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Either you're not reading what I'm writing or you're not capable of understanding it, because I just explained this in the post you're quoting.

Surprising that the Deutsch acolyte would chime in on this one. ;-)

That would follow if the aim were to talk about persons' beliefs, how they think about things, etc. But for at least the third time now, that's not wh...

Okay, I just wanted to clear that up. So I'm not making claims about that. The reason that linguistic substitutions aren't entailed by my view is some...

Wait a minute. I'm asking if you understand that I'm not making claims about linguistic substitutions. You can believe that I'm not making claims abou...

Yeah, obviously. A comment I've encountered unfortunately too many times in discussions about this. Unfortunate, because this is yet another odd midun...

Yeah, well, this has been my view for decades now, including in the context of doing academic philosophical work, and it's remained my view throughout...

I'm just going to do one point at a time until we're done with each point, because I'm explaining the same things over and over to you. It's not a nam...

I just happened to look at this thread again--I didn't realize you responded to me earlier. You said, "If vaccination rates drop below 95% in a commun...

I'm not sure I understand all of your comments there, but it is "a set of things to be referred to" if you like, namely all changes. I'm not saying it...

Okay, but that wasn't clear to me with the way you'd asked before. C'mon man. Obviously I'm not going to think that it's false just because you have a...

Re point (1), he's positing that everyone not only is capable of accessing, but has indeed accessed all of the same publicly available evidence. That'...

Yeah, but "biopolitics" is still a very specific idea with pretty narrow usage. As Wikipedia notes, "the term is mostly divided between a poststructur...

Right, and according to my post that you're responding to, "No one is arguing that the stick literally touches your eye or that the same lightwaves/ph...

Right, so you're instead asking why I believe that time is identical to change/motion. It's due to a functional analysis, over many years, countless c...

There are a crapload of problems with this argument on my view. Two of the biggest problems are: (1) The assumption that two people have indeed access...

Yeah, I'm talking about that, too, but the process that you're describing is what it is to see the stick in the water. No one is arguing that the stic...

??? Why would you have thought that I was saying there are no differences of time? I don't know what I would have written that might suggest that to y...

That seems like simply shifting the ridiculous straw man a bit, though. Rather than the stick literally being in contact with one's eye, one is talkin...

We'd be getting into whether I agree with taking particular interpretations of instrumental utilities to be correct ontologically (and the answer is t...

T1 is the first time variable. T2 is the second time variable. In this example, were plugging "10:42" into the first time variable, while we're pluggi...

Is there any reason to believe that Rand's views have influenced biopolitics in order for there to be an article on it? I'm just assuming you have som...

Basically, matter comes into contact with other matter and influences it. I wouldn't say that forces exist between charges if matter is not coming int...

Sure, but how is "No" coming into this. Why isn't that T1 and T2? That's what I've named it--T1 and T2. You're saying I can't do that. Well, why not? ...

Again, definitions are synonyms, or they're not definitions. The synonym can be one word or many. It's not as if something isn't a definition just bec...

What?? It's no assumption. You, for example, look at a clock. The clock reads "10:42" and then it reads "10:43". That's all the justification you need...

My entire definition is a synonym, only much wordier, of course, of the word "causality." If you propose a definition that is not a synonym of causali...

Apparently you're unfamiliar with any sort of anatomical research, for one? What on Earth would lead you to believe that? How, historically, did you c...

How about simply looking up "comprise" in the dictionary? "Comprise -- consist of; be made up of" (from Google, for example) Or "Comprise - to include...

The set analysis you proposed doesn't work in my opinion, because it implies a law-governed universe whereas a universe that's not law-governed could ...

You don't agree with you that clear things aren't see-through.

The many worlds interpretation, if taken at all literally (rather than being taken as an instrumental interpretation strictly of the mathematics invol...

And reading further in this thread, it seems dukkha is really wanting to talk about perception, and specifically to critique naive/direct realism. I'v...

Yeah, which is called "see-through" or "transparent." Apparently you came to the conclusion that "see-through" or "transparent" implied "literally inv...

I'm a realist (in the general sense, though I'm an antirealist on some specific issues, such as ethics) and a physicalist (or "materialist" if you lik...

"Continuation of existence through time" is a matter of genidentity--it has to do with (a) how contiguous, causally-connected development occurs, and ...

Speaking of arguments, throughout that article he claims that "the physical sciences" are incapable of describing subjective experience, but he never ...

Well, yeah, it's clear that you think it's false. I think it's true. But if you think it's false, you're going to think it's not sound, since soundnes...

Didn't I say, " You seem to be under some delusion that I'm new to this and that I'm trying to get others to respond to me in a particular way but tha...

For one, if there were 94% vaccinated, say, wouldn't they not be affected?

Do you have any idea how old I am, how long I've been having discussions with others online, and how long I've been having philosophical discussions w...

I'm a bit confused by your first sentence. Time doesn't pass insofar as something doesn't change. Insofar as it does, time passes. When you measure so...

I don't provide any less of an argument than anyone else does. For example, I pointed out earlier that Wayfarer wasn't providing any sort of an argume...

Sure, but obviously it's not that I don't want to respond to them but I just can't help myself. I'm not going to stop responding to anyone, really. If...

Right. I was just referring to those who have. There are some dispositions/attitudes where I'd prefer that those folks didn't bother addressing me/res...

Haha--speaking of (lying) politicians.

If only those folks would carry through with their promises. Instead, they're like politicians.

Thanks. Re his argument: His second sentence is incorrect. Time doesn't obtain insofar as something doesn't change/isn't in motion. "Fast" and "slow" ...

Yeah, the idea of people arming themselves to oppose a tyrannical government is quite ridiculous at present. That would only possibly work if we were ...

I'm libertarian in some respects, too, but I'm not principle-oriented, really. I actually call myself a "libertarian socialist," but my views are extr...