Relativist

I was simply asking for clarification of what you meant, because I had not drawn the "clear inference" you thought I should. I think I understand now....

This seems to suggest that it's OK to believe any theory that isn't provably false. That may not be what you meant, because you followed with: What do...

The monks are standing on the leg of their own metaphysical theory, aren't they?

Absolutely, and that's exactly why a comprehensive plan is needed- and it will have to include more revenue (i.e. taxes). If Trump removes the income ...

Another element of perceived unfairness is the Government Pension Offset - which eliminates the spousal SS benefits for many retired teachers and othe...

Yes, and I have a lot of respect for him. Tell me what he's said.

It might offset this particular (effective) benefit increase, but I don't think it would completely solve the overall funding problem. I feel strongly...

The taxes on SS benefits go into the Social Security Trust fund. I verified that here: "Congress passed and President Reagan signed into law the 1983 ...

:up: :up: Profound comments from you both.

I have no problem with your philosophical point of view here, but you're ignoring the practical problems I brought up.

I've encountered theists who are "proposition-realists" - meaning that they believe all true propositions that could possibly be articulated, exist ti...

It would be reckless to pass it because it would exhaust the SS trust fund sooner. Per current law, when the trust fund is exhausted, benefits will ha...

Ok. Unrelated question, more related to our exchange in the other thread. Trump recently said that social security recipients shouldn't have to pay ta...

Fair points.

No one has had an idea that isn't tethered to his perception, beliefs, and experiences. We can't give a scientific account of the process of creating ...

That's political nonsense. You know as well as I that a VP doesn't have the power to implement policy. For that matter, there are limits to what a Pre...

Give us a hint on what? The future? Then you are essentially making a vague, general prediction of the future.

It's an opportunity for Harris to take the high road and decry foreign intervention. Has Donald ("I love Wikileaks") Trump said anything about it? I'm...

You can find by searching youtube for "Mark Halperin 2-way". Named as such because there's a degree of audience participation. Here's one: https://www...

Policy ought to be a big part of it, but it doesn't capture everything. Better: we predict a future that is entailed by each candidate, and choose the...

Ideas are the product of mind, so I see no compelling reason to think they have some sort of independent existence. Suppose I induce you to accept as ...

So true. Campaigns are about "messaging", consisting of (distorted) narratives, and "defining" themselves (in an appealing way) and the opponent (in a...

Non sequiter. Consider that "-1" electric charge exists, but it doesn't exist as an independent entity. It exists only in states of affairs, like elec...

Not correct. Thin particulars do not have properties. Rather, a "thin particular" is a constituent of a state of affairs. Everything that exists in th...

I was trying to clear up your confusion about what a "true particular" (your term) is, and how a SOA could both BE a particular, and yet have a (thin)...

It seems to me, the same thing applies to the Christian conception of heaven.

If you think there are gaps (discontinuities) in the real numbers, then you don't understand real numbers. If you think transfinite numbers (which are...

It seems to suggest there's a duration of time between the discrete instants of time, which seems self-contradictory.

That's a Humean account. More recent philosophers have developed an (arguably) superior account: law realism. The notion is that there are actual, exi...

Not correct. There is no gap on the real number line. That's what it means to be continuous.

Isn't that the same as time passing in discrete moments (versus continuous points)?

Armstring's ontology accounts for it. Perhaps, but it's not the ontology I've been trying to explain. I did explain it, right here: You then responded...

Universals aren't "shoehorned". Armstrong wrote a book ("Universals: An Opinionated Introduction") where he lays out the case for his treatment of the...

And that is the reason your argument isn't compelling. I see absolutely no reason to think there's a "gap" between instants of time, regardless of whe...

Both believe the physical world is all that exists, but Feser's objections to scientism do not apply to metaphysical physicalism. Someone who embraces...

You have demonstrated that you argument DEPENDS on assumptions. If I'm wrong, then recast your argument using my definition of time, events, discrete ...

Let's put it this way:if matter is pure extension, then it leads to certain paradoxes. If that's right, then it's a reason to at least consider altern...

We have made no progress from the point you said: You seem to be making a number of specific metaphysical assumption that I disagree with, so it's poi...

I think we need to be careful when applying mathematics to reality. It may be less of a problem when applying reality to mathematics -because there ar...

Change doesn't occur at a point of time. Change entails a passage of time. A single point...of what? You could watch a single frame, but time is passi...

*edit* I overlooked this portion of your post, since I didn't think it wasn't addressed to me. But it does seem relevant: In Armstrong's metaphysics, ...

That's not phyicalism, it's scientism, which is: ... the view that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about th...

OK, I see your point. However, that approach is vulnerable to objections based on special relativity (see this article). Since we're talking about the...

If you have a point, please make it. Biden's debate performance was terrible, suggestive of some degree of cognitive decline (probably a litte more th...

You're applying the term "simultaneously" in an absurd way by claiming that event-A is "simultaneous with" event-A. My point was simply that if time i...

I partially disagree: the parts of the car are still things, and can be a subject of discussion. I can refer to "my car's engine/steering wheel/tires"...

If there is 0 distance, it is the same point. Apples/oranges. The cardinality of the set of real numbers is not a member of the set of real numbers. T...

Philosophim provided a well-reasoned rebuttal, in his post, and your response is simply that you disagree. I hope you can see that he was spot on, whe...

Non-sequitur, and confused. If time is continuous, it maps to the real number line. There are no "gaps" in the real number line. If time is discrete, ...

I don't have a problem with that. I have a problem with your assumption there's a "gap" between points of time.