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@"Bartricks" Here my feedback: - No I do not subscribe to a static view of time, this is why I explicitly wrote “I myself do not believe that the russ...
December 08, 2021 at 21:25
@"Joshs" I can see how we could easily parse such ‘emotions’ into subtler and subtler versions of themselves. This is why I mentioned the psychologica...
December 08, 2021 at 20:40
@"Joshs" I would be inclined to consider sadness, anxiety, trepidation , uneasiness, concern, satisfaction as emotions because they can be easily desc...
December 08, 2021 at 18:33
@"Mww" Then as a starter I said that emotions (e.g. fear, joy, anger, disgust, surprise) are occurring sudden and spontaneous (non-deliberate) bodily/...
December 08, 2021 at 14:42
@"Mww" indeed I limited myself to draft some ideas on how I would distinguish thoughts and emotions. Or at least where I would start with. The problem...
December 08, 2021 at 14:00
@"Joshs" if we are talking about "emotions" and emotions are considered "more intense variations in the affective attunement" while "Attunements are n...
December 08, 2021 at 08:39
@"Bartricks" you keep putting your wording in my mouth. I never wrote that "something goes from being future to being present". There is no "going". A...
December 08, 2021 at 07:55
@"Joshs" I'm not sure how you understand Heidegger''s remarks wrt what I wrote. The first observation is that H. is talking about mood, attunements, a...
December 07, 2021 at 22:34
@"Bartricks" I don't get your question. Until you rephrase, I limit myself to stress that the russellian definition I was referring to does not talk a...
December 07, 2021 at 20:56
Thoughts are cognitive states: believing, doubting, questioning, reasoning, guessing, comparing, etc. Emotions (e.g. fear, joy, anger, disgust, surpri...
December 07, 2021 at 09:38
@"Bartricks" For the umpteenth time, read carefully before commenting. You wrote: "A change in temporal properties is.....wait for it......a 'change'"...
December 07, 2021 at 08:40
@"emancipate" I disagree with the following statement: "Propositions are the bearers of these truth values." And therefore with what ensues. I'm reluc...
December 06, 2021 at 23:43
@"emancipate" > Your proposed pre-rendered belief states are impossible to communicate without language. So what? You can have it backwards, without p...
December 06, 2021 at 22:55
@"emancipate" yes indeed, I put my cat's beliefs in propositional form. That doesn't mean that my cat's beliefs were originally in propositional form ...
December 06, 2021 at 22:49
@"emancipate" exactly? I don't know. Broadly speaking I might render the cat's belief as "my cat believes there is an intruder in our yard" or "my cat...
December 06, 2021 at 22:26
perceptual beliefs are the ones your cat has while staring at the window. And you form when looking at the road while driving your car and listening t...
December 06, 2021 at 22:11
@"Banno" perceptual beliefs are not identical to beliefs that such-and-such, yet they can often be more or less broadly rendered as beliefs that such ...
December 06, 2021 at 22:02
@"Bartricks", according to the russellian conception, change is possessing different properties at different times. Read carefully and you'll see that...
December 06, 2021 at 20:55
I tend to agree with @"creativesoul" and disagree with @"Banno". The latter claims: "beliefs are always about what can be put in propositional form. A...
December 06, 2021 at 20:54
@"Bartricks" > What on earth does that mean? What work is the word 'ontologically' doing? The question “what is change?” may mean that one want to kno...
December 05, 2021 at 12:36
I disagree, it tells us what change ontologically amounts to. So yes it does tell us what change is. Indeed there can be different properties at diffe...
December 03, 2021 at 20:10
In this line of reasoning there seem to be 2 assumptions that do not make much sense to me: 1.“Having options” is equated to pondering options simulta...
November 26, 2021 at 16:01