So, "I will be dead in the future" means the same as "I am dead" yes? That is, if I am dead in the future, I am now dead. That's your view, yes? It's ...
Again, just obviously false. First, every argument has premises. So, if every premise in an argument has to have an argument in its favour, then proof...
Why would I listen to your advice about how to argue, when you don't seem to know how to argue? If something is simple it is indivisible. And if somet...
You can't answer a question with a question. So, is a present event also in the future and also in the past? Please answer with an answer, not a quest...
Time and the apple paradox: I put one apple in the fridge and the other on the sideboard. After a week the one on the sideboard had aged a lot whereas...
You're doing things the wrong way around. Look, it is obvious what the answer to my question is: it is 'no'. If an event is present, it is not also fu...
Why can't you just answer the question? Note: I believe you don't know what you're talking about. My evidence for that: you don't know what your answe...
Oh, this is tedious. Evidence that the mind is indivisible: it appears to be. Evidence that the mind is immaterial: it is indivisible. Now, perhaps yo...
no, if it is indivisible - which it is - then it is immaterial, for anything material is divisible. You're just ignoring the arguments I gave. If an o...
No, that's silly. If I buy meat, the cow whose meat it is has already been killed. Let's say I'm going for a promotion and another person is going for...
My reason - and yours too - represents it to be indivisible. For example, you attribute a mind to me - yes? You can't attribute 'half' a mind to me th...
No, I am no more responsible for the cow's predicament than I am for the violinist's. As I've said to others, I did not create the meat industry nor d...
I don't know what you mean. I have said that past, present and future are mutually incompatible properties. That is, if an event is present, it is not...
Why? Again, it's you - you - who is confused. You seem to have trouble distinguishing 'certain' from 'necessary'. If it helps: you are certain my posi...
Well, now you're being disingenuous! You asked me what I understood 'necessary' to mean. On that - on 'that' - our positions are the same. I mean by '...
Where have I said that? Quote me saying it. I haven't. Absolutely haven't. I have repeatedly said that I know there are no square circles not - not - ...
I agree that conspiracy theories should not automatically be dismissed. But a conspiracy theorist does, surely, have the burden of proof? Your interes...
I don't follow. Each argument was deductively valid, yes? And you've yet to raise any reasonable doubt about any premise of any of them. You've just t...
That's question begging - you're assuming my thinking is diseased and in need of treatment. Haha, well that's an attempt to shift the burden of proof ...
You haven't challenged a premise. Challenge one. Make a case against one. Note, pointing out that my arguments have undefended premises is a point you...
What do you mean by "You"? And "Apparently"? And "Think"? And then you say "you" again, without defining it. Dictionaries - why oh why have philosophe...
But that idea is incoherent. I mean, by 'right now' I take it you mean 'in the present', yes? Well, the present isn't the past, is it? The past is the...
I don't know what you mean - do you mean they're not capable of causing anything? That's question begging. They must be, beause otherwise nothing happ...
No. If you think a premise is false, why not just say and explain why - given your definition of the term - it is false. Otherwise I think you're just...
I think it is inconceivable - how can you conceive of an actual infinity? But even if an actual infinity of something is conceivable, that does not me...
But if your claim is only that everything that exists, exists now, then surely it is not very controversial? I mean, how can something exist and 'not'...
I do not know what you mean. As I have said repeatedly, I think there are many true propositions. I think there's a reality. I think we can know about...
I do not understand this point. The law of non-contradiction is true, but it doesn't have to be necessarily true. If it is true, then I am justified i...
I do not want to get too side-tracked into debating its implications for abortions, as that's not my focus (although I believe we can come up with alt...
So, if Mat needs the use of my kidneys for the rest of his life, I am obliged to give him the use of them? Even if your intuitions say yes, most peopl...
I am unclear how you are getting from the fact that we seem to have some information about reality imprinted on our souls, to the conclusion that ther...
I have not denied that we can know things. You are consistently confusing my claims with other claims, quite distinct from mine. For the record: I thi...
For example, you can't see, touch, hear, smell, or taste necessity, can you? So, this 'necessity' that you think exists is not part of the world of se...
I asked for the truth-maker of a necessary truth. But what you did it just tell me that a necessary truth is a necessary truth. For in attempting to e...
I didn't say that - I said that, as far as I am concerned anyway, there is no epistemic possibility of there being any square circles. Which is just a...
I am being as clear as I can. This, surely, is clear: 1. If there are events, some events are the product of substance causation 2. There are events 3...
No, you are confusing epistemic possibilities with metaphysical possibilities. There is no epistemic possibility that any object in the world is a squ...
"There are no square circles" does not mean the same as "necessarily there are no square circles". It is by reason alone that I am aware of its truth....
That's not my view. The word 'reason' in 'our reason' refers to our faculty - our faculty of reason. But Reason itself is that which our faculty of re...
I am not aware of having contradicted myself. I would be contradicting myself if I said that something was necessarily true. But I have consistently d...
No, but if you create time then you do exist in it, for there is now a now and you are in it. For if you have created time yet do not exist in the pre...
Yes, that's right. Nevertheless, I still think some claims are certainly true, and others only likely true, and others false. I should stress that I a...
But that doesn't engage with the thought experiment. Am I obliged radically to alter my diet - and to deprive myself of things I want to eat (for a li...
I found that if you highlight a section of someone else's post then a little box appears that says 'quote' and you click on it and it then appears in ...
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