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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, if you think that is "the opinion" you are crazy. The UN lost the thread of this conflict right at the beginning. They are no...

Which is why I brought up WW2 and Britain fighting German and not being only defensive. Was that legitimate, yes or no? As I stated previously: Again,...

I actually think it does.. and there is a fundamental difference. If IRA continually bombed over and over the hell out of any street corner, bus stati...

I meant the goal of Israel as a nation. One of it's founding principles. Indeed. But it does get into the differences at stake here. Jewish identity h...

I don't know. This seems tangential to any point. Indeed, Native Hawaiians feel an affinity to Hawaii and not let's say Zimbabwe.

So is that the same? When the Allies were bombing Germany, did they just "up and do that to the Germans"? I would argue that is the analogy. But if I ...

Cool, could that be said of any nationalism? I mean, why are the "Irish" associated with "Ireland" and not, say, Africa? We all came from Africa no? W...

Each one wants to border off the other so that they can maintain political control of the region, hence the need for two states and not a unitary one....

Indeed, I dislike Netanyahu and one of the main reasons is he actually delegitimizes any military actions because everything he did prior to that was ...

Just curious. Do you think that despite the terror nature of the groups, there is a fundamental difference in Hamas versus the IRA, mainly concerning ...

I know you’re trying to get some sort of rigid designation to work out here with your conception, but “what” object is the rigid designator rigidly de...

This story has been used for a long time to justify antinatalist arguments that refute consequential reasons for procreation that too easily dismiss t...

So even if I was to agree with this (which I don't think I do), the whole course of the causal-temporal chain starts somewhere. It doesn't start at th...

You seemed to hold the the opposite, negating its "perdurance" and essence over time. Either way, there has to be "something" whereby it is differenti...

So you also bring up an idea that is along the same lines as Graham Harman who had a notion that objects are often "overmined" or "undermined". That i...

And hence why I also say that it is necessary, just not sufficient...

Edited a post above with second paragraph for clarification: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/862509

But the next part?

Indeed, but I asked for clarification, so thanks for that. I question your assertion that the individual is illusory other than that it is a grandiose...

Curious did you have an answer for this? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/862434

Sure we can split every nanosecond into its own time slice and call that a different person. Same with any object. Yes, time adds duration and develop...

The combination of the DNA code from the set of gametes. The fact that this has slight changes over time or whatnot does not invalidate this. The caus...

Again, it's necessary, not sufficient because of its role in its unique combination. It's also causal and spatially variant, thus accounting for the d...

This is another topic, but this kind of parallels our debate for why it matters whether one has achieved some "unity" of this monism (aka Nirvana), or...

Seems to be.

I think my position can resolve a lot of these nuances if we just phrase it that the gametes components are necessary but not sufficient for identity....

Cool. What’s your view? Do you really understand mine?

The whole notion of identity and discerning it. I don't even have to look this up, and I would guess there would be hundreds or more papers written on...

This seems dismissive of a large topic in philosophy: In one sentence you dismiss the work of many philosophical writings in that subject, because you...

Still has a causal link tied with it. The start of an object isn’t just the substance so it was more nuanced. Also isn’t there volumes of philosophica...

I see it as a necessity but not sufficient as being a biological being and its unique genetic combination that contributes to your identity both biolo...

Before I answer, I’d like to ask you to look at some of my responses in previous lists as I think I could covered this. To summarize, the gametes are ...

I'm not sure what you are implying here. Is this supposed to be sarcastic or something? I simply stated he invented the term "rigid designator" for th...

That's the point I'm refuting (and you seemed to agree with in your last posts?). That is to say, the first child would be different, and therefore th...

No it is not. Someone brought up rigid designators (and thus Kripke). I pointed to the fact that generally his work on rigid designators (he invented ...

Yes, and I would agree with that characterization. It is exactly that reason that this issue is interesting. There wouldn't even BE a YOU to begin wit...

I don't think you're interpreting that right, but @"wonderer1" can chime in. I think he is saying that there are some moves that are necessitated as n...

The causality is the necessity. That is similar to Kripke's causal-theory of proper names and use of rigid designators.

Yes, I guess that's the point I am making too. But when discussing the past, it's always going to be in relation to the YOU existing now.

I think your interpretation of what I am saying is 180 degrees off. I am saying what you are saying I think. That is to say, the person born five minu...

Sure, I think that's more-or-less Ryle's point. And I'd largely agree. However, I think as Ryle also points out, we are mixing up cause-and-effect wit...

Rigid designation is a bit tangential perhaps, but it can be pulled into this debate. As I see it, rigid designators are about invariant necessities i...

Yes I mentioned the Ship of Theseus. But this doesn't discount the causal-temporal nature of those two gametes creating the initial template for which...

So, one of the original points I was making was about counterfactuals that are possible, and ones that are not. There are counterfactuals that may be ...

I am claiming that it is necessary not sufficient, which is harder to say about almost any of the other subsequent things in the causal history. If we...

It makes a difference because indeterminate future is one without you. The five minutes changes the gamete to someone else’s genetics.

I know you don't want to get in the weeds, but that is exactly what I am contesting. Even if it was a slight second earlier or later, whatever that pe...

Yes indeed. My argument seems to parallel Ryle's that the future is more along the lines of "possiblism", and that even looking in the past, there cou...

I'm not sure why. It is the blueprint for which our bodies function. No one is doubting that it combines with contingent circumstances, but as I state...

Yeah I never made a claim that it's not useful as an imaginative exercise. However there is a type of thinking that seems to naively think that you co...