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So even if I clarify what I mean on the specific terms I use, you will still insist on reading them at face value? Maybe it is, but even so, I am stil...
April 12, 2017 at 14:42
Most likely that we're talking past each other, but I have tried to clarify what I meant by both sentences so what the terms I use mean normally in En...
April 12, 2017 at 06:44
Can you clarify further what "the only thing I ever experience is sitting at my computer"? Sorry, I am still trying to make sure you mean what I think...
April 12, 2017 at 06:03
Sorry, but I am afraid I still have no idea where you derive your contradiction from, and am probably as confused as you are. Maybe I haven't taken en...
April 12, 2017 at 05:31
That was an example to make things easier to understand. That was not my view or built into my P3. I am willing to initially assume in my OP that our ...
April 12, 2017 at 04:58
Well, what you were asking about happens to be the presentist position (and no, I am not saying here it is my position, in case you were wondering). T...
April 12, 2017 at 04:56
Where did I assume that? Can you quote the phrase?
April 12, 2017 at 04:53
That is literally the presentist viewpoint. Are you telling me the presentist view is inherently contradictory?
April 12, 2017 at 04:52
Let's just assume a presentist world again. There is nothing contradictory in saying the following: - My experience during the entire time I exist (wh...
April 12, 2017 at 04:48
I accept 1) and 2).
April 12, 2017 at 04:44
What could possibly not be clear about it? If my doctor asks me if I am in pain, I find myself not to be in pain at all, and I tell him I am not. Woul...
April 12, 2017 at 04:43
Have you even read my post? I literally just explained how in the paragraph above it.
April 12, 2017 at 04:37
For the last time no. If I just said that I am the temporal worm, the temporal worm that I said should have an experience of 2010 as a result of it be...
April 12, 2017 at 04:21
- Let's say that the entire duration in which I exist is limited to an instant. During that time, I am only sitting in my room and looking at my compu...
April 12, 2017 at 04:16
Huh? Of course I am not saying that the sorts of things I experience is limited to sitting in a computer, if by that you mean the types of experience ...
April 11, 2017 at 19:50
Under the worm theory, I am the entity that identifies with the entire worm. There is no other entity I can be. I said that they were inconsistencies ...
April 11, 2017 at 18:05
When I was using the term "now", I was mainly referring to the temporal manner in which we frame our experience. Earlier, you mentioned that our exper...
April 11, 2017 at 18:02
Again, I never made the statement that the 2010 joys are had by the 2017 temporal part. In fact, I have tried to make that point clear in my OP. I thi...
April 11, 2017 at 15:24
I can grant that. "Here" would refer to the spatio-temporal location of the utterance event (or alternatively the speaker of that utterance as I have ...
April 11, 2017 at 13:44
So much as I have disagreed with you, it had more to do with the restricted definition of what you want "now" to mean. What I have insisted is not tru...
April 11, 2017 at 08:00
Like? Certainly my experience of being in my room describes a complex set of experiences. My visual experience of me of the computer screen in front o...
April 11, 2017 at 06:42
Just as much as for any bank account, I own only the money in that account. But that doesn't stop me from owning all the money in every account simply...
April 11, 2017 at 06:12
I am not saying that you cannot (in face, P2. explicitly states that you must have them). I am just saying that you do not have them (or maybe you do,...
April 11, 2017 at 04:24
Maybe I don't understand indexicals well enough, but even if we were to assume that there was a present tense that attaches itself to my claims, I sti...
April 11, 2017 at 04:16
I'm in a rush right now, but I just want to say that the worm theory is an eternalist theory. The notions of "experienced", "will" and "present-tense"...
April 10, 2017 at 22:10
There's more to it than that actually. If an experience is had as part of a larger experience, then I believe that this fact should figure into the co...
April 10, 2017 at 22:06
It's easy for someone to claim that you experiencing all of your times, but do you really find yourself having all of them? I can claim that you are i...
April 10, 2017 at 19:54
I disagree. The claim that I am having an experience of sitting in my room only is simply inconsistent with the claim that I am also having another ex...
April 10, 2017 at 19:45
I think you are misinterpreting what I mean in my P3 since you seem to be emphasizing the fact that I am only having an experience "at a given time". ...
April 10, 2017 at 18:16
Hello and thank you for welcoming me. It seems that this type of response collapses to the stage theory does it not? Cause if we are going to grant th...
April 10, 2017 at 16:42
I am not saying that every part is identical to every other part, or that it is a requirement for composite objects. Certainly such a view would be cl...
April 10, 2017 at 16:38