What is important is to appreciate that the contexts ‘Necessarily . . .’ and ‘Possibly . . .’ are, like quotation and ‘is unaware that . . .’ and ‘believes that . . . referentially opaque.
A breathe of fresh air. A history over time exists whether it is recorded through human perception or not. Paleontologists discover this truth frequently. — jgill
This can be parsed as ☐∃(x)(fx) were "f" is "greater than seven". This is well-formed, since ∃(x)(fx) is complete.(2) Necessarily (∃x)(x is greater than 7) — J
The apparent parsing here is ∃(x)☐(fx). But "fx" is incomplete. The "x" is a variable, not an individaul constant. It's not that "x" could stand for anything - that'd be U(x)(fx). It's that we just do not know what x might be. It does not say that something is f, nor that nothing is f. That is, it is not a whole proposition. Hence it cannot be replaced by the p's and q's of propositional calculus, and cannot take a modal operator in normal modal logic. But the situation is more complex than that.(1) (∃x)(x is necessarily greater than 7) — J
↪Banno Stop avoiding me Banno, answer my questions. — Arcane Sandwich
So... that's an ordering in terms of time, which you say doesn't exist...For example, if I am packaging my visit to Japan 10 year ago into experience, then the arrival of Narita Airport via JAL flight would be the beginning of the experience, and then my stay in central Tokyo, visiting Nagoya and Osaka area for meeting with my friends in the cities, and then the moment of boarding my return flight would be the end of the experience. — Corvus
Now you have moved on to identity. I grew up, over time.Banno as a newborn 50+ year ago = Banno as a man after 50+ years from his birth ?
They don't look the same Banno to me. — Corvus
The model estimates there is a 78 per cent chance of a hung parliament, and a 19 per cent chance of the Coalition winning a majority. — ABC News
The birth of Banno was an event in the past which doesn't exist now. — Corvus
Well, it was more than fifty years, but I am still here.The Banno just born 50 year ago doesn't exist now. — Corvus
It existed in the past. — Corvus
It is the archive of the OP. — Corvus
Yep. Your lizardfish are a different, and less tasty, species to our flathead.And you find it necessary to use scare quotes for that? — Arcane Sandwich
Coal.You know what we import from Australia? — Arcane Sandwich
"...it doesn't exist now"? Your OP exists. Here is a link to it:Time exists, but in a conceptual form. The OP's statement time doesn't exist have different implications. The OP was in the past, and it doesn't exist now, as it was when it first created. — Corvus
I am definitely talking about time; I mentioned your OP, but now I am talking about your last post. What they both have in common is being in the past, which is an aspect of time.You have been talking about the OP in the past, but not time. What existed in the past doesn't exist as in the same state when time passed. — Corvus
We don't deny past, but we are saying the events in the past existed in the past not now. — Corvus
If there was no forum, and you lost all your memory, then you wouldn't know the OP existed. — Corvus
...so you were right to say, yesterday, that it was nine days ago, and now it is ten days, but you are wrong to say it exists.Not nine days ago as you claimed. But ten days ago now. — Corvus
It depends what you mean by "exist". Past is just in your memory. It doesn't need to exist. You are saying it exist, because you remember it. — Corvus
It belongs in the past. — Corvus
If we are good regulators then thats trivially what they are. — Apustimelogist
It belongs in the past. — Corvus
of whom?In memory…. — Wayfarer
You seem to think this relevant. It is not clear how. But it is not at all clear how you are intending to use "exists".Is it possible that you could go back to 9 days ago? — Corvus