No, that's not what I had in mine. You, as a thing just like any other thing, have small changes which occur to you over time, so your point of view c...
Of course the two distinct things in two distinct boxes are necessarily different from each other, that's what makes them two distinct things. Are you...
But then it's not consistent with TheMadFool's hypothetical clock, which is running when there is no universe. That's the hypothetical clock which I h...
This doesn't address the problem, which is the logical impossibility, of a clock which is outside the universe. A hypothetical, or hypothesis, which i...
That's right, there is no necessity to the way that we use words, it is done by free will choice. But I did describe a couple of ways that people do u...
No, I just don't know what is meant by "a hypothetical clock". Either the clock is supposed to be a real clock, keeping time as a real part of the uni...
I think I see the problem right here. You start out by referring to "the being of entities", and that is consistent with the ancient Greek usage of be...
I don't agree with this, because spatial measurements are only valid within our universe. You can't assume to step outside the universe and measure tr...
The same way we know anything, with less than absolute certainty. Strictly speaking, what I pass to you in communication is words. And the words might...
Here's the point. Just because the word is not used as the name for the thing in the box, this does not leave the thing in the box as playing no role,...
Actually, I think it was jAmEs who made that distinction, which I agreed to. The problem was, that jAmEs wanted to exclude the role of the internal un...
Tell that to this person: If "we never know exactly what we mean", how could there be such a thing as a "misguided reading"? "Misguided" would be an a...
The evidence is clear that a mask will help to reduce the spread from an infected person. And, a person might be infected without even knowing they ar...
The whole point to the doctrine of the mean is that there is no opposite to any virtue. Both the opposing things, the two extremes, are vices, and vir...
Right, this is "being" in the Parmenidean sense. Being is associated with truth, what is, is, and it is impossible for it not to be, and what is not, ...
I don't dispute that the external "game" is separate from the internal "understanding". What I said is that what is important is the internal part, th...
I don't think you are apprehending the mean doctrine quite right here. The virtue is the mean between the two extremes, which are the vices. Courage f...
What I thought I explained, in the rest of that post, is that the order must come from within, in the sense of immanent within the material existence....
Not only that, but there is an intuitional, instinctual, built in, or hardwired perspective of what the present is. Look at it like we have a window o...
The problem is that it doesn't work that way around. As I said, in any situation there are numerous possibilities which are acceptable to serve the pu...
This doesn't really follow logically from 'it could be any age'. If something could be any age, it is a definite, specific age, but that age is unknow...
We know that they are different, by what I said above. You are not in my mind experiencing what I see, and I am not in your mind experiencing what you...
Yes, this is what I was saying, something is being interpreted, and this is what you have named "phusis". As I explained there are two distinct descri...
I don't see how you make this conclusion. What I said is supported. We each have something different in our boxes which we call a "beetle". The "langu...
The upward/downward distinction in causation is a little misleading. The problem with an appeal to downward causation is that the capacity for such ca...
This is why it is better to look at time starting from the perspective of the present. We can see that as time passes, the past is coming into existen...
Sorry Harry, but there is a law of identity for a reason. The fact that your beetle is not my beetle, and that they are separate, is sufficient to pro...
I don't see where this comes from, nor what you mean by it. Can you explain? What do you mean by restricting being? As I said, I think Plato demonstra...
LOL. That coming from the person who incessantly insisted that Zeno's "Achilles and the Tortoise" paradox consisted of Achilles making stops, despite ...
Right, continuous motion is impossible, and Zeno demonstrated that to me. The only problems I see are the problems which physicists have because they ...
No it doesn't, obviously, because then the sign wouldn't refer to anything. If we're telling everyone that there is something in the box named "beetle...
Yes, I'd say some form of "discontinuous". The physicists haven't figured that out yet, perhaps discrete intervals as QM suggests. Take a look at Achi...
Let me remind you that similar does not mean the same, it means different with similarities. So even if we have similar things under the title "beetle...
That's right, such would not be a proper representation of how motion really exists. And Zeno demonstrated this to me, regardless of whether Zeno demo...
Huh? I take Wittgenstein's "beetle" as an indication of the exact opposite to what you say. The only thing external, social, is the word "beetle". The...
Let's see, Trump started with blaming all the other countries, and foreigners, for America's problems, when he was first elected. Now he's blaming all...
OK boss. Zeno says that each runner runs with a constant speed, yet he means that one is stopping and starting. That's a great interpretation you're g...
I guess this means that they're really bad at implementing their preparedness. Oh you sound like you're regurgitating Trump's nonsense. We're not givi...
The idea of "being" as presented by the Eleatics, is heavily influenced by Pythagorean idealism. I believe Pythagoras and Parmenides were both in the ...
Yeah, consider this the trial run (only a few million lives at stake, a small percentage), the drill, getting us prepared for when germ warfare really...
I don't see how this is relevant. You insist that we speak in Zeno's terms, now you want to talk about how Zeno's terms relate to modern conceptions. ...
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