I'm not sure that makes sense to me. Remember that I actually am a nominalist (about everything), and I'm the conceptualist brand of nominalist. On my...
Re abstracts/abstraction, at least the beginning of the Wikipedia article on it is decent. I don't know if I agree with everything in the article, but...
There are a bunch of different metaphysical interpretations of what possible worlds are. You'd have to explain how "discrete abstract" makes sense to ...
This is why we say, by the way, that nominalists about abstracts/abstractions reject that there are any real abstracts. ("Real" there amounts to "obje...
Which isn't correct, because you can have physical/concrete abstractions. For example, if you believe that abstracts are concepts, you believe that co...
Particulars are discrete existents, singular instantiations, with properties that uniquely obtain in that discrete instance. Abstracts range over mult...
No. This is wrong. I already explained the alternative. One can simply posit nonmaterial particulars. "Not abstract" doesn't imply "material." (And li...
What part of "nominalists DO NOT say that possibility must be grounded in the material world" don't you understand? That has nothing to do with nomina...
"Nominalism says abstract objects such as possible worlds aren’t real. Possibility must instead be grounded in the material world." It says no such th...
Have a look at the SEP entry for nominalism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics/ "Nominalism comes in at least two varieties. I...
This isn't correct, really. First of all, conceptualism is a species of nominalism. But more importantly, one need not be a materialist to be a nomina...
I was kind of following you but then your post became increasingly murky to me. There are no objective goals/purposes, only subjective ones. We agree ...
A local political concern that happened in my burg recently: "Should we continue to allow right turns on red traffic lights at major intersections?" P...
And that wasn't the idea (I wasn't saying you had suggested that as a definition of identity politics) If our answer to "who" etc. is "everyone ," the...
If the answer to that is "everyone," I don't get how it would be identity politics. For example, say that we're trying to figure out how to provide fr...
A big problem with this is deferring too much to what other people think/say--and it doesn't help that there are many advocates of that around, includ...
Never had an IQ test, but I don't put much stock in them at any rate. I used to run into a lot of people online who claimed to have taken IQ tests, bu...
In contexts such as you're quoting, it alludes to the appearance/reality, phenomena/noumena distinction. For example, "Eureka! There's an oasis at the...
Correct. If we're going to claim that children are not normally capable of granting or withholding consent to x, then we can't claim that x was done t...
If it's question-begging in your view we have much bigger problems. So you're thinking that we might exist somehow prior to conception? Or are you thi...
So first, let's clarify that "Are the boundaries (borders) of objects real" and "What is it about the boundaries of objects that is real" are ontologi...
No, because consent isn't an issue with procreation. Consent is only an issue when we're talking about things that are normally capable of granting or...
So for example, material particles have spatial extension, but the spatial extension isn't infinite. The limits of that spatial extension is a boundar...
It has to be force in the sense of physical causality. Nothing less. It's simply an intuitive stipulation based on my dispositions. With anything less...
I use "force" in the sense of physical causality. "Force" in your example is not actual force. Re your example, I'd have a category of criminal threat...
You certainly base decisions to do things on speech, sure. What matters to me when we're talking about ethics, proposing legislation, etc., is the fac...
Even philosophers that I'm a fan of are folks with whom I disagree at least 50% of the time. Whatever the term is that's the starkest contrast to "fan...
It's not easy to find a picture of what I'm looking for (though it's easy to find in person), so for the pic below, you have to imagine the sign isn't...
https://www.sciencealert.com/darwin-s-finches-evolve-into-new-species-in-real-time-two-generations-galapagos If you rather mean in the sense of abioge...
Right. But the point is actually that it cannot be wrong because it can't even be done. You can't impose life on someone without their consent. The ve...
We should also clarify that you weren't saying that politicians can't invent laws period, but that there are particular laws they'd have a problem eit...
Even if that were the case, it wouldn't be a matter of not being allowed to make a law. You could argue that it's not being allowed to enforce a law t...
That's not very specific, unfortunately, and it looks like it's saying that politicians are creating laws that politicians aren't caring about, which ...
It's impossible to conceive a child without their consent, because there's nothing that's (normally) able to grant or withhold consent prior to concep...
So you're basically talking about practical nullification? What would be an example of this--a law is put on the books, but not only the citizenry, bu...
?? So what does "allowing" amount to here? Politicians are obviously physically able to create new laws. They do this all the time. Nothing happens to...
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