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On the monist/reductionist world-view: everything that has ever happened from the beginning of time to this day is truth and truth alone. Nature is Nature. Everything that exists is fact. Only truth is possible in this universe. There exists only one truth-value. Truth itself. What else? Only truth...

We could identify two completely different things and say they are one thing. I am not sure this makes them one thing. Suppose we have two different things A and B. We can come up with a symbol X and assign it the concept captured by the sentence "Either A or B". That would make both A an...

Are they in the majority the same? ARe they more different than they are the same? Why does that matter? The point is that they are the same in one particular aspect, that of identity. Again, I understand that people think this way, but is it true? I am sure it is. One has to correctly understand t...

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Дудлај га шишмише.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:59 pmAlso, why are you speaking Croatian? Is "Magnuns Anderson" a Croatian name; do you live in Croatia?

Мама ти из Хрватске, усташо балави. Само настави да гуглаш . . .

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:51 pmAre you doing any therapy? You seem really angry? And contarianism is stupid way to learn stuff.

Напушиш ми се курца, пичкетино смрдљива. Јебем ти дебелу ружну маму која те направи таквог јадног и бедног у све говњиве рупе.

And Johns 7 years before might be even more different from John now than those two different cats are from each other. Yet we tend to think they are the same. Not partially the same, but identical. The same person, who how has some different aspects. This implies that there is something beneath the...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:45 pmIdiot.

Јебем ти матер у пичку, мајмуне.

Skepdick wrote:You just can't seem to stop projecting; and confusing the description with the described.

Go away, clown.

it like calling one cat 'cat' and then calling another cat 'cat.' Two different things with the same label. There are different in SOME but not ALL ways. There are ways in which they are the same. And the word "cat" denotes one of those aspects. They are both cats. It's not a mere mental ...

Dontaskme wrote:no individual, standing alone, can ever be moral or immoral

Nah.

When has it changed enough to not be the same? That is established by the meaning of the symbol "The Ship of Theseus". I doubt most people would go with you on that last one. John was a homosapien and for most no longer being one would make John no longer John. Transhumanists might go alo...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 3:05 amSeriously, suggest you read this re Hume;

Typical Prismatic.

At what point has one changed to not be the same? If you marry, have kids and change jobs, are you the same person/thing? That's the Ship of Theseus issue. Do note that the question is not "If John changes his profession, would he be the same?" The question is "If John changes his pr...