Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some people think it is absurd to say, as Cantorian mathematics does, that there are no more real numbers from 0 to 100 than from 0 to 1. Bu...

Write down a decimal point. Then choose a digit at random, with equal probability 1/10 of each possible digit. Repeat ad infinitum ,...

For a long time I've been puzzled—and I still am—by this. Our physics is based on the real numbers (complex numbers, vectors, ...

Thomson's lamp has an on-off switch. It begins in the "off" position. At noon the switch is toggled, and the lamp comes...

The following argument is valid: (Premise) If one compressed all the events of an infinitely long happy life into a minute, by liv...

Ted Sider apparently has an argument (I reporting second-hand) that there is a continuum in the degree of sinfulness, but there i...