What does the use of these terms have to do with the law of identity? You seem to be saying that "equal" is a suitable term in relation to the law of ...
There can be a difference; it depends how the terms "equal" and "the same" are being used. But the terms "equal" and "the same" can also be used synon...
Since the retraction of your OP statement that those with little to no empathy (again, what's the cutoff and how is it decided?) deserve their own mor...
Not at all. You said in the OP: The fundamental rule can apply only to moral agents. If psychopaths are excluded from being moral agents, then the fun...
The "killer blow" is that you have excluded 1% of the population from consideration for being "qualitatively different": "Psychopaths are not outliers...
I never said that "statistics is impossible with categorical data". However, if it's categorical then it's not a matter of statistics or degree. What ...
Then your assertion of the OP: "Even the nearest to a fundamental rule -- do not be a hypocrite -- is not objective but statistical" is false. The nea...
To which "error" are you referring? It's not just a typo; it appears to impact your argument that the fundamental rule of hypocrisy is statistical rat...
I did not mean to be dismissive. I am genuinely interested in what you mean by "false practice". Re: exoneration, if I were able to forgive myself for...
Agreed, but it it's your oxymoron, not mine. As you stated in the OP: This "statistical" argument is the only one you appear to offer for why the fund...
What is a "false practice"? What is the "intentional construction" of them? Exoneration by who? I did not mean to imply that we are not acculturated f...
Firstly, I get the sense that's not how morality works. We, as a social group, don't agree - or, at least, we aren't acculturated to accept/believe - ...
To add to my previous rushed response, even if we admit that one gains the ability to remember and compare colours, it is unclear how or whether this ...
I find it unclear what 'virtual' or 'malleable' are supposed to mean here. It seems like an effort to negate the multiplicity of social groups in favo...
I prefer the Wittgensteinian view that colour samples have a function similar to (or equivalent to) that of grammatical rules. The ability to remember...
I tend to favour the ability hypothesis mentioned in the Wikipedia article, which is that Mary gains knowledge-how rather than knowledge-that, namely,...
Are you implying that there are no longer any social groups, or that individuals belong to too many social groups such that those groups no longer mat...
Why not? The child will later be (later become) an adult, just as some metaphysical ideas will later be (later become) valuable, as per your own examp...
Yes, but the ideas were previously inside of metaphysics, according to your examples. Your assertion was that any ideas inside of metaphysics "will ne...
If something that was once part of metaphysics is later found to have value, then you cannot say that metaphysics is "all of the ideas that will never...
If some fields of knoweldge were previously "removed", "stolen" or "annexed" from metaphysics by "more rigorous fields", then some ideas that were pre...
Before this discussion exits to oblivion, I just wanted to add the (now probably rhetorical) question: What does motion mean in Eternalism? Eternalist...
Hi @"fdrake", yes that all sounds about right. Yes, and since each 3D temporal part exists at its own spacetime location, then no part can move to ano...
Bloody hell, I know that. I'm trying to get you to disavow motion of a 4D object in the fifth dimension. But then you'd have to actually address my ar...
You said: "It doesn't go away because you like to think of the hypersphere as being compromised of a plenum of 3D spheres". I think you meant "compris...
Yes, I suspected that you might make this move. It's quite a departure from what you said just a day or two ago: But I guess thinking of them as "a pl...
No, I'm correcting you where you said that the 4D object "sometimes moves" wrt "its own temporal axis". I never asserted this. And you have identified...
What? You have said both that a 4D object "sometimes moves" wrt "its own temporal axis", and that a 4D object "moving wrt the 4D universe would be mov...
Exactly, which is why I'm questioning your statement that a 4D object "sometimes moves". How is the animation supposed to work? What moves and how? Hu...
How is this not the 4D object moving wrt the 4D universe (an idea you reject)? The temporal axis is the fourth dimension. If the 4D object moves with ...
You have said that the 4D object does "sometimes move". Since you reject "the idea that the 4D object moves wrt the 4D universe", then with respect to...
You didn't say "has motion". You were apparently mocking the idea that a 4D object moves, saying it would require a "higher-dimensional space that wou...
This contradicts your earlier statement: How so? (I trust that your explanation will be about continuity of identity, rather than just saying "the gra...
The 4D shape is not moving. In what sense are the different 3D slices moving? Are the 2D slices moving? That's irrelevant if we agree to a definition ...
Basically, motion requires that an object changes its temporal position, but this does not and cannot occur in an Eternalist 4D universe. The object n...
But you say that the radius changes wrt altitude (in a 3D object) just as spatial position changes wrt time (in a 4D object). They both "change" in th...
I don't believe so. I'm saying that if there is motion within a 4D object, then there should also be motion within a 3D object, given that time is jus...
I may have been unclear. Here you are talking about motion of the mountain over time (over the fourth dimension), whereas I was asking about motion of...
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