, you thought that was a joke.
I give her five more years, max.
p.s. stalkers are back. Two nights ago at 1:00 a.m. she’s on her computer and somebody outside bangs on the window four times. Cops are useless for stopping it.
wigga’d smaht
bang•4
… advise y’oughtta take.
I agree, there is no such thing as nothing. But the word and concept of nothing exists.
not everyone can have jobs, the retarded, the mentally ill, and the physically disabled,
fatherless children are also poor
“advise y’oughtta take”
Now, from a purely professional perspective, i gotta say this is truly bizarre, especially the timing.
Not just that i have spoon-fed you a million reasons why this cat lady deserves contempt if anything at all, but that you’re still on the mom thing even after a dude tells you he’s got stalkers, prolly from a forum, banging on his windows at night. It’s incredible. It’s like you are totally bananas, a sadistic monster, or don’t believe a word i say about anything.
At any rate, all this is, of course, more material for my case: look at how people treat this guy. They either think he’s a liar, hate em, or hate em and think he’s a liar. And they’re all wrong. No, just pretend for a second that anyone who has ever opened their asshole and muttered a word against me has been wrong. Just imagine what that would be like. Say, almost twenty years of it. Should there be any mystery why this guy’s philosophy is what it is?
Again, not that it bothers me. It’s research in the name of the sciencez.
No fuckin kidding. You don’t crack a joke right after a guy tells you that. You either don’t say anything or you say “fuck, dude, wtf”.
Yeah bro there’s no dilly-dallying when i show up. People either rally behind me or look away, too disturbed and afraid to let my truths do their work on em. There is no middle ground.
Otherwise, there would be no occasion for such rugged and parsimonious thinking. That i have ended up on Stirnerean philosophy was something forced into being by extremely rare circumstances. But the exception that i demonstrate is enough to prevent the rule, many, many rules, in fact. The majority of life is only as good as the worst that i have endured. Or, put another way, much of what you believe is true is not true because i have happened and i exist. This fact is as simple as it is absurd, but a fact it is nonetheless. Some divers do go down deep.
I want a treehouse.