Jeebus in Wash DC, 8/24

[Jonathan Loesberg]

OK with me. I like Dean's place. But I don't eat out often enough to have gotten bored with Ripple.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

You never have to twist MY arm to go to Dino.

 

[Michael Lewis]

I tend to prefer Ripple, as I really appreciate the service I typically get there, but there is nothing wrong with Dino either and the new location happens to be in my general neighborhood, so that works for me (work- and baby-permitting).

Which day did we decide on, by the way?

 

[Larry Stein]

Monday 8/24. It's my only free evening. I changed the thread title to reflect this.

 

[maureen]

I will communicate with dean. How many are we?

 

[Cole Kendall]

Is this a roll call? I am in

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Based on the last count, I have Larry, Maureen, me, Gail, Cole, Michael and Keith. I count 7, but I can be inaccurate after 3.

 

[maureen]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Based on the last count, I have Larry, Maureen, me, Gail, Cole, Michael and Keith. I count 7, but I can be inaccurate after 3.

And Ian is 8.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Based on the last count, I have Larry, Maureen, me, Gail, Cole, Michael and Keith. I count 7, but I can be inaccurate after 3.

The correct numeral after 3 is 'many.'

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Based on the last count, I have Larry, Maureen, me, Gail, Cole, Michael and Keith. I count 7, but I can be inaccurate after 3.

The correct numeral after 3 is 'many.'

If you're a philosopher, the correct number is "an Infinite number." Most philosophers actually think that number follows one since more than one means indeterminate, which is the same as infinitely various.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

I'm not a philosopher. Why does more than one mean indeterminate to philosophers?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

By the law of non-contradiction, truth is unitary: a proposition is either accurate or not, true or not. If a question has more than one possible true answer, then one can never know what the true answer is. There might as well be an infinite number of true answers. Usually, there is some wiggle room for two possible answers, though. More than two is simply unacceptable, though. Hence the mode of counting is one, more than one, infinity.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

What's the proposition? Two is just one and one, and so on. Besides, you can represent any number as one, by adjusting the scale on which it appears.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by maureen:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Based on the last count, I have Larry, Maureen, me, Gail, Cole, Michael and Keith. I count 7, but I can be inaccurate after 3.

And Ian is 8.

Actually, I'm older; I only act 8.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
What's the proposition? Two is just one and one, and so on. Besides, you can represent any number as one, by adjusting the scale on which it appears.

Non-contradiction applies to any proposition. As to your explanation of number theory, so to speak, I never said that philosophers knew how to count; I merely explained why they do count the way they do.

 

[Michael Lewis]

We're going to talk about other stuff at the actual jeebus, right?

 

[Larry Stein]

I think guessing which age we act like would be much more fun.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

I have a very limited number of subject matters: literature, aesthetics, baseball, sex, wine, university politics (which I'm trying to give up) and hanging out in France. I do listen to others with pleasure though

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Laurie Anderson, on the occasion of her 40th birthday, said that she didn't know whether she felt more like four ten-year-olds or ten four-year-olds.

 

[Michael Lewis]

May I ask whether we are all set for Dino's Grotto?

Will there be some sort of wine theme, or is it the usual disorderly free-for-all?