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Yeah that’s an excellent article as well but it’s a bit different from his other paper in certain respects, the paper you cited is more about structur...

@"SophistiCat" It’s from “There’s are No Such Things as Ordinary Objects” in the bookThe Nature of Ordinary Objects

@"SophistiCat" Fair enough, usually my iPhone attaches the citation at the bottom, I suppose i must have overlooked it by mistake. @"Olivier5" No need...

I too cuthberts claim about the geopgraphy of Scotland to say that relations were not mind-dependent. Though I think cities aren’t the clearest exampl...

The real underlying question is basically if anything we typically think of as existing actually does, including ourselves. So it may be an empty ques...

It wasn’t me making this argument, it’s a philosophy we named Steven French. I just took the excerpt straight from him because it’s possibly clearer t...

Yes, unless you’re an idealist and anti-realist. It means those facts exist because of other facts

I would follow Dennett’s view that money is a real pattern that has causal and explanatory power. Also, just because something something is socially c...

You could make a case for tables. An atom is an atom by convention because presumably there would still be atoms without people. Yeah you’re basically...

@"Seppo"@"T clark" seconded

@"SophistiCat" Good stuff! Very impressive and well explained.

@"SophistiCat" Not in this chapter its very brief which makes it kind of opaque as to what they’re solution actually entails. It sounded to me like th...

Yeah that should be in ball park, I believe

I always took it to mean that it something supervenes on something when it depends on it for its existence or function. As for the rest, I’m as lost i...

@"Alkis Piskas" 1 The objection to persons existing over time, basically it says causal continuity isn’t sufficient for personal identity. 2. We don’t...

@"Alkis Piskas" Well what do you think I’m saying? Give me a take and I’ll try see what’s unclear. Higher level facts are facts about people, places, ...

@"SophistiCat" Nah this is the only place I’ve heard this objection, I’ll just put in the bin then because even Parfit said any cause was fine host fr...

Additionally, i linked the paper above so you see it in the objection section if something is unclear.

@"theRiddler" I don’t know what your talking about, was that addressed to me. @"Alkis Piskas" it’s in my OP it’s an objection that causal continuity i...

@"SophistiCat" I meant to tag you above, sorry still getting used to this site.

Additionally, the objection section of the above paper mentions the same objection. It may have additional context if I kiss something in my explanati...

Causal Continuity is basically cause and effect like a tree is causally connected to a seed, or a person is causally connected to their previous self ...

I think it’s real in the sense of a real pattern, but not real as like a ghost in the head, so to speak. Here’s a copy of the paper, I responded to a ...

SophistiCat, I can like the paper if you like, it’s in the context of Buddhist reductionism. I’m also not a reductionist, I prefer pluralist/structura...

Thanks, for replies guys let’s keep this going.