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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. (...
March 27, 2021 at 02:42
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...
March 26, 2021 at 18:21
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...
March 26, 2021 at 08:07
Agreed. Stoicism, Daoism, and Buddhism all have the "accept the things you cannot change" side of the equation right. In practice their practitioners ...
March 26, 2021 at 07:57
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...
March 26, 2021 at 02:58
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"...
March 26, 2021 at 02:55
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...
March 26, 2021 at 01:03
I do agree with a lot of Stoicism, though I'm not sure I see the connection of that to this topic. Can you elaborate on the connections you see?
March 26, 2021 at 01:00
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...
March 26, 2021 at 00:59
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...
March 26, 2021 at 00:20
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,...
March 26, 2021 at 00:15
What is (logically) possible or impossible is knowable a priori. Since something does exist now, it is clearly possible that something exists. If ther...
March 25, 2021 at 23:38
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 ...
March 25, 2021 at 23:20
Still not following. I'm not gonna watch almost 2hrs of video to get your point here, can you summarize for me?
March 25, 2021 at 19:59
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...
March 25, 2021 at 18:30
Absolutely not, and I don't se what that has to do with the topic. Nor this.
March 25, 2021 at 18:27
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 ...
March 25, 2021 at 18:26
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...
March 25, 2021 at 08:24
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...
March 25, 2021 at 07:15
If you substituted something like "realized" for "actualized" in there, that would be fine. The actualist believes that talk of "possible worlds" is j...
March 25, 2021 at 07:06
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'...
March 25, 2021 at 03:25
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...
March 25, 2021 at 03:25
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...
March 24, 2021 at 20:14
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...
March 24, 2021 at 20:08
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...
March 24, 2021 at 19:34
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...
March 24, 2021 at 08:20
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 ...
March 24, 2021 at 07:20
Because there is no possible world at which there is no world, regardless of what it means for there to “be a possible world”.
March 24, 2021 at 03:51
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...
March 24, 2021 at 02:31
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...
March 24, 2021 at 01:00
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...
March 24, 2021 at 00:28
...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...
March 23, 2021 at 23:19
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...
March 23, 2021 at 22:56
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...
March 23, 2021 at 22:53
I recognize that there is a descriptive and prescriptive facet to everything, and that they are abstractions from a single experiential-behavioral pro...
March 23, 2021 at 22:30
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...
March 23, 2021 at 22:30
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...
March 23, 2021 at 08:28
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
March 23, 2021 at 07:16
There is no possible world at which there is no world, therefore the existence of something is logically necessary.
March 23, 2021 at 05:09
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...
March 23, 2021 at 02:02
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...
March 22, 2021 at 22:55
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...
March 22, 2021 at 08:21
I don't know what you mean by "follower", but I know about the theory, yes.
March 22, 2021 at 06:37
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...
March 22, 2021 at 03:17
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...
March 21, 2021 at 20:10
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March 21, 2021 at 19:43
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...
March 21, 2021 at 19:19
This reminds me of something I just said in another thread yesterday:
March 21, 2021 at 19:07
No, that's quite the opposite. Consider for example recognizing neurodiversity, as in, the non-defectiveness of autistic (etc) experience patterns. Th...
March 21, 2021 at 19:03
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...
March 21, 2021 at 10:50