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Magnus Anderson

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Anyone interested is more than welcome to argue in defense of the claim that there is no such thing as sameness (or what @"apokrisis" calls "100% simi...
November 27, 2017 at 14:04
Sameness isn't something that can only be approached. It is something that is regularly attained. This is, in fact, why sameness is a perfectly meanin...
November 27, 2017 at 09:33
He's defining similarity to mean "the percentage of elements the two sets have in common". Thus, "100% similarity" means "the percentage of elements t...
November 27, 2017 at 09:21
Where I might disagree with MU is with his apparent claim that "the same" means "the one". If two things are the same that does not mean they aren't t...
November 27, 2017 at 08:57
@"Metaphysician Undercover" has already answered your question. Nonetheless, I will proceed to answer it myself, and more or less repeat what MU said,...
November 27, 2017 at 08:46
You still have to demonstrate that there is no such thing as absolute difference. You rely too much on "ism"s.
November 26, 2017 at 04:05
That's true. Similarly, if we have no evidence that God exists that does not mean that God does not exist. Nonetheless, in the absence of evidence tha...
November 26, 2017 at 03:23
No. I said the opposite. I said that sets A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {4, 5, 6} do not have "belongs to some other set" in common. Rather, it is your sets, ...
November 26, 2017 at 02:49
That's not true. I do not concede that sets A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {4, 5, 6} have an element in common. Noone cares whether the fruit is ripe or unripe...
November 24, 2017 at 23:48
If you want to say that my sets A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {4, 5, 6} are the same, when in reality they are not, you do not have to say that they both belo...
November 24, 2017 at 22:54
You don't decide what the universe is. The universe is either ordered in certain aspects or it is not.
November 24, 2017 at 22:40
How is this a relevant question? Why does it matter whether the two sets belong to some other set or not?
November 24, 2017 at 22:37
So far, the argument has been: two sets A = {1,2,3} and B = {4,5,6} are not absolutely different because they have "being a set" in common. But these ...
November 24, 2017 at 18:06
Which means exactly what? What does it mean that reality is "well-defined"? How is this relevant to what I am saying? Did I ever say that the universe...
November 24, 2017 at 17:10
Classical realism? What exactly is that? Google gives me a theory of interpersonal relations. Is that what you mean? I think you're not paying enough ...
November 24, 2017 at 03:02
I am silent on issues that are irrelevant. I don't care about QM. It's irrelevant. As for well-defined portions of reality that share nothing in commo...
November 24, 2017 at 02:50
My position is closer to that of Ernst Mach.
November 24, 2017 at 02:41
You have yet to show to me how two well-defined portions of reality that are evidently different in all regards are in fact not different in all regar...
November 24, 2017 at 02:39
That would be evading the question. I much prefer it when people honestly say "I don't know" or "I don't understand your question". We need to agree o...
November 24, 2017 at 02:16
What does it mean that reality one's perception of reality is constructed by the brain on the basis of sense data? That is the question. More generall...
November 24, 2017 at 02:00
I am not arguing against what you call "the principle of indifference". I am arguing against your claim that there is no such thing as absolute differ...
November 24, 2017 at 01:23
No, you are saying that no two things can be absolutely different. I am saying that they can. Also, you are saying that: I am saying that reality is c...
November 24, 2017 at 00:45
By the way, what happened to dichotomistic.com? It worked fine up until recently.
November 23, 2017 at 23:58
You are saying that my claim that there are objects that are absolutely different is not a claim about reality. That's not true. It might be the fact ...
November 23, 2017 at 15:55
I am denying your claim that there is no such thing as absolute difference.
November 23, 2017 at 02:43
Are you saying that you cannot differentiate between a memory (e.g. what you wrote to me just a few minutes ago) and an imagination (e.g. what you may...
November 23, 2017 at 02:37
Yes, this conversation is about reality, and about reality I am talking.
November 23, 2017 at 02:32
Okay then. Do you see a difference between an imagination that dinosaurs lived in the past (that may or may not be based on evidence) and a memory of ...
November 23, 2017 at 02:21
It does not follow that an assumption that dinosaurs lived in the past counts as direct knowledge. What's happening here is I am not expressing myself...
November 23, 2017 at 02:17
It does not follow.
November 23, 2017 at 02:16
The Cosmos does not care about anything.
November 23, 2017 at 02:14
That which you haven't experienced but assumed in the past. For example, I haven't experienced that dinosaurs lived on Earth but I have assumed, i.e. ...
November 23, 2017 at 02:07
Yes. The problem is that "being a set" is usually not an element of sets. Consider set A with elements 1, 2 and 3; and set B with elements 4, 5 and 6....
November 23, 2017 at 01:59
Yes, there are details that are irrelevant. And it is us who determine which details are relevant and which details are not relevant. For example, whe...
November 23, 2017 at 01:43
"Absolutely different" means "completely different". Two objects are said to be completely different if they have nothing in common. Are you saying th...
November 23, 2017 at 01:16
There is indeed such a thing as direct knowledge. For example, everything I have experienced in the past is a direct knowledge of the world. This is s...
November 23, 2017 at 01:02
That's not a good definition, my friend. It's too vague. Experience on its own is neither subjective nor objective. Rather, it is objects of experienc...
November 21, 2017 at 01:13
You need to define what it means to see the world indirectly as opposed to directly. Otherwise, I am afraid, no fruitful communication can take place....
November 21, 2017 at 00:15
And before we can make such a claim, i.e. that we don't see the world directly, we must have a clear understanding of what it means to see the world d...
November 20, 2017 at 20:09
In order to attain our goals, we must predict all of the relevant events. In order to be able to predict them, they must be predictable. That's why we...
November 19, 2017 at 17:31
As usual, you miss the fact that subject (that which we say perceives) and object (that which we say is perceived) are both part of the experience. Su...
November 19, 2017 at 16:34
I think that some people, the so-called holistic thinkers among them, have a difficult time accepting that what happens, what we observe, is not gener...
November 19, 2017 at 00:07
The past does not constrain the future. Rather, our method of reasoning is founded on the premise that the future will be maximally similar to the pas...
November 16, 2017 at 13:37
I understand that. I understand the difference between absolute and relative limits. The thing is that you do not understand my point. My point being ...
November 15, 2017 at 22:06
It's possible. However, it would require a lot of work. One of the reasons we create theories is in order to make knowledge independent from experienc...
November 15, 2017 at 21:58
Particulars aren't enough. This is because theory isn't merely a mass of particulars. Theory is an invention that is based on a mass of particulars. T...
November 15, 2017 at 21:42
That's hilarious. How else do you think you can form a theory? By simply making shit up? That's what dogmatists do. They invent a theory and then they...
November 15, 2017 at 21:30
The two aren't mutually exclusive. The fact that the universe is a mass of particulars, and not a mechanism that generates these particulars, does not...
November 15, 2017 at 21:26
The future is under no obligation to mimic the past. It can but it does not have to. The important thing is that the future is not compelled, forced, ...
November 15, 2017 at 21:13