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But yesterday was a different day to today, just as tomorrow will be. Sorry @"Sime", but this might be better suited to a new discussion, as I would l...

How can it be, when B-theorist eternalists reject the reality of temporal passage?

But that passage is not real, right? Eternalists don't believe that time really passes, right? So, I want to know how motion is supposedly accounted f...

Quoting from the OP: 'The difference between A-theorists and B-theorists is often described as a dispute about temporal passage or 'becoming' and 'pro...

McTaggart's argument is that a time cannot have the properties of being past, present and future, but with temporal passage it does have all three pro...

You say that a denial of passage need not involve a denial of the past and future, but if "the state of the river is also our notion of "the present",...

I tend to agree that a true presentist who rejects the existence of the past and future would be unable to judge which time is present. However, in re...

See the OP section on The Passage of Time.

I addressed this in the OP. Presentism is not just about existence; it also entails the A-Theory and the reality of temporal passage. Eternalism esche...

What do you mean by "a preferred moment"?

How does the mug move from, let's say, your desk to the dishwasher?

Please enlighten me as to the difference between Eternalism and the Moving Spotlight theory. You seem to be implying that temporal passage is possible...

Might it be better to think of belief as an explanation of behaviour? Therefore, that the individual holds the (stated) belief is an explanation of th...

The laws of physics are not typically what we say 'causes a tendency to act as if something were the case', unless you want to try and reduce language...

I think we must do so here because 'that which causes a tendency to act as if something were the case' is something linguistic, or at least can only b...

Not sure that I follow. Can you name any cases where we talk about beliefs in terms other than 'the belief that B', where B is a linguistic rendering ...

So you agree that it is a linguistic rendering of an attitude or mental state?

As I asked, if that's not a belief then what is? Is it something that cannot be expressed in language?

I found @"jamalrob" to be quite clear: Therefore, beliefs are not pre-linguistic or non-linguistic. Unless a belief is something else?

Aging is real => Time is real

I'm not sure what you're asking me to explain, but I don't think Wittgenstein had any interest in exploring the "prelinguistic" or "non-linguistic". I...

Glad you liked the article too. At least part of the reason for my posting this was because I tend to agree with what others have said re: your commen...

I posted this in another discussion here recently but got no response. Perhaps it will find more readers here since it refers to the common thread of ...

We can.

Another great article from Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, which includes this concise summary of the Tractatus:

Yes, obviously. If what it means to "matter" is to be significant, important or consequential, then "to find some irrefutable meaning in this world" w...

Just wanted to note the contradiction or silliness of the position that the existence of qualitative consciousness might be ruled out because "we" can...

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I wouldn't consider "surviving" the game or preventing embarassment to be the point of the game of truth or dare. Why can't it just be for fun? It is ...

We weren't talking about language games, but games in general, and whether all games must contain some common essential feature. Wittgenstein rejects ...

@"nonspectraltoast" claimed earlier that "An essential feature of games is that you win or lose." Nevertheless, what about a game such as truth or dar...

Catching the ball means winning the game?

If you accept Catch as a counterexample, then what is the essential feature that all games share?

"In ball-games, there is winning and losing; but when a child throws his ball at the wall and catches it again, this feature has disappeared."

I was under the impression that unpredictability was a key feature of information entropy. The Wikipedia article on the subject states:

Do you understand what an essential feature is? You made a big fuss about sufficient and necessary features in the OP.

An essential feature of all games is to have both one player and two players?

You've listed different "essential" features for each game. Which one is essential to each that makes them all games?

"We"? I've asked you to produce this/these essential feature(s) and you haven't. Your entire argument hinges on this.

I'm trying to get you to give up on the idea that games must have an essential feature. Wittgenstein's family resemblance rejects and replaces this id...

Do you mind articulating the essential feature of all games? Maybe I'm misusing the word.

This is not analogous with the example of games. This analogy implies that non-games all constitute a family resemblance of the word "game". Instead, ...

Which words have meanings that "we haven't figured out yet"? You could always refer to a dictionary to find the common meanings/uses of a word.

If your list of features was sufficient and necessary then each game (of J, K and L) would have all three features (of A + B + C). But none of them ha...

It therefore rejects the idea that games must have necessary and sufficient features.

From my brief reading on the subject, I would find this easier to understand if it were rewritten as "novel information increases as unpredictability ...

I've downloaded some of Barrett's papers and will try to understand them, but for now I am confused. The OP seemed to indicate that we were in conscio...

Thanks for the reply. To try and clarify the intent of my question, you appeared to be suggesting in the OP that the "classical view of emotion" had b...

Can there be involuntary emotions, according to this theory?

Good, then I don't see the problem. I'm not going to play this game where I point out to you that we have knowledge (in a non-absolute sense) of what ...