Metaphysician Undercover

The past is fixed, unchangeable. If time flows from past to future, the fixedness of the past causes what happens, in a determinist way, and there is ...

Yes it's what I believe. I also just noticed that I spelled "cite" wrong.

That's put out there by Roger Penrose, and he does seem to have a pretty good understanding of the problems of metaphysics.

Hook me up. I want one implanted in my brain. I wonder if that's how those monarch butterflies find that spot in Mexico.

Her breasts are bulbous, and her hips rock when the action starts. The lyrics get interesting at about the 53 minute marker (I skipped to the end beca...

I don't think so, but I don\t know.

I don't understand your use of "tense" here. so I can't answer this. Ontology, I would say. You are speaking about the future, because by saying it is...

If I remember correctly, he was supposed to be given vinegar to drink, when he was on the cross. Someone gave him water instead, and that pissed him o...

That's why the correct answer is neither. The issue you sight is not a problem of metaphysical "identity", it's an issue of naming conventions.

There's one quaint little town in Ontario where I'm sure you'd feel right at home. https://www.hanover.ca/

Neither, because dividing a thing into parts creates distinct objects with distinct identities. That's why the problem is a ruse, it associates "ident...

The name of the object "Ship of Theseus" is not the thing's identity, nor is anything we say about the object, "what it is". So the purported problem ...

I don't think this is quite right. People really care about money. Many strongly believe in a necessary relationship between money and happiness, so m...

The problem though, is your interpretation. You say "it still has the same essence". It doesn't have the same essence because the essence of an indivi...

Your poor cat. The air fryer is not bad, but why replace an essential ingredient, grease. As Zappa says: "Keep it greasey so it'll go down easy", but ...

WTF, pasta and rice, the two easiest things in the world to cook. Let's move on to something a little more difficult in this Cordon Bleu session. Anyo...

We seem to have a fundamental disagreement concerning "the empirical present". I deny that there is such a thing, because "empirical" requires "observ...

A car gets dented, it still retains its identity as being the same thing, despite that change of form.

No wonder I couldn't understand. I don't think that. I never said anything about a jump. In fact i was implying that the future and past overlap, with...

You are neglecting the qualification "at sea level". That qualification indicates two essential conditions, temperature and pressure. So, the statemen...

The form of a material thing, in the strict sense of the word "form", in hylomorphism, includes all the accidental properties of that material thing. ...

I think there is a need here to distinguish between essential and accidental properties, as a way toward understanding this question. If we say that e...

Aristotle's law of identity, allows that a material object has a changing form, yet maintains its identity as the same thing, through a temporal conti...

I think you misunderstand. According to , Rodi is differentiating between the judgement of "a is f", and the judgement of "I judge a is f". The former...

And way more sense than anything going on in the Shoutbox

Of course, but I think that time passes. You, on the other hand think that the present moves through time instead of time passing. That's the issue, d...

Well, I did say that I got the idea to do it, I didn't say I actually did it, but that feels kind of sleazy. How many freakin dogs are in that picture...

Lack of AC current will induce all sorts of odd behviours. I've shone (strange word) a laser at my TV, to find that it reflects like a mirror. Then I ...

Turning the foundation on its head requires doubting it. Only by doubting it, will we seek a better way. We will never "change our whole way of lookin...

I don't see how you can make the leap from "I think like this" to "we think like this". You can judge "I am not an angel", but what validates "we are ...

I wouldn't be so quick to make that judgement. But I don't see what this has to do with whether or not there is a reincarnation of Hegel. I guess this...

I think it was obvious what I was saying. And it's obvious to anyone who has given it any thought. What I was saying is very simple, and consistent wi...

I believe that proper "justification" requires demonstration to another. However, we do use "justification" to refer when a person justifies something...

We do not travel in time, we do not move from Jan 4 to Jan 5 in this model of time. This is the principal difference of the model. Things, or people, ...

I don't see what you are asking. The events of Jan 4 are the events of Jan 4, and the events of Jan 5 are the events of Jan 5. One does not become the...

The first statement of "when the sun orbits the earth", is what we know as the rotation of the earth on its axis. The second statement "the earth orbi...

You've given me a lot to look at Kizzy, and some of this I don't quite understand. So I'm going to address firstly, the distinction you mentioned betw...

I did now. What about it?

To be clear. My example was time passing without any change occurring. I said "imagine what it means for time to pass, then imagine this happening wit...

First, science does not say anything, scientists speak. And of course, anything claimed as "science" ought to be approached with a healthy skepticism ...

As I said, I'm basing my faith in what I believe to be a self- evident truth, free will. I don't see how this relates to multiverses. This theory is a...

No, I mean that if we have to conceive of the relation between space and time in such a way as to allow that some specific objects are recreated at ea...

No, I am saying that in order for human beings to be able to act freely to change the universe at will, at any passing moment, these parts of the univ...

I believe there is an important issue of translation/interpretation which needs to be dealt with here. This is a question of the way that we attribute...

I actually have produced some visual aids in the past, consisting of horizontal and vertical lines. These simple drawings are not difficult to produce...

That sounds like nominalism to me. But I think it misses the point which separates Peirce from nominalism, making him closer to Platonist. For Peirce,...

That's right. What we've termed "present_natural" is extremely difficult. I think the best understanding of any human being barely qualifies as a star...

This just demonstrates Peirce's use of "object" is not only ambiguous, but equivocal as well. This makes no sense to me at all. I see no logical conne...

I agree with this, but I prefer the term "ambiguous" over "flexible". That's true, these laws are not universally applicable. That's exactly what I wa...

Thanks for your patience ucarr, sticking with me, and your encouragement to help me through this process. I think you will find that this post will el...