Yes. Never felt a threat of my folks physically hurting me. They rather helped me avoid feeling physically threatened, including that they encouraged ...
Well, we don't know exactly how it would work, but we can describe what it would be. It's simply that there's not an equiprobable chance of each optio...
The end of a movie only exists in the sense that it's encoded on a disc, or printed on film, etc. Believing that future inventions exist already is, w...
The terms arise because people want to answer questions such as "just what are minds, anyway?" Some people think the answer to that is that minds are ...
No, you don't. You don't exist until a particular structure/process of materials does. You're not identical from moment to moment. There's no overarch...
No state of being re you as you, correct. That doesn't mean no state of being of anything. The stuff that becomes you when it's in the right structure...
? Using "transmute" instead doesn't change anything except we'd substitute that word. The materials in question are transmuted (not from nothing). "On...
Actually the idea is that prior to conception, there is no "one" in any state. Conception creates one. It doesn't create one "out of nothing." It crea...
"Random" typically has a connotation of "equiprobable." If there are two options and a random selection on many iterations, theory has it that option ...
You'd have to explain that if you mean it literally. If you're saying that physical laws per se aren't physical things, that would be more understanda...
Re the principle of charity, I'm trying to figure out any way your comment might make sense in the context of understanding my comment and . . . well,...
We're talking about what the world is like factually, empirically. Either only particulars exist or universals exist too (or instead). That's a matter...
No, first, I'm not forwarding an argument in the sense of premises implying some conclusion. Secondly, it is empirical, and metaphysical and empirical...
So, nominalism isn't the case because of an argument for it. It's the case because it's what the world is like factually. It's just like the surface o...
It's not my "principles," per se, it's the way the world factually happens to be (on this view, of course, but it's an empirical matter). The argument...
I've had a coherent account of how meaning works for decades. I don't know if I explained it to you in any detail or not in the past. We need to clari...
Assigning significance is something that minds do, sure. That's just switching the topic. Again, it's switching to "what is it that changes focal leng...
The problem with it on my view is that you're positing numerically distinct identicals (as in different instances of "the same (exact/identical) thing...
Obviously not only photographs exist. But a camera is necessary to take photographs of things. Not everything is a photograph, obviously. A photograph...
I don't think I understand what you're asking there. If I read the question literally, you're asking "what is the nature of "individuals thinking abou...
Actually, there's definitely disagreement over that. There's no way that language (especially about morals) would come before morals. I don't agree wi...
The point is that it's exactly the same thing as you're doing by talking about social stuff. The social things mentioned aren't identical to morality ...
Why are you asking me? It was your idea. Don't you know what you meant when you wrote "although it is a necessary factor in such explanation, as it st...
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