Banno

You can do that. But what is being asked here is not if the OP is identical, but if it is the same OP. The OP has changed - what has changed? the Op h...

You've thrown an odd notion of identity into the mix. The Banno of fifty years ago is the same Banno as the one writing this post. That Banno has aged...

A bit of Selley's sealant will fix that.

Lots of Kantians out there think along similar lines. Not offered as anything authoritative - I think they are both wrong. But they are not the same.

Indeed.

We can join bits of language together in ways that are somewhat deceptive. Think about the poem about the little man who wasn't there. It has a metaph...

Yep. He was pushing back against formal modal logic. I'm not sure of the time line here. According to the forward, there were substantial revisions to...

Part one of the article is a study of some now fairly typical examples of opaque contexts. That is, contexts in which one cannot swap names around wit...

Cheers. Comes back to the confusion between what is believed to be the case and what is the case. Sometimes our beliefs are different from what is tru...

This is a complex issue. I'm still working through it. First some comments on syntax, then on semantics. Necessity and possibility quantify over compl...

So... that's an ordering in terms of time, which you say doesn't exist... Now you have moved on to identity. I grew up, over time. Your thesis is that...

It was a YouGov poll, not ABC. https://au.yougov.com/elections/au/2025 MRP Methodology

New polling I'm surprised it's that close.

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Then start a thread about Bung and Kripke rather than drop it in the middle of another thread. :grimace:

First, Physics uses modal operations throughout. Second, how is this germane? Third, no one here owes anyone else a response. Fourth, I'm not avoiding...

Alternat link: Internet Archive. This is the whole text of the book, 10.3MB

The Marcus Family site. It's been useful for years, I'm not too concerned, but do as you see fit.

Then why bother raising the topic.

Sure. How would you set these out in first order logic?

"is" in English has three interpretations in first order logic: Quantification, equivalence and predication. That's one of the problems here - it is v...

It's far from clear how to make sense of this. It is true that I was born in the past. If banno's birth is an event in the past then there are events ...

Well, no. The OP was written in the past. It still exists. Perhaps you might try setting out what you means by "exists".

Your error is to equate experience (perception?) with existence, or something along those lines. The Op was written in the past. Therefore there is a ...

Well, no. It's the OP. It was written in the past. There is a past in which it was written. There is perhaps a future in which you read this post. End...

Yep. Your lizardfish are a different, and less tasty, species to our flathead. Coal.

"...it doesn't exist now"? Your OP exists. Here is a link to it: "...as it was when it first created"? Do you mean that you edited it? Time is much mo...

But your claim, in the OP, is that time does not exist. So are you now saying that there is a past, but no time?

Hence there is a past. The OP was posted in the past. Therefore there is a past.

It's about time. What is time itself? Socrates exists in the past. On you account, there is no past for Socrates to be in, because time does not exist...

Take a look at this from the Lowy Institute. It shows trade in terms of US vs China, from 2001 to the year before last. Watch Mexico and Canada.

Take a look at this from the Lowy Institute. It shows trade in terms of US vs China, from 2001 to the year before last. (The bit about Chinese wisdom....

So far as I am aware the only thing we buy from Argentina is "flathead".

@"Wayfarer" - you probably saw this. Elon Musk's DOGE agency is at the centre of controversy in the US. So what is it? It suggests the main game might...

The 20% tariff has to be passed on to the purchaser. So US goods go up in price relative to imports to AU from other countries. So we buy less from th...

Yep. None of which implies that you never made the OP. ...so you were right to say, yesterday, that it was nine days ago, and now it is ten days, but ...

Well, make up your mind: Which is it? Does it belong in the past or is it not in the past?

The past is remembered, sure. But that does not mean that the past is just memory. If the past were just memory, there could be no misremembering. One...

If the claim is that the past does not exist, then the OP cannot belong in the past. But

How?

Yep. Exactly. Therefore something belongs in the past. Therefore there is a past. Now, what could someone mean by saying that the past does not exist?

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What does that question mean? The OP was nine days ago. Therefore something was nine days ago.

of whom? Does it make sense to ask if your memory is accurate - is it true that the OP was made nine days ago? If so, then by existential introduction...

I don't see how that addresses my question. It is not clear that conceptual schemes correspond in any helpful way with "models" in cybernetics

It is true that you made your OP nine days ago. Therefor nine days ago exists. Sure, it's in the past. Some events are in the past. Therefore there is...

I've read that thrice and still have little idea of what your thesis is. In particular, it is not clear that conceptual schemes correspond in any help...

So we agree it is nine days since you claimed time does not exist. Righto.

Curious that this is the New Emperor's approach in a nutshell. But I'll agree with your rejection of the idea of a "correct interpretation".

Be very specific here. You claimed that "absent mind, they are not worlds". Now you link this to the “thing in itself”, which cannot be known: it "mar...