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Exactly--if time began with the Big Bang, then that moment had no past; and if every moment has a past, then time did not begin with the Big Bang. Nei...
April 07, 2020 at 21:02
No, begging the question yet again. Insisting that every present must have both a past and a future obviously entails that time could not have begun w...
April 07, 2020 at 20:43
Yes, that it why I offered my definitions of reality and existence--which, by the way, come from Charles Sanders Peirce. I am having trouble understan...
April 07, 2020 at 20:18
I cannot continue this conversation unless and until we establish your definition of time--and now past, present, and future, as well. No, still beggi...
April 07, 2020 at 19:48
This premiss straightforwardly begs the question. If time began with the Big Bang, then the Big Bang was never in the future.
April 07, 2020 at 19:34
Different kinds of clocks measure different phenomena--the movement of a shadow on the ground, the oscillations of a pendulum, the vibrations of a qua...
April 07, 2020 at 19:25
How are you defining "time" and "beginning" when you pose this question?
April 07, 2020 at 19:09
No, this is conflating reality with existence; I hold that they are not synonymous or coextensive. Reality is that which is as it is regardless of wha...
April 07, 2020 at 19:04
Quantification represents space and time accurately enough for most mathematical and practical purposes, but the mistake is thinking that this entails...
April 06, 2020 at 15:38
A state of affairs is not a thing that exists, it is a relation that is real--either between different concrete things or between a concrete thing and...
April 06, 2020 at 15:07
When you started posting.
April 04, 2020 at 22:40
Another assertion. No, you do not. Read the definition of "axiom" that you quoted again. Two more assertions. It is not so much your individual inabil...
April 04, 2020 at 22:38
Sorry, I still have no idea what you are talking about or how it relates to my exchange with @"83nt0n".
April 04, 2020 at 22:11
If you do not believe that anything you say is definitely true, including your assertions about your own beliefs, then how on earth is anyone supposed...
April 04, 2020 at 22:10
What do you mean by "the original presupposition"?
April 04, 2020 at 21:51
How do you know that you do not know this? How do you know that you could be wrong? This is your third assertion in a row that something is true. Why ...
April 04, 2020 at 21:45
Continuous motion is a more fundamental reality that discrete positions in space and discrete instants in time. Put another way, space is not composed...
April 04, 2020 at 21:37
How do you know that you do not know anything? How do you know that you want to have knowledge? We already have, but you claim not to accept it, even ...
April 04, 2020 at 21:25
How do you justify that definition? How do you justify that assertion? How do you justify that response? How do you justify that self-characterization...
April 04, 2020 at 17:25
Again, that is why it is a leading principle or inference rule for deductive arguments in general, not an additional premiss (or infinite series of pr...
April 04, 2020 at 14:39
It is not a problem for deductive logic so much as an observation about it: There is a difference between a premiss (such as A or B) and a logical lea...
April 04, 2020 at 13:56
Peirce recognized that even what we "know" is grounded in guesses, or if we want to use a more sophisticated term, retroductive hypotheses. That inclu...
March 27, 2020 at 21:17
I suspect that your view on this is much closer to his than you realize. If a purported belief makes no difference whatsoever in our conduct, then it ...
March 27, 2020 at 20:40
Why do you disagree? And why would that be obvious?
March 27, 2020 at 19:40
As usual, I will offer something from Charles Sanders Peirce, in this case his somewhat famous definition of a belief as a habit of conduct. As the ol...
March 27, 2020 at 16:19
It is not rationality in general that is problematic, but the distinctly modern dominance of technical rationality, which is now widely treated as if ...
March 26, 2020 at 00:57
No worries, I always appreciate your point of view on philosophical aspects of mathematical matters. I am not telling anyone that they are doing somet...
March 26, 2020 at 00:39
If you do not know what the term "absolute point" means, then why do you keep using it? Why do you keep imposing it on me? In ordinary English, absolu...
March 26, 2020 at 00:25
I did not answer that question, because I said nothing at all about absolute points, because you still have not explained exactly what you mean by tha...
March 26, 2020 at 00:11
Since we invent points and instants as needed for any particular purpose, it depends on how we define them. If we set up a three-dimensional coordinat...
March 25, 2020 at 22:00
No, I do not agree with you. Here again is what I said. Points in space and instants in time are our creations. They do not exist apart from our desig...
March 25, 2020 at 21:44
Not at all; the separation of space and time, with basic units assigned to each, is an arbitrary convenience. Presumably it reflects the fact that we ...
March 25, 2020 at 19:57
I do not see how that follows at all. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant regardless of whether or how we measure it, suggesting that continuou...
March 25, 2020 at 17:40
In my view, a definite change is an event, which is always realized at a lapse of time during which the change is strictly continuous. Some events are...
March 24, 2020 at 20:15
Not really. Notice that my definition requires the set of definitions and axioms to be established, which could be interpreted as consistent with your...
March 24, 2020 at 15:00
Rationality is a tool, and like all tools it is only well-suited for certain purposes. It can get you from a set of premisses to necessary conclusions...
March 24, 2020 at 13:55
Science can't tell us anything. Scientists can, but we should only listen to what they have to say about their relatively narrow areas of specializati...
March 23, 2020 at 18:44
From our past discussions about this, I understand the underlying sensibility here, but I think that it goes too far toward the subjective. Again, I e...
March 23, 2020 at 16:42
None, since the past is determinate. Then you are indeed a hard determinist, as @"Metaphysician Undercover" stated; presumably also an eternalist, hol...
March 19, 2020 at 14:24
I believe that time is real and continuous. I believe that there are lapses of time during which a concrete thing (S) is changing from possessing an a...
March 13, 2020 at 19:44
There has not been much consensus about anything in this thread, but please clarify exactly what you mean by "the bivalence/vagueness issue."
March 13, 2020 at 18:34
For clarity, please provide your definitions of the key terms here--time, reality, flux, permanence, constructed, change, illusion. Also, why not cons...
March 11, 2020 at 21:18
This seems like a misinterpretation of what Peirce meant by "diversity of existence." Consider his other definition, which I also quoted in the OP. "D...
March 09, 2020 at 14:05
If by "smooth" you mean that any function with respect time is differentiable arbitrarily many times, then yes, that is my understanding (and Peirce's...
March 09, 2020 at 13:59
No, there are states of things independent of human judgments--namely, facts. These are signified by true propositions, which are likewise independent...
March 09, 2020 at 13:51
There is an important difference between a proposition and a judgment. A true proposition signifies a real state of things--i.e., a fact--so it is tru...
March 09, 2020 at 02:33
Again, any particular existential subject (S) is always changing with respect to some of its qualities and relations (P), but not all. Only if one ass...
March 07, 2020 at 19:57
Only when the principle of excluded middle is true. Again, it is false during an indefinitely gradual state of change, when S is in the process of bec...
March 06, 2020 at 22:50
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March 06, 2020 at 02:36