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Where we mark the "start" of any finite series of events, and how we parse it out into discrete steps, is completely arbitrary. Before #1, presumably ...
January 10, 2020 at 17:24
No, the question-begging claim is that time as an infinite succession of moments is impossible because it would have no first element. Which does not ...
January 10, 2020 at 16:51
Begging the question (again). Non sequitur.
January 10, 2020 at 16:43
This straightforwardly begs the question by presupposing that being "fully defined" (whatever that means) requires an "initial starting state." Graspi...
January 10, 2020 at 16:34
Your objections apparently boil down to a demand that mathematicians revise their well-established technical terminology (existence, object, etc.) bec...
January 10, 2020 at 14:16
This is exactly backwards. An infinite past entails that there has never been a moment that was not preceded by another moment, consistent with the co...
January 10, 2020 at 14:05
Since all real moments are indefinite, it is logically impossible to distinguish one from another, let alone "remove" one. We can arbitrarily designat...
January 09, 2020 at 16:44
A sequence has no mass, since it is a mathematical concept, not anything physical. An actual collection of bananas would have mass, but it would neces...
January 08, 2020 at 19:33
Not when all the bananas are stipulated as identical. It is possible to change something in one respect without changing it in another respect. If I p...
January 08, 2020 at 18:43
Again, we have changed it in one respect but not in another - no contradiction. We are discussing hypothetical infinity, not actual infinity. We do no...
January 08, 2020 at 18:21
The only basis for claiming that the two infinite sequences are "identical" initially is that they allegedly consist of "identical" bananas in "identi...
January 08, 2020 at 18:07
We change it in one respect (whether it includes this particular individual member), but it is not changed in another respect (its cardinality as an i...
January 08, 2020 at 17:27
Only in classical logic, thanks to the law of excluded middle. Not in intuitionistic logic. :cool:
January 07, 2020 at 23:10
The actual is that which acts on and reacts with other things.
January 07, 2020 at 22:52
No, these are all numbers; and again, existence in mathematics entails only logical possibility, not actuality in metaphysics. Yes, in accordance with...
January 07, 2020 at 22:46
What does thinking have to do with anything? Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy, within which "actual" has a technical meaning that distinguishes i...
January 07, 2020 at 22:37
Yes, assuming that you meant non-zero duration. Where we disagree is whether this non-zero duration must be finite, and therefore measurable. This onc...
January 07, 2020 at 21:42
No number can have a length at all. In any case, we are not talking about numbers, we are talking about time. No, and I have stated this plainly befor...
January 07, 2020 at 21:00
That is not what I mean by "metaphysical actuality." I just mean the modal property of being actual, rather than merely possible or strictly necessary...
January 07, 2020 at 20:23
Agreed. As usual, this wrongly confuses "infinitesimal" with "actual infinity." The proper mathematical definition of "infinitesimal" in this context ...
January 07, 2020 at 20:20
No, I said exactly the opposite of that. Actual infinity corresponds to metaphysical actuality, while potential infinity and mathematical existence co...
January 07, 2020 at 19:52
No, that only applies to distinct instants, not indefinite moments. In any case, what is the first real or rational number after zero? It straightforw...
January 07, 2020 at 19:45
It is not; as I said, mathematical existence--including the potential infinity of the natural numbers--is not metaphysical actuality, it is logical po...
January 07, 2020 at 19:40
Yes, it corresponds to the difference between metaphysical actuality and logical possibility. Again, mathematical existence refers to the latter, not ...
January 07, 2020 at 18:55
As I have pointed out in other recent threads, mathematics is the science of drawing necessary inferences about hypothetical states. Consequently, mat...
January 07, 2020 at 18:39
This is most certainly true.
January 07, 2020 at 00:40
Again, not germane to the thread topic, but "Immanuel" means "God with us," not "Son of God." Paul says that Jesus "was in the form of God ... but emp...
January 06, 2020 at 21:59
Not really germane to the thread topic, but this is clearly false; e.g., see Matthew 1:23, Mark 1:1, Luke 3:21-22, Philippians 2:5-11, and Colossians ...
January 06, 2020 at 20:37
Yes, probably because his first wife was Episcopalian--her father was a bishop--and she presumably only agreed to marry him if he converted from the U...
January 05, 2020 at 23:47
Try downloading the combined PDF of the eight-volume Collected Papers and searching for "conscience" there.
January 05, 2020 at 22:56
According to Peirce, there is indeed both immanent mind and transcendent mind, but only the latter is properly called God. In case there is any doubt ...
January 05, 2020 at 22:36
Regarding Christian theology, I was referring to these incorrect statements. As for Peirce, do your own homework.
January 05, 2020 at 20:08
Ah, someone else who is completely unfamiliar with Peirce's writings, not to mention Christian theology. Unwilling to understand, yet eager to reject.
January 05, 2020 at 19:46
Easy to say, impossible to show (apparently). You seem locked into specific conceptual dichotomies of mind/matter, thought/reality, and subjective/obj...
January 05, 2020 at 19:23
False dichotomy. The real is that which is as it is regardless of what any individual mind or finite group of minds thinks about it. This does not ent...
January 05, 2020 at 19:17
No, that is not what "indefinite" means in this context. No, that is not what "infinitesimal" means in this context. No, calling Peirce a materialist ...
January 05, 2020 at 19:12
No, Peirce's view was that mind is primordial, such that "matter is a peculiar sort of mind."
January 05, 2020 at 19:03
Now this is an example of splitting hairs, so I will rephrase. Infinitesimals are necessarily indefinite, while boundaries are necessarily distinct, s...
January 05, 2020 at 16:06
Absolutely not. Mind is not confined to human minds.
January 05, 2020 at 15:58
It appears that your concept of mind is too narrow. "The world is mind" does not entail that "we create the world."
January 05, 2020 at 03:11
That is painting with far too broad a brush. Peirce's objective idealism does not say that we create the world, it describes "the physical law as deri...
January 05, 2020 at 02:27
Are you just not paying attention? Infinitesimals do not have distinct boundaries, which is why the principle of excluded middle does not apply to the...
January 04, 2020 at 20:30
Brilliant insight! You have amply demonstrated in other threads that you are not interested in counter arguments. Your mind is already firmly made up ...
January 03, 2020 at 19:04
The thread title should be "Devans99's Mistake." Your constant grinding of this particular ax became tiresome long ago. Saying the same thing over and...
January 03, 2020 at 18:56
No one gets to choose a "version of reality," because by definition reality is as it is regardless of what anyone thinks about it. Adopting finite dis...
January 03, 2020 at 18:03
We clearly have very different definitions of "common sense." Who said anything about discarding arithmetic? It is very useful for very many purposes,...
January 03, 2020 at 17:44
Yes, although before going any farther we need to establish what we mean in this context by "consciousness" and "real." I am not sure what that would ...
January 03, 2020 at 17:38
Common sense tells us that common sense is highly fallible. Some developments in mathematics and science over the centuries are highly counterintuitiv...
January 03, 2020 at 17:01
I know what you mean about clones! Hopefully you can at least digest the two short articles about SDG and SIA. Browsing Moore's single volume of Peirc...
January 03, 2020 at 15:45