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Now from my previous two posts, I hope it is apparent that, since for Angie, A and B are simultaneous, and similarly for Beth, A and B are not simulta...

Here's the law of non-contradiction: ~(p ^ ~p) It's a rule of grammar; if you find that you have broken it, then you have written something down wrong...

Of course there is such a thing as simultaneity. It's that silly word "absolute" that causes the problem. Suppose that for Angie, events A and B occur...

The OP is a classic case of a philosophical knot. Not easy to unpick, but it might be interesting.

Shame that @"Hachem" chose to ignore your post.

I’m not attempting to explain it to you. You are not available for learning.

So suppose you come across something you don’t understand, written by a bunch of physicists. Here is a sensible approach. Do lots of reading and study...

The arrows you are looking at show The flow of charge, not of time. Time moves from left to right.

Read it left to right. Time is indicated by the vector along the bottom of the diagram.

How? 1-1 = 0 = 1-1.

I've tried in two of your mad threads to set you straight. That'll do.

Enrol in a physics course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67KXSxMJq8

not quite. He only conquered about half of its eventual territory.

And the British even better. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/The_British_Empire_Anachronous.png/1280px-The_British_Empire_An...

Before the Mighty Kahn, the Babylonians and their ilk would periodically have a go at Greece, and lose. Alexander and his dad before him got Jack of b...

Small is beautiful. The flaw in permanent growth has been known and spoken about for centuries. But unfortunately once the idea of competing against t...

My apologies; what I am saying is that wanting to be rich does not explain wanting to grow, because wanting to be rich is wanting to grow. To paraphra...

The logic here? - If you want to grow, you must grow. Well, yes.

Australian Aboriginal culture stands in stark contrast to the theory in the OP. So I propose an alternative: lust for growth derives from fear of Them...

There's no need. Maxwell's equations are not difficult. I studied them as an undergraduate. And it works.

That's just wrong. And a little bit crazy.

Which is to say philosophers must suffer for their art. If philosophical problems are knots in one's thinking, then philosophy becomes the straighteni...

What? There is a breakdown in communication here. What I am pointing out is that the GPS is a version of your experiment, and it refutes your argument...

so if you are right, how does the iPhone know where it is?

Try this. Suppose we put a bunch of satellites up in the sky, each sending out very accurate time signals, as radio waves. If the speed of light is fi...

either result. But what is the result you predict?

not really. It’s the logic of your posts that is interesting. You haven’t given any reason to think that the result of the experiment would be other t...

A dodge. Why?

So if the lights do not appear at once - what?

Are they the only choices? Could it be from the need to do what is good?

...curiously, Muddy did a cover version forty years before AC/DC released it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM91Fyh58Jc

Think for a bit on what would be involved in a universal moral code. Would we have a set of rules that for every possible situation told us algorithmi...

Two interesting points. E-Prime found place in conflict resolution; although not expresses quite in that way. It is something I still make use of. But...

Yes, I was interested in it as a teen. it was a spark towards me studying philosophy of language. It is certainly fringe stuff, inspiring cult-like be...

Of course, being rude does not make a comment wrong. It's an open question as to whether Hachem is indeed a crackpot. What I am asking is, what would ...

That would not be a good thing. Watkins pointed out the logic of conspiracy theories - the all-and-some proposition. "All cats are black" can be prove...

Rude.

Don't get shitty with Hangover. He's just a bit eccentric. . Explain what you think is the issue.

An alternative to the experiment in the OP. Set up a series of lights in a row, timing the second so that it illuminates just as the light from the fi...

I am an original thinker; you are eccentric; he is a crackpot.

Not at all; after all, it was Wayfarer who did the naming...

Except that it is; we point to the shed on the map and say "that shed is too small for what we need".

Because I'm being self-critical, as well. What is it about crackpots that makes them crackpots?

naming stuff gives the illusion of understanding it.

can we be sure it isn’t?

Perhaps I should have posted this in this discussion instead of over there. Much - if not all - of what goes on in these forums is mere knots in langu...

What is interesting, philosophically, is the way in which the ideas presented here fail to form a coherent argument; and yet it is apparent that Hache...

The Marshall plan selfishly built a market for American produce, leading to a period of peace and prosperity in Europe, North America and the Pacific....

Well, no. Your argument remains obscure.