Regarding the "mystery" of Time, here's a link to an article with a unique concept of "why time flies". Apparently Time is Relative, not just to Space, and personal experience, but to our empathic connection to other time voyagers. :smile:I think there are two kinds of times, mutually exclusive. — Raymond
Yes. As in so many other philosophical quandaries, Aristotle tried to dispel mysteries -- such as Plato's "Forms" -- with practical applications. For example, a designing engineer envisions the "structure" of a future building, not as concrete beams & columns, but as abstract relationships, represented by vectors (arrows & values)So, the pre-inflationary Planck cell can be compared with Aristotle's objective unmoved mover and the perfect circular motion. Our friend was ahead of his "time"! — Raymond
I wasn't familiar with Kant's opinion of Time. But a quick Google indicates that his Critique of Pure Reason ("which is a combination of rationalism and empiricism") treats Time & Change, not as objectively Real, but as subjectively Ideal. We imagine time by Intuition or infer it by Reason, because we can't see it with our objective empirical senses. So, we impute Time to Reality. And that's essentially what I was saying. :smile:How does this relate to Kant’s model of time? — Joshs
Time and change have no special relation.
Change occurs from place to place as well as from time to time. — Banno
Two places might be different at a point in time, but nothing changes at a point in time.
Time is required to get "from place to place" or to perceive (and compare) one place and then another. — Luke
My floor changes from wood to bamboo, from one room to another, at the one time.Two places might be different at a point in time, but nothing changes at a point in time. — Luke
My floor changes from wood to bamboo, from one room to another, at the one time. — Banno
You seem to be just looking for a particular phrasing to save a broken theory. — Banno
They are two different floors, or two separate parts of one floor. — Pierre-Normand
How does the floor change? One room has a wood floor, the other room has a bamboo floor. — Luke
This very text you see before you, you can only see in virtue of the change from one colour to another across space - in most cases the text being dark, the background white. — Banno
According to your own theory of change, would you say that natural numbers change from being even to being uneven, and back to being even again, alternatively, from one number to the next? What is it that is changing then? — Pierre-Normand
No, it's the same floor.
I've no idea what the remainder of your post says. Can you clarify?
I think folk are trying to defend a broken notion - that change can only occur over time. Observation shows this to be false. The replies here indicate the rather than adjust their thinking about change, they would rather redefine change as that which occurs over time... — Banno
I put it to you that the following image changes from one colour to another, from left to right; and that this change does not occur over time. — Banno
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