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I tried to use many words, so let me try using fewer: • “solar eclipse = sun gets darkened” is only appearance, not reality. • “lunar eclipse = moon gets dark

by svat 7y ago

I tried to use many words, so let me try using fewer: • “solar eclipse = sun gets darkened” is only appearance, not reality. • “lunar eclipse = moon gets darkened” is both appearance and reality. (I can guess what the response is going to be: either “that's not what ‘eclipse’ means”/“why care about that?”, or “but the sun does get darkened, as viewed from earth”. Thus the conversation goes in circles. Really I should stop; I've said all this already.)

lisper 7y ago
No, my response would be that when something "gets darkened" the mechanisms by which that can happen depend on whether the thing "getting darkened" is a source of light like the sun, or merely a reflector, like the moon. But both phenomena are fully fledged components of reality.