Luke

I apologise if I have contributed to any derailing, but I must say that it's unclear to me exactly what question you are asking, or what your enquiry ...

This reminds me of the following passage from the Investigations:

To add to what Sam said, I believe this is well summarised by Wikipedia's Tractatus article, particularly in its reference to a geometric projection: ...

I believe that science (or Mary) can tell us something about how we have colour experiences. It seems that your enquiry has more to do with why we exp...

I just read the article in the OP. Fascinating stuff and a great read!

Presentism is consistent with our experience of time: constantly passing from one moment to the next, getting older. We keep track of this passage wit...

It seems that we are each referring to something different by the word "experience". I am using the common definition, while, to be charitable, you ar...

Yes, of course. Do you know of any other way to experience something? You address my concerns by complaining that I have not addressed your concerns? ...

I've explained it several times and you continually fail to address it: I find it peculiar to consider two distinct, temporally-distant experiences (e...

I thought that was the point in contention? An experience of x and an experience of y need not be a combined experience, as they can be two distinct, ...

You misrepresent the point in contention. The point in contention is whether the fact that a person has an experience of x and an experience of y mean...

Personally, I have never had a "combined experience" of two distinct, temporally distant experiences, and I'm pretty sure that nobody else ever has, e...

But the skydiving that I did five years ago and the burnt toast that I am smelling today are separate experiences and do not form a combined singular ...

And I'm asking what that "larger experience" is. You don't have some overall (meta-) experience of all your experiences; you only have the experiences...

Wasn't your distinction between having the experiences one-by-one or (being able to) having them simultaneously? Either way I have both experiences, d...

I have "both" experiences under either theory of time. But when I speak of having them "together", I mean having them simultaneously, at the same time...

I don't experience skydiving five years ago and smelling burnt toast today as some "larger experience". This would require experiencing each moment of...

What needs elaboration? You asked what it is to have two experiences without having some "larger experience," as though this were impossible. I gave t...

For example, having different experiences at different times, like smelling burnt toast today and skydiving five years ago. I don't have some "larger ...

I don’t fully comprehend the distinction between stage theory and worm theory, but they are both consistent with a 4-D block universe, and a 4-D block...

Do you mean that you didn't intend to insult me? Or are you unaware that you insult people when you tell them that you suspect they are ignorant?

I suspect that you're an obnoxious individual with no sense of humour. But tell us again how insults aren't really necessary.

That's not very nice. Corporations are people, too, y'know?

Isn't that a bit like saying that no evolution could have occurred before Darwin?

Yes. To say that humans are poor at philosophy assumes some ideal way of doing philosophy that humans are not attaining. It's like saying that all hum...

Are humans bad at music?

Is there someone/something other than humans doing philosophy?

I doubt that you are doubting your doubting.

God is said to have given us free will, unlike parents who do not give us free will. So there is a difference in the meaning of "permission" in the OP...

I think you may be wilfully blurring the distinction between ability and permission.

The mind-body problem is definitely one, but I can't say for sure whether it gets under my skin.

Possibly by producing a gestalt shift in one's perspective on philosophical problems, to break free from the "picture" that "held us captive". For exa...

It certainly is a question, but if you're unable to answer it then perhaps you should reconsider your argument.

What if there is no end? Why should that imply that the compositionality of concepts fails?

I don't follow how the compositionality of concepts fails.

How does it fail?

Okay, justify this new claim. Why are all of the opposing theories wrong? Why can't non-atomic concepts be composed? You said earlier that "some theor...

You're contradicting yourself. You said earlier: "Many theories of concepts say that concepts have lower level structures, and that concepts can be co...

I see the difference, but you said: "If concepts can be composed, then conceptual atomism is the case." You have stated that there are opposing (non-a...

Do you have no comment to make on your inconsistent statements: 1. "Many theories of concepts say that concepts can be composed." 2. "If concepts can ...

You have said both: "Many theories of concepts say that concepts have lower level structures, and that concepts can be composed. Conceptual atomism sa...

Again, I understand this, but you are just asserting conceptual atomism rather than arguing for it.

You state that "Most theories of concepts say that lexical concepts have lower levels of contents". And, like you, these other theories also claim tha...

I haven't misunderstood.

The second premise seems problematic. If lexical concepts can be composed of "lower level" concepts, then why must there be any termination to this co...

As I said in my last post, I think that you really can answer 'yes' or 'no' but it completely depends on the context of the question. There is no corr...

I think it depends on whether the people talking about the ship consider it to be the same or different, or on the purposes of some linguistic communi...