Luke

https://twitter.com/laurenamslater/status/1241000907288072197?s=21

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3zyPEy-Po

Once again, I'm oblivious to the obvious, At least that helps to explain why my site and Internet searches returned few results. Thanks jamal :up:

Thanks, jamalrob. Are there instructions around somewhere, or can you tell me how? Is it with ?

I doubt it, but that's probably for another discussion.

I don't wish to interrupt the current exchange, and perhaps the discussion has already moved on, but Google defines an intuition as "the ability to un...

Sounds like change is "apparent" either way, which is a good basis for an intuition. What basis is there for the intuition of permanence?

In 1, why is it not "and permanency is an illusion"?

What question?

I'm now convinced: chairs don't exist and we should stop teaching children about them.

You're saying that words grow on trees?

You've said that "the concept and the object are one and the same thing" and that "both...are created by the application of boundaries". Apples and or...

1. Apples and oranges are created by the application of horticulture. 2. How is the concept of "boundary" created by the application of boundaries?

Let's just say you implied that time has a direction, or that there is an arrow of time, if you will. How is this consistent with your agreement that ...

You implied that time has a naturally preferred directionality when you stated that we remember the past and not the future, which "follows plainly fr...

Whether a novel or a book or the world is static or dynamic is not the right question. Let's assume that the world is static, as per Eternalism. Then ...

I am only trying to get some acknowledgement from you and others in this discussion that Eternalism entails a static world devoid of any temporal flow...

Except that there is actually no motion according to Eternalism. I would imagine that it's much easier to explain why we perceive motion if there actu...

Then it must also be an "unfortunate" choice of words when Miller describes the B-theory of time as "the view that the world is a static block of even...

It's unclear to me what the illusion is that you are referring to. What 'movement' is going undetected? What 'movement' would be detectable if "people...

All you have stated here is that all points/moments in time exist. You have offered no account of why we apparently move in time from one moment to th...

Right, that was in response to your statement that entropy has implications for memory, which I viewed as merely avoiding the larger issue, which is b...

I'm not talking about physical law here; I'm talking about whether things can evolve and change. This is not about Darwinian theory, but more generall...

So you accept that "Eternalism...is a static view that rejects temporal flow...and change." Could you explain how that is consistent with your earlier...

Then I take it you agree with all of the following:

I'd be happy to read any articles by these other professors that provide an alternate definition of Eternalism, if you can direct me to them?

No offence, but I think I'll take the word of the associate professor over yours.

According to the Kristie Miller article cited in the OP, the difference between Presentism and Etetnalism is not only their differing views on existen...

My apologies for the lack of clarity. I guess what I'm getting at is that we have dynamic accounts for how memory and other bodily functions work (neu...

Okay then, how are events 'made present' for a cognitive entity, such that they have a relative past to remember? I'm finding it odd for an eternalist...

This seems to assume that "entropy works" in a dynamic way with a moving present moment, and that we are able to remember past times but not future ti...

Why is it not the direction of decreasing entropy? What difference does an arrow of time make in a static world?

I can only refer you to the first article cited in the OP which I quoted that says otherwise.

Except that an arrow of time assumes a dynamic world?

I appreciate that Presentism has many problems of its own, but it always amazes me that proponents of Eternalism so readily accept the static, motionl...

How can one know what a door is, without knowing what a door is in the first place? How can one know how to ride a bike without knowing how to ride a ...

This is equivalent to saying that "what we experience as the present moment" is not really the present moment, because it "has in fact already passed"...

I would note that others have defined the present moment differently, as the moment consciousness is present minus the brain processing time of approx...

I think we're both saying something similar or the same: you say the present moment is the time of reasoning, whereas I say it is the time of consciou...

The presumption seems to be that the *real* present moment is the time of consciousness (or the time at which we find ourselves conscious) minus 300-5...

Everything is flux, as Heraclitus rightly noted, including rivers and men. Despite that, we continue to refer to the Amazon River as 'the Amazon River...

Rubbish. What does "in an absolute sense" mean here? What "instances" are you talking about? You said: "we use language and therefore "play language g...

Likewise.

Well, it's my "reasoned opinion" that you are completely wrong about Wittgenstein.

I see. I must have misunderstood when you said:

I don't suppose you have any specific references, other than his entire body of work?

You appear to have missed the point. A definition of the law of identity gives its meaning, yet it is your claim that no two meanings are the same or ...

It's a shame that your use of the word "same" cannot be identical to Aristotle's definition, by your own argument, since he lived so long ago. I wonde...

Where does he talk about this? What is "usage" (as opposed to "the origin of usage")? How and where does Wittgenstein reject "the status quo of langua...