Metaphysician Undercover

That's not a valid conclusion, because you allow that the particle's environment (the condition which it is in), such as hot or cold, also has causal ...

How do you draw that conclusion of "the present for everybody"? That's an unsupported assumption. My present is the time of speaking. Your present is ...

That's the way to deal with your partners, inflict as much pain as possible, in hopes that the partner will give you what you want to make you stop.

I agree. It's a song about the hopelessness of growing old. And that meaningless relationship is between you and yourself, representing an unfulfilled...

As I explained in my first post, presentism is not well suited for any physics, or universal cosmology. It's more suited to solipsism, though some may...

We ought to assume that Trump is informed, and actually knows this. Therefore we can ask what is his real intention behind the use of tariffs. Trump i...

I don't think that the universal aether theory proposed by Lorentz was capable of providing for absolute simultaneity. I think that's why it was rejec...

You also deny this, by asserting that the environment of those particles is just as important, being "the conditions". The environment of the particle...

I don't think so. A frame of reference uses temporal extension to model motion. Presentism denies the possibility of temporal extension by assuming an...

The "absolute frame" is known as "absolute time", and this is quite different from presentism.

I'd like to see that claimed contradiction. Where can I find it?

So you do argue against what you claim. What's the point of making such claims then?

Scientific theories are proven through experimentation. To "substantiate" is to provide solid grounds for a claim. All science is proven (substantiate...

Uh, no. The best we can do, in such situations is not accept the claims. Why would you think that its good to accept unsubstantiated claims just becau...

I'm going to call that little piggy "Big Ears". Here Big Ears! Can you hear me?

You are leaving out many possibilities, dissolved substances, heavy water, etc.. No natural water is pure H2O. Your argument is nothing but a gross ov...

Sure, but it's a fallacy to conclude from this premise, that mental processes consist only of brain activity. If a thing is composed of multiple compo...

Two things which "seem" to be different must be proven to be the same before they can be accepted as being the same. Otherwise you're just making an u...

So, you're disproving what you are asserting?

Participants in this thread have demonstrated two problems with this statement. First, a lot of the characteristics of the "big things" are due to the...

I think this is a misstatement. It's not those people who are represented as "half of the world's population", who are getting these profits. A compan...

Exactly as I said: There are two distinct aspects of the world we know, one being known as material bodies, the other as mind and ideas. Each requires...

I don't see the purpose of your proposal. Substance dualism does not deny a medium of interaction. The medium is the third element proposed by Plato i...

This can be a starting point. We can say that differences are presented to us through sense perception, and sameness is something designated based on ...

I tend to look at "substance" as what provides for, or gives, reality to something, anything, and everything. So when someone asserts that such and su...

Looks like a response to North Korea's involvement.

That's the inevitable result of modern technology. Would you prefer that we return to a pre-industrialization society?

Why are some people afraid of globalization? Can you explain the basis of this paranoia?

This is obviously incorrect. Use is fundamentally subjective. I can use a sign in a way which serves my purpose, and you might use the same sign in a ...

Someone is caught on camera slashing another person's tires. We cannot jump to the conclusion that the vandalism was carried out because the person is...

I agree with this in principle, but I would not fuss over the meaning of "signified" like that. There is no reason to think that "the signified" must ...

Please keep it down, this is the shout room. I can't handle anything more than a few paragraphs per post.

The track record indicates an extremely low probability of truth, so this statement is meaningless.

I do not think that the equations signify nothing, that was my argument against AmadeusD, who wanted to reject a dualism of aspects in the world which...

I suggest you look a little closer at this so-called enlightenment. --- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/09/elon-musks-journey-...

They do not describe the same thing though, that's why they are different. To conclude that they do describe the same thing requires further premises ...

Waffles are breakfast. Make sure you use real maple syrup. There's an obvious solution to this problem. Dualism. I.e., if you want to avoid that stick...

This little piggy went to market...

Yes, but it's more than just "something about things in the world", it's a belief about things in the world. And the belief is that it is true, theref...

Can you explain a bit more thoroughly what you mean by "resource-conscious"?

Lot's of things stay the same as time passes. Look around you. Don't you notice a lot of aspects which are not changing as the time passes. But if tha...

Not "end of story". The two different ways correspond with two distinct aspects of the world. If it was simply a matter of two different ways of descr...

Replace "and" with "or" here, and you'll see that if the reasoning is valid and the premise is false, then the argument is valid but unsound. So you s...

So, if knowledge is JTB, and change is irrelevant to JTB., am I correct to conclude that we cannot have knowledge of change, therefore? My notion of c...

It's better to say that those conclusions are unsound rather than invalid.

That assumption does create a measurement problem. So unless we think that measurement problems are good, then I'd say it's a wrong assumption. Again,...

That's not misuse, nor is it a problem. The problem is in Zeno's application, when things like distance, and time, are assumed to be infinitely divisi...

How's that relevant? Physics uses mathematics, but that doesn't mean mathematics is physical. Whether or not it is possible to devise an adequate way ...

Zeno's paradoxes are very clearly problems of measurement. Like I explain above, if we had the appropriate way of measuring things like time and space...