If it entails knowingly allowing children to be sold in to sex slavery where they will sometimes be raped to death, then that is no goodness at all. (...
Actualists still use the language of “possible worlds”, and did so before modal realism existed; the novel thing about modal realism is taking that ki...
A "world" is just some state of affairs, whether you're a modal realist or an actualist. If there is some state of affairs in which nothing exists, th...
Agreed. Stoicism, Daoism, and Buddhism all have the "accept the things you cannot change" side of the equation right. In practice their practitioners ...
It sounds like you're not talking about logical possibility, which could be a source of our problem here. If something is logically possible then it's...
I think I see the connection you mean now. I only half-agree with the Stoics in their "just go with the flow and do what you're meant to do by nature"...
You said "The possibility (now) of there coming to be no possibilities (at some future time)". If there are no possibilities, then there is no possibi...
Of course I'm not going to accept a critique of an idea that isn't the one I'm putting forth. And I'm often putting forth intentionally new ideas that...
This makes me think you must still not understand what I'm saying, because it's the exact same phenomena I'm talking about in either case, just a diff...
Okay, I think I see the confusion here. In my ontology, previously discussed, I argue that what a thing is at all boils down entirely to its function,...
What is (logically) possible or impossible is knowable a priori. Since something does exist now, it is clearly possible that something exists. If ther...
It seems like you still don't understand the fundamental idea of what I'm proposing. This sounds like you think I'm talking about observing humans as ...
There'd be no death or illness for sure, but it's not logically necessary that birth be painful, so an omnipotent being could make birth painless or e...
Do you think it makes sense for a presentist to talk about a time before time, since to her no other times besides the present are real, they're just ...
Nope, because that's like saying "before there was time...". You could talk about a time in which nothing existed though, or a possible world in which...
I'm not appealing to religious texts at all. I'm not saying "some religion claims that their god ensures nothing bad ever happens". That would be a sh...
If you substituted something like "realized" for "actualized" in there, that would be fine. The actualist believes that talk of "possible worlds" is j...
So is taking into account every observation in the physical sciences. Nobody thinks we're going to actually finish doing that. The point is that that'...
That would because I'm completely unfamiliar with them, which surprises me as if they're notable I'd have expected to have at least heard of them brie...
Yeah, in this case it was my phone's autocomplete pulling the rug out from under me. So many times, I start typing a word, it gives me an autocomplete...
The usual (Lewis) form of modal realism also takes "actual" to be indexical, and so in those terms would not say that everything possible is actual. I...
If we come across one flying unicorn (that we can confirm definitely is a flying unicorn and not some hoax or something), the most parsimonious assump...
If we didn’t know for sure already that there were exoplanets, would it be less parsimonious to assume that some special circumstances occurred to cre...
I was interpreting "there being nothing" as "there being no world" at first, but when you brought up the possibility of there being an empty world, I ...
There could be no non-existent world even if modal realism were false; that why I said in my last post “whatever that means” about possible worlds. Th...
No, the building is just an illustration, a metaphor. There is a world at all because there not being a world at all is not a possibility. At every po...
Imagine a building with infinite rooms (a Hilbert Hotel if you will) representing the set of all possible worlds. An empty possible world is represent...
...no? Not sure where you're getting that from. There are possible worlds without me in them, and possible worlds with some alternate version of me in...
If the question is why the empty world is not the actual world, then the question IS why we are not in it, at least to a modal realist like me, to who...
It depends on what exactly you mean by God. It would be awesome if an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good being existed, because then nothing bad woul...
I recognize that there is a descriptive and prescriptive facet to everything, and that they are abstractions from a single experiential-behavioral pro...
From a modal realist perspective like mine, "actual" is indexical, so that question in turn becomes "why aren't we in the empty possibly world?" The a...
I like this, and it reminds me of my own take on many things. In philosophy of time I'm sort of both a presentist and an eternalist, in different sens...
I wouldn’t call myself “dualist” in the usual ontological sense: I am a strong monist (physicalist phenomenalist) about ontology. I’m not proposing th...
Glancing back at this thread nine months later, I realize that because the original function of it (that got shunted into a different thread) got dera...
It would be quite a lot of typing to state everything I know about quantum field theory. Do you have a more specific question, or want a broad overvie...
The degree of agreement isn’t important if you’re not taking a majoritarian vote (which I’m not advocating) but rather taking every individual into eq...
And broccoli, and... I remember there were two others in an old joke about the "four winds", but I can't find that joke on Google to refresh my memory...
Have you seen factory farm conditions? The conditions of nature are pretty awful too, but tell me which you would prefer for yourself: - being a prehi...
No, that's quite the opposite. Consider for example recognizing neurodiversity, as in, the non-defectiveness of autistic (etc) experience patterns. Th...
When you really get down to the physical bottom of things, everything is like waves in the ocean, patterns of energy density propagating through media...
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