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Relativistic length yes, proper length no. Two observers in the same reference frame as the object always get the same measurement results. The past i...
July 03, 2019 at 07:17
So I think what is coming out is that one has to have a clear definition of God to qualify the term 'atheist'. Deism is a subset of theism but you cou...
July 02, 2019 at 20:06
Personally I have numbers existing in the mind only but corresponding/representing to real life quantities. I do not believe that whether some macrosc...
July 02, 2019 at 18:49
You maybe right about science, so I will drop the usage of spacetime and just argue on the basis of time. I've given this argument before but it is th...
July 02, 2019 at 11:31
I am using the term universe to indicate what is called spacetime, which had a start 14 billion years ago, rather than the totality of everything. So ...
July 02, 2019 at 11:00
I guess to be precise, we have to give God a definition. I have a deist view of God in mind as a non-interventional entity that create the universe th...
July 02, 2019 at 10:31
There is a distinction between weak/negative and strong/positive atheism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_atheism Weak atheism see...
July 02, 2019 at 10:06
The series is not convergent according to the definition of convergent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series So the series has no sum. This...
July 02, 2019 at 09:06
So is Aristotle saying when we measure it time exists (measured change); when we don't, it does not (unmeasured change), so a past eternity is possibl...
July 01, 2019 at 22:32
Time is not IMO 'unmeasured change'... time has a start so it must be physical. But assuming for arguments sake that time is 'unmeasured change', then...
July 01, 2019 at 17:13
Should not Aristotle have distinguished between: - Past eternity. The past is complete, it has actually happened. Past eternity implies a greater than...
July 01, 2019 at 14:52
Its an interesting piece of math, but it is wrong at the same time - its all based on Grandi's series evaluating to 1/2 which is wrong - Grandi's seri...
July 01, 2019 at 12:19
With Grandi's series, at any finite point in the series, its sum is either 1 or 0. So the sum of the infinite series (if it has a sum) must be 1 or 0....
July 01, 2019 at 10:00
Numbers exist in the mind only so I guess you are correct - we should not limit our consideration to the human mind. An alien with a larger mind would...
July 01, 2019 at 09:08
Numbers exist in our mind only. Actual infinity can exist in our minds only along with other things that are not logical / do not exist in reality lik...
July 01, 2019 at 08:51
Past eternity is infinite rather than unbounded. I have no issues with the 'no boundary' model... maybe it could be true... the point is it is a finit...
June 30, 2019 at 21:41
It is the concept of an actual completed infinity in the real world that I am arguing against. There are two basic classes of infinite objects: - Pote...
June 30, 2019 at 21:36
It is true there are different definitions. Maths has a definition relating to a one-to-one mapping between a set and a proper subset that is quite od...
June 30, 2019 at 21:18
Lots of cosmology models use it. CCC for example is eternal in time (past eternity is an example of actual infinity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co...
June 30, 2019 at 20:57
Truth is usually defined in philosophy as justified true belief. I guess this definition of truth must refer to what is true in the real world by defa...
June 30, 2019 at 20:28
Infinity is used in cosmology which is a science. You are an idiot to believe everything you are taught - you swallow it like a fool without questioni...
June 30, 2019 at 19:54
You are not a very well informed person - finitism is quite a widely held view and quite a broad church: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism Lots o...
June 30, 2019 at 19:51
I'd be interested to hear what you think is wrong with Wikipedia's summary. I can't claim to be an expert on Aristotle myself. So you don't present an...
June 30, 2019 at 19:36
Science seems to show the pattern of two steps forward, one step back - for example they seem to have it badly wrong on infinity IMO - so maybe scienc...
June 30, 2019 at 19:21
Aristotle seems to have believed past time was infinite: "The ancient philosopher Aristotle argued that the world must have existed from eternity in h...
June 30, 2019 at 18:32
The continuum hypothesis or its negation can be added it set theory without making it inconsistent. So that implies something false can be added to se...
June 30, 2019 at 18:04
I mean that nothing illogical exists in nature so if maths is to mirror nature, then nothing illogical should exist in maths either. There are differi...
June 30, 2019 at 17:10
I agree maths works very well for modelling reality in most instances. Actual infinity is not one of those instances though. I think perhaps the probl...
June 30, 2019 at 16:42
I guess so, but it comes back to the problem of people taking ideas from mathematics and applying them to the real world. Idealisations are just that;...
June 30, 2019 at 15:54
Well bearing in mind Aristotle believed in infinite time, it seems to me he would have had no option but to also believe in some sort of immortal-in-t...
June 30, 2019 at 15:46
I was given the impression in school that a line segment contains an actual infinity of points. The problem seems to me the mathematical definition of...
June 30, 2019 at 15:28
The greek pantheon and the stories associated with the individual greek gods are quite unbelievable - its a wonder anyone believed in it at all - Aris...
June 30, 2019 at 14:15
But it does seem, with galaxies receding from each other faster than the speed of light, that space itself expanding is the only possible explanation....
June 30, 2019 at 13:45
Not familiar with those works. What is the reasoning behind holding a belief in eternity but not actual infinity?
June 30, 2019 at 13:21
A point has length zero. How many length zero things can you fit on a line segment length one? 1 / 0 = UNDEFINED Anything with length zero does not ex...
June 30, 2019 at 13:10
The theory predicts what we observe: - The theory of inflation; the ballon is a 2D analogy used to describe what is happening to 3D space - The observ...
June 30, 2019 at 12:28
Clearly a very foundational figure in the history of philosophy. For any particular question, it seems to be best to first consider what Aristotle had...
June 30, 2019 at 07:57
If space itself is not expanding and it is a regular explosion instead then I would have thought it would have to fit in with one of the following pat...
June 30, 2019 at 07:30
If galaxies were moving apart themselves then there should be a centre to the expansion. With a centre to the expansion, the rates of expansion would ...
June 29, 2019 at 21:58
If it is the objects in space that are moving further apart then that seems to imply a regular explosion type expansion. But such an expansion would h...
June 29, 2019 at 21:46
There is no centre to the expansion apparently: http://physicsfaq.co.uk/Relativity/GR/centre.html Space itself is expanding so nowhere/everywhere is t...
June 29, 2019 at 21:27
This is a question I find very confusing. With the Big Bang and inflation, all points in space are expanding. The analogy used is an inflating balloon...
June 29, 2019 at 21:16
I think making a distinction between faith in a property/characteristic of God and faith in the existence of God helps. So we can say faith in the exi...
June 12, 2019 at 13:56
I am not sure what to say when you claim plants have similar intelligence to man. Signs of intelligence include communication, society, technology, no...
May 31, 2019 at 08:24
God did not come from anywhere - he is a permanent fixture of reality - uncreated / no cause / outside time. Time cannot just recede into a past etern...
May 31, 2019 at 06:07
I don't believe God is smart enough to design advanced life from scratch - its too complex - there are 100 billion neurons in the brain we don't even ...
May 30, 2019 at 17:27
I think perfection of lifestyle (maximum pleasure in the broadest sense of the word) is something that all beings including God would naturally be int...
May 30, 2019 at 14:23
Vast knowledge and power are distinct from omnipotence and omniscience, which I maintain are magical concepts. Both are impossible anyway by the stand...
May 30, 2019 at 13:53
I did not mention the bible. I am not christian. I think God is more likely a single creature: causality absolutely requires a first cause and the fir...
May 30, 2019 at 04:41
I would agree with that. Putting myself in God's shoes again, I would think that God would expect all intelligent civilisations to strive for and most...
May 29, 2019 at 18:33