Isn't this: an example of rugged individualism? To think of an individual as a bounded ecology is to totally ignore the importance of the larger commu...
I think that in metaphysics your principles would take us around in a circle. You say, that to prove something requires clearly defined terms. And, th...
If I understand correctly, the activity which results from the expanding universe does not qualify as "motion". So the "distance" between objects may ...
No , I wouldn't agree to that. Try this explanation as to why I don't agree. The caesium clock uses a frequency of 9,192,631,770 Hz. This means 9,192,...
This has been our difference of opinion from the beginning. I believe that it is very important to argue over definitions. This process is sometimes c...
But it's clear that the essence of a thing precedes the thing's material existence. This is the case when we make a plan for something, in advance. So...
How many times do I have to repeat myself? The inaccuracy is not in the rate derived from a month of observation, the average of x amount per second, ...
We agree. Fancy that. The Aristotelean / non-Areistotelean division is deeper than the theist /atheist division. I see the theist /atheist division as...
We're talking about precision in measurement, not whether or not we should discard extrapolations which may have some inaccuracy in precision. I am no...
Radiocarbon dating suffers from the very same issue. We understand the rate of decay of C14 from our observations over a relatively short period of ti...
This is not true, because there is a difference between "what a thing is", and "that a thing is"; this is the difference between essence and existence...
But your argument is that information is not the physical 'A' itself, it is what is represented by the 'A'. And what 'A' represents to me is not the s...
The point though, as I've argued, is that it is not the same information, in the strict sense of the word "same" it is similar information which we ca...
Yes (2) requires an unchanging physical law. The error analysis is performed over a one month period. The "error rate" is derived from that one month ...
Of course I allow for types, why would you think that I don't? But if two things are members of one type, that does not mean that the two are the same...
Unless you didn't read my posts, you know I already answered this at least twice. 100% similar does not = the same. It cannot because this would be co...
What you have described here, is us discussing and agreeing on a description. If this is what the concept is, then we have created the concept through...
You seem to be missing the point apokrisis. "The same" implies one thing, the same thing, that's the point of the law of identity, to ensure that we a...
No, A dichotomy is a separation between two things. You are the one making the error assuming that a dichotomy is two limits of the same thing. Anyway...
The "same" and "similar" express two distinct things. One excludes difference while the other includes difference, so the two are logically dichotomou...
Ever think that you might have to go back even beyond the first human being? Animals already knew the "secret of moving" before there were humans, and...
We would both draw different triangles. I am just clarifying, and adhering to the meaning of "the same" which is stipulated by the law of identity, an...
Actually, Samuel and I compared our definitions of "triangle", and they were obviously different. Samuel used "flat surface" while I used "plane". I m...
I don't general discuss time in these terms, A-series, and B-series. I think "series" already implies an unjustified assumption, as we seem to experie...
I know the special theory of relativity quite well. Your claim is that "relativity is the most accurate description to date within this domain". Which...
If you allow the possibility of change, then you cannot derive the conclusion that the error rate will stay the same for that extended period of time....
Check your facts. Any extension outside the range of known facts is an extrapolation. Your "estimate" is already an extrapolation. Besides, if you adm...
It is an extrapolation. Your changing of the scale, "translating" the "timescale" is by definition an extrapolation. You proceed from known values to ...
OK then, what does a metre, or an inch, mean to you if it is not the length of some thing? And what does an hour mean to you if it's not the length of...
You don't seem to understand the issue fdrake. You haven't disclosed your principle of extrapolation, and this is what validates your extrapolation. S...
The idea that Einstein provides a "better" explanation of time is what is laughable. You define "better" in relation to what, more useful, or more tru...
I didn't say that the measurement error analysis of the caesium-133 clock is wrong. I said your extrapolation is wrong. The measurement error is for a...
This is very difficult for me to grasp. I have one definition of "triangle", and you have another. We want to determine the correct definition of "tri...
That's so childish: "you have to use the words my way, or I don't want to talk to you". Is "compromise" not in your vocabulary? Really, I think you're...
I don't know McTaggart's argument, but I believe that time is real. I base this on the knowledge that there is a real difference between future and pa...
"Evidence" is a difficult concept. Some people see all sorts of evidence for God, while others will insist that the same things are not evidence at al...
"Truth functional equivalent". What does that mean? I happen to know that equivalent and the same are not the same thing. 2+2 is equivalent to 4, but ...
There you go again with your insistence on particular definitions, wanting to define terms in ways other than how they are used in reality. So long as...
Yes, I think it's quite obvious that there is a big difference between these two. Prior/posterior is very different from here/there, because the conce...
Oh, don't get me wrong, I find science to be meaningful, and beautiful, as well as useful. But I believe all these things are dependent on context. No...
Huh, distilled bullshit? What is produced when bullshit is distilled? I think what is at issue here is that a complete stranger might ask you a very p...
I think it's "supernatural" which is used to refer to what is outside the natural. Whether there is anything which is truly supernatural, or this is j...
Right, that's what I just explained to Harry, that human beings make artificial things does not mean that human beings are not part of nature. As for ...
Why do you claim this? It doesn't make sense to me, and appears like a claim that what is true of the creator is also true of the creation. And that's...
This is not a good description of time. Even the thing which is used as a measure, must itself be capable of being measured, or else the measurement m...
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