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Actually, I would say that the partial particular, for example the particular redness of this ball, is a concrete part of the concrete whole (this bal...

Yes, although some circularity or primitiveness in the resemblance relation may be necessary as it is in the idea of the instantiation of a universal.

Yes, the idea is to drop instantiation and replace a universal with a resemblance relation.

Yes.

No, every object is logically consistent with every other object in every universe of discourse. Do you think that a flat space is inconsistent with a...

But 'logically consistent' means 'logically consistent with everything'. Everything must be logically consistent; there can be no inconsistency in rea...

According to theory of relativity, time is a special kind of space. So you could say that the rock of yesterday or tomorrow exists in that space, just...

If there is a logically consistent definition of unicorn in a particular universe of discourse then the unicorn exists (in that particular universe of...

Well, everything exists in the way it is defined, of course. If a unicorn is consistently defined as a fairy tale creature then it exists as a fairy t...

So the property of logical consistency is "superfluous"?

Meaningless because everything has it? I would say it's just a trivial fact. The more general a property is, the more objects have it. So it seems tri...

In the most general definition of existence, which is equivalent to logical consistency in any (logically consistent) universe of discourse, it is not...

I can't imagine such a distinction and that's why I think that existence in the most general sense should be understood as it is in mathematics: as lo...

Apple has parts, so it is by definition a collection (set).

The problem may be in the fact that physical forces act only on elementary particles and not additionally on collections of elementary particles. So t...

Well, physical properties like weight reflect the subsuming nature of a collection: a collection doesn't add weight additional to the weights of its p...

The fact that the collection necessarily exists when the two coins exist doesn't mean that there are only the two coins. Since the collection is not i...

"Sum" is just a different name for "collection". If the collection is an object that is not identical to any of its parts then it is a different objec...

Ah, I see. No problem.

Joe Biden is identical to the current President of the United States - it is the same object. But if a collection is an object, what is it identical t...

So is the collection a single object or not?

If you don't have the collection in addition to each of the two coins, what is the collection then? Is it not an object? You keep avoiding this questi...

You also have the collection of the two coins, which is a third collection (the two coins being the first two collections); it's just a different kind...

If the parts exist, their collection necessarily exists too. There can be no parts without their collection and there can be no collection of parts wi...

But a non-composite object is a combination too - a special kind of combination: a combination of zero objects. It seems arbitrary to state that some ...

What is an apple then? Is it a single object? If it is a single object it is surely not identical to any of its atoms.

But if the parts themselves are collections of parts, what exists then? Only non-composite objects?

What doesn't exist only in the mind then? Non-composite objects?

It seems arbitrary to say that some collections exist and some don't. If the constituent parts are there, then their collections are automatically the...

All everyday concrete objects are sets, or collections, of other objects. Do those collections not exist? For example, does an apple, a collection of ...

Yeah, just as there is no biggest number. There is always something bigger.

Getting killed means overcoming the survival drive, which makes it unpleasant. Maybe you don't have enough pleasant feelings, because pleasant feeling...

If time doesn't flow and the future already happened, is reality superdeterministic?

Some motives you can't choose. Like, do you like certain types of food? Do you like orgasm? Do you dislike being hungry? Do you dislike being cold? Al...

The survival drive is part of your motivational makeup. You have motives to live and you have motives to die, and it seems that at the moment the moti...

So after all, even for you life is preferable to death. Which is normal, after millions or billions of years of evolution have geared our motivations ...

Now that I think about it, I am not sure that "generalized collection" even makes sense. A particular tree is a particular collection (of atoms or wha...

Well, for the sake of argument we might regard properties as thoughts or words that represent certain similarities between particular objects. But it ...

Then take as real only concrete collections as opposed to generalized collections (properties). For example, concrete trees as opposed to a generalize...

I am not using the word 'object' metaphorically but generally, as 'something'. And any 'something' is either a collection of 'somethings' or a non-com...

Structurally, a spacetime is a pure set like any other object. One of many objects in set theory or mathematics.

And where is space and time? In general, an object does not need to be in a space or in a time (and time is just a special kind of space according to ...

In set theory, ordered sets (which have members arranged in a particular order) can be defined out of unordered sets. For example an ordered set (a, b...

Ok, so in a limited (physicalist) sense you could say that extraspatiotemporal objects are not determinate, but in a general (mathematical) sense they...

A structure is a set of objects and relations between them. An ordered set is a special kind of set, and so a special kind of structure.

Well, they are not nothing and so they are something.

And a particular apple is a particular collection, so particular collections exist.

I am using the term object simply as "something". And I am saying that structurally every object in reality is either a collection of other objects or...

But I mean a concrete apple, which is a concrete collection of atoms, not a concept. Does a concrete apple subsist?

The wave function before collapse (or decoherence, as it is called more recently) indeed does not have a single value for position in space and it has...