The verb is tenseless. The Tintanic sinks in 1912. Betelgeuse goes supernova in 2700. The tensed version would be "a live T-rex is existing on earth"....
One month of images. The ship leaves 13 months ago, but since it starts a light year away, we don't see that here on the arriving end for 12 months. O...
The definition of exists is one of choice, and physicists often switch between a subjective and a more holistic inclusion of all the parts of the univ...
Yes, the closing speed would be 1.5c, assuming they're approaching from opposite directions. About .96c, yes. Observers aside, the wording of the situ...
Your're evading the question and also disproving your own statement by posting about something you say has no relevance. I'm asking if something outsi...
Not quite. A cup stands apart from the apple. That usage would be what makes two existent things not be the same thing, but are in fact different from...
It does at least make a hash of ones dualistic notions of personal identity. I mist-stated the position. There is an Alice in both of them. I initiall...
I think of the word as an adjective, not so much a noun. If I believe in God, then I am a deistic realist. It means I think thing X is real. Without t...
Yes, subtraction formula is wrong. If light moves at c relative to the embankment and the train moves at half light speed, the intuitive subtraction y...
You didn't understand MW enough to know that Alice is in both of them? Argument from incredulity? One of the main points of MW is to do away with acti...
You'd have to define what the realism part means to you, that you don't like it. Realism isn't really a view, it just means you consider something to ...
Yes, but not all contexts contain if-then relations, as you put it. Most do not. Just so happens that ours does. Applying metaphysical tools helps cla...
I'm not denying that existent things relate to each other. But that relation (you haven't stated what that relation is) is not existence in itself, wh...
From the bartender I thought, but some do get it from the bottle. The source of my image might have meaning, but the image itself means nothing. I thi...
Maybe the change was already there and I was too naive to see it. But part of it was my father informing me that you can't be a christian and believe ...
Agree on this, but one can supply a definition. I seem to be settling on existence being a relation between some thing and some context. This chair ex...
Comics yes, but not Waterson. Scott Saavedra is the artist. The character is an ever-present but rarely interacting sidekick, sort of like Weiderman i...
So geopisa, why didn't you explain yours? You started this... Mine represents my history. I was educated in a Calvinist school and was taught good sci...
I generally favor the position you seem to be promoting here. You say (in a reply to litewave) that you like to avoid the word 'exist', but despite th...
I have very limited web access the next few days, so my responses might be slow. Hard to find links that don't spin an interpretation of the data, but...
Let me take a shot if I may, since I have interest and this model seems most plausible to me. I agree with AndrewM's responses except for the double-s...
Stuck at first question. I do have a meaning of life. It is not on the list, and none-of-the-above is not an option. None of the options listed is eve...
I had the same sort of thinking, but I don't think any of these activities would be fun since they involve no danger. Without the concept of danger, n...
You didn't answer the question. OK, we both think identity, or the 'self', is not a thing. But what then makes me now responsible for an act done by a...
To quote from the summary page: "I believe that .self. and .mind. have been conflated to give rise to this problem. It is not that the mind is physica...
Don't forget "The moon is made of cheese. I will execute anybody who disagrees". Eventually the human race breeds children with an intuitive belief in...
Both in debate and in quest for truth, yes. But in the third class (which doesn't particularly belong in the public arena), the goal is neither truth ...
The purpose of debate is to start with opposing conclusions and argue from there. Contrast this with a quest for a better truth which does not have a ...
This argument is actually one of the oldest ones, and still one of the best despite its repeated refutation. It started with what we observed around u...
A clean room would seem to lack most patterns like animal tracks across the floor. Instead we have the lamp on the table, no dust to hold the patterns...
Didn't say the center of it. I referred to the event horizon, a place where our classic rules of time and space do not work out to the usual values. N...
No, A singularity is a point where equations do not yield meaningful results. The singularity is a reference to the physical one of which you speak, a...
I like your general critique. The first postulate pretty much can be whatever you're trying to prove. The original ID arguments were little better: If...
Isn't this just being moral? Society agrees that it is bad to litter. Littering then becomes immoral. If the society feels it needs a god to back the ...
The idea of a singularity says no such thing. It is simply a point where the mathematics no longer yields a meaningful result. The tangent function fo...
Agree with the absurdity of that, but I guess I was commenting the second line. There is order, and there is disorder. We're not at either extreme. It...
The watchmaker argument is not about order. It is about apparent purpose even to an observer that does not know about watches. TheMadFool's argument d...
The watchmaker was indeed very much how people reason, and it was a strong argument until Darwin found a cleaner solution. The argument presumes you d...
This is the strong version of the ID argument. Yes, the universe is very poorly designed for life, making up for its deficiencies with sheer numbers, ...
Dislike the word, since it is a religion. No, induction infers all from "all we've measured so far", not from "some". Need to define ordered. Ice is v...
Sorry, I got pretty far behind.Any room at all implies it being a product of a human, just like bird-nest implies bird, in any state of tidiness. One ...
The reasoning of everybody (myself very much included) is hampered by those irrational beliefs. I have rationally worked around some of that, but I do...
I apparently hold multiple sets of mutually conflicting beliefs. One is a rational belief set that is effectively along monist-realist lines, and whic...
Not talking about human concept of integers, but the integers themselves, whether they have ontological existence of their own or not. But since you l...
What is the point of contributing to this thread then? You must think you have some sort of argument, even if not proof. Sapientia hypothesizes that t...
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