OK. But I consider those question-begging statements and so not valid objections to what I’ve been relating. — AJJ
You don't understand what question-begging is, really. — Terrapin Station
It seems to me that in essence your arguments take this form:
Premise: You’re wrong.
Conclusion: I’m right. — AJJ
Properties are characteristics of matter and matter's dynamic relations (always-changing structures) with other matter. — Terrapin Station
You said the above in reply to points that weren’t even about properties. — AJJ
Aristotle and Parmenides? No wonder you're in such a mess here. — Terrapin Station
The universe stayed the same. — TheWillowOfDarkness
Agreed. That's how it is the same universe.
If we had another universe, then we would have two things and there would not be the one undergoing change. — TheWillowOfDarkness
The salient point of our disagreement is that I don't believe you are capable of offering a coherent account of what it could mean to say that possibilities are non-actual and yet are concrete facts. — Janus
But something has stayed the same: the universe. — TheWillowOfDarkness
I never said otherwise, — TheWillowOfDarkness
Clearly not, we are talking about something. — TheWillowOfDarkness
The problem is that the brownness of a yellow banana doesn't exist in any manner prior to it being actual, and saying that it does is incoherent. — Terrapin Station
A change is always a song sung by the same, it's an event performed by something which is the same. — TheWillowOfDarkness
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