And indeed things are non-identical through time (which shouldn't be so surprising once we realize that what time is in the first place is change or m...
Another way to illustrate this: From one spatial point of reference, a table has this shape: https://www.viewmastercms.com/assets/VMAPP_Universal_Furn...
I can't draw anything at the moment, so we'll use this as a drawing instead: A,.............................@.....................................B Su...
"Perfect" is subjective. X is perfect (or is a perfect F), just in case x meets one's ideals for x (or an F) (the difference there being whether somet...
When we were talking about properties. Specifically whether there are any objective properties. When I was talking about that and asking you questions...
If you were answering from the perspective of models earlier, and you have a model where there are other people as objects, etc., then why did you ans...
You can't presume there's another human being if there's no object that's another person. There can be no object that's Eric Corchesne, no objects tha...
So your wife and kid are just creations of your mind in your view. Did you tell your wife and kid mind-creations this? (This is the sort of scenario w...
Sure. The most recent example: I don't think that Isaac honestly believes that there are no properties in the world/that the world is just a heterogen...
I could do without people being humble as long as they're honest. I think people often respond in ways that aren't very honest here. At least I hope t...
What would you even be talking about when you say things like this given that you don't think the world has any properties? Are you just talking about...
Do you have any other OCDish sort of behaviors--like needing to count certain things, or preferring certain numbers (for example, in a numbered parkin...
If a common cold lingers for a month, say, it would definitely be advisable to see a doctor, no? This is something that's lingering for however many y...
Because therapy can help a lot in changing beliefs like this. It's just a matter of how much you want to change and whether you can accept help or not...
Just curious how far past your teen years you are. I would guess that time might be the cure here, but if you're already in your mid 40s or something,...
First, properties definitely are NOT separable in that way. It seems like you're asking about things having properties sans experience, which is fine,...
I think everything should be approached with optimism, but I'm an "irrational optimist." :grin: - -in other words, I have optimism even when it's not ...
If the meaning were literally in the text marks or sounds, how would it make sense to ask anyone "What do you mean?" The text marks or sounds are what...
I'm not asking your opinion of what matters. I asked whether it wasn't ontologically different. How would inside/connected not be ontologically differ...
Yeah, I'm familiar with that. I'm asking you about the word "sub" in this context. I'm not familiar with "sub" here. Where does that come from and wha...
They're rooted in genetics ultimately. As I said, they're built into our biology--it's a way our brains work, because we're a species where survival w...
You'd not literally receive my meaning any more than you'd literally receive, say, my desires, or my pains, or anything like that. I write something--...
I'm not saying anything about changing how you feel. Your moral dispositions are "deep" or "gut-level" dispositions that may not be immediately obviou...
Again, you can't help but feel the way you do. That's built into our biology. For example, you beat up someone for no reason today. Well, a couple day...
Well first you can't help but feel that some behavior is okay and not other behavior. That's built into us. Why do people do "hard thinking" about it?...
You don't need the formal logical structures in natural language. You do need to talk "around" them in natural language. We need to be able to say, "T...
The advances we make for space travel are ultimately useful for more practical purposes on Earth. The challenges of space travel fast-track these deve...
Nothing else available for what morality ultimately depends on than subjective dispositions. "this is ultimately what everyone does" is what I said. N...
Hence the word ultimately. That wasn't just there for decoration. First off, obviously we don't stay emotionally the same as toddlers as we age. But o...
Is it a possibility? Sure. There's no way to rule out that being a possibility for anyone. It is, because nothing else is available. I'm not saying th...
I wasn't saying something without context, so that I'd say it about any and every arbitrary thing. Specifically with formal logic, it's important to n...
I don't though. I intentionally try to intuit how I feel about a particular situation, simply as that particular situation. I particularly have a dist...
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