It isn't a bad name, it seems to me, if the idea that only the present exists from the perspective of an agent can be given a reasonable sense. The se...
This is not quite what I was arguing. I wasn't contrasting the language of pure mathematics with the language of ordinary experience. I was rather con...
It's not so much that B Series reduce to A Series but rather that the conception of time involved in B Series descriptions of events abstract away (fo...
I don't think GR supports eternalism anymore than the special theory of relativity (STR) does. One reason why STR can be taken to support eternalism o...
I think this objection only properly applies to some strong forms of presentism -- e.g. Augustinian "knife edge" presentism, maybe. Weaker forms of pr...
I don't know; I'm not familiar enough with Leibniz's metaphysics. I wouldn't go as far as saying that picking a point in time is actually picking an e...
Yes, if what is being denied under the label "relative time" is the intelligibility of the idea of an absolute positioning of events in time, then the...
I assume you mean "(regional) gravitational collapse(s)" and not global collapse. Yes. The maximum entropy of a system isn't supervenient on its actua...
I am not sure why the worm theorist ought to be committed to that. She is committed to the temporal stages of a person being parts of that person. Tho...
According to worm theory, those future and past experiences would be experiences had by stages of yourself that are part or you now in the ontological...
What you call "opposite" often is called "contrary". Contrariety and contradiction are two sorts of opposition. Look up Aristotle's Square of Oppositi...
Did you read The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception? Gibson is the most philosophical of all the psychologists. My understanding of Aristotle's ...
But this seems prima facie false, assuming only that your existence extends both to the past and to the future (or even, only to the past). It only ap...
This model makes much sense to me, but I am not in a position to assess it against competitors. (In fact, I don't even know what the viable competitor...
First, apologies, when I said "when the temperature of the newborn star is lost...", I meant "heat" not "temperature". I was picturing the temperature...
Yes, that might have been your intent in the original post of this thread. (Your argument, back then, seemed to hinge on something like the synthetic ...
In this paragraph you enjoin us to assume that the existence of the experiencing subject is restricted to a moment in time. This is an assumption that...
Yes, this sounds a bit paradoxical when one is used to consider examples of low and high entropy restricted to systems that aren't dominated by gravit...
I would have thought that "here" refers to the location of the speaker at the time of utterance. (This is how, at any rate, I would make explicit what...
But this is just to say that the time at which you are having an experience doesn't figure explicitly as part of the content of this experience. You c...
Yes, and the worm theorist need not dispute that. But then, at a later time, you go out and see a tree in the garden. You are having another experienc...
I quite agree. But I think both the views of endurantism (closely associated with stage-theory) and perdurantism (closely associated with eternalism o...
That's because the eternalists (or the perdurantists) aren't saying that there are different conscious subjects along your world-line. You are the who...
Welcome to the forum! This note is indeed an important concession for you to make to the proponent of the worm-view, (which is a view about identity a...
As far as I know, the acoustic oscillations are a result of gravitational instabilities. Once this is accepted, you don't need a further mechanism to ...
Many of the puzzles, as well as many of the insights, were real, it seems to me. There are both deep differences and deep similarities. If you read th...
Maybe someone else, not me. I didn't touch on the issue of the arrow of time. I was only considering the intelligibility of the idea of shifting the t...
The same question arises. Relative to what is everything happening four hours earlier? You have to imagine some undetectable framework of time (rather...
Well, I was assuming all the micro-physical "events" to be shifted as well, not just the macroscopic ones. Since the entropy of a physical system supe...
Can't you ask essentially the same question about time? Anything that occurs (e.g. the construction of a house) could have occurred four years earlier...
I'll only comment on your last two questions. If what you seek to achieve is an explanation, or philosophical elucidation, of the concept of truth, th...
That would seem to be the same problem afflicting the idea of displacing the whole of space. You can shift a house 100 feet to the North. Can you move...
Yes, this issue may not be exactly on the point of this thread. But I agree with you that the reasoning is both interesting and relevant to features o...
I agree that it is a non sequitur! It is Weinberg's non-sequitur. It is a non sequitur because there actually are lots of reasonable explanations why ...
Which is precisely why you must seek some deeper reduction base -- a more "fundamental" theory -- in order to disclose at least one of the multiple "a...
The Maxwell equations don't constitute a reduction of the four laws that you mentioned in anything like Weinberg's sense of reduction. That's because,...
Steven Weinberg uses the phrase "autonomous law" in "Two Cheers for Reductionism", one of the two book chapters that you enjoined me to argue against ...
It's not generally the case that the empirical concepts that figure in a theory already were in use prior to the development of the theory. This would...
Sure. In that case you can't achieve reduction through appealing to a more fundamental theory that regulates interactions between smaller material con...
Well, yes. The classical theory of electromagnetism indeed incorporates its mathematical expression in the form of Maxwell's equations. Thank you for ...
You were postulating that your question regarding the autonomy of those laws was being asked in 1835. One would have to look up what the status of eac...
This complaint is rather fuzzy. In what way should the sense of the word autonomy "include instruments and experimental set up"? Each theory has its o...
That's not true. I took some pain to explain the sense in which individual laws can be said to be autonomous relative to the laws that govern the inte...
You often present alleged examples of reduction, which I then proceed to analyse. You then ignore my analysis, ask more rhetorical questions, and then...
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