Time does not equal our counting. I never said anything suggesting that. Time is real. It's the real changes or motions of matter and structures of ma...
Oaky, so a few examples: The property of being ionized obtains via an atom or molecule gaining a positive or negative charge via gaining or losing an ...
Come on, now. Did you not see where I explained what properties were above? Sure. Another is that it's a fact that there are no objective aesthetic ev...
Yes, those are phenomenal experiences. I didn't say the idea was useful for anything. It's simply the way in which we can be not be mistaken about our...
They form a time unit for x, for one. Is discrete time temporally contiguous, with no "gap" in between? It has nothing to do with whether reality cons...
But what I'm referring to with "phenomenal experiences" is exactly what, and only what, you're aware of. So whatever you have "access to" as you'd put...
You can say whatever you like, of course. What I'd say if you were to say that is that it misunderstands my view. Particularity isn't instantiated at ...
I wouldn't say that it's unconnected though, and as I mentioned awhile ago re the issue of discreteness in general, I'm agnostic on it, and I don't th...
If that's what you call "discrete," then sure, it's aletheist-discrete. I'll take it that you're not literally asking what we can say about x with res...
You'd only have x for a time measurement. It would depend on how many changes you want to count as your time unit. You could say that a million units ...
I'm just asking you a question. I'm simply trying to clarify that you wouldn't say that changes that are occurring are literally in the past. And if y...
What I was curious about was this: Okay, but the changes that are occurring aren't in the past, are they? If you're not interested in answering that, ...
Okay, but the changes that are occurring aren't in the past, are they? You know that in English, when we speak of the past, we say changes that occurr...
That was YOUR view that you were asking for agreement on. I wrote this (although I added it as an edit so maybe you didn't see it) in my second to las...
What view, specifically, are you referring to? (I'm asking because I'm not confident that you could answer this, because what you say after this isn't...
If the present IS the changes that are occurring, where is the above claim coming from? And actually, this discussion has been helpful re clarifying o...
It's not a property because of what properties are. Properties are characteristics or qualities of matter/structure/process relations, what matter/str...
Look, I'm just repeating myself, because it's like you're not paying attention to or not understanding (and not caring that you're not understanding) ...
Said as if you didn't even read this sentence: "That doesn't imply that there's no relative fuzziness there, either, but it doesn't make the present t...
Maybe you could be more patronizing. Why are you assuming that I haven't thought this through far more than you have? It's not a want. It's what the w...
What it has to do with it is that the only way that something can not be a particular, then, is by there being something that's identically instantiat...
Again, "particular" is the opposite of there being something that's identically instantiated in numerically distinct entities. Are we clear on that? A...
Okay, but time is (identical to) change or motion, so there is no "particular time" without change or motion. There are no real points, period. It's j...
It's not that that they're mistaken. Rather, their feelings can change. You can be wrong with a prediction. That's not the same thing as being wrong a...
It's not that the present is something at which changes are occurring. The present is the changes that are occurring. It's like you guys can't help bu...
Represents? Anyway, I wouldn't say that's it's not a state or that it's not the present. States are dynamic. I also would say that it's a "reimagining...
Why would you be trying to peg an "instantaneous non-motion" though? Again, the present is the changes that are occurring from a particular reference ...
The problem with this is that all there is to anything being better or worse than anything else is how an individual feels about it. It's not somethin...
Well, what sort of suffering is it if you're not aware of it? If there are no negative emotions involved, it seems to miss something important re the ...
Okay but you're keeping in mind that they have some overlap of friends, they mostly see the same films, etc. right? So you'd be arguing that minor dif...
I was referring to some other boards I post on, and especially a film board I post on. I've basically given up on the Philosophy Now board. Its too di...
You said this before, and so I asked you to give some specific examples of what you think would be different in their histories that would be behind t...
That question suggests that despite being an apparently competent speaker of English, you have no conception of what preferences are. I have preferenc...
Yes. I've never said anything like that, and in fact I've explicitly said a number of times that this describes no relativist/subjectivist in my view....
Subjectivists do not say that one can be mistaken about morality or that one can be objectively wrong, of course, but why would that amount to not hav...
What I'm looking for is an explanation, under the umbrella of your view, and re specifics, how the siblings would wind up having such different stance...
Starting a shitload of more or less substance-free threads, one right after another, or to a lesser extent, posting a shitload of more or less substan...
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