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...
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...
This explanation of what QM says is nebulous. Making mathematical predictions about observations is doing nothing more than saying that if we put two ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aristotelian terms like "matter", "form", "potential", and "actual", are developed through volumes of consistent usage. The key point here is consiste...
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...
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...
The argument here, from Aristotle, is to demonstrate that the powers of the soul, the potencies, (the powers of self-subsistence, self-movement, sensa...
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...
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 ...
I've given you the reasons already, in other threads, as well as this one. You employ unintelligible ontological principles. By appealing to naturalis...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If it has sound premises, and sound deduction, then the "merely' logical argument must be given higher respect than fundamental physical laws whose pr...
Any potential must be separate, or independent from the pure actualizer because the pure actualizer cannot have any potential. If that separate potent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
Yes, that is exactly the point of the cosmological argument. It takes the evidence, that there are contingent material things in existence right now, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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