I told you, 2 means one more than one. Do you think that two has some other mysterious meaning different from this? If it's not useful, then why would...
What is described is the relation between these symbols, nothing more. It is order, pure and simple, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.. That is why mathematics is so u...
Yes, that I believe is the only way to create a valid presentism. What validates "the present" as something real is the very real difference between f...
Why do you say that this relation can't be invented? I see no other possibility except that it was invented. It's called counting, start with one, add...
My argument is simply that any instance of a present occurrence which we refer to, can, upon analysis, be determined to be a combination of part past ...
I'm waiting for your example of a currently occurring event which is not partly in the past and not partly in the future. Until you provide that examp...
It's a matter of fact that any presently occurring change is part in the past and part in the future and that's why it's so easy for me to say this ab...
There is no category mistake here. The claim has ben made that we cannot be mistaken concerning our present experiences. But if fundamental physics de...
Well I don't agree with this at all. All changes or motions require a period of time to occur in. That time may be in the past, in which case the chan...
Isn't that what "the present" represents, a zero dimensional point in time which separates past time from future time? What else did you have in mind?...
Correct. I don't see how the present can be anything more than a point in time, which divides the future from the past, and therefore I think it's imp...
Perhaps this makes sense to you, but it is unintelligible, and therefore nonsense to me. All you are saying here is that when you look toward the begi...
Yes that's a good point. And we should not confuse the model with that which is being modeled, that would be like confusing the map with the terrain. ...
The final cause is temporally prior to the outcome in the same way that the future is temporally prior to the past. If you consider time itself, the t...
Right, I am aware of the past as well as the future. But I don't think my awareness can be in the present, because the present is an infinitesimally s...
Right, I wouldn't say that awareness is exclusively in the past, because I am also aware of some things which will occur in the future. But if we just...
So your claim is that the existence of the parts precedes the whole, in a manner of vague existence? And from those vague parts comes a whole which co...
Except, I still believe that the present is very real. It must be real because there is a very real difference between future and past. This differenc...
I would describe this as a persistent experience. I have felt warm, consistently, for a while, and conclude inductively that I will continue to do so ...
I don't see how information can be accidental. The word implies a necessity, the necessity which is required for knowledge. Without some form of neces...
I'm not saying my awareness is in the past, I'm saying my experience is in the past. Do you see a difference between these two? Awareness implies anti...
As far as I understand, time is included within a frame of reference, so there is no such thing as neither past nor future relative to a frame of refe...
That's what the Pope says, you took that shit and ate it. The question in my mind, is how do these people make shit look appetizing? Is it a skill of ...
What do you man by "present" here? Every experience, by the time it has occurred, is in the past. This, along with your statement as a premise, produc...
I see that there is worldwide concern about Russian campaigns of disinformation. In the Wikipedia article on disinformation, it is said that Pope Fran...
Actually I think he is saying the exact opposite. The idea of vague beginnings is what he is dismissing as the wrong approach. He proposes that we rej...
What's with all the bogus news stories these days, they seem to be popping up everywhere, even getting picked up by mainstream media agencies some tim...
But the question is where does the binary logic derive from. In the article the author is look for origins of life. He implies that it is somewhat mis...
In that article, I see "switches" spoken of, which are just parts. There is also the necessity for a "primeval ecosystem language", which the author d...
The sentence is not meaningless, because Jaydison posted it in the op with intent, purpose, to discuss it's meaning. Therefore it must have meaning, J...
That's very true, but what is at issue here is the semantics, what is meant by the statement. In your examples, what is expressed, is that the thing i...
Actually, it's the effect of CO2 which is quite complex, the effects of ozone thinning is rather straight forward. Ozone absorbs solar energy in the h...
I think Jaydison exposed the problem on the first go around of the thread. It is the issue of self-referencing. Self-referencing usually takes the for...
The credibility of climate change science is dubious at best. H2O and CO2 are very similar in greenhouse capacity, yet the amount of H2O in the atmosp...
Whether or not the thing is purple depends on a judgement concerning the definition of purple, and a judgement as to whether the thing fulfills the cr...
No, free will is not an illusion, because there are two distinct types of actuality with dualism. To say that something is actual does not mean that i...
That's exactly what I'm arguing, a possibility cannot be real at all. "Possibility" refers to the way that we relate one actuality to another, therefo...
No, that's not what I said, the so-called real possibility is based in an actuality, it is not one that's been actualized. The possibility for you to ...
As you may well know, I don't belief in this concept of self organising development. I think such organising requires a cause, and the cause is someth...
So, doesn't it make sense to say that whatever is, regardless of whether any person says so, actually is, and therefore real is synonymous with actual...
Well I have no clue of what you mean by "the technical definition". Unless you specify it, where is that technical definition supposed to be found? To...
I agree with this, what is present in the individual's mind is the proper context of the utterance. We tend to want to place the utterance in a contex...
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