@Extrain,
The two of you have to be the laziest philosophers I've seen yet. Can you give me objections to that article in the SEP?
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Fil. Albuquerque;157235 wrote:
I just did...with the "being human" example. I am still human no matter what spacetime reference frame I am in. And my being human is true across all frames of reference. Being-human is a monadic, not relational, property.
Fil. Albuquerque;157235 wrote:
Well, if it's impossible to test, then how do you know this? And on the contrary, being-human is testable, and we have found that being-human remains the same across different reference frames, no matter how slight those adjustments might be. I am still human when I am going 300 miles an hour in relation to the earth. I am still human when I am at rest in relation to the earth.
Fil. Albuquerque;157235 wrote:Its a bit like the change of your weight if earth would lose some mass, or even the moon, or the sun, or the galaxy...but its far more complicated...and of course there are counter effects that can render some of this null, but they all count for the actual exact state of affairs in the world, and for every particular nature...
STR just roughly says my mass, energy, and velocity change with the change in spacetime reference frames. But it doesn't say my being human changes with the change in spacetime reference frames. Of course, I may stop being human near a black-hole, however.