Sat 22 Apr, 2017 12:52 pm - I think you are overlooking structural difference. If there is structural difference, then a difference is there, just that it might not be relevant in a context.
But that has nothing to do with... (view)
Sat 22 Apr, 2017 11:37 am - I think you were replying me.
Laws do not make sense only in a way that our knowing or not knowing does not affect the way things works.
But it helps us to discern things. I tagged it under... (view)
Sat 22 Apr, 2017 11:24 am - Yes, dale:)
Is it that "carbon" is to be considered a set of all elements that contain and only contain C atoms.
Or it refers to C atom(s).
If it is the first one, then, yes, diamond... (view)
Sat 22 Apr, 2017 10:15 am - I know how it happens:)
My question is related to Law of Identity.
If "diamond is carbon", then all the properties of diamond should be same as carbon, and hence, coal.
It is not true.... (view)
Sat 22 Apr, 2017 09:49 am - What are the philosophical grounds for holding or not holding that a combination of particular entity, is the entity itself?
For example, is diamond carbon? And coal, also carbon? Then how can the... (view)
