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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Quantification represents space and time accurately enough for most mathematical and practical purposes, but the mistake is thinking that this entails...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Continuous motion is a more fundamental reality that discrete positions in space and discrete instants in time. Put another way, space is not composed...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
It is not rationality in general that is problematic, but the distinctly modern dominance of technical rationality, which is now widely treated as if ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Not really. Notice that my definition requires the set of definitions and axioms to be established, which could be interpreted as consistent with your...
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...
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...
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...
None, since the past is determinate. Then you are indeed a hard determinist, as @"Metaphysician Undercover" stated; presumably also an eternalist, hol...
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...
For clarity, please provide your definitions of the key terms here--time, reality, flux, permanence, constructed, change, illusion. Also, why not cons...
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...
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...
No, there are states of things independent of human judgments--namely, facts. These are signified by true propositions, which are likewise independent...
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...
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...
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...
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