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It is limited to 1 or 0 in any individual (i.e., actual) case, where there is a determinate fact of the matter. Not if we want to be precise in our la...
February 01, 2017 at 20:26
Strictly speaking, probability only applies to the long run of experience, not to an individual case. In general, the probability is 1/52 that the top...
February 01, 2017 at 19:34
I think that there is an equivocation here on what we mean by "probability." You are really talking about our (subjective) confidence in the truth of ...
February 01, 2017 at 18:15
I suspect that the popular persistence of substance dualism is grounded in the common-sense apprehension that there seems to be a significant and fund...
February 01, 2017 at 17:23
Based on the thread title, I assume that you intend to be asserting here that the king of France exists and is bald, which would be consistent with (3...
January 26, 2017 at 17:09
It is not anything in particular; i.e., it need not be something that actually exists. The relation is real apart from any individual relata. Hmm, may...
January 16, 2017 at 01:31
Another way to think about it is that nothing exists without being in relations. In fact, existence is reaction, the state of being in dyadic relation...
January 15, 2017 at 23:31
Your logic is evidently too narrow. "____ is red" is a monadic relation; its reality does not require an existing subject to fill the blank. "____ is ...
January 15, 2017 at 23:05
Just curious - is there a reason why you prefer "crispness" as the term for the opposite of "vagueness," rather than something like "determinacy" or "...
January 15, 2017 at 17:06
Not necessarily prior, since identity is a relation. There is also the Christian concept of God as Trinity, such that Being and relations are both nec...
January 14, 2017 at 17:01
As you probably know, Peirce claimed in the article that "any normal man" who engaged in the kind of Musement that he recommended, and did so "in scie...
January 12, 2017 at 01:49
I find it fascinating what a startling diversity of opinions there are about that article, even among Peirce scholars who have written at length about...
January 11, 2017 at 03:52
My personality is not conducive to being quite that "reckless," so to speak; but I do see this as a place where I can try out new ideas as working hyp...
January 11, 2017 at 03:03
Oh, good grief. My point was not to "represent" @"Terrapin Station"'s position, but to draw out some consequences that I saw as entailed by his positi...
January 11, 2017 at 02:58
Please read the exchange more carefully. I was saying that this is what @"Terrapin Station"'s view entails, not that it is my own view.
January 10, 2017 at 21:56
One quick clarification - it is not that the potential individuals in a continuum are indistinguishable, it is that they are potentially distinguishab...
January 10, 2017 at 19:17
Correct, but @"Terrapin Station" defines time as the series of changes itself, so of course he holds that there is no time in between. He explains thi...
January 10, 2017 at 19:07
Sure it could; as potential individuals, they are not distinct within the continuum, but they are capable of being distinguished by being actualized. ...
January 10, 2017 at 16:50
Actually indistinct, but potentially distinguishable - like the drops of water in the picture that @"Rich" posted, except that the number of drops is ...
January 10, 2017 at 16:11
What do you make of Peirce's theism? It was unconventional, to be sure, but he still explicitly affirmed the reality (not existence) of God as Ens nec...
January 10, 2017 at 15:51
You can in a true continuum, since every part of it is also a true continuum; e.g., the parts of a truly continuous line are also truly continuous lin...
January 10, 2017 at 15:46
F is generality, not-F is particularity. You reject not-F as a real property because you reject F as a real property. Basically, your contention (as I...
January 10, 2017 at 15:41
Okay, I am thinking of contiguous in the sense of melding into one another so as to be indistinct. In that sense, two discrete things cannot be contig...
January 10, 2017 at 15:15
No matter how many times you say it, it will always be incoherent to me. If time is defined strictly as the change from F to not-F or vice-versa, then...
January 09, 2017 at 23:24
It sounds like I was right - your reply is that F in this case is not something that you recognize as a real property, so not-F is also something that...
January 09, 2017 at 23:15
Only if you concede that there is some distance between the two "adjacent" points. They are not and cannot be contiguous, any more than the zeroes and...
January 09, 2017 at 22:38
That seems rather arbitrary; having the property not-F is equivalent to lacking the property F. I suppose that your reply would be that F in this case...
January 09, 2017 at 22:28
Let the record show that you introduced this diagram. Remember, on my view a truly continuous line has potential points exceeding all multitude betwee...
January 09, 2017 at 22:13
Those are all excellent examples of pragmatic explications of concepts, which (from where I sit) demonstrate the reality of generals. Possessing a pos...
January 09, 2017 at 22:00
If x is F and x' is not-F, is the next step that x is F again or that x'' is F (and so on)? When x changes from F to not-F and when x' changes from no...
January 09, 2017 at 21:29
How is that a real connection between the two changes? As you noted, we can only "count" those units from "outside" that hypothetical world. There is ...
January 09, 2017 at 20:30
Yes, and here is what you "explained." I then cited my dictionary and provided a lengthy excerpt from it, confirming that "quality," "property," "char...
January 09, 2017 at 20:22
I have asked you for your technical definition, but you keep claiming that you mean nothing other than the colloquial sense of quality or characterist...
January 09, 2017 at 19:57
If no time passes while x is F or x is not-F, then how are the different changes between these two states of affairs connected? As I mentioned a while...
January 09, 2017 at 19:32
It is what any normal English-speaker calls "discrete." My dictionary defines it as "consisting of distinct or unconnected elements : noncontinuous," ...
January 09, 2017 at 18:47
Right. Notice that your view thus requires time to be discrete, since every "lapse" of time requires an actual change. If nothing changes, then no tim...
January 09, 2017 at 18:28
Okay, suppose now that x constantly changes back and forth between F and not-F. There is only time whenever x changes from F to not-F or vice-versa. W...
January 09, 2017 at 18:16
What blocks me from restating your view as effectively holding that particularity itself is identically instantiated in (all) numerically distinct mat...
January 09, 2017 at 18:03
No, I did not see that edit. Suppose a universe in which there is only one thing, x, and only one property, F. "Initially," x is F, but "later," x is ...
January 09, 2017 at 17:59
What can we say about X and P while the change is occurring?
January 09, 2017 at 17:33
For your view to be consistent, changes never are occurring; they always either have occurred (X was P, but now not-X is not-P) or will occur (X is P,...
January 09, 2017 at 17:20
I am paying attention, and I am trying to understand, but you are simply dismissing my objection rather than answering it. As I see it, on your view, ...
January 09, 2017 at 17:04
How is that not a difference? X is P before the change, and X is not-P after the change, but there is no time in between when X is changing from P to ...
January 09, 2017 at 16:39
Sure, but what does that have to do with my objection? Do you deny that everything is always - i.e., at all times - either P or not-P, where P is some...
January 09, 2017 at 16:12
If everything is particular, then there are no "changes that are occurring." If everything is always either P or not-P, then nothing is ever in some i...
January 09, 2017 at 15:42
By the laws of non-contradiction and excluded middle, X is never both Y and not-Y at the same time, and X is always either Y or not-Y at any assignabl...
January 09, 2017 at 15:14
When I first started getting acquainted with Peirce's thought, several people warned me that it would take a while - and I have found that to be very ...
January 08, 2017 at 21:13
Why not? How can you claim that all real things are particulars, and then deny that particularity is something that they really have in common? It cer...
January 08, 2017 at 21:01
It occurs to me that even if this were true, then particularity itself would be a real general - something that all things really have in common. Ther...
January 08, 2017 at 02:36
Your mind only knows what you (presently) intend to type. Something can (and sometimes does) interrupt you before you actually type it. When we debate...
January 07, 2017 at 18:13