RE: Argument from perpetual identity against naturalism.
March 16, 2013 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 12:00 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 16, 2013 at 2:17 pm)genkaus Wrote: ...take the example of the ship, while it would be correct to say that its identity is changing continuously due to the passage of time, such changes are minor. So we regard certain main features of the ship as its identifying features and consider any new changes as being continuously integrated into its identity.You mention identifying features. How do you identify features unless those features already exist awaiting to be identified? Or to put it another way, how can humans recognize patterns unless the patterns already exist?
