Metaphysician Undercover

We can reduce everything to two fundamentals, matter, atoms, or particles (however you want to call them), and the relations which these have with eac...

Yeah, I think we've met on some other threads with similar subjects. Now I think you're beginning to catch on. It's just a matter of analyzing the axi...

You and I have a different understanding of what constitutes "trust". You are willing to say that if you are carrying out a business transaction with ...

Perhaps, if we could understand what he means by "care", we would understand why he would have called it that. I agree with you that there is not a ne...

Actually I think it's very important to understand the terminology. "Care" is a descriptive term, and it is used to describe aspects of temporality. S...

I don't look at this as a matter of trust. I do business with a lot of different people, many of whom I don't particularly trust, the question of whet...

The problem though is that we can do things which are untrustworthy without losing the trust of the others. That is called deception, and so long as t...

That is why, in my first reply on this thread I described two very distinct ways of using "1", to expose the ambiguity in mathematical terms, hoping t...

All you need to do is define "infinity" in such a way that you can produce them, and voila, you can produce infinities. It's a very simple trick which...

This is not really true. A company may work hard to gain the trust of customers, but once they receive it they have the customers by the balls. And si...

If "care" has nothing to do with caring then why would he have called it "care"?

This fragmentation is the goal for anarchism, being composed of people who have no trust in government. Top concern for the government would be to mai...

That's another aspect of the very same problem. I'm not suggesting that we toss any of these things out, only that we recognize that in practise all s...

Just like "t1" is an ideal, so is "t2". I thought you rejected Platonism? Do you believe in Einsteinian relativity?

Actually we haven't gotten to these questions yet. As is evident in the prior post, I think "a particular time" is an ideal, which on it's own is with...

Time t has no context. If you say "time t", "time" is said at a different time from when "t" is said, because time is passing. So time t covers a dura...

The problem is that there is no such thing as motion at time t. You might say that there is motion at an extended duration of time, and infer that bec...

It's only a problem if the small percentage of people who "own" the resources decide not to share them. then there's an immediate trickle down effect,...

We had Agustino here for a while, relentlessly defending Trump (Not seen for a while, may have evolved). But Agustino was a pale shadow of NOS4A2 in t...

What is not reasonable is to call any sort of velocity "instantaneous velocity" because any velocity requires a period of time, and "instant" implies ...

I'd answer that with simplicity sake. I'd answer that with significant misunderstanding, as demonstrated by Banno. Banno appears to be a lost soul.

What? Delta-t doesn't become zero. It "approaches zero". Can you not understand the significant difference between approaching something and becoming ...

Do you see how this notion of infinity is inconsistent with constructivism? The bigger number referred to is not something which the human mind could ...

I know there's a difference between "average velocity" and "instantaneous velocity" that's evidently obvious. However, "instaneous velocity" is still ...

There is such a thing as cordial and subdued trolling. It might even be a more effective tactic for the troll. NOS4A2 often repeats directly and preci...

So that would explain the reason for this, then: There's really nothing there, no such thing as the will. It appears as a big deception, created by th...

You're the one who changed the topic. Instead of wanting to discuss the issue, what it is that is represented by the formula they call "instantaneous ...

I explained already, the uncertainty principle demonstrates that physicists are not really calculating instantaneous velocity. Physics is wrong, they ...

I made the argument, and addressed your reference.. You rejected my argument with nothing more than "you're wrong". Sorry but it's you who has present...

Smoke and mirrors.

For example, here's what I posted earlier in the thread. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/404078

All you've done is offered two distinct definitions of "number". Under the first definition, we get a bigger number by adding a number. Following that...

To the contrary, I think logic is the only way to understand emotions. We can't make empirical observations of their causes, so we can only use logic.

I don't think anyone really understands will, it's just one of those things. There's many different ways to approach it, but you get side tracked befo...

What you mean, is that we calculate something called "instantaneous velocity", which employs a faulty representation of "instantaneous" in relation to...

If you guys don't give up your inane arguments, I'm going to have to start referencing the uncertainty principle. You wouldn't want that would you?

Nice argument Banno. Unsupported assertions are a sign of ignorance.

No matter how you look at it, "instantaneous velocity" is an average, and does not represent a moment or instant in time, in any sense of "true" repre...

I lock myself down every night. It hasn't destroyed my economy yet, and I see no reason to believe it ever will.

You seem to be one of those someones, who has been deceived by the smoke and mirrors.

Right, so what does "instantaneous velocity" mean? The website says this: " This is called instantaneous velocity and it is defined by the equation v ...

It is how Aristotle described it, and you don't seem very well versed in the principles he outlined in his Metaphysics, so I'll take the claim that yo...

From your referred article: "However, this technically only gives the object's average velocity over its path." As I said, smoke and mirrors. Neither ...

The reason for rejecting "instantaneous velocity" has nothing to do with mathematics, the notion is self-contradictory. Velocity is distance covered i...

It's an age old problem for moral philosophy which Socrates demonstrated quite well in arguments against the sophists. We cannot say that virtue and m...

I'll go through what he says at 412a and see if we can make sense of it: 10. Matter is potentiality, form actuality, 15. A natural body which has life...

These two descriptions are incompatible. If there is a multitude of different processes which might derive a similar idea, we cannot describe this pro...

Actually, Aquinas says that in the absolute sense, will is prior to intellect. If not, the will could not be free. Also if this were not the case, we ...

"On The Soul", BK 2 Ch 1, 412a, 20 -30. 29: "That is why the soul is the first grade of actuality of a natural body have life potentially in it". This...

I take that as an invitation. Equality always requires a qualification, the same quantity, the same quality, the same size, shape, degree, etc.. Witho...