Metaphysician Undercover

Banno lives on a possible Earth, but calls it the actual Earth. Actual person on a possible Earth? I doubt it, but then how is Banno trying to communi...

How does that answer the question? I asked you about the difference between "extension" in relation to physical objects, and "extension" in relation t...

Do you actually believe that "extension" in the case of physical objects is the same as "extension" in the case of abstract objects?

You just got finished describing how "extension" in possible worlds relates to abstract objects. Now you use "me" as an example of extension. No wonde...

I don't think this is true at all. Thoughts are primarily guided by intention, and this is not based in correspondence. We think about what we want an...

i think this technology should only be used for learning purposes. As such, the AI's role within the biological system would be primarily observationa...

That makes two very uneducated people participating in this threat. Not surprising. The thread seems to have sort of come off the rails. Instead of as...

You keep making posts like this with absolutely nothing to support these very strange assertions. If it's true that I appear to you as "completely wro...

I would say that it's not only riskier than inherited genes, which have a very small degree of risk due to billions of years of evolutionary execution...

It doesn't matter how you define change, and states of affairs, the problem I described remains, because the difference between distinct states of aff...

Nothing is instantaneous. It would be equally absurd to say that one state of affairs instantaneously changed into another. I believe the solution is ...

The problem is not quite solved because you haven't produced the definition. And it's not that simple. If we redefine "state of affairs" as you sugges...

So, "the apple is on the table" is an abstract object. That looks to me, like the type of abstract object which would be correctly called "a descripti...

I know it exists through the logic which I outlined, derived from Aristotle. If we describe the temporal world as a succession of states of affairs, t...

You are neglecting the point I was making. The point was that the entirety of the observed world cannot be described by states of affairs. I readily a...

Those are good examples as a starting point. But the technology has advanced to the point where computers can be integrating into DNA, to influence or...

It's still incorrect, for the reasons explained. And as a philosopher, your attempts to avoid the reality of the situation through denial are unconsci...

Very mysterious indeed, and when thoroughly analyzed, along with the ability to direct one's own actions through choice, it becomes very complicated. ...

The reason why combinatorialism is fundamentally better than the other two interpretive models, is because it maintains the appropriate separation bet...

I always knew you have extreme difficulty understanding simple points, but have you completely lost your mind now? For the sake of argument, I allowed...

As I explained, there is no change in that state of affairs. The ball is rolling east for the entire time. And if that changes, it's not the same stat...

We should look at combinatorialism. It's a bit more complicated, but I think it may provide the best approach out of the three. The problem which jump...

So long as you wait until after January 6, Epiphany. And thanks for the chance at the lottery!

As I said, the present, as we experience it, exists as a continuous duration within which activity is occurring. The representation of the present as ...

Again, I'll state the relevant point. Some, especially Banno prefer denial, so I'll make it clear. Motion, change, becoming, or activity, cannot be un...

In your twisted mind, what does "state" mean? The reason why "a state of affairs" cannot list "the positions" some object occupies over time, is becau...

I am asserting the very opposite of what you are saying. There is no "actual moment in time". Time is continuous duration, or flow, without any moment...

I'd say the situation is a lot more complicated than that.

Same to you, you son of a grinch. Merry Christmas!

1.7 billion, I can't even count that high. But I know it's a busload of millions.

How does killing low level drug runners have any effect on Maduro at all, other than pissing him off? Does Trump believe that if Maduro gets thoroughl...

In the modal model there is a world stipulated as the actual world. It is obviously not the external world which we perceive. The reasons for the stip...

But there is nothing which you are calling "actual reality" in the modal model, that's the problem. "Actual" reality is simply stipulated, even Banno ...

Your ability to amuse me with your ridiculous straw manning never ceases to amaze me. Again, you take your own error "muddled" arguments (here represe...

Santa Claus allows knows what everyone really wants. Around here, we call that fish mudpout. They're called that because they have a big pout, with ho...

@"Mudpout", stop stirring the shit with your horny pout.

As usual. you reject my arguments because they are inconsistent with what you believe, without even addressing the the truth or falsity of the premise...

I think this is sort of contrary to what "right" means in this context. Having control over the institution is inherent within what "right" means, so ...

The place signified "Chicago" is not an imaginary thing, it is understood as real, actual. In the case of possible worlds, they are imaginary things, ...

That, I believe is why concretism is unacceptable. We produce a fictional idea, a possibility, then to make it fit within the possible worlds semantic...

That's what I think. Bob kept pushing and pushing that way. He wanted to go as far as he could, and he would not stop until banned. The banning would ...

I prefer "mudpout" myself, a bottom feeder with a horny pout, probably for the purpose of stirring up shit.

Ambiguity is not evidence of truth, therefore I think the conclusion you make about kripke is false. Kripke produced what appears to some people, as t...

We already read through the truth conditions in the SEP article. And, I showed how the stated conditions of truth are impossible to completely fulfil....

What's with the nonsense frank? Honestly, your posts directed at me are ridiculous. If you think I'm off topic of the thread and a distraction, then p...

This cannot be correct. If each possible world is separate from every other, in an absolute sense, then there would be no point to considering them, a...

Have you ever tried putting a cigarette in a fish's mouth. If not here is a word of advice, don't!

It appears like Banno is trying to hijack the thread to enforce his own brand of modal sophistry when the SEP clear indicates three distinct types: Th...

You demonstrate the problem with possible world semantics very well, right there. The nature of possibility is such that it is impossible to give "pre...

5000% percent increase? That's the hyperinflation of developing countries, in the eighties.