On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:07 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 3:40:53 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:13 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Is not 333’s oddness timeless? >> >> >> Category error. >> >> > > On category error: > > I've never understood "category error" [ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake ]. (Some philosopher I > read about recently gave a talk on the non-existence of category errors. > Good.) > Philosophers will say anything to earn a quid! > > *Is 333's oddness timeless? *is a perfectly reasonable question. > > To the immaterialist, the answer could be "yes". > To the materialist, the answer could not be "no". > > It all depends. > > There is a type of dualists who say 333 is one category (nonphysical) and > time (as in spacetime) is in another category (physical), but this dualism > is just mixed-up confusion to me. > That's what a category error is -- a mixed-up confusion. To say that the "number 3" is red is a category error, unless one is talking about a child's play number set, in which the wooden block in the shape of "3" might well be coloured red. As you say, whether or not something is a category error often depends on the context. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
