Most other philosophers who see any worth in SR or GR seem to motivate the notion that the central lesson to be learned from said theories is their st...
I anthropomorphized nature but nature is objective EVEN if you can never figure that out. Just classical existence realism. If we deny that then we mi...
@"noAxioms" Call it the 'being a part of the same reality' relation. Given I don't have a better name for it. Or the 'co-existence' relation to distin...
Yes, nothing vanishes in either model. . . so to make them a consistent holistic whole they need to ALWAYS be aware of each other. Nature abhors a del...
Then make it suited! There are individuals such as Barbour and Bertotti who motivated a modified Lagrangian to roughly replicate in a proper global di...
Except that's just the language used. This is the problem when discussing this as is the case in every branch of philosophy that the language used has...
Not unless you inevitable added in action at a distance in some form. You have to as that is the end result of many forms of spatial anti-realism, rel...
Yes. . . and that makes them a presentist unless they are some Newtonian eternalist which is possible. It would just be a form of eternalism or spacet...
In context, I was saying they don't have to resort to postulating the existence of all future and past states of the universe because they have a phys...
. . . because they are saying that nature can demarcate objectively between what is real and not real merely by virtue of whether it's in the supposed...
Even better then, makes my job easier, the notion of a frame of reference makes use of something presentism doesn't have in its ontology to begin with...
An absolute frame of reference is typically conjoined with a form of presentism or at least its implied to be so. Then ascribed the purpose of yieldin...
I.E. its a conceptual game of identifying 'gaps' in a systemic series of abstractions with governing rules then giving that 'gap' a new symbol as well...
Exactly! It's interactions with its environment are clear but its locality or other such properties which are not merely tagged on by virtue of our me...
I didn't say its mind independent, I said it was an example of a monadic property. So your arguing against nothing here. If you want to be pedantic th...
Which is irrelevant. Is it grammatically the case in ordinary language that we use the word color to ascribe a relation or property? Technically, your...
. . . but then after you've spent your time astray in the vivid forests of the coming age I can't bear to ignore the other poor creatures stuck in thi...
So is living but I haven't gone back on my promise to myself to continue on since two years ago. There is too much to learn and change than to be some...
Use a different example of a possible monadic property that you can ascribe time to. A quick example would be color. Maybe the spin of a particle beca...
It's popular is the point. If it wasn't then I feel I'd see esoteric language from the purview of process philosophy or organicism used more often des...
Those are relative changes not monadic ones. You can undo them or even make them disappear as if they never happened by just being in the same referen...
. . . or just language. Ergo why others seem so afraid of spatialized metaphors for time and the supposed problems they can create. Out of mere concep...
Relative to what!? Motion is relative to other bodies says most every physicist and on a practical level a great many philosophers on the topic matter...
There in lies the trouble. However, it gets even stranger if you flip this in the opposite direction to see what comes out even if rather unnatural. I...
Exactly! That is sort of the reason I'm trying to be better about being too dissuasive about esoteric philosophies because they may be implying someth...
Moving past your sarcasm. . . your going to speak something and with that have the biases or blinders on from the central concepts you have as axiomat...
To a descriptivist their 'ontological tissue' is just the patterns and connections there in that they see fit to categorize with each other as signifi...
I'll phrase it differently then. If I put a gun to a pyrrhonian skeptics' head all of a sudden they aren't so skeptical and handwavy in many of their ...
A clarification and explicit declaration of the sorts of things that you are using to be skeptical of being 'ontological connective tissue'. The peopl...
Technically, those are mathematical definitions which are not the same thing as the 'ontological' connecting tissue of the universe they refer to. An ...
Except those books or lectures don't actually usually address the interpretational issue regarding it. Usually, they actually feel its irrelevant to t...
@"Darkneos" You don't need a money or a degree. . . you need an internet connection and the will as well as the desire to dive into this. Here is a pd...
Then challenge yourself to actually figure it out. That way these conversations can go way easier. I'm going through the process right now to finish m...
Why should that stop physicists from proposing them as lacking intuitive physical properties if they are as un-fathomable as you say they are? That wo...
What is the actual problem. Its just a different language choice. The Human language is really adept at treating verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs jus...
It's a common enough notion. It's linguistics such as book linked or here, by psychologists, and of course philosophers who really just point out this...
As an article I found on JSTOR talking about the language problems of process philosophy says, For whitehead it would be a conceptual and reality base...
Again, there you are not giving any information on the kind of language you use and whether it could influencing your conception. You have to use a la...
What is extended and what is temporal? What metaphors/analogies do you use and do you understand their limitations and errors? Until you are absolutel...
Can I bump my foot up against it? I can't. . . then it's not exactly material in the traditional sense of the word. This was well versed and known far...
Nor would a philosopher ever figure it out either if they don't understand, just as many physicists, the difference between talking about something in...
I don't want to be that kind of person but what does it mean to say it does or doesn't exist? Are you talking about existence as coincident with physi...
Definitions are built on either axiomatic fiat symbolic reference or reference, through symbolization or metaphor, to other base notions/concepts/expe...
Anyone can give a definition of blue its only you who has a problem with certain definitions with blue and may be unhappy with any of them so he throw...
That wasn't a scientific definition of blue. I was just listing what things pop to mind and therefore are related to what people understand the concep...
Could you not be so vague? Blue is difficult to define. . . but it has to do with certain brain states, wavelengths of light, biological/physical inte...
That is because you fail to actually define 'spatial' or 'temporal' so that is part of the problem. As regards 'i', that is how all of philosophy incl...
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