(October 18, 2021 at 10:08 am)HappySkeptic Wrote:(October 18, 2021 at 9:26 am)emjay Wrote: Right, fair enough. My dad was just telling me I probably got all that wrong as well (he has a degree in Physics... albeit from a long time ago)
Multiple degrees in physics here as well, but also from a long time ago. I have been a programmer for most of my career.
Yeah, for my dad, I just mentioned it being a long time ago because he wasn't a scientist by trade (he's retired now), so I don't know how much he keeps on top of the latest scientific developments, but I do know he's very on the ball when he thinks about these sorts of things. So he's very good at logic for instance but at the same time he's perfectly happy for me to refer to him (including specifically, on this forum) as a Philistine when it comes to Philosophy per se... almost wears it like a badge of honour
Like he joked that it was because of people like Parmenides (who I introduced him to thanks to all this) who basically said you can't talk coherently about nothing/non-being/non-existence... because of people like him that it took so long for the concept of zero to be invented/discovered That said, I think he's getting more interested now thanks to all of this.
