When you say "The dog is black" you assign the property of blackness to the dog. Well, you have just said that an object (Goldbach Conjecture) both ha...
A proposition, whatever its exact nature, assigns a property to an object. So propositions are inseparable from identities of objects. You still haven...
But what is a proposition? It is a statement that assigns a property to an object. So when you deal with propositions you can't avoid dealing with obj...
By asserting this contradiction you are also asserting an object ("it"/weather) has the property of raining and does not have the property of raining....
So at the beginning of the experiment the two photons are not identical because they have at least one different property - position in space: one is ...
So please give me an example of a contradiction, and we'll see if it violates the identity of some object. It might help if you explained the reason w...
But an appearance or representation is still identical to itself, no? An appearance of a triangle is an appearance of a triangle, not an appearance of...
When you claim that object X has property P and object X does not have property P, you violate LNC by holding both the proposition "object X has prope...
By the principle of identity I mean that an object is identical to itself: that it is what it is. That's what this principle has meant since ancient G...
Do they say that an object is not what it is? That an object is not identical to itself? And do they say that it is true that there is such a case? If...
Logic is fundamental to reality in the sense that every object in reality is what it is and is not what it is not. In other words, every object in rea...
We might also define "entity", in the most general sense, as something that has an identity, that is, something that is identical to itself and differ...
Yes, this is how I see the relationship between logic and (empirical) science too. Logic defines all possibilities while empirical observation, that i...
And do you know the difference? You didn't explain it. If you regard as "physical" only the world we live in, then I already said that Euclidean space...
I don't know. If the axiom of choice is consistent with Euclid's axioms then there can be a Euclidean space with axiom of choice. If the negation of t...
I think that our space is probably quantized, as suggested by contemporary physics. In that case there seem to be no measurable perfect circles in our...
If our space or at least some part of it is continuous and flat then it contains perfect circles. A perfect circle is simply the set of all points in ...
I guess the circumference of a circle was just as many times longer than the diameter before the discovery of irrational numbers as it was after the d...
How do you know that the other possible combinations don't exist too? Because you can't see them? Surely the existence of something doesn't depend on ...
If there are concrete circles then I see no reason to deny that there is also the abstract circle. If there was no abstract circle then it seems there...
It is some tens of milliseconds. At least that's the time scale on which consciousness exists, according to neuroscience. The "present" is simply what...
Here you go: So are you the impulse or not? So what? It doesn't matter how complicated the causal system is or whether it contains causal loops. It mu...
So now you are making an irrelevant distinction between impulse and you, while previously you said that impulse is you. An impulse in general is a cau...
You're just muddying the waters. A freely willed action should be intentional, and in order to do an intentional action you need an intention, which i...
What is incoherent about my model? It is you who assumes some kind of homunculus self who can resist his own impulses, his own intentions - intentiona...
You said it yourself - the impulse is you. I don't claim there is any "homunculus". You are the impulses, including the intentions, that cause your ac...
You need an impulse in order to resist an impulse. Don't forget that intentions are impulses too. If you want to do an intentional action, you need an...
Your choice is caused by your impulses and since you can't choose your impulses, your choice is caused by something you have not chosen. In this sense...
What follows is that all your actions are ultimately determined by that which you have not freely willed. So they are a matter of luck. The individual...
Ok but since you don't create yourself, even the actions that are caused by this impulse are ultimately caused by something you have not created. I do...
In order to do a supposedly freely willed action, whether physical or mental, you need an impulse or intention to do the action. But you can't freely ...
You need the impulse to be concerned about these things, think about them, work on them, and the ability to successfully carry out and sustain these a...
So you need intelligence or talent - luck. You need the right ideas or insights to occur to you - luck. You need to get the education or training and ...
So what is the most important factor in getting wealth? Willingness to work hard? For that you need to have sufficient mental or physical energy - and...
The problem is that much of wealth creation and distribution is based on luck. In order to gain wealth in a market economy you need to have the condit...
In the theory of relativity, simultaneity has no meaning without a frame of reference, just as speed has no meaning without a frame of reference. Yes,...
But the words have no meaning without the frame of reference, just as speed has no meaning without the frame of reference. Simultaneity and speed have...
No, in the context of special relativity it is meaningless to say that X or not-X is true unless you specify the reference frame in relation to which ...
I see no reason why two objects couldn't have the exact same velocity. Of course, velocity is relative too. Two objects can move at exactly the same v...
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