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You can know stuff about the stuff about which nothing can be known? Then set out the deduction - the one that concludes "absent mind, they are not wo...

They might use different units, but you cannot conclude that our two approaches would be incommensurate. The very fact that you used our units to set ...

Yep. In some possibly world there are no minds. What's the problem?

And the manufacture and you and I understand that becasue we share the world in which time passes, and hence each have much the same understanding of ...

That clock will keep ticking even if you are not there to watch it. That's kinda the point, really. Look away and it keeps going.

The US is about 1% of our aluminium and steel exports, around $1 billion a year. But a decline in US manufacturing - becasue they will be paying more ...

China and India will happily take our aluminium and steel.

...so you might say the same thing, but badly? :wink: Your posts are a beacon of light in a sea of waffle. But that does not make them right.

Speculative physics. None of this psychologising and appeal to authority legitimises the move to mythicism you want to make. it remains that we don't ...

It's now eight days since the OP. Does time still not exist?

That'd be the measure of the passage of time. Do you have reason to suppose that time could not pass without change? Not that we could not measure tim...

But you are not advocating antirealism, you are advocating mysticism.

Straight to quantum strangeness, 'eh... Davies' view is speculative at best. It forgets the Page-Wootters mechanism, loop quantum gravity, Bohmian mec...

significant - to do with signs, hence mind. It cannot be concluded that time does not exist without minds. It's an illegitimate leap. The same problem...

But again all you have argued is that in order to know, believe, doubt, or measure time there needs to be a knower, a believer, a doubter or a measure...

Thanks. Geology was a big interest many years ago - I should do some reading thereabouts. The OP appears to be playing on a misguided understanding of...

And to a surprisingly high resolution... https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/22164722/SEI_236942592.jpg?width=1674 Towering str...

This thread's all a bit too fanboy for my taste. Russell portrayed he of the moustache as an insecure, pretentious man with a fear of morality. There'...

Only becasue you tagged me.

Cheers. Leave it there. Thanks.

So what's the problem with the electoral reforms? Independents would have a cap of $800 000 on their spending, while parties would have a cap of 90 mi...

, @"Bob Ross", I've no more to add than I did at , the contents of which I believe remains unaddressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VysUQuwu_GE Demonstrably, AE2 is wrong.

Thanks - it's been an interesting topic, your summation is appreciated. Three response. First, for my part I "think" is too broad a word to bear the s...

You think?

I give up.

Ok. Then China will win.

That's not what I was referring to. Not military power, soft power.

That's what I said.

Chinese wisdom has it that one does not start a war until one has already won. It is about to win.

Isn't that obvious? China will be ecstatic.

Yeah, but it is sound advice, especially for one's own wellbeing.

What have you decided concerning the OP?

Crikey editor Sophie Black today set out some guidelines for dealing with reporting Trump that are worth a look. Don't pay attention to what he says. ...

This may be the only way to make sense of it. There's more on modal collapse, with comments on Plantinga, in the SEP article on divine simplicity. A s...

Looking again, you may be correct. Really not sure what this says.

An interesting piece in that rag, the Conversation, suggesting the better term is a "state capture".

An old paper - 1980's? . His views had changed somewhat by the time of Truth and Predication (2005). . But Those incommensurate domains philosophers a...

Then I wasn't referring to you.

Yep. The mention of essence is a response to recent interest hereabouts, mostly amongst a small group of Thomists. A discussion of necessity here will...

Good.

Nice. Do you have the actual hard copy? Oversimplifying, Quine fusses over the sentence "Cicero has six letters", and how we can get from that to "Som...

So no. The holism in Davidson consists in our sharing the same world, and hence that whatever beliefs you have about that world are a variation on the...

Some folk supose that since everything we believe is mind-dependent, everything is mind dependent. It isn't so.

Yep. Sometimes the OP is too broad for the thread to keep to a theme. That's the case here. Too many side issues. :worry:

well, it's not difficult to translate left and right into north and south. For the rest, I'll leave you to it. I don't much care. Physicalism suits my...

well, i'll leave it to @"Sime" to fill this in.

Why not both.

Cheers. So what I am offering is not too far from the Wittgensteinian suggestion that A-series and B-series are different language games.

If you like. It comes down to the juxtaposition of idealism and realism against physicalism, realism against antirealism, in which you tend to the ide...