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Sure, but the issue is to answer this question of whether or not it is. If something appears to us as disordered, this does not mean that it necessari...
November 25, 2017 at 14:47
Your claim of "basically correct" is nothing more than an assertion. So you support your assertion that the measured activity of the caesium clock wil...
November 25, 2017 at 13:58
This explanation of what QM says is nebulous. Making mathematical predictions about observations is doing nothing more than saying that if we put two ...
November 25, 2017 at 13:01
Then why did you say that what I said was crap? That was a senseless insult. It's a completely different form of argument from what you're used to. It...
November 25, 2017 at 04:10
OK, then how do you make 1) consistent with dark energy and dark matter? These are enormous features of the universe which cosmologists admit that the...
November 24, 2017 at 22:37
The point is, that if you want to understand what Aristotle meant by "potential", or "matter", or some other word, you must read how he used that word...
November 24, 2017 at 22:27
We must be careful, and take the time, to determine whether the "uncertainty" is within the map, or within the territory. So for example, you say "the...
November 24, 2017 at 22:15
Aristotelian terms like "matter", "form", "potential", and "actual", are developed through volumes of consistent usage. The key point here is consiste...
November 24, 2017 at 22:00
Do you know what the "laws" of the universe are? These laws are the descriptions which human beings have made in their attempts to understand the univ...
November 24, 2017 at 21:41
Not only does it make sense, but it is absolutely necessary. What makes the members of a discrete set discrete is the fact that they are isolated from...
November 24, 2017 at 21:24
The argument here, from Aristotle, is to demonstrate that the powers of the soul, the potencies, (the powers of self-subsistence, self-movement, sensa...
November 24, 2017 at 12:06
As I explained, when you analyze this proposition there is nothing to make the boundaries between one frame and the next. So any such experience of ti...
November 24, 2017 at 11:46
This is contrary to your stated argument though. You stated that the laws of physics will not change because the universe will be "in the same regime ...
November 24, 2017 at 03:09
I've given you the reasons already, in other threads, as well as this one. You employ unintelligible ontological principles. By appealing to naturalis...
November 24, 2017 at 02:55
There is a problem with assuming a discrete time though. This is because we experience a continuous time, so we have nothing but arbitrary points in t...
November 24, 2017 at 02:44
Such a distinction is the one that is artificial, arbitrary. It's a good example of how the "difference which makes a difference" is a completely subj...
November 24, 2017 at 01:59
Sounds like Plato. But Plato didn't need quantum mechanics to come to this conclusion, he just analyzed all the other sophistry going on.
November 23, 2017 at 21:53
Which argument? The argument is yours. You are claiming that by watching something for a month, you can say something about it which will be true in 1...
November 23, 2017 at 21:47
I think what you said is the very opposite: See, your principle of indifference doesn't allow that this difference is real. What I claim is fundamenta...
November 23, 2017 at 21:22
If the tautology contradicts your claim, then you are wrong. What is at question is whether or not there is a "form of redness" prior to us calling so...
November 23, 2017 at 12:17
If it has sound premises, and sound deduction, then the "merely' logical argument must be given higher respect than fundamental physical laws whose pr...
November 23, 2017 at 03:36
Any potential must be separate, or independent from the pure actualizer because the pure actualizer cannot have any potential. If that separate potent...
November 23, 2017 at 03:28
You should read some material by physicist Lee Smolin, specifically "Time Reborn". The laws of physics have been proven to be reliable only in the hum...
November 23, 2017 at 03:03
If you are considering that possibility, then you have misunderstood the argument. I realized that this could be a problem, and tried to word it to av...
November 22, 2017 at 21:55
The measurement error does not give "how much it changes over time". It gives how much it changed over one specific month of time. To conclude that it...
November 22, 2017 at 21:17
Of course it makes a difference. You can only make the decision that this difference doesn't make a difference in reference to some intent, or purpose...
November 22, 2017 at 11:56
It wasn't difficult because you didn't even try. Are you going to try to explain "what A means" or just give some half hearted example of the fact tha...
November 22, 2017 at 03:04
I'll offer my opinion. Physical change without time is not logically possible, but time without physical change is. Imagine that we divide time into s...
November 22, 2017 at 02:23
Right, for a period of one month, the error was negligible. This means that the physical activity remained very stable for that one month period. It h...
November 22, 2017 at 01:37
How can this make sense to you? It's just self-reference, "banana bread" means banana bread. What I make, I will call "banana bread", and what you mak...
November 22, 2017 at 01:07
If "A" is a thing, then the law of identity applies, because that law says that a thing is the same as itself. So that instance of "A" is that instanc...
November 21, 2017 at 23:09
I made no mention of causation, that's your interpretation. What I said is that without the word "red" there is no such thing as what the word red ref...
November 21, 2017 at 12:11
How is a dimension a locatable thing? It is purely conceptual. Think of the three spatial dimensions. How would you locate one of those dimensions aro...
November 21, 2017 at 01:09
One measurement for another? What do you mean by that? This is from the first article you referred. The introduction I believe. "Furthermore, two inde...
November 21, 2017 at 01:01
No need to do that. I just don't believe that it's possible to make a statement concerning the accuracy of a clock over a 100 million year time frame,...
November 21, 2017 at 00:32
The one referred article states that the measured frequency was found to remain stable for a month. How do you make a claim about the clock's accuracy...
November 21, 2017 at 00:16
Yes, I agree, it is implicit, and that's basically the same argument. The original, from Aristotle, does not use "cause", though Aristotle is clearly ...
November 20, 2017 at 11:59
Oh I get the point all right. The point is that you keep asserting, over and over again, for 48 pages, "the same", with complete disrespect for the la...
November 20, 2017 at 04:00
Yes, that is exactly the point of the cosmological argument. It takes the evidence, that there are contingent material things in existence right now, ...
November 20, 2017 at 03:42
Have you ever read translations? The translator has a choice as to the best words, the best way to translate. One person will translate with completel...
November 19, 2017 at 22:40
Here's a simpler way of stating the cosmological argument: In the case of every existing thing, the potential for that thing is prior in time to its a...
November 19, 2017 at 22:27
I didn't say that just for the sake of argument. You wrote lines in different languages. I don't even know what some of the languages you used were. H...
November 19, 2017 at 21:38
You don't seem to be getting The M[ad Fool's point. By what principle do you derive that margin of error? You could only determine the clock's accurac...
November 19, 2017 at 19:28
That's what I mean, it's just a convention, it's not necessarily an accurate way of measuring time. So the conventions change from time to time, and w...
November 19, 2017 at 16:34
What gives "privilege" to one time-measurer over another? Why would the caesium-133 atom be more privileged than the rotation of the earth? In other w...
November 19, 2017 at 14:16
I think quitism wins.
November 19, 2017 at 13:49
The problem though, is that this defined "second" is also related to the length of a "day" which is defined by the rotation of the earth. So there is ...
November 19, 2017 at 13:42
They don't mean the same thing to me, and that's a fact. Perhaps they mean the same thing to someone else, but that person would have to make an argum...
November 19, 2017 at 12:07
What do you mean from where? I mean they already occurred here. I remember events which have already occurred, and anticipate future events. This is f...
November 19, 2017 at 11:38
But it goes far deeper than that, to all instances of overlooking differences in order to declare that two things are "the same". Unless it is a princ...
November 19, 2017 at 02:42