There is no paradox here. The phone call does not really take place three hours later on the east coast than on the west coast. Traveling from west to...
Good grief, of course not! As I said before: Again, in my view time is more fundamental than change in nature; if there were no time, then there could...
No, a moment of time is not composed of an event, an event is realized at a lapse of time. During that lapse, neither "S is P" nor "S is not-P" is tru...
The false assumption is that Achilles must make an infinite series of discrete moves, in each case advancing only to the tortoise's position at the be...
The line is not composed of parts and thus potentially infinitely divisible, but that by itself is not sufficient to make something truly continuous. ...
The rational numbers are infinitely divisible--e.g., 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc.--yet obviously not continuous. Therefore, continuity is not reducible to i...
No, your examples are more like saying that the philosophy of time came before anyone's experience of time, which would indeed be absurd. But that is ...
No, that is exactly backwards. Zeno's false assumption is that continuous motion requires an infinite series of discrete steps, which is precisely wha...
Why do you keep putting words in my mouth? I said that time seems more fundamental than change, and how we mark and measure time is an arbitrary const...
Conveniently, Peirce specifically addressed the Achilles paradox: Put another way, Zeno's assumption is that Achilles must complete an infinite series...
Sure, but when you mark an instant to divide one second, you get two half-second lapses; and when you mark two more instants to divide those, you get ...
No, I never made any such statement. Here is what I actually said (in another thread): Frankly, I do not understand why you keep bringing up this part...
You claimed that Zeno makes no assumptions in any of his paradoxes. I am inviting you to choose one of them that you believe is most relevant to the t...
You completely missed my pedantic point. You said "begs the question" when you meant "raises the question" or "prompts the question." Yes, in my view ...
Since this is The Philosophy Forum, I feel the need to be pedantic and point out that begging a question is a logical fallacy, a form of circular reas...
The key words here are "imagine," "instantaneous," and "one." This is a thought experiment, since no real camera can take an instantaneous photograph;...
As should be abundantly clear by now after my various responses to @"Metaphysician Undercover", I believe that any conception of the present as a disc...
No, the Planck time is the duration required for light to travel the Planck length in a vacuum, and the Planck length is the distance below which our ...
Thanks, I read it a couple of months ago and found it relatively unremarkable since Peirce had that insight a century earlier. People who insist that ...
Thanks for your comments, but I am honestly not sure whether or how they bear on the thread topic. The fact that the speed of light in a vacuum is con...
No, it does not. Again, there is never an instant or lapse of time at which incompatible states of things are realized such that both "S is P" and "S ...
That is the theory of time known as eternalism. It is sometimes called "block universe" because it posits that the past, the present, and the future a...
Employing Peirce's definition of "real" as that which is as it is regardless of what any individual mind or finite group of minds thinks about it: All...
I am not ignoring you, it will just take more time than I have right now to compose a response. Again, there are no "lost hours." Your age in hours is...
Of course he made assumptions, as all of us do. If they were "all one and the same concept," then we would not have three different terms for them. I ...
Everyone is always making some assumptions, and again, infinite divisibility is necessary but not sufficient for true continuity. The rational numbers...
No, it is the conclusion of various arguments based on our phenomenal experience. I already provided a couple of them above, and here is another succi...
I am sorry, I honestly do not understand what you are requesting here. All I can say (again) is that the reality of time has nothing to do with how we...
Considering Peirce's remarks on this topic in general and about ultimate parts in particular to be gibberish, along with suggesting that being continu...
On the contrary, it is continuous motion that is the reality, while discrete positions in space and discrete instants in time are both abstractions th...
No, there are no "lost" or "relived" hours. That is an illusion created by our arbitrary manner of marking and measuring time. Where are you getting t...
Wikipedia has a pretty good article on Calvinism that addresses this, including an explanation of the acronym TULIP that is often used to summarize it...
Since I do value the conversation, I went ahead and watched the video more carefully, this time typing up a transcription so that I could study what w...
Sorry, I hate watching videos and strongly prefer reading, so I will ask one more time: Please provide a succinct summary of the specific paradox that...
Where have I ever said anything about "what is natural and an illusion"? I have consistently been discussing the distinction between existence and rea...
On the contrary, Peirce consistently affirmed the reality of laws of nature, although he held that they have evolved and are still evolving; and again...
No, this is a category mistake. We are talking about philosophy--specifically, logic and metaphysics--not theoretical physics. Nonsense, time zones ar...
Peirce's view was that nothing in the future is strictly determinate; i.e., he rejected determinism, which he usually called necessitarianism, instead...
No, this conflates reality with existence. The past exists, because it is determinate; the future does not (yet) exist, because it is indeterminate. H...
Finite figures have no actual points, but infinitely many potential points. Dimensionless points are not parts of the figures, they are something that...
Again, I am not sure what exactly you have in mind here. How would you succinctly summarize "the common paradox of past present and future"? I said th...
I am not sure what you mean by "his esoteric definition of metaphysics." For Peirce, "Metaphysics consists in the results of the absolute acceptance o...
The point is that what exists for us is whatever can react with us. If it is utterly impossible for B to react with us, then we have no basis for clai...
No, it simply maintains the definition of existence as reaction with other things in the environment. Existence is a special kind of reality, which is...
I am inclined to say no, since there is nothing in B that reacts with anything in A. I am inclined to say yes, since B is as it is regardless of what ...
The clock itself is concrete, but the time that it marks and measures is still abstract, and the units by which it marks and measures time are arbitra...
In other words, there is no actual infinity of discrete objects; but this does not rule out real continuity in the universe, such as that of time and ...
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