According to theory of relativity, time is a kind of space. That seems to explain how time may exist within a larger, timeless reality. Time itself is...
Space is just one of many mathematical objects and all mathematical objects exist in mutual relations of similarity, of which spatial relations are ju...
And since time doesn't pass, it's already occurring. Let's see. The simplest possible world is an empty set. Then there can be a world that is a set t...
A quantum wave doesn't look like a particle. In Bohm interpretation the wave and the particle are two different objects, but you're right that the Boh...
Not everything that seems weird to you is logically contradictory. The law of non-contradiction states that "contradictory propositions cannot both be...
Yeah, the probability cloud is pretty much suppressed in macroscopic (many-particle) objects. Still, the probability cloud is a logically consistent o...
But they cannot be nothingness or absence because nothingness or absence mean not-being. If you want to convey that nothingness is "covered" by someth...
Logic is surely useful for survival - it is useful to know that a tiger is not a sheep. It is also useful for helping your fellow man - for example by...
Not necessarily. There doesn't have to be anything contradictory about an object being in several places at the same time. For example, my desk is in ...
By "object" I just mean something, or not-nothing. And every something has an identity: it is what it is, it is identical to itself. There is not anyt...
Ok, tell me one motive without attraction. I can't imagine that such a motive exists. My doubt and worries about the properties of such a pill already...
By A, I meant any object. So any object must be limited to what it is. But if A stands for all objects, what else is there in addition to all objects?...
Interpreting A = A as limiting a thing to what we say it is would make the thing's identity subjective to us and vulnerable to our misidentification o...
Is it self-evident to you that it is your subjective perception? See, whenever you deny the existence of self-evidence, you invoke it. Or in other wor...
Is it self-evident to you that it sounds religious? But without the gentlemen's agreement, the gentlemen's agreement would still be there. What kind o...
The principles of identity/non-contradiction/excluded middle are not some optional gentlemen's agreement but necessary properties of reality, without ...
My understanding of logic is that it is an elaboration of the principle of identity or non-contradiction: every object is what it is and is not what i...
Things that don't have strength cannot influence us; they are inert. We can only choose between them unintentionally or without caring about the choic...
But why would you prioritize one end over the other? Because one seems more attractive to you than the other. So strength of motives is a factor in an...
Not necessarily. I can imagine a physical world that is the same as ours except it has no tomatoes. Yet there are tomatoes in our world. Does that mea...
Yes, it is possible to choose against our strongest motive but to me that is an unmotivated choice, namely a choice without intention. Or if I have no...
Why would influences of strength apply only within the same subset? Many objects in our world are under the influence of different kinds of forces and...
Even if an ethical concern or desire motivates us with something else than pleasure/satisfaction, it is still a motive in the set of motives that infl...
We are pushed toward the ethical by motives such as compassion, pangs of conscience, desire for rewards in afterlife, fear of hell in afterlife, desir...
All of our motives influence our choices toward what we expect to bring us pleasure (satisfaction). If we didn't have a motive to hit the targets, inf...
I would just shorten it to "That which is," where being includes not just "right now" but everywhere in a time dimension as well as everywhere outside...
But an unmotivated choice is not freely willed - it is made without care, desire or sometimes even without intention. These ends and information are t...
But we are not motivated by general concepts. We are motivated by concrete motives (which are concrete instances of general concepts) experienced in o...
Ethics and pleasure are both general/abstract concepts which in a concrete situation manifest in concrete motives, that is, in a concrete ethical conc...
Then the end is a motive that will make the person choose this end, unless the person has a stronger counter-motive. The pleasure provided to others f...
But if a motive appears only after the choice of the goal, it means that the choice itself (the act of choosing the goal) is unmotivated. Even if all ...
Yes, going to jail is highly unpleasurable but not turning himself in might be even more unpleasurable for him due to pangs of conscience or maybe a r...
Why would we choose to prioritize one of the goods? Your answer is: Because we choose to prioritize one of the goods. My answer is: Because one of the...
Ok, it depends on what satisfactions (of desires or intentions) you are willing to include under pleasure. If you don't want to call all satisfactions...
If you desire to perform an ethical act, performing it will satisfy the desire and thus bring you pleasure. It may be a different kind of pleasure tha...
Yes but there are various kinds of pleasure (pleasant feelings) - carnal, intellectual, spiritual, ethical... Avoidance of pain is a motive too, but s...
We choose that for which we have a stronger motive. There are various kinds of pleasure: from eating, relaxation, sex, watching an interesting movie, ...
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