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You're ignoring that I was talking about phenomenal experience per se, though. I'm not talking about assessing a proposition's relation to something e...

No, that doesn't change that fact, but that doesn't imply that the past exists and contains things. It's not that the past isn't independent of the pr...

That seems grammatically garbled to me. If the doctor's memories also are what? I'll take a guess at what you might be asking about, though. * Joe rem...

What? The things that the doctors remember aren't what? My "is all that is" is another way of saying "All that you're describing there is that people ...

"There being things they remember" is all that is.

Amnesia is a memory problem. You might not remember things like your name, your family, where you live, what you do for work, etc. So it's an issue wi...

tl:dr version: folks are hypocrites.

I'm not sure what you want me to embellish. It seems very straightforward to me. Obviously I'm not saying that we don't have present memories, but tha...

Haha--yeah. Remember that I'm a physicalist and kind of an extreme reductionist and "naturalist," in addition to being a nominalist who rejects that t...

I've had pretty good luck contacting people via email, as long as they bother with email beyond necessity in the first place. I can't speak for this a...

We don't literally share understandings on my view, no. Understanding is an individual subjective (dynamic) state that can't be shared with others. We...

On my view sentience isn't independent of individual persons, and "intersubjectivity" doesn't amount to anything more than the fact that we can utter ...

The whole gist of free speech as a normative, including as a legislative normative, is that it involves the protection of the ability to say things th...

Yes, even that. Even yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Even incitements to riot. Even slander/libel. I'm a free speech absolutist.

Simply email them. Not every philosopher you email will get back to you, for a variety of reasons, including that maybe they don't check their email v...

I'm not in favor of any expression prohibitions.

The past consists of the changes/motion that occurred, but that are no longer occurring (and it no longer exists, of course--it rather existed). Talki...

I didn't say that. I'd personally call it the same chair under (b), where philosophically, we need to be clear that it's not literally the same chair ...

"Relevant" used in that way is a pet peeve of mine. Revelance isn't intransitive. Everything is relevant to some things and not to others. Me telling ...

I know the legal convention, but I'm asking from a philosophical perspective outside of that, "Why should we consider him not guilty if he's insane?" ...

Are you talking about propositional knowledge that's independent of the phenomenal experience as such? Or would knowledge by acquaintance count? You h...

Why would he not be guilty (or responsible) if he's insane?

The problem with that on my view is that "changeless time" is a contradiction.

There's only (a) logical identity, and (b) whether we call something "the same x" by virtue of the necessary and sufficient conditions we construct vi...

Well, that's all I'm saying. Yet, people are arguing with me about it. It's simply a matter of having it when you do.

When I have the phenomenal experience of seeing a pink elephant, how can I be mistaken that I'm having the phenomenal experience of seeing a pink elep...

Sure, an example: I see a pink elephant.

It's not logically identical to the chair it was yesterday because it's not the same in every detail, in every aspect. That it's worn a bit is part of...

How about we try something simpler: give me a hypothetical example of a present phenomenal experience qua that present phenomenal experience that one ...

You might remember from other discussions (although not with you) that I don't buy identity through time. In my view saying that the same thing persis...

What sort of goal would you say I have in mind when I say that I think that Stravinsky is a better composer than Brahms?

It could only potentially have distinguishable parts. It couldn't have potentially distinguishable parts. The former is saying that there are no parts...

Then a continuum can't be something with no distinguishable parts. The concept as you're expressing it is incoherent.

Properties are particulars on my view, and there are real particular properties. I'm only rejecting properties as universals. F would presumably repre...

Well, in that case, you simply can't have any two contiguous things no matter what. You could only have one contiguous thing . . . although I don't th...

I didn't say anything like that. First off, F is a variable--it depends on what we're even talking about whether I'd say that it's a real property or ...

I'll take that as a no.

Can you respond like you're not a telemarketer?

Dude, I asked you a question. I'm starting to think that you're a troll.

I want to just focus on this for a minute, because it's frustrating that you don't seem to be able to understand it. Why do you think that someone wou...

First, you're not addressing the issue I brought up. You keep making comments about relativism/subjectivism as if we'd not be expressing preferences, ...

"Contiguous" means "sharing a common border; touching" or "neighboring; adjacent." or "next in time or sequence." So one change to another is necessar...

The very post of mine that you're respoding to contained the answer: So, for example, take change A, from x to y. If B changes from 1 through 10 durin...

The temporal "points" in question ARE contiguous. (And this is like the third or fourth time I've said this.) Re the difference between analog and dig...

It "is duration," I suppose. It is a swath of time. Namely, the present is one change or set of changes occurring relative to another change or anothe...

I don't think it's arbitrary at all. There are no properties that are absences of something period. The only way that there's a property of not-F is i...

I'd say that what you can doubt in the vein you're shooting for are what the real things are like that your experiences are correlated with, or that t...

Note that I put the word "point" in quotation marks. Again, mathematics isn't/mathematical objects aren't real. There are no real "zero dimensional" t...

"Having no" isn't a property that things have, though. It has to be something that's present, not something that's absent.

x is F and then x' if not-F and then x'' is F' and then x''' is not-F' and so on. They're different times, yes, if that's all you were getting at. Whi...