Re: Paradoxes

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:19:17 +0000
j.nobel.daggett@gmail.com (LDagget) wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 8:04:55 +0000, MarkE wrote:
 

Potential paradoxes are of particular interest because if unresolved,
they may indicate not just difficultly but impossibility.
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Benner's framing remark is noteworthy: "Discussed here is an alternative
approach to guide research into the origins of life, one that focuses on
'paradoxes', pairs of statements, both grounded in theory and
observation, that (taken together) suggest that the 'origins problem'
cannot be solved."

 
 Seems to me that framing things as paradoxes is a transparently
deceptive sophistry.
 
It displaces the actual argument's details to a categorical that
pretends
to be a fundamental problem. Thus we get chicken and egg paradoxes.
Can't
get one without the other --- see it's a paradox. Or you get sophistry
like
zeno's paradox, or the liar's paradox. They are games on sets up by
language
that superficially sounds fair and reasonable but ultimately embed a
hidden
absurdity in their premises.
 

Do you have a line length setting set to wrap a bit tooo early? I only ask
as a lot of your lines have single words on them.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.