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That doesn't say anything.

Then what is it that makes the consciousness that you have now the very same as the consciousness that once inhabited Napoleon? You don't have his mem...

Sure. Seems to me that there are real philosophical problems with reincarnation. What is it that is reincarnated? Suppose mind to be memory, intent, s...

But mind is not a thing so much as a process. And a process has parts. SO a further objection would be that it is not obvious that a mind is an object...

An escape might be to formulate the Venn diagram in terms of information, as is indicated in the concluding paragraph of the OP. Then we would still h...

Apart from memory, intent, sensation, ratiocination...

Notice that the non-physicals are within of the physical? The Venn Diagram is broken.

Yep..

IF you can't see it, then I can't help you. Not my problem.

...and yet, of course, I did reply, so falling into a contradiction of my own making. Oh, well. It's just that something's being the consensus view is...

Yeah, nuh. The model is incoherent.

This has been pointed out, previously, but to no avail.

Presumably individualism is a view along the lines that society consists in individuals, and hence can be explained purely in terms of the actions of ...

:rofl:

...then your Venn diagrams are incoherent, such that this innermost circle must also lie outside the outermost circle. The model doesn't work.

Interesting that at thread on good physics so quickly became a thread on bad physics.

So often, that would seem to be the consensus. It doesn't seem to help much.

If you don't tell why, then I can't reply.

Nonsense.

Yeah. I see the contradiction was already pointed out.

SO is it now OK to use the forum to try to boost sales on one's vanity publishing?

The point is that the expression confuses what would be going on. There is no possible world in which H?O is not water. There may be a possible world ...

You're perhaps using H?O as a description rather than as a rigid designator, which sidesteps the point rather than addresses it. So let's use Hesperus...

The thing about a belief that such-and-such is that it is a belief that such-and-such is true. So yes, most would bother to say there is no escape fro...

:kiss:

The context is isms, their workability and applicability, not any specific ism. Even if it were, per absurdum, any ism must thereby be part of the tot...

The context is given... isms. The rejection of isms must itself be an ism, and hence contradictory; the recognition of the universal applicability of ...

But it's not an observation; it's an opinion.

...and those who do so are anti-isim-ists. Arn't you simply stipulation that anti-isim-ism isn't an ism? What justification could you have here? :wink...

Can it? Rejecting the purported overarching status of any ism looks like an ism...

If he doesn't, I'll defend that view from the point of view of Kripke. Water = H?O. "H?O" is a rigid designator. Water is a rigid designator.. Hence. ...

There is plenty of evidence linked from the Wiki article; but you write: "The expansion of space, rather than the expansion of the physical universe.....

Well, then, there's an opportunity for you to re-write a large part of wikipedia: "Based on large quantities of experimental observation and theoretic...

Meh. Here's Gary's response to the explanation given: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/514048 I'll leave the discussion there, not he...

Roughly, ontology is what sort of stuff there is, cosmology is how it got there, and metaphysics is both. In recent parlance cosmology is the branch o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq9xR5PUs6s I tried to get annoyed at what she was saying, but failed. She is intelligently careful.

Love that. Yes, science is dangerous. To cranks and charlatans, and folk who make confused assertions about determinism and truth.

Fool.

The paper cited above shows that we have a size for the universe. Therefore you are wrong. Fuck it. Here's the actual analysis. https://academic.oup.c...

I'm happy to be corrected by physics - show me a paper that disagrees with the paper cited above - they will be there. Demonstrate your case. If all y...

See https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/02/01/197279/cosmos-at-least-250x-bigger-than-visible-universe-say-cosmologists/

What I can't get past is that physicist have used General Relativity to derive a size for the universe, and pretty much agree on the result; in doing ...

I wonder if pop science has something to do with this... so in presenting science without the equations, writers make it look like science does not ne...

See my last post. First, do the work so that you know what it is you are simplifying. Because that's why it might look, to those who have not done the...

Yep. But happy to extend the analysis more widely, it that helps explain what is going on. I was thinking in terms of appeals to authority - that ther...

I just watched the one n infinity in physics... it might help those who are participating in Can it be that some physicists believe in the actual infi...

Nice.

Naming and Necessity, reading group? Naming and necessity Lecture Three. Kripke, as a child, developed a formal version fo the logic of possibility an...

I blame Newton.

...and so in order to survive they migrate to the Philosophy forums. Perhaps we make the environment too comfortable.