As I explained, you are clearly wrong. Whether A is different from B is a logical judgement. This is because one needs to proceed with a knowledge of ...
A counterfactual is a useful logical tool. But if it is used to say "if X were not named X ...", then it is just being used in an attempt to bypass th...
Right, so we have a word, "different", and we know what that word means. Then we compare A and B, and make the inference A is different from B. Why wo...
It means, if we rolled back in a time machine (which is impossible), to way back before Nixon and his family got the name, and somehow got them to use...
When I say "A is different than B", would you say that this is illogical, or would you say that this judgement is made without the use of logic? I wou...
Yes I read the op, and it seems to me that "reference" is to direct someone's attention, with language or otherwise. The op directs my attention towar...
You don't seem to have ever actually defined "successful reference", but I see no reason to conclude that this can only be done through common languag...
I thought we were talking about time itself, not "subjective time". \ I disagree, I don't think there is any such thing as "the subjective time of min...
One big problem here Terrapin, they're not both x implies y. One is x implies y, the other is y implies z Do you know about the law of identity, a pri...
80 continues to question the idea of fixed meaning. Is it possible there could be rules which govern the use of words? 81 is quite difficult, and I be...
I spelled it out. They have different premises. One argument proceeds from the premise that there are human experiences to the conclusion that there i...
Are you claiming that the premise "there are human experiences", is no different from the premise "there is a universe"? I see a big difference, don't...
At this point, I don't really care if my reasoning can be used against me. I don't even know what you mean by that. Care to explain? AJJ uses a premis...
Wouldn't it be necessary to have very clear principles of exactly what eternalism is, before we can determine its implications? If we can't agree on t...
It wouldn't be "the same" because there would be different premises. But once the necessity of the universe is proven we can go on to prove the necess...
I think what AJJ was saying is that there is logic which demonstrates that if there is a universe there is necessarily God. We observe that there is a...
Right, I agree, but this is a defining aspect of consciousness, not a defining aspect of time. The dual present you described might be fundamental to ...
I don't see how you can say this. To say that a digital image has pixel values, is already to relate that image in a particular way. So to say that me...
78. He provides examples to demonstrate that there is a difference between knowing something, and being able to say it. How a clarinet sounds, for exa...
Would you say that a photograph (and memory as well) could represent something in the past. I don't see any problem saying that. It is not a matter of...
As far as I can tell, things carried out within a mind, are carried out by that mind, so this doesn't make sense to me. Why would you say that stabili...
It's hard for me to grasp how you are using "transcendental" here. Categories are produced through judgement, distinctions, so categories which transc...
OK, so you already have a synthesis built into your concept of "present", that's why you denied my need for a synthesis. But what do you mean by "pass...
I know, but the point is that "seeing what things have in common" is really a matter of overlooking their differences. So when we see all the differen...
I would say that he is leading to 75 from 74. Or else we could accuse him of being out of order. 75. He approaches the concept "game" from a slightly ...
Right, that's what I am saying, continuity is something synthetic, it's constructed conceptually. I would agree that there is something apparently par...
Seeing what things have in common is not a matter of making distinctions though. It is a matter of seeing different things as the same, seeing all the...
I don't see how this is possible. In order to notice a flow one must recognize a past. And this is the same with "change", in order to notice change o...
Space-time continuum is a conceptual structure we use for measuring. That it is based in an assumption of continuity is really irrelevant. I assume th...
Consider what Wittgenstein says here: How would you relate to this? How does Wittgenstein propose to separate "ideal" from "perfect? I would say, that...
I agree, I was using that as an example of why Kant's category of a priori is not very good. I think other comments on this thread have illustrated th...
The problem with this idea is that we notice a very distinct difference between past and future. Things in the past are determined, fixed, and there i...
The problem I see is that the principles by which we proceed into logical process, the propositions as premises, which are necessary for logic to proc...
I agree, to discuss things in terms of necessity, is to use different categories than Kant uses. There are two fundamentally different types of necess...
It is necessary that a priori knowledge is necessary. It must be so because "a priori" refers to principles which cannot be justified by experience. S...
Isn't zooming in basically the same thing as dividing? Anyway, space-time is completely conceptual, there is no such thing as zooming in on it. If you...
What does "continuous motion" mean other than that the intervals of time and distances are infinitely divisible? Yeah sure, it's part of the model, we...
Right, spacetime a real concept, just like unicorn is. The fact that it's extremely useful separates it from the concept of a unicorn, which is not so...
I didn't say their consequences cannot be observed, clearly they are, as the person learns. Learning is the consequence. To deny that there are instin...
The discreteness in Zeno's paradoxes is not an assumption, it's a fact of the measurement system, the numbers represent discrete units. The moving ite...
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