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['Member']Joined: February 14, 2020 at 12:18Last active: March 12, 2022 at 03:52None discussions880 comments

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You're picking out the wrong thing. And yes, what does "both" mean here? We have a horse moving in 1878. We can pick out pairs of frames, but that hor...
February 13, 2022 at 06:21
Motion is necessarily what this horse did in 1878: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA ...whether the horse "exists at both times" (whatever "...
February 12, 2022 at 23:49
In what sense? The object is at (1,1) at t=1; therefore the object is at t=1. The object is at (2,1) at t=2; therefore the object is at t=2. So O is b...
February 08, 2022 at 09:43
Because it's still at (1,1,1). That didn't change. Sure. It's motion from (1,1) to (2,1). That is a change. No, I'm saying it moved from (1,1) to (2,1...
February 06, 2022 at 13:39
This was explained already. You're confusing a change in place over time with a change in place-and-time over time, the latter of which makes motion i...
February 05, 2022 at 16:12
I'll try to compress your wrongness here... Luke, you are very confused; possibly hopelessly so. Exhibit A: What the heck is an a-pixel? And what do y...
February 05, 2022 at 02:10
What do you mean by "no"? You asked me what an increase in x coordinates means in terms of space. I gave you a full specification of the coordinate sy...
January 29, 2022 at 18:36
Are you trying to ask how the coordinates are laid out in graphics? The coordinates are labeled x and y thusly: (x,y). For any a and b, (a+1,b) is one...
January 28, 2022 at 15:04
Not sure what you're looking for; if it's analogous, it's the same property. But okay. Given an ordered sequence of values v1, v2, v3, ..., vn, and a ...
January 28, 2022 at 05:50
Fundamentally speaking, you're trying to illustrate a problem with the notion of a change-over-place as opposed to a change-over-time. Your questions ...
January 27, 2022 at 16:33
We have some crossed wires here. I've shown that a change in t coordinate does not correspond to a change in color. You respond to that by trying to d...
January 27, 2022 at 04:14
But why is that relevant? O is at x,y,z,t=(1,1,1,1) and at x,y,z,t=(2,1,1,2). A change in time coordinate here from t=1 to t=2 results in a change in ...
January 27, 2022 at 03:23
t is irrelevant; it doesn't matter if you "keep it constant" or not. Banno's image doesn't change over time. What gave you the idea that it means that...
January 27, 2022 at 03:06
There's a lot of repetition here so I'm going to cull my responses down to focus. No, it refers to a change in degree of difference of the color over ...
January 26, 2022 at 22:25
I have not used that phrase in this thread. Reading through your post, the only match I get to what you might be referring to is the fact that I said ...
January 26, 2022 at 02:55
Sure. Using x,y,z,t coordinates, A=(1,1,1,1), B=(2,1,1,1), C=(1,1,1,2), D=(2,1,1,2). A to B is a change in place. A to C is a change in time. A to D i...
January 25, 2022 at 12:58
Yes. Contrast change-over-place now with change-over-time. Forget the concept for a moment and look at those those two phrases. In the phrases, what's...
January 24, 2022 at 13:10
Because it has nothing to do with the claim you're objecting to. Metaphorical motion is not motion; literal motion is motion. I repeat the question......
January 24, 2022 at 06:26
And likewise it's your responsibility to ask a sensible question, not mine. The question you asked is invalid: I live on a hill. There is a neighbor d...
January 24, 2022 at 04:27
Depends on what you want to ask, but it certainly isn't the question of how I can do what I do not actually do. I'm certainly not literally walking le...
January 24, 2022 at 02:37
Best I can tell that's illusory. I'm just calling the entire array the image, and referring to the colors of pixels at specific locations in the image...
January 23, 2022 at 23:39
That's the wrong question. Certainly you don't think when I "move from left to right", I'm actually walking on my monitor along that path, right? I do...
January 23, 2022 at 22:56
Non-sequitur. The pixels on the left of "the image" are not the same pixels as the pixels on the right of "the image". But there's not just a differen...
January 23, 2022 at 20:57
Some mugs(Ayes) are copper(Bees). All pennies(Seas) are copper(Bees). Nope. Can't drink mead from a penny.
January 19, 2022 at 12:36
You don't even understand the point (I can say that with the hindsight of reading your entire post... oh boy, is it broken). The point was an extensio...
January 09, 2022 at 02:17
I don't see how either of those things follow. If I discover a new route to work, I believe it to be a new route to work. Not even remotely a contradi...
January 08, 2022 at 13:55
Revision: In the ordinary sense (of folk language games, of the type we would play when we say "the table is solid"), "R murdered W" can only be true ...
January 07, 2022 at 17:27
Argument: Counter: In the ordinary sense (of folk language games, of the type we would play when we say "the table is solid"), "R murdered W" can only...
January 06, 2022 at 14:13
I'm not sure I understand your question. When you claim that it's obvious that thinking is involved, to what are you referring? If you're referring to...
January 06, 2022 at 01:02
I think you have this backwards. According to Isaacian theory of truth, truth is determined by community beliefs. If truth is determined by community ...
January 05, 2022 at 14:53
Sufficient to warrant Michael's belief. Michael, btw, is not a community. That is not the task at hand; it cannot be. Michael can't establish Isaacian...
January 04, 2022 at 21:43
All I'm arguing is that your notion that T is just more J fails to describe what T is in regards to JTB. How you apply that to your understanding of d...
January 03, 2022 at 17:06
But "truth" does not (generally) describe justification in the first place. It describes a state of affairs. I can describe what must the case (i.e., ...
January 02, 2022 at 18:22
Correct. The criteria for truth (for claims such as the ones being discussed) is that some state of affairs is as described by the proposition. Consid...
January 02, 2022 at 18:14
Yes. T is a description of a state of affairs. I'm having severe problems parsing what you mean here (a positive declaration, that you're arguing the ...
December 31, 2021 at 01:06
There would be if you responded to the points rather than dredging up drama. The "what I'm saying" being this?: ...that bold being yours? Are you sure...
December 30, 2021 at 18:27
The principle of charity only calls for a reading of a speaker's statement in the most rational way possible; it does not call for fantasizing. What y...
December 28, 2021 at 21:32
Here: You were very explicit not only in saying this, but in specifically saying that you were saying it. "The claim presumes x" is an anthropomorphic...
December 19, 2021 at 16:58
Maybe you're being fuzzy with your concepts? Both "it's raining" and "the actual weather condition" are asserted to be beliefs. Presumably we have "di...
December 18, 2021 at 11:36
Just slipping in here. This was considered as a thought experiment in Everett's paper "The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction"; in particular the in...
December 17, 2021 at 23:08
Rewind... we have this: Paraphrased, "It's raining" is hocus. "What's happening outside my window" is pocus. Hocus can't be pocus because I don't have...
December 17, 2021 at 14:24
Not without begging the question. What model? You've given me nothing meeting the conditions I've outlined. The flower that is not inside the box? ......
December 16, 2021 at 12:08
That doesn't explain this: If "it's raining" describes what's inside my skull, and (2) is inside my skull, and atmospheric molecules are inside my sku...
December 15, 2021 at 21:27
I think you have the wrong room. This is philosophy. The argument clinic is down the hall. Here in the philosophy forum, you made an argument tracing ...
December 15, 2021 at 18:01
There was no argument in that cartoon... just as there was no argument in the thing it responded to. The cartoon was just a way to respond to the smok...
December 15, 2021 at 00:19
Bell Inequalities are constraints on probabilities that you would expect given classical probability theory. I gave an example in another thread of a ...
December 14, 2021 at 18:12
Why? I'm not committed to a QM interpretation, but there's no rule I know of that says that entangled particles can't be separated by a light year. Th...
December 14, 2021 at 03:17
This is my takeaway from the above paragraph: https://i.ibb.co/1mv6zGj/indexing.png Your argument does nothing for me, because I disagree with the pos...
December 14, 2021 at 03:00
Your explanation in my mind is defaulting on the promises. The huge distance versus the time scale involved is simply an example of non-locality. You ...
December 13, 2021 at 12:31
Still not getting what you're saying here, so I'll punt and try my best. There are three parts to this I'll highlight with underlines: ...that is part...
December 12, 2021 at 19:19