VQ> What I
>say is: once you accept the distinction between continuants and
>occurents, some of these definitions of avalanche speak of continuants,
>some of occurrents. So the question 'is an avalanche an occurrent or a
>continuant' is ill-posed, since one does not know what you are asking
>about -- the mass of snow or its falling. Once you do *not* accept the
>distinction, the question is even more ill-posed. (01)
If I am investigating what can be a continuant or an occurrent - can I not
ask whether, when I am looking at an avalanche (whether there is any
definition or not), it makes sense to talk of there being with a continuant
or an occurrent or both - and how do I decide this. Say, for example, there
cannot, in principle, be an avalanche occurrent, then it does not make sense
for me to talk of one. What I would be interested in is some explanation of
what these principles are. (02)
As Bill has noted, the question is not semantic, but metaphysical. (03)
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>needed
>
>Chris Partridge wrote:
>> vQ,
>>
>>> I think the question of whether an avalanche is a continuant or an
>>> occurrent is ill-posed,
>>
>> I think there is some circularity here.
>>
>> I am assuming (a thought experiment) where one is present at something
>that
>> people tend to call avalanches, and asking what exists.
>>
>> If one accepts the continuant/occurrent distinction then one could
>> reasonably ask (as I did Barry) whether he thought a continuant or an
>> occurrent or both existed.
>>
>> I am not presupposing, as you seem to suggest, a notion of what an
>avalanche
>> is. That is something for you and/or Barry to supply.
>
>I did not suggest what you were presupposing. I see there was a typo:
>"One you accept" should be replaced by "Once you accept". I am making a
>thought experiment as well -- *suppose* there are continuants and
>occurents as entities of two jepd categories. I do not say there are.
>
>>
>> I am happy if you want to take both your definitions below (call them
>> avalanche#1 and avalanche#2 if you wish). This means that for you, these
>two
>> things exist.
>
>I recall definitions found in publicly available dictionaries. What I
>say is: once you accept the distinction between continuants and
>occurents, some of these definitions of avalanche speak of continuants,
>some of occurrents. So the question 'is an avalanche an occurrent or a
>continuant' is ill-posed, since one does not know what you are asking
>about -- the mass of snow or its falling. Once you do *not* accept the
>distinction, the question is even more ill-posed.
>
>> I am suspicious of your discussion of meanings – which are about the
>> relation of terms to the world – it is rather that exists in the world
>that
>> I am interested in.
>
>Of course. So let's go out there, you'll point at what you want to ask
>about and we may discuss. But once you ask a question using terms which
>are not unambiguous, answers you get to your questions on what there
>exists depend on how thee terms are understood.
>
>
>vQ
>
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