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Showing posts with label topology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label topology. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Using general purpose LLMs to help with set theory questions

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Are general purpose LLMs useful to figuring things out in set theory? Here is a story about two experiences I recently had. Don’t worry abou...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Holes and substantivalism

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Suppose substantivalism about space is correct. Imagine now that the following happens to a slice of swiss cheese: the space where the holes...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Connected and scattered objects

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Intuitively, some physical objects, like a typical organism, are connected, while other physical objects, like a typical chess set spilled o...
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Disconnected bodies and lives

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We can imagine what it is like for a living to have a spatially disconnected body. First, if we are made of point particles, we all are spa...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

The deep question for the philosophy of spacetime

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There is more than one way of putting this point, so the assumptions I will make are not at all essential, and I don't even endorse the ...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Relativity Theory and abortion

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In an earlier post , I offered the principle that just as the laws of physics should be invariant under change of reference frame,...
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