Suppose that this is the case, that each present moment is not predictable. What does this say about the future? It is impossible that there is physic...
Yeah! I hope you're right. I know that the media is full of spin masters, who will edit video to portray whatever they want, but in every clip that I ...
Consider that every time your cat comes for food you look at your clock, and calendar, and make a note. After some duration you have a lot of notes. Y...
You have noticed that your cat comes for food. That it comes "every morning for food" is an inference. Your sense observations, along with your memory...
Have you read Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", or "On Certainty". If so you ought to recognize what I'm talking about. Your whole quoted...
The problem with Wittgenstein's approach is that he misunderstands, and therefore misrepresents the nature of these "behavioral regularities". Behavio...
It is necessary to employ such a narrow sense of "observe" in order to understand the nature of the things which you call regularities, and invariance...
If time is something real as Lee Smolin suggests in Time Reborn, how could time be something physical? Imagine space for example. If "space" were some...
Yeah, this seems to be a statement of the typical physicalist's metaphysical position. "Anything which is real is physical because physics attempts to...
Your missing something which is necessary here. You can watch the sun all you want, and not observe any invariance. It is your logical conclusion that...
What I meant is that in the phrase "observed invariances" "invariance" does not refer to a property of anything at all, so it is not a description. Th...
I don't think that is adequate. If information is the arrangement of physical parts, then there must be a reason for that particular arrangement being...
The real question then, concerning the nature of information, is whether "information" refers to the physical representation, or the thing (idea, conc...
Yes, surprisingly enough, I agree with this, but of course, there is a catch. As Aristotle distinguishes two types of knowledge in his Nichomachean Et...
I don't think that article really gets to the point. The issue is just what are the matters which were discussed with the Russians, which have most li...
How can you be sure that such a proof is actually a proof then, without any understanding? You claim that you can verify the proof to be valid, withou...
Yes, I would say that immaterial, and nonphysical, refer to things that are not capable of being sensed, so they don't have what we would call spatial...
I think we're loosing objectivity here. Do you agree that understanding is inherently subjective, meaning that it is always a subject which understand...
Surely it's not definitions. I don't interpret according to definitions in my mind. I might consult a dictionary if I have difficulty interpreting, bu...
This is a definition, composed of words. Did you read what I said about the relation between the concept, and words? If understanding the form of tria...
I don't think "joy'" is the best word to use here. As I explained, what it brings is understanding. And because we desire to understand, then satisfyi...
A blind person can understand the concept of colour through definition, description, just like one can understand the concept of triangle in this way....
That's a particular triangle you are imagining, not "triangle-ness". I can't imagine triangle-ness without using defining words. And that's the diffic...
How can one imagine triangle-ness without any physical properties? Isn't that exactly what triangle-ness is, a physical property? The problem here is ...
No, "ostensive" means learning by direct demonstration, and that's what giving examples is, just like drawing triangles is demonstrating the meaning o...
OK, I think I understand, if a definition is used, it must be unambiguous. An ambiguous definition would not qualify as a proof because the conclusion...
This is exactly the question which Plato addresses in The Timaeus, how eternal Ideas may relate to particulars. The question has arisen as at the hear...
Why do you say "certainly, no change means no time". Humans realize time through change. The principle used is simple, If change occurs, then there is...
Human beings make categories. Without a human being there is no time category. I'm asking if you think that there could be time without change. Or is ...
OK, so the meaning is not numerically the same, then I assume you use "same" in the qualitative sense. This means that there is some difference betwee...
I don't claim that the possibility of error invalidates the measurement. I assume that the measurement is accurate. I claim that the extrapolation is ...
OK, that's an example of how something which is assumed to be constant from observation on the short term may prove to be less constant on the long te...
How can you say that the two ways of using "same" has never been at issue? My argument, from the beginning has been that the conclusion of your argume...
Time as a concept is abstracted from change in the universe. But don't you think that change is something real, which is occurring in the universe? An...
That's an arbitrary assumption, that the second is constant, and the year is variant. Because of this arbitrary assumption, any, and all discrepancy i...
So my description of free will holds then. The nature of future entities is not necessarily determined by their present internal conditions, nor by th...
Change takes time, that is self-evident, but why does no change imply no time? Don't you think that it is possible that time could be passing while th...
Have you read Plato's Republic? He makes comparisons to breeding dogs, and choosing for favourable characteristics. At one point he puts forth a propo...
This doesn't make sense to me. Are you saying that matter has an imagination, and imagines what it will be prior to being that? That's not true. The a...
Yes, the second is defined that way, I am fully aware of this. However, the year is defined by the earth's orbit. For fdrake's claim that the caesium ...
Interesting, but the point is this. The reason why the frequency is precisely 9,192,631,770 times per second, rather than 5 billion, 10 billion, or so...
This is a very good point, to consider the differences between the principles of these great philosophers. A very good example is found in the ontolog...
There are faults in this statement. Just like in the case of describing an object, likewise in describing a concept, two people having exact descripti...
How would I know? If I knew, then those measuring would know, and you wouldn't be making the claims that you do. Remember, my claim is that error in t...
What I'm interested in is how you would relate this description of interconnected systems and cycles to the concept of "growth". Growth appears to be ...
I am wondering, are we part of the virtual reality, or are we real? If we are real, then I am real, and you are real, so you cannot be part of my virt...
That's irrelevant, because all those other words would need to be defined as well, according to your stated principles of reasoning, which requires de...
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