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Which is globally the case. It's not as if the world hinges on your beliefs or preferences about this, so that just in case you have a view that meani...

Sure, that's your opinion. But re MY view, explain in a way that I'd agree with why it's not a contradiction. That would show that you understand my v...

Would something like this work as a paraphrase of the general idea: "There are different actual properties, each unique, but where comparatively they ...

So re "universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things," you'd say there are no such...

What would make them the same property in that case, though?

Well, take sphericity for example, Is the idea that it would be continuous as a property the idea that there's not just one thing that counts as the p...

You realize that both sides of this are framed in terms of someone acting upon someone else doing what they want, so that it ignores what the other pe...

Right. So we disagree on what makes "useful" obtain, so to speak. First, do you believe that it can be true or false that something is useful?

That super-cliched move at this point does not count as understanding my view. So do you not know why it isn't contradictory on my view to say from wo...

So far so good if "logically equivalent to" is "is identical to." But yeah, you're missing something. Why isn't it contradictory on my view to say fro...

Well, there's an easy way to test that. Go ahead and relay a summary of the view as I would.

What would you say it amounts to (what would you say it "means") for a property to be a real continuum?

For one, I'd like to explain a point of view that you don't understand, but you'd need to be able to have a conversation where you can answer simple q...

No. Because I wasn't asking you why you thought it mattered or not. If you have a view on it where your answer is yes or no, you should answer yes or ...

??? You'd have to explain better why in your view fate would have anything to do with whether you can be right or wrong in an opinion of whether somet...

Again, it would have to start with, "The reason that I cannot answer yes or no is because . . . " for there to be a chance that I'd count it as an exp...

You can have a different opinion at a later time. That doesn't mean that your earlier opinion was wrong.

Me? But I don't find everything a 13-year-old does funny.

Can you be wrong about feeling that something is useful?

Finding everything a 13-year-old does funny is called being an uptight, mammering, pox-marked haggard who can't see the value in being playful and whi...

Do you find anything useful? If so, you don't think that everything is futile.

Having a sense of humor isn't the same thing as finding everything a 13-year-old does funny.

I'd probably be more likely to buy a bridge from you at this point than to believe that denial.

And maybe you're 13?

Yes. I failed to see that you were saying that that was unclear to you. I'm saying from my perspective, and in my view this is necessarily from indivi...

I asked you a simple yes or no question. "Are there judgments in world x?" I don't want to approach anything as a debate. I want to have a conversatio...

We can't have any sort of conversation if we can't even tackle the simplest yes or no questions.

I'm seeing if it's possible for us to tackle a simple yes or no question, or if we've gotten to a point where even such basic conversational interacti...

Is your user-name on this site "m-theory"?

To the question of? (Whether God exists?) I'm giving the definition of "futile." What is "God exists" (or "God") the definition of?

I'm not asking you to state conditionals. I'm asking you a yes or no question.

Are there judgments in world x?

You're saying that that is the case if truth-value is a judgment?

But this is just the point. In my view, truth-value is a judgment. Of course, you believe that this is wrong. And of course, I believe you are wrong.

If truth-value is a judgment, and there are no judgments in world x, then there is no truth-value in world x.

Yes, of course, and we posited that in world x there are no minds. So are there judgments in world x?

To make this clearer, let's restate this as being about judgments: In other words, there are no judgments in world x. So this would be saying that (in...

This frankly suggests to me that you can't understand what you read. I don't know how else to explain it. The point is that the two don't have anythin...

But no one was saying we can't know this (in world y)

Wikipedia has a very straightforward explanation of the issue that fuels the distinction: "In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have ...

No, that's a different idea. Say that space were continuous (whatever the distinction would amount to empirically--again, I'm not at all convinced tha...

First, the stuff above this comment--your first two paragraphs--is about mathematical thinking and/or the conventions of mathematical thinking. It's a...

For a lot of things, I prefer to be surprised or have it be like an adventure where I'm heading off into uncharted waters. I'll do that often when I'm...

Well, first I don't think that the idea of points makes a lot of sense aside from a fuzzy abstract concept--that's because the idea of a "zero dimensi...

I didn't mean anything like that by that term, though. Of course, I wouldn't say that I really understand Peircean "continuity" talk in this context. ...

Yeah, I'm a physicalist. However, all I'm arguing is that Metaphysician Undercover is not understanding Aristotle's "final cause" as it's normally und...

Well, I see the advantage here as being about preferences though (and probably I always see advantage as being about that). For example, for the thing...

Right. I didn't find where I can read the whole paper at the moment, but based on the abstract, the idea is probably something like this: that truth c...

"There is a continuity of usage without which meanings would be incomprehensible" and "You can use words to mean whatever you want them to mean and th...

I don't buy emergence beyond it being a way of saying that properties depend on dynamic structures, but again, relations/structures/processes are part...