Metaphysician Undercover

There is a very real problem, which Plato demonstrated in numerous dialogues, with working in philosophy using stipulated definitions. What happens, i...

Perhaps, but if we are discussing why we see blue strawberries as red, we might want to remind ourselves that we are not looking at strawberries, but ...

It should be noted that seeing strawberries and seeing a picture of strawberries, is not the same thing. I'm near sighted, and wear glasses to see thi...

OK, but we need to relate semiotics to a continuity. This doesn't negate the problem. If the continuity is cut with indivisible points, like Aristotle...

Actually, it wasn't Peirce I quoted, it's a book entitled "The Continuity of Peirce's Thought", by Kelly A. Parker. OK, now I think we satisfactorily ...

Of course it supports you, that's the point. My claim is that this is Peirce's mistake. And, if you follow it, it is also your mistake. The mistake is...

I do not completely agree. Identity is also something which we stipulate that an object has, whether or not we are capable of determining it. We do st...

Going back to this point now. The difference which Peirce claims does not matter, which enables him to divide the continuity, is the difference in ord...

That may be true, but what we are discussing is continuity itself, as an identified thing. This is like if we were discussing 'red" as an identified t...

Correct, now reflect on what you have said. If our purpose is to identify things, which is what we are discussing here, identity, then allowing that t...

There appears to be a very simple strategy if one is against free press. First, fill the media with lies and fake news, not hard to do for someone wit...

You need a sinner's corner, with a confession both. All those banned members should be sent to the sinner's corner to confess their sins.

The problem with this representation, is that 2 here is not part of the continuity, it is a point of difference, differentiating one part from the oth...

Yes, back to the op. Peirce employs this notion, of a difference which doesn't matter, to support the proposition that a continuity is divisible. If w...

The purpose, as you yourself, described in that passage, is identity. If you are prepared to say, that two things with the exact same identity, are no...

Oh, that's a gas, coming from the one who's reply to my post was: nature's going to frustrate you. If you're at all serious, then address the points o...

Wow, that's your counterargument? You think I am going to be frustrated by not be able to figure out specific things which I believe are actually know...

If we are talking about identity, and the overriding purpose is, that we want to know the truth about the matter, then of course every difference matt...

Well, isn't that just the way life is? Grow some culture on a petri dish and it will flourish, until it uses up all the nutrients, then it will die of...

What if you perceive something, and you call it a table, but you are really perceiving a desk, and you just called it by the wrong name by mistake.

When we seek the truth, differences never cease to matter. A difference, by its very nature, as a difference, is a difference, and therefore it must b...

Why is this the "undeniable fact"? What if what we thought you were perceiving was a table, but what you really were perceiving was a desk? How can yo...

I suppose this means that there can be no beginning point of a wave. Such a beginning would be a discrete occurrence.

Can you describe the "Ocean Wave"? In your model, is there a wave which initiates from a point, like when you drop a pebble in water, or is there just...

So assume that I am sitting, nice and still, meditating. I decide that it's time to get up. So I suddenly stand up and walk away. How does my memory s...

OK, his "moral reasoning" is wrong. But that's the whole point, that mathematics cannot be used for moral reasoning. The issue here is how can one use...

But it is this, the missing impetus which demonstrates that the parts are really separate. The free willing act can move the object any which way, so ...

If there is "that which we can perceive", and "that which we cannot perceive", don't you think that there is necessarily a boundary between these two?...

Oh, so it makes sense to ban travel from Turkey, Greece, Germany, France, Britain, and Canada, and every country, because terrorists could come to Ame...

I apprehend "full and total separation" as a rather useless concept. Things always exist in relation to other things. To not have a relation to someth...

When we do not apprehend the limit, it appears like the sizes may just keep getting bigger and bigger, or smaller and smaller. Therefore the numbers i...

But why limit travel from countries where terrorists have not been coming to America from?

The thing is, no terrorists have been coming to America from these countries. Most terrorists in America come from America, what a surprise. If you wa...

You don't think that there is evidence that the area of your field of vision is made up of separate objects, separate parts? Isn't the fact that I can...

Things are separable from their surroundings because each one is a part of the overall whole. If it were not a part, it would not be separable from th...

This is where you stray from observed empirical reality. Empirically proven principles demonstrate that anything which is divisible is such because it...

Just answer a couple quick questions for me, if you really believe that you have a tenable position. How can you have short lines unless they have end...

If they are shorter lines, they must end. Where they end, there must be something which signifies the end or else there is no end and therefore no sho...

It's simple Aristotelian logic. Anything divisible necessarily consists of parts. Every part is individuated, or separate from every other part. A con...

I agree. Right, the two distinct continuities are not parts of the original continuity, they are produced by division. Now why do you go and contradic...

Your SEP article appears to have a very shallow and unmetaphysical explanation of continuity. Suppose we assume that a continuum is in principle divis...

Consider this example aletheist. Let's assume a continuity denoted by A to Z. Everything between A and Z is continuous. This continuity is not absolut...

I've never seen a definition of continuous, which refers to parts, but I'm sure you can find one, even if you just make it up yourself. My OED defines...

I tend to believe that self-help has a limited success. What is really successful is what you describe, major life changes. And, most often these cann...

"Part" implies some but not all of. How do you propose that we can have some but not all of, any particular whole, or supposed continuum, without a se...

Clearly I do not accept your contradictory definitions. "Part" implies of necessity, a separation, and this negates any claim of continuity, which is ...

Then they are not infinitesimals, are they? They are united as one large continuum and it is false to refer to them as separate infinitesimals. A cont...

So recognize what causes the ire, and prevent it before it builds, because then it's too late. Some people are sensitive, and sometimes it may be just...

It doesn't matter how you lay the infinitesimal out, as a point, or as a line, there is still the assumed separation between it and other infinitesima...