Comment on [Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We?

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:24:58 GMT

An event (a point in spacetime) is really objective wrt time: that is, it is outside of time. The ordering of two events is also objective.

The matter of where we are in time - and therefore, whether an event is in our past or in our future - is constantly changing as time flows. It is not a time-objective fact about an event that it is in our future, for tomorrow it will be a fact about the same event that it is in our past. So these facts about an event are subjective: they depend on when in time you are when you are making the judgement.

Disagreeing with this seems like saying the word "objective" should mean two different things in the two above paragraphs. Which is apparently what almost all big philosophical arguments reduce to. Sigh.

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