Metaphysician Undercover

No I don't think that's the case. Look closely at how the relation between becoming and relation is described in the op. Relations are said to "belong...

But the op asks us to consider the primacy of becoming. This means that we must reject this idea that "becoming is necessarily a relation", because "b...

You can say whatever you like, "square circle", or whatever, but unless you can support what you say, it's meaningless. So you can mention "notions of...

No, that's why I said that we can dismiss this idea as unreal. I said, such a relation would be outside of time, therefore we can dismiss it as unreal...

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the importance of the time-energy uncertainty relation. It is not well understood, and perhaps that's why Shankar do...

You have a "____" there. Are you saying that the "____" is nothing, in an absolute sense? I don't think it is. Clearly it signifies something, just li...

That was just my way of phrasing it, and that was probably not good. But the point is, that if we make "becoming" the broader category than "relation"...

It only demonstrates that unlike you, I am capable of adopting a different perspective. But also unlike you, I will not even consider a logically impo...

The bigger issue is the way that the advertising industry (along with its psychological abuse) is integrated into the entertainment industry as a whol...

This is exactly the problem which StreetlightX is trying to bring to your attention. You have transformed "becoming" into a form of "being", and in do...

I think it was after he quit Manichaeism, and before he became a committed Christian, I believe when he was in Milan, he got involved in a Platonic co...

I believe Augustine was, for a while, a member of a Platonic commune, so men and women were not limited to exclusive sex partners, and children were c...

According to Aristotle's principle of identity, identity is not a relation. A thing is itself. That is its identity, its very self.

I would say that when there is produced within a person, the feeling of need, when that apprehended need has no rational basis, this constitutes a dis...

As I said, defining the world in terms of relations is a useful thought exercise, but when you try to produce absolutes, fundamental principles, from ...

Very good, you've demonstrated the point nicely. There is a veritable futility in describing the world in terms of relations (becoming). It produces t...

You don't see a reason to believe that your parents are prior (primary) to yourself?

That is, of course, the new trend in advertising. Instead of just providing the information, what is available and at what price, advertising has move...

Correct, but you are one step along, in the long process of understanding. Learning is an extremely long process. Finding out that I came from my pare...

When two distinct things, separable in analysis, are believed to be co-dependent, i.e. one is not prior to the other, then an infinite regress of exis...

So the issue I brought, is how can becoming be primary, or prior, if it is a relation, and if a relation requires necessarily, things (beings) which a...

Perhaps a relation is not necessarily a becoming, but a becoming is necessarily a relation.

This is the foundation of relativity theory, which itself is fundamental to modern physics. Motion is not the property of an object, it is the relatio...

Do you really believe this, that animals are at peace in the moment, seeking nothing? I conclude that you haven't spent much time observing animals. T...

Well that's a different way of looking at it, but it's clearly wrong. And by wrong I mean it's not representative of what is really the case, it's fal...

Oh, sorry, I was mislead by this: "it's a matter of how an individual partitions their concepts with respect to the necessary and sufficient criteria ...

Unless you're quite certain of what a world is, why shouldn't you feel like the thing which you call a world is really a possible world? This is what ...

But I'm not talking about the necessary and sufficient conditions for calling some existent an F. I'm asking you if the existent continues to be the s...

My opinion is that you should start by nullifying the presupposition that there is an actual world. From this perspective anything spoken is taken as ...

Ok, so if I understand, it is illogical to say that the chair now is the "same" chair as it was yesterday. And it makes no difference whether someone ...

I think I understand what you say here, the ket describes the state of the system in such a way which allows that two distinct states have the very sa...

I think you're falling for the same mistake here. You're calling it a "ship", and a "cabin", while "ship" and "cabin" have particular formal connotati...

Actually, I think ontologically the chair is mostly the same. All those molecules you refer to are still the same molecules, that they change some rel...

OK, so you deny that the chair which I sit in this morning is the same chair that I sat in last night. Of course that is contrary to the way we speak,...

Here's a question concerning this postulate, perhaps you can find an answer for me. Refer to the time-energy uncertainty which I mentioned at the end ...

Thanks Andrewk for the clear explanation. I'm going to dwell on that for a bit, but I think we speak two different languages, you mathematics, me Engl...

I'm not asking if you think that the chair today is logically identical to the chair it was yesterday. In fact, I described it as being somewhat diffe...

But Terrapin was arguing for an active present, "changes are occurring" at the present. It was only you who brought up the laws of non-contradiction a...

Good luck on that John. If you read the earlier posts, I already went through that very issue with Terrapin Station. I do believe we'll be at the thir...

So do you think that my chair is not the same chair that it was yesterday because it's gotten a bit worn from me sitting on it? Are you saying that th...

There is an issue with contiguity and identity in relation to a thing's existence in time. We assume that the same identified thing exists through a p...

I know that you gave a reference here, but is it possible to state these four postulates in English? I took a look at the reference, and it seems to b...

This is very similar to the example Aristotle used to demonstrate why we need to allow exceptions to the law of excluded middle. Without the exception...

You've lost me. I don't know what you mean by "observed reality". The reality I observed was that "one" and "two" were used in that particular way. Ho...

The same way that I know the meaning of any common words by being taught by teachers, and observing usage. I was taught that one more than one is two,...

Let's consider the implications "an instantaneous action at a distance". Clearly this would bring us outside the confines of space-time, as Wayfarer s...

This is the thing. We cannot know "the state of the universe" because time is continually passing. So this so-called "state" is a state of change, whi...

The problem is to be found right here in these two phrases. One cannot determine "the exact" molecular arrangement of the screen without referring to ...

It's amazing how many massive workhorses there were around the land less than two hundred years ago, and now they're almost extinct, just a few scatte...

Such a separation is only a beginning in the sense that it is the end of the old and the beginning of the new. So we must account for the old then. Th...