It moves relative to time, which you would be perceiving as another spatial dimension. It doesn't more relative to something else that you're perceivi...
Not quite. The two together comprise the Law of Bivalence. Excluded middle says it has to be either true OR false. Non-contradiction says it must not ...
I think this is also very good advice. I skip even reading most of the threads here; ain't nobody got time for that. I sometimes reply to "stupid" thi...
So far as I understand, theories of eternal inflation don't claim to settle the question either way of whether time had a beginning; they just open th...
Issues with the terminology don't bother me, so if you just dislike the words that's fine (unless someone like @"Kenosha Kid" confirms it's accurate),...
In a very strict sense, every time a particle changes it is one particle being destroyed and another created, because particles moving at c experience...
I imagine the universals thing ties closely into religion: that the nominalists are naturalists and atheists, and then the Platonists are Christians, ...
With respect to time, they change their spatial position. Pick a particle. Step outside of time and look down at a 4D model of the universe. That part...
Oh I wasn't addressing that part after the quote of you to you, I was still talking to fishfry, and just quoted you in the middle of that. I figured y...
PBS Space Time has a nice easy explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kixAljyfdqU Another good (but more difficult) place to start would b...
I'm not saying anything about the definition of the word "universe", just that in a lot of contemporary physics, people use "big bang" to refer not to...
Admittedly I am not a physicist, though I think @"Kenosha Kid" is, so maybe he can back me up. As I understand it, the Higgs mechanism involves massiv...
Yes, and my principles are intended to do exactly that kind of taking the good from both sides. My principles of criticism and phenomenalism are the “...
Not that I mourn the loss of GCB, but I do feel there could be some kind of... chilling effect or something?... with the potential threat of suddenly ...
This problem can trivially be remedied by insisting that only perfect justification, the kind that guarantees the truth of something, is good enough t...
In my replies to Isaac in the same post you’re replying to, I gave my reasons for why to proceed on the assumption that there is one, and explained wh...
Just saying there is some correct answer or another is not dogmatic, when what that answer might be is completely open to question. Objectivism is not...
No, but what answer you get changes with what questions you ask. “What is the position at time t?” has a different answer than “What is the position a...
The argument isn't directly for hedonism, the argument is for those four principles, of which hedonism is only half of one (phenomenalism). The argume...
There are also paraconsistent and intuitionistic logics that can deal with propositions being either (respectively) both true and false, or neither tr...
Interesting side note: my home town was founded in part by Theosophists, and a bunch of them still live here and lots of things are named after them. ...
The 4D object spans time. It occupies multiple temporal positions, a whole continuous span of them. At one one its temporal positions, its spatial pos...
Yes. Rights in principle cannot conflict; if they seem to, at least one claim of rights is incorrect. That sounds, again, like a weird use of “objecti...
@"DoppyTheElv" This is the poll I was taking about. Bumping for your reference and to get more current data. Looks like it’s almost exactly 3/4 atheis...
I don’t know that most people here are necessarily not-theists, just that there are plenty of people who also argue against theists... although, I did...
I think perhaps you are conflating together several different dichotomies with regards to kinds of morality. I do take most of morality to be entirely...
Knowledge is a species of belief, and the kinds of things I’m thinking of (theists and other spiritualists, flat earthers, etc) often claim knowledge ...
When I first read Plato himself, I thought that was all he was on about, and agreed with much of what I thought he was saying. It’s only reading secon...
You dismiss all the beliefs people have in things they can’t see, and disbeliefs people have about things they could see if they looked at the evidenc...
At first glance I read this as a comment about there being correct answers to “human questions” that predate the existence of humanity, but on second ...
And yet plenty of people doubt it. People believe in supernatural things that can’t be empirically tested, and disbelieve things that have stood up to...
I agree with this too. What makes a forum high-quality to me is not so much the intelligence or education of its posters, but things like charity, pat...
This line suggests you’re imagining a confirmationist epistemology, which is problematic, especially since the question at hand is about justification...
Others have already explained why life doesn’t violate the second law of thermodynamics, but I do think the relationship of life and entropy is very u...
Looking back on this thread, I just noticed that all the quotes from my Codex in the OP have broken (deleted apparently) opening quote tags. I'm prett...
In contemporary inflationary cosmology, the universe isn't "everything that happened after the big bang". The big bang is just an important early even...
I don't have a comment about this directly, but I was recently searching to see if there are other philosophy discussion places on the internet that m...
NB that in contemporary inflationary cosmology, "the Big Bang" doesn't refer to a singularity at the beginning of time, but rather to the end of the i...
My principle of objectivism isn’t saying that we have direct experience of (the whole of) reality (or morality), or that all our thoughts are objectiv...
Strictly speaking no, but there is a strong correlation, as being a naturalist generally means being an atheist (unless you use a strange concept of G...
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