Not substance dualism, though. Unless you think of space/objects and time/processes as substances? I just think of them as different aspects of the sa...
Sorry, my bad for being unclear, I didn't mean to describe old-school substance dualism à la Descartes — supposedly independent, real "substances" — r...
@"noAxioms", you're right, I was thinking more generally in terms of those uhm "larger-world" hypotheses. Something like ... modal realism (possible w...
That was the point (sort of). :) What choice do we have but the usual local 1st person perspective? There's no self-escape, no becoming whatever else....
It apparently fell out of some interpretations of quantum mechanics, and later some string theories. Quantum mechanics is well-established, string the...
Our thinking is already "dualistic", as expressed ontologically by all things being just themselves, and not anything else, including our (individuate...
Bare-bones definitions could be something like: atheism is absence of theism, or disbelief therein, hence the leading 'a' an atheist is a human that c...
(Y) Hilbert’s Hotel and Shandy’s Diary, for example, are what we call veridical paradoxes, and do not imply a contradiction, but they do show some cou...
Some select objections from the trenches … even if sound, the argument does not suggest anything “divine”, sentient, conscious, thinking, caring, lovi...
It was round up in the old The Bare Necessities thread. Possible worlds maintain standard logic by definition: identity, x = x, p ? p non-contradictio...
, well, are whatever aspects of our universe anything like a (dense) continuum? If yes, then there might be infinitudes of different "almost alike" ch...
@"Thorongil": 1. if God exists, then he exists necessarily (cannot not exist) — Thorongil 2. if any x is (modally) necessary, then x is something like...
@"Brian A", @"Thorongil", it seems "safer" to assert that God is necessary for our world. Though of course we don't know exactly what our world is (fo...
As per The Bare Necessities, if any x is (modally) necessary, then x is something like (logical) consistency. Necessities, N, is the conjunction of po...
, I don't think so, at least not logically/mathematically. Infinites require careful treatment; they're not numbers. The non-positive integers, {..., ...
I don't think you can define something into existence, as it were. If you define G to be (modally) necessary, then G becomes reduced to something like...
, as far as I can tell it just means that there's no purely logical argument either way, rather it comes down to evidence. Sure, the evidence we have ...
Here are two arguments that an infinite past is logically impossible, and why they’re wrong. Last Thursdayism: assumption (towards reductio ad absurdu...
I'm admittedly biased against the death penalty (possibly culturally), but tried to round up some pros and cons a while back. Some pros: retribution a...
Aren't Levine's explanatory gap / Chalmers' mind-body thing usually brought up to complain about this stuff? It's worth noting, though, that the parti...
Right. Speaking of constant motion typically requires two objects, moving relative to one another. Acceleration does not, since one can determine a fo...
Isn't that Galilean invariance? (SP = special relativity?) There are a few things, like the equivalence principle and constant light speed, playing ro...
I don't get it. Why postulate that such idealism is popular/prevalent/undeniable among academics, when that's just not the case? External world: ideal...
@"Rich", are you conflating the theory itself and what it describes (it seems you were conflating epistemology and ontology earlier)? The statement yo...
@"Rich", hijacking quantumatics for idealism isn't philosophy, it's common in New Age woo though. Have you discovered a derivation of qualia from quan...
I incidentally came across this illustration the other day: /uploads/files/lp/ijmjkx3ultqj3ve4.jpg Outsider test (Iron Chariots Wiki article) Ignostic...
@"Joseph", @"fishfry", technically these are well-formed propositions with mixed quantifications: ?x?S ?y?S ?(x,y) ?x?S ?y?S ?(x,y) I'm not sure anyon...
Apologies @"unenlightened", skim-reading is poor reading, my bad. The two propositions, "existence is not a predicate" and ?x?S x ], are sufficiently ...
@"TheMadFool", how to demarcate fictional and real entities? If you suppose that a fictional entity exists, then what would it take for it to be real?...
Meanwhile in Floria, Teenagers Recorded a Drowning Man and Laughed Niraj Chokshi Jul 2017 The New York Times Aged 14-18, face no charges per se. Paren...
Yep. Though, one of the reasons for posting the poll was that a climate-change-denier elsewhere wrote (paraphrased) "God is in control", "There's noth...
, yeah, effective regulation is a problem. That said, you'd hope the ethics is informed by the science, and the politics informed by both. Worst case ...
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean "parallel universes" necessarily like modal realism (possible worlds), many worlds (quantum mechanics), multiverse (e.g. ense...
, the plot thickens. :) Souls are then defined as parts of us living in parallel universes? But why, what's all this stuff for, what's it supposed to ...
Let me try to misquote you for the occasion: If anything significant differentiates fictions/fantasies/hallucinations/dreams (which do exist) and perc...
Seems like we could discuss ... • the Moon • perception of the Moon • linguistic practices of Moon discussion They're not the same, so shouldn't we ke...
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