. . . but the notions of space and time factor into the identity of things and whether the notion of a 'part' is even coherent at all may depend entir...
It seems however to depend on your metaphysics regarding spacetime, the substantivalism/relationism discussion, as well as the ontological nature of p...
In asserting the above response to another poster you admitted to the coherence of the notion of God being 'non-spatiotemporal'. I.E. he exists in a f...
Yes, they are separated by something that isn't stuff. It's not-stuff. It's the void. It's an old and well respected idea because the only response to...
Depending on your conception regarding spacetime realism/anti-realism that would then make the argument dependent on spacetime realism or a form of pl...
I assert that its conceptually possible for there to be two distinct extended simples which both lack further proper parts and are numerically distinc...
I agree with your suspicion here that it really isn't as astoundingly world changing as its made out to be and contains some connection in form to oth...
So are you saying that what I linked to has no value? Are you going to submit a paper or opinion piece on your blog about the wasted efforts of each o...
According to what? You have still left this a complete mystery as to how you interpret correctly mathematical models of any given phenomenon. I think ...
Ergo, it may be rather too strong to rely on knowledge claims regarding whether we will immediately act or most probably will to then dictate our deci...
So what worth are emotional reactions then in the absence of objective actions? There is no requirement of mine to feel any strong reaction, or desire...
Your acting as if there is some clear god given manner in which you translate the math into ordinary language. The fact that we do disagree on how to ...
To what, it adds up to what? That the mathematical model is predictively successful? So you are trying to find the right terms to interpret a mathemat...
Arrogance is showing a good peak here rivaling mine. Perhaps I should be the adult in the conversation here. What are you even disagreeing with me on?...
Define understanding here as I'm curious if you have in mind what scientific philosophers have in mind when they say that we 'understand' something. I...
If it provides both actionable will and direction then I'd presume it forms a core component of the way in which one views the moral strength/value of...
Pictures of the world typically do not end up being testable or falsifiable. They are constructed after the fact to fit to the facts themselves as we ...
There doesn't have to be a consensus because it makes no sense to ask which is 'right' or 'wrong'. Nor does it make sense to ask which is 'closer' to ...
There are already ways of doing so. Documentaries and introductory textbooks make use of billiard balls moving in the void, vague fluid like depiction...
Wasn't that just philosophical ambivalence or ignorance however? A lack of creativity on the possible analogue modeling that can be done on such subje...
Isn't this just a modern rendition of the notions that the early pre-Socratic atomists had? I recall them talking about their atoms as constantly movi...
I would say it doesn't achieve that at all. Retro-causality or 'temporal action at a distance' is a part of a long history of taking the spatialized l...
Let me phrase it this way. If we are talking about things we regard as fictions and are only to be taken as fictions does it make intelligible sense t...
I can only hope that Trumps presidency will be merely a series of bad economic decisions for the country putting it further in debt but leaves us far ...
I'll give a few quotes from that book Understanding Scientific Understanding by Henk W. de Regt. As regards the discussion of intelligibility there ar...
Note that none of these philosophers talking about understanding/explanation in the sciences denies that you can define understanding/explanation rega...
Yeah, that is what the point and purpose of comparative thinking (metaphor/analogy) along with computational/concrete analogue models serve as their p...
I'm not exactly sure because a cursory examination of said book and some of the reviews summing it up seem to paint her as someone who is more desirin...
Its not a question of meaningfulness but of even playing the game of making meaningful assertions which themselves don't give some immediate pragmatic...
I apologize for the late reply. I've been struck between college, work, family affairs', and basic needs to even begin to sufficiently read into or co...
You are not wrong. There are many rather illustrative thought experiments that Einstein and others had or continue to construct which do serve a role ...
@"Nimish" The disgusting, the unlawful, lazy, and immoral parts of ourselves seem to demand for judgement. . . punishment. . . retribution. Right? To ...
@"javra" I don't know what I'd consider science precisely but months of research to narrow in on such a definition would contain many references/citat...
That is sort of why I've been speaking about it in a rather indirect manner and, if I haven't then its implied in previous replies, that the word 'sci...
I don't want to be that individual but I have to point out a worry that this all brings. What if these sorts of deranged individuals (the shooter that...
Teddy didn't leave immediately and apparently he continued doing a speech for 50min WITH it having not grazed him but gone into his chest. Then accept...
@"javra" What distinguishes a mere experimentalist from a physicist to me isn't their proclivity to accord some precise description to nature whether ...
Its a lazy and quick interpretation riddled with metaphysical assertions that aren't made explicit that they are, analogue model usage that is stated ...
I don't think you understood and I didn't make it clear enough as it was a snide remark. I want to make the point that the intellectual methods used b...
On the one hand your claim that this collecting of empirical data is 'objective' might be riddled with holes if only you got rather more specific on t...
Why not!? Something about the conversation that the knight has with what he thought to be at first a nameless servant of the faith, really in fact dea...
Perhaps the way I wrote it created a false sense of worry and I apologize for that. I can assure you such existential worries of such intensity left m...
@"BC" @"Vera Mont" I, again, appreciate the comments and advice you have given me. I just had a day off yesterday and nothing resulted despite my anti...
Your input is appreciated. I already do those things. In the two year hiatus I've taken I got a job and worked up to being an assistant manager with a...
I took that too close to heart as I still don't know what I'm doing since taking a hiatus from my education. I'm finishing up the same degree later th...
That depends on how you define Newtonian mechanics and what it means to say anything is 'Newtonian'. It can't merely be the mathematical structure as ...
Which part? That a paradigm shift resulted from a change in thinking coming from the younger generations or that a large majority of the same classica...
Depends on what you mean by Newtonian mechanics as well as whether you separate philosophical interpretation, mathematical modeling, and applied techn...
So is it purely linguistic simplicity for a particular role/purpose? I admit it can get rather tiring making explicit what senses and brain states lea...
It's easier when you don't see them as people but as mere politicians. They've always been that way. Exactly it's amazing how much the entire U.S. gov...
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