Physicists have determined that physical change occurs in quantum units. I can conceive of a period of time shorter than the amount of time required f...
I said: "Physicists have determined that no physical change can occur in a shorter period of time." My conclusion is that in a shorter period of time ...
Wikipedia: "The Planck time is by many physicists considered to be the shortest possible measurable time interval; however, this is still a matter of ...
OK, that's you're assertion. Can you justify it? I see no problem conceiving of time passing without any change. Imagine a very short period of time, ...
"Time is change" is incompatible with "the difference between future and past is temporal", because this difference which is an aspect of time, is not...
To tell you the truth, I don't know what you're denying. You have claimed time is change, and that's nonsense to me, so I'm trying to figure out exact...
OK, then I agree, if A changes to B, that is a uniquely particular event which cannot be exactly replicated. I agree, identical ought to mean one and ...
1) and 3) are identical unless "A changes to B" does not mean the same thing as "A changes to B". But that would be nonsense if it didn't. I don't see...
Yes, this is the means of identity which is commonly enforced in today's society, In contrast, the commune I described attempts to enforce a different...
No it isn't. "Family" has many meanings. None of them is "mother", nor "father". I stated the relevant facts, that I have a mother and a father, and y...
I didn't say anything about a family. See, you're already using my identity information to classify me into a group, "a family", for some ideological ...
Your premise is that time is change. So "was" in the sense of "past time" is meaningless by that premise. You have nothing to differentiate past chang...
I don't think so. Identifying myself as MU, born at such a place, at such time, of such mother, and father, does not place me into a group. That simpl...
I think it's a matter of habit. Habits develop over time. A child may like playing with a particular toy, but it's relatively easy to replace the toy ...
There's a discrepancy here between your use of "language-game" and Wittgenstein's use of "language-games". The "family of meanings" is associated with...
How is this different from any type of change? All change is a matter of taking back something that already is. that's just what change is, and it is ...
There's more to it than just motivation. Children are fundamentally different from adults, there's a much higher degree of tabula rasa there within th...
That change is an identity violation is tautological. You said time is change. There must be something which changes or else there could be no change....
Maybe you've hit the nail right on the head here. We have two judgements, good and bad. We can treat the good with reward, and we can penalize the bad...
OK, so if time is simply change, why can't we change what has already occurred then? There must be more to time than simple change, or else we could c...
There's probably more than one such inversion involved here, and that's why the issue is complex. Take a look at this particular inversion though. We ...
I agree, the problem is far wider. It is not just a matter of cultural identity, because there is also the matter of land ownership thrown into the mi...
Let's try looking at it from the point of view of authority. Here are the premises. We are all human beings alike, child and adult. There are standard...
Aren't you referring to "it" in these statements? "It" in this case is an unnamed subject. In many cases "it" refers to an already named subject. That...
I can't see how a 1-way interaction could be possible. How could one thing have an effect on another, without itself being affected? But a two way rel...
How about we say that things interact with each other, but interacting things do not necessarily measure each other. Otherwise we'd have no difference...
It seems like you do not know what measurement is. Measurement, by definition requires a comparison. The measurement devices in QM are calibrated to p...
Sure, but not every interaction is an act of measuring. An act of measuring is a particular type of act. So it makes no sense to say that light hittin...
I think that this type of mitigation is actually very minor, and minimal. If you go to a foreign country, and break some laws because you were not bro...
Of course measurement requires processing, it is a process. You cannot measure something without actually measuring it. That's the measurement problem...
Why would this event, which measures all the defined states as one state, need to be in the future of those states? Can't the different defined states...
What do you think it means for an entity not to exist all at one place? Could one part of that entity be in one frame of reference, and another part b...
I wouldn't say that this is "right now", because the image is created, and that takes time. The light hitting your eyes is processed, and the image is...
We tell the children what they ought not do, and when they break those boundaries they are punished. In this sense, they are not innocent. But there's...
I think that this statement is a little deceptive. In order for a physicist to measure time, something must be moving, changing. The physicist might t...
Sorry, but I'm not talking about a thing. I'm talking about an imaginary cat. When are you going to get that through your head? I refer to a subject, ...
I told you what I'm referring to, a subject, a matter for discussion, an imaginary cat name Cookie. Let me get this straight. You claim to have named ...
Well, if you want your reference to be successful, I suggest you convince me that you do, in fact, have a cat which you have named Cookie. At this poi...
If that's what you call "successful reference" then I strongly disagree. I can speak about a cat named Cookie till the end of my life, but that doesn'...
Now you're getting to the point. I have not focused my attention on any physical creature named "Cookie". You don't seem to be getting that. I actuall...
The problem I explained to you, is that the same name refers to two kinds of referent. The name "Cookie" might refer to an object, a creature you hold...
We do not only refer to objects, we also refer to subjects (matters to be discussed). When it is a subject which is referred to, truth or fiction is i...
Your OP conflates with ambiguity, two distinct types of referring, referring to a subject and referring to an object. Until you separate these two, pr...
Time travel into the past is coherent, because the past is real. Having actually occurred, events of the past have actual existence and therefore migh...
From what I understand, Wittgenstein was not impressed by the philosophical discussions of the "Apostles". Probably their skepticism was too instituti...
I don't think that's the case with presentism. What we notice at the present is activity, not a static state. This is what makes presentism so difficu...
OK, there's a state with you at the top of the stairs, then a state with you at the bottom. Where's the motion? Aristotle demonstrated, that if you de...
Comments