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Showing posts with label intrinsicness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intrinsicness. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Punishment and presentism

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This seems a bit plausible: It is unjust to punish someone for a feature that is not intrinsic to them. If presentism is true, then havin...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Presentism and the intrinsicness of past tensed properties

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Many presentists think that objects have past-tensed properties. Thus an object that is now straight but was bent has the property of having...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Holes and substantivalism

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Suppose substantivalism about space is correct. Imagine now that the following happens to a slice of swiss cheese: the space where the holes...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Presentism and Epicurus' death argument

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Becoming friendless is a harm, even if one does not know that one's last friend has just betrayed one. Likewise, one is harmed w...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Substance and intrinsic properties

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A standard necessary condition for a property P of a substance x to be intrinsic is the loneliness condition: x could have P with...
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