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Showing posts with label
shape
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Sunday, June 6, 2021
A fun little argument against four-dimensionalism
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Spinning a rigid object cannot affect its shape. If four-dimensionalism is true, spinning a rigid object can affect its shape. So, four-d...
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Monday, January 20, 2020
An argument against time travel or for temporal parts or for internal time
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Start with this plausible claim: If two objects are composed of the very same particles at the same time, then they have the same shape. ...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Shape and parts
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Alice is a two-dimensional object. Suppose Alice’s simple parts fill a round region of space. Then Alice is round, right? Perhaps not! Ima...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Inductive evidence of the existence of non-spatial things
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Think about other plausibly fundamental qualities beyond location and extension: thought, charge, mass, etc. For each one of these, there ar...
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Friday, May 8, 2015
Shape is not an intrinsic property
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(Premise) If an object can change in shape without undergoing intrinsic change, shape is not an intrinsic property. (Premise) If the dia...
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