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No, of course not. And obviously I'd say that if I'm saying that time and change are identical. Re "this difference which is an aspect of time, is not...
January 31, 2019 at 13:00
If the dilemma is supposed to be what you'll name the lockers, you could just name them: "Stuff I learned from birth to 8 years old" "Stuff I learned ...
January 31, 2019 at 12:40
I'm not denying temporal differences, so pointing out that I'm specifying temporal differences isn't an argument against what I'm saying, it's a featu...
January 31, 2019 at 12:35
I'm guessing you're leaving something out? What's the dilemma?
January 31, 2019 at 12:30
You don't think that I'm denying temporal differences, do you?
January 31, 2019 at 12:22
No two instances of something are actually identical. (I'm a nominalist.) You just said the difference. Changes that happened are different than chang...
January 31, 2019 at 12:00
Yeah, if you're just characterizing it as concern for others/care versus focus on individual concerns and capitalism etc., on the economic side I'm mo...
January 31, 2019 at 11:40
It's a core tenet of truth in analytic philosophy, at least, that truth is a relation between a proposition and something else. The relation isn't its...
January 31, 2019 at 11:30
Liberals want to regulate tons of behavior that I'm not at all in favor of regulating (on my libertarian side) and they'd not do what I'd so re social...
January 30, 2019 at 23:10
The differentiation is whether is behavior that you don't approve of to an extent that you feel it should be prohibited. Re "actual harm," I don't kno...
January 30, 2019 at 23:07
Feeling that something is wrong is what morality is. There is no objective wrong (for values).
January 30, 2019 at 19:37
Metaphysician Unlimited, Would your premise be something like "If time isn't different than change/motion, then there would be no difference between m...
January 30, 2019 at 17:26
In other words, we can refer to: (1) facts that are independent of how someone feels about those facts, and we can refer to (2) how people feel (about...
January 30, 2019 at 16:54
You mentioned your mother and father. Another term for that is "family." Also, you mentioned place, time, etc. That would put you with the group also ...
January 30, 2019 at 16:06
Even changing the entire universe wouldn't do it (especially if one is a nominalist). It's still two different instantiations of the "same thing" (in ...
January 30, 2019 at 15:46
So who assiged it? Anyway, another suggestion. How about a paper on what mathematics is ontologically? Most of this article has to do with this issue:...
January 30, 2019 at 15:43
That comment simply makes no sense. I'm not saying anything like "There is no time." I'm in no way eliminating time. There is time. I'm simply saying ...
January 30, 2019 at 15:37
Truth isn't propositional in content. Truth is a relation between propositions and something else (the something else depends on the truth theory you ...
January 30, 2019 at 14:07
You'd miss too many new movies/TV shows, albums, video games, books, etc.
January 30, 2019 at 14:00
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January 30, 2019 at 13:58
I don't know what kids you've spent time around. :razz:
January 30, 2019 at 13:56
It's not for a particular class? (I'm guessing this is not in the U.S. then) What sorts of topics have you been learning about? Have you studied philo...
January 30, 2019 at 13:42
The difference is that with the Sentinelese and similar tribes, there's no reason to expect them to be familiar with the bulk of cultures' interlaced ...
January 30, 2019 at 13:40
What course is it for? What have you been studying in that course?
January 30, 2019 at 13:31
Not even on the same planet as how I define those two terms.
January 30, 2019 at 13:29
Let's say that A is five feet to the right (from perspective x) of B. They move relative to each other, so that A is now six feet to the right of B. N...
January 30, 2019 at 13:09
Think of it this way, Metaphysician Undercover: A, B and C change to D, E and F. You want to propose somehow "traveling back to that change," to exper...
January 30, 2019 at 12:28
I didn't say that change is an identity violation. I said that the idea that we could "take back" something that changed is. Look at what I wrote agai...
January 30, 2019 at 12:02
I read Rand when I was a kid--I was (and still am) a big Rush fan. 2112 came out when I was 13 years old. I was a pretty straightforward U.S. party-st...
January 30, 2019 at 11:59
For one, they all have false premises.
January 30, 2019 at 11:38
This. Transcendental arguments make sense and are a very sophisticated way to approach argumentation for something. "Transcendent" as it's used to mak...
January 30, 2019 at 11:35
You mean change something that changed so that it doesn't change that way? How would the idea of that even make sense? It would be an identity violati...
January 30, 2019 at 11:04
"different degrees and instantiations of empathetic tendencies lead to very different moral stances." So, for example, psychopaths will have at least ...
January 30, 2019 at 10:55
Yes, as well as Husserl and others.
January 30, 2019 at 10:34
They actually posit nonsense like "it came from quantum fluctuations," and then completely ignores how we get to there being quantum fluctuations.
January 29, 2019 at 23:51
Yeah, analytic philosophy primarily. And re Hume, the rejection of psychologism occurred in the 19th century. So after Hume.
January 29, 2019 at 23:49
Past events occurred. They're no longer occurring. Time is simply change or motion. It's not something you can "travel in." It rather is the traveling...
January 29, 2019 at 23:38
As I've said a number of times, I think that one of philosophy's biggest mistakes was the rejection of psychologism. The desire to reject psychologism...
January 29, 2019 at 23:36
It's simply a matter of intuiting whether you're comfortable with some interpersonal behavior or other. Empathy is a big part of it, and different deg...
January 29, 2019 at 23:05
There's no need for it, and no evidence for it. Anything you say about a god for this purpose you can simply say about the universe sans any gods.
January 29, 2019 at 22:54
What's the origin of the "speck of anti-gravity material located in a high energy environment"? Or in other words, as I've pointed out before, and as ...
January 29, 2019 at 14:44
This comment reflects zero understanding of the comment you're responding to.
January 29, 2019 at 10:25
No.
January 27, 2019 at 22:33
You can't say that it doesn't have the particular physical effects it does, but those facts imply nothing about any value judgments. So we'd need to c...
January 27, 2019 at 22:11
Of what relevance to whether quality of life is something that someone can get wrong.
January 27, 2019 at 22:10
What, what and what?? Let's start with this: " If the world is the domain of all domains, it should be a domain within itself." First off, "The world ...
January 27, 2019 at 22:06
That's more confuddled than the term "unity." It seems like you're quickly approaching "insists upon itself."
January 27, 2019 at 12:21
It's a mistake to think they can't, rather. Wittgenstein was wrong (about most things). And re meaning, it's a mental phenomenon only. Language isn't ...
January 27, 2019 at 12:19
There's a history of using "real" so that it refers to being external to mentality. Of course, there's a history of using "exist" that way, too, and t...
January 27, 2019 at 12:18
What does "unity" refer to there, exactly?
January 26, 2019 at 20:46