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  • Ontology of Time
    how could the conscious mind access these memories without a constant flow of information from the subconscious mind?MoK
    When subconscious mind is sleeping all the time, how can it remember anything? Memory is not stored in anywhere. The content of memory is not cheese or bread or water. We just remember past events and objects, or we don't, if forgot. Memories are the types of ideas we recall from past. They don't get stored. Storage only makes sense for physical objects.

    See above.MoK
    See above.
  • Ontology of Time
    If what appears as a continuity is really a succession of distinct locations, then the senses are deceiving us.Metaphysician Undercover
    Perception is the mental presentation of reality.  Calling perception as deception sounds like a typical vulgar or children's understanding.

    Then it appears like you would say that perception is deception.Metaphysician Undercover
    Ditto. :D

    I don't understand this claim. How would the ball's existence at one location be distinguished from its existence at another location, other than on the basis of this being at two different times? Or would the ball just be everywhere all at once?Metaphysician Undercover
    Time doesn't exist until measured.  Time doesn't exist in space and time.  Objects and movements have nothing to do with time.  Time emerges when objects and movements are perceived as a secondary quality. How and why should the ball exist everywhere all at once?  That's not a philosophical reasoning.
  • Meinong rejection of Existence being Prior to Predication
    I'm talking about the thing itself. The principle says that dragons cannot breathe fire if dragons are not real.noAxioms

    What is the real dragon? If something looks like a dragon and breathes fire, is it a dragon? I saw the fake dragons made to breathe fire.

  • Ontology of Time
    This produces the issue of whether our senses deceive us when we perceive motion as continuous.Metaphysician Undercover

    We perceive motion as continuous because it appears as continuous. If continuity means without stopping, then it is not deceiving our senses at all. There are two points on continuity.

    1) Can continuity be divided into instances?
    2) Or is continuity one entity, which is not divisible?

    When the baseball flies in the air towards the wall, it appears continuous motion of flying without stopping in our vision. However, if we take a photo of the ball while it is flying with high speed shutter settings such as 1/10000 sec. then it can be captured in perfectly frozen image. What seems to be clear is that continuous movement is the result of our perception. Without perception, continuity doesn't arise in the movement, or even the movement itself.

    Whatever the case, time is not needed for the motion logically. If time is needed for any movement, then the time needs time for its own movement (flow), and the time needs time for its own movement (flow) ... Ad Infinitum. If this was the case, then nothing can move or flow for waiting for its own time to make it possible to move or flow. But in reality, movements take place without time, and movers move freely as they wish with no idea or need of time.

    Time flows without time. Because time can only flow with time doesn't make sense. Hence things flow / move without time.
  • Shaken to the Chora
    Yes. Quite different from an empty infinite space or a container of sorts.
    Interestingly there is a modern quantum version of the World Soul. The idea is that the universe is quantum computer busy calculating its and our future
    magritte

    So Plato might have been talking about the world soul and parallel universe 2300 years ago. That sounds interesting. Quantum computing is trying to find out what it was all about.

  • Meinong rejection of Existence being Prior to Predication
    It's a principle, yes. It does have something to do with existence since it explicitly mentions 'existence', but without specification of what type is meant.noAxioms
    Strange, that nowhere I could find anyone describing it as principle, but there are many explications on EPP. It sounds like a theory or idea too.

    but without specification of what type is meant.noAxioms
    Could it mean that it covers all existence? Could you define and list the types of existence?
    What is existence?
  • Physical cannot be the cause of its own change
    Yes, time passes always, even if baseball does not change, since many other things are subject to change. Moreover, the baseball is on a location on Earth, Earth is subject to motion, and therefore the baseball is subject to motion.MoK
    Movement must be observed and determined from the geographical location or point of the object on the earth to the moved point of the object on the earth. The planetary motion of the earth is not relevant to the movement of objects on earth. So your understanding of movement is not correct.

    If baseball is subject to change then time is required to allow the change. Please reread my argument.MoK
    You need to read the baseball posting again, and think again.

    It is required. Please reread my argument.MoK
    Ditto.
  • Ontology of Time
    I would advise you reading K. Popper's books in full, if you are into science.
    — Corvus
    I don't think I need to read his book!
    MoK

    If you read it, it will refresh your incorrect ideas on science and philosophy, I am sure. But it is your choice of course.
  • Ontology of Time
    So are you denying that there are things like electrons, quarks, etc.? Are you denying that you have a brain? You don't have direct access to your brain either.MoK
    You are back to keep repeating "denying". I never said anything about denying.
    We all have brain, and that is all we know. Going further than that is off-topic here.

    No, I think there are limits that each theory works well, so I don't think that we can replace the outdated theories since the outdated theories have their own use at the proper limits.MoK
    I was recommending you reading Popper, because you seem to think science knowledge is eternal.

    Saying Hume is outdated and wrong is not a sound or intelligent statement. You could argue certain parts or some of Hume's ideas or theories are wrong with your hypothesis, verified premises and conclusions for your points.

    But just saying Hume or any classic philosopher is outdated and wrong with no reason or supporting arguments is not a philosophical statement.
  • Ontology of Time
    I am not defending Freud's theory of subconsciousness here. I just said that the term subconsciousness was first coined by him.MoK
    You brought Freud into the discussion suddenly, hence I was giving out my opinion on Freud.

    Anyway, I was pointing out that Hume was not aware of the subconscious mind at his time so he could not possibly have a correct theory of minds.MoK
    Subconscious mind is unverified esoteric idea, Hume wouldn't have had been interested in it, even if he was alive now.

    I think that the subconscious mind is very smart. The current research indicates that the subconscious mind is smarter than what we think. You might find this article interesting.MoK
    Subconscious mind cannot be verified, or used as basis for reasoning. It is just a postulated character of mind. It is hidden or sleeping most times, hence it cannot give you any knowledge on the world.
    It can be used for explaining the reason for irrational aspect of human actions, but it is not taken as objective or verified knowledge.

    That is a part of the philosophy of the mind. You cannot simply ignore it! Could you?MoK
    The classic philosophy of mind doesn't include physical brain as its topic. It is more a topic for cognitive science, neurology or clinical psychology.
  • Ontology of Time
    Have you read any Popper? Yes or No?
    — Corvus
    No. Why is it relevant to our discussion?
    MoK

    I would advise you reading K. Popper's book in full, if you are into science.
  • Ontology of Time
    No, when did I say anything about denying? You keep saying it. :D
    It is not habit. To say habit for clarification is a categorical mistake.
    — Corvus
    You said it here:
    MoK
    I said it to remind you keep saying it, not me.

    Have you read any Popper? Yes or No?
    — Corvus
    No. Why is it relevant to our discussion?
    MoK
    Popper said that all science gets outdated and replaced with the new theories all the time. If science cannot be proven false, then it is not science. It proves your point were all wrong so far.
  • Ontology of Time
    It is not common sense knowledge at all and that is why you are wrong. We are only aware of the conscious mind's activities. The term the subconscious mind was first coined by Freud before that we didn't know anything about it.MoK
    Freud's theory of sunconscious mind is subject to debates, because it is not something which can be proven objectively. If you think it is some holy grail principle of psychology, then you haven't read much psychology, it appears.

    Do you have access to your memory? The memories are stored in a part of the brain so-called synapses. Do you have direct access to synapses? If not how can you recall a memory?MoK
    Philosophy don't care about where the content of memory gets stored in brain. It just knows that we have memory, and memory is in the chain of many mental operations.
    Talking about biological aspects of memory in brain is a strawman fallacy in philosophical debates.

    Yes, thinking also requires the subconscious mind. That is something that Hume was not aware of in his time!MoK
    Again, please read the top reply here.
  • Ontology of Time
    So you are denying all the body of knowledge that was created by scientists! That is not a good habit since you are denying all the things that you are using daily as well!MoK

    No, when did I say anything about denying? You keep saying it. :D
    It is not habit. To say habit for clarification is a categorical mistake. Have you read any Popper? Yes or No?
  • Ontology of Time
    Philosophy does get outdated! Consider the case of Hume.MoK
    Hume is till being read and studied actively all over the world.

    Good for them. You should do the same.MoK
    I have already done so, so why do it again.

    Exactly!MoK
    Without doubt !!
  • Ontology of Time
    Where did you get that from? Why don't you study psychology a little before commenting on the conscious and the subconscious mind?MoK
    It is a common sense knowledge. You don't need to study psychology to know that.

    Where does all your knowledge reside when you are asleep? It cannot disappear into oblivion! How are you informed about a specific knowledge when you are awake? You are not aware of all your knowledge at once. Are you?MoK
    The knowledge is kept in memory when asleep. When you awake from sleep, they can be accessed via reasoning. Conscious mind means that you are just awake. Dogs and cats are conscious, and some plants can be conscious, but they don't have knowledge because they are only conscious but nothing more.

    I think by perception Hume means the conscious mind. It is a very important part but it is not all things that define a person with the capacity to think rationally.MoK
    No. It sounds like you haven't read Hume. Read above. Thinking rationally requires more than being conscious.
  • Ontology of Time
    Electrons for example exist and move around the nucleus. They can be found free as well. Quarks exist within protons and neutrons. The conscious and subconscious minds refer to different parts of the brain.MoK
    They are just theories and postulations from what they saw. They don't exist as entities.
  • Ontology of Time
    Sure you are wrong. That is the reason that most of the outdated philosophers are wrong.MoK
    Philosophy doesn't get outdated. We still go back to the ancient philosophy and the Renaissance times for referencing on what they said. Science outdates. Did you read Popper?

    Philosophers need to read about science if they want to do good philosophy!MoK
    Philosophers read everything not just science.

    It is not nonsense at all. It is nonsense to accept his outdated philosophy now.MoK
    Problem with nonsense is that it doesn't know it is nonsense.
  • Ontology of Time
    They exist so in this sense they are real.MoK
    Where do they exist?

    I didn't say they are on the same level!MoK
    You forgot what you said.

    Philosophy and science go hand in hand without science you cannot do good philosophy and vice versa.MoK
  • Ontology of Time
    The subconscious mind does not sleep at all. That is the conscious mind that sleeps.MoK
    The conscious mind means that you woke from sleep. Subconscious mind means that you have a part of mind which sleep all the time, but you think it doesn't.

    Where is your perception when you are asleep? Why does your perception start to work when you are awake? How could you do reasoning if reasoning per se is a form of perception?MoK
    Perception only happens when you are fully awake and alert. All your knowledge on the universe comes via perception. Perception is also backed by reasoning and logic. Without perception, you don't have knowledge.
  • Ontology of Time
    You cannot do proper philosophy without a good science and vice versa!MoK
    Science needs philosophy. Philosophy doesn't need science. No philosophers will go out in the white gown, and conduct experiments and tests and measurements. They just read, think and speculate for analysis and reasoning pursuing truths on the universe.

    Hume was false. He was an intelligent philosopher though. I am sure he would deny his philosophy if he was alive now.MoK
    Hume is one of the most important philosophers in western philosophy. To say Hume is false is like saying, philosophy is false and all knowledge is false. Nonsense.
  • Ontology of Time
    So do you think that things like electrons, quarks, subconscious minds, conscious minds, etc. are real?MoK
    We know them, and use them. But to say they are real can be problem in logical sense. You need to make clear in what sense "real" is real. Philosophy doesn't deny them. But it is trying to make sure in what sense you are using the concepts, and whether they make sense when used in the arguments.
    You seem to be emotionally defending them as if they were denied. No. Nothing is denied.

    Philosophy and science go hand in hand without science you cannot do good philosophy and vice versa.MoK
    No. They are not in the same level. Philosophy inspects and analyze the misuses of the concepts and imaginary ideas of science, hence philosophy makes science more robust in logic and theory.
    They are not friends or lovers. Philosophy is higher level authority in the ladder if you will.
  • Ontology of Time
    Yes, they are concepts but these concepts are based on extensive study of the brain. Why do you stick to the idea of perception when I already refute it? Why don't you study a little psychology? It is necessary when it comes to time!MoK

    If your knowledge is based on your conscious and subconscious mind just woke up from sleep, no doubt that you are in full of confusion and illusions. You must rely on your perception and reasoning for your knowledge.

    Philosophy goes deeper into the roots of the idea trying to capture the arche of the concept. Psychology and physics only talk about what are visible and obvious, and what is given by the measurement and experiment.
  • Ontology of Time
    He couldn't possibly say a lot about them since there was no knowledge of them in his time. He was false! Therefore, you are false.MoK

    Because you are mixing psychology and physics in philosophical debates in random and chaotic fashion, it seems to be creating confusion and illusion in your mind. Hume was not false. Hume was intelligible and sensible.
  • Ontology of Time
    Why don't you study a little bit of psychology so you can back up your thoughts? You deny physics, psychology, and science! All things you know are outdated knowledge which is false.MoK

    It wasn't denying. It was just a clarification saying , that they are irrelevant to philosophical debates.
  • Ontology of Time
    The point though, is that sense perception is as a continuous movement. So, when Hume represents it as a succession of still frames, he already applies the conceptualized version of motion, across this gap of inconsistency, to represent sense perception in a way which is not true. In doing this, the reality of time is lost to him.Metaphysician Undercover

    But are the continuous movements possible without perception? All movements, motions and objects are only meaningful and possible, when perceived via senses.
  • Ontology of Time
    I think that Hume did not understand the conscious mind and the subconscious mind.MoK
    Conscious or subconscious mind is actually psychological concepts. They are irrelevant to knowledge or reasoning. So Hume was right not to say a lot about them.

    It is based on the collaboration between my conscious and subconscious mind. And it is not blind faith!MoK
    Conscious or subconscious mind means the degree of being awake from sleep. They don't provide you with any knowledge at all.
  • Ontology of Time
    Things cannot be mere perceptions since there are mental phenomena, thoughts for example, which are consistent. This consistency is because any thought resides on other thoughts, etc. This consistency however requires something that thoughts reside within, what we call the brain, therefore saying that things are mere perception is false!MoK

    But if you don't trust your own perception, then where does your knowledge come from? Is your knowledge based on your imagination and blind faith?
  • Ontology of Time
    Then the continuity of movement is left out of the representation, as completely unreal.Metaphysician Undercover

    Continuity is another idea which is generated from each single separate impressions and ideas of the movement. It is an idea, which cannot be divided or separated, which is distinct from the actual continuity itself.
  • Ontology of Time
    Hume has a mistaken premise, that sense perception consists of a "succession" of distinct perceptions. This is not consistent with experience, which demonstrates that we actually perceive continuous motion and change with our senses. This renders the quoted argument from Hume as unsound.Metaphysician Undercover
    Interesting point.   But think of the old movies shot by 8mm camera with the roll films.  The movement in the film is made of each single still image.  When the single images are run through the projector with the light, it gives us continuous moving motion.  The continuous movement and motion is recreated in our brain by the latent memory.  In actuality, they are just single still images running continuously in fast speed in order to recreate the recorded motions.

    Hume is seeing our visual perception in the same way.  His idea of perception is that we have the single impressions and the matching ideas of perceived objects coming into our senses continuously creating the perception just like the old movies made of 8mm films.

    At any chance, we can stop the perception, and pick the single impression and ideas to investigate its contents.  In that sense, no ideas and impressions are identical, as they are separate entities to each other.

    This false premise also produces the conclusion that time is not real, in a way related to how Zeno proved that motion is not real.Metaphysician Undercover
    In Hume, what is not captured in impressions and ideas are not real. Time has no matching impressions or ideas. The moment you see the time now, it passes into past. It is ineffable, ever evanescent and fleeting illusive part of human mind.
  • Physical cannot be the cause of its own change
    No. It is not correct. Time is required for any change. Consider a change in the state of something, X to Y, where X and Y are two states that define the change.MoK

    But there was no change of the baseball of S1 at t1 (5PM), and S2 at t2(10PM) as seen by the observation. How do you explain that? Time passed, but there is no change.

    Baseball was flying to the wall, hit the wall and dropped to the ground. No time was supplied or known. But the baseball moved to different location. Time was not even considered here.

    You need the time variable for further calculating the energy value, but you must measure time for that while the ball is moving. This measuring action of time is not required for the ball to move.
  • Ontology of Time


    Kant's original texts in English seem to have some parts with ambiguous translations dating back 100 years, which can cause ambiguities and difficulties in understanding. But still, they are good classic philosophical texts. I prefer Hume's work, which has no translatory layers.

    Well, what Hume seems to be saying is that, some folks, be it philosophers or the vulgars imagine time exists as we see even now. But time is not perceptible. Only objects we see are the objects themselves and durations of the movements. Hence time cannot be objects existing in the world. Simple.
    I agree with that idea.

    We use time, tell time and measure time thanks to the invention, the solar movements of the earth and the mechanical device called watches and clocks which ticks with regularity and accuracy. But time itself doesn't exist in the universe. If tomorrow the earth stops rotating around the sun, the use of current time system will cease to exist, and the civilization will plunge into chaos.

    Hume's expression of the vulgars in his original texts means the ordinary folks who never read any philosophy.
  • Shaken to the Chora
    A definition might be too strict for something that mostly does not exist to be defined, it is an extended boundless dynamic field of inter-penetrating proto-substances constantly moving and changing into each other. According to ancient physics, if substances are self-generating and self-moving then they are necessarily imbued with soul and must be alive in some sense.magritte

    It sounds like Chora does things, moves, changes, generates imbued with souls and lives on, like God creates and time flows, but it may not exist in the material world for us to be able to perceive or sense.
  • Shaken to the Chora
    If they did they would lose an objective common ground of communication. The lexicon has its own biases as well but where would we be without it? Plato resorted to dramatics, personalities, irony, and metaphors to paint over large gaps with a broad brush where the fine strokes of reason lacked.magritte
    A valid point. We use lexicon and analytic philosophy as a tool for clarification of ambiguous words or sentences in the arguments. But they are just a tool, not the end or goal of philosophy. Many eminent and deep philosophical ideas lie in the realm of chora beyond the words. :)

    I need to do the same. Boundless apeiron and fundamental material substances as arche originated with those early physicists and I often wonder what that lost book by Heraclitus would read like.magritte
    I picked up these old books from the 2nd hand book shop for cheap, but they look very interesting books. I also thought that some of Platonic concepts could be coming from his predecessors like Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, but it was just an idea.
  • Ontology of Time
    Which still leaves the inception of time and space into our subjective constitution….assuming of course there is such a thing to begin with…..for which some pure formal metaphysics is required.Mww
    Some intelligible scientists and philosophers already have been talking about nonexistence of time.

    Hume was also saying time doesn't exist. Could then time be the quality of ideas of objects perceived by mind in Hume?

    "The idea of time, being deriv'd from the succession of our perceptions of every kind, ideas as well as impressions, and impressions of reflection as well as of sensation, will afford us an instance of an abstract idea, which comprehends a still greater variety than that of space, and yet is represented in the fancy by some particular individual idea of a determinate quantity and quality.

    T 1.2.3.7, SBN 35
    As 'tis from the disposition of visible and tangible objects we receive the idea of space, so from the succession of ideas and impressions we form the idea of time, nor is it possible for time alone ever to make its appearance, or be taken notice of by the mind. A man in a sound sleep, or strongly occupy'd with one thought, is insensible of time; and according as his perceptions succeed each other with greater or less rapidity, the same duration appears longer or shorter to his imagination. It has been remark'd by a[8] great philosopher, that our perceptions have certain bounds in this particular, which are fix'd by the original nature and constitution of the mind, and beyond which no influence of external objects on the senses is ever able to hasten or retard our thought. If you wheel about a burning coal with rapidity, it will present to the senses an image of a circle of fire; nor will there seem to be any interval of time betwixt its revolutions; meerly because 'tis impossible for our perceptions to succeed each other with the same rapidity, that motion may be communicated to external objects. Wherever we have no successive perceptions, we have no notion of time, even tho' there be a real succession in the objects. From these phænomena, as well as from many others, we may conclude, that time cannot make its appearance to the mind, either alone, or attended with a steady unchangeable object, but is always discover'd by some perceivable succession of changeable objects.

    T 1.2.3.8, SBN 35-6
    To confirm this we may add the following argument, which to me seems perfectly decisive and convincing. 'Tis evident, that time or duration consists of different parts: For otherwise we cou'd not conceive a longer or shorter duration. 'Tis also evident, that these parts are not co-existent. For that quality of the co-existence of parts belongs to extension, and is what distinguishes it from duration. Now as time is compos'd of parts, that are not co-existent; an unchangeable object, since it produces none but co-existent impressions, produces none that can give us the idea of time; and consequently that idea must be deriv'd from a succession of changeable objects, and time in its first appearance can never be sever'd from such a succession.

    T 1.2.3.9, SBN 36
    Having therefore found, that time in its first appearance to the mind is always conjoin'd with a succession of changeable objects, and that otherwise it can never fall under our notice, we must now examine whether it can be conceiv'd without our conceiving any succession of objects, and whether it can alone form a distinct idea in the imagination.

    T 1.2.3.10, SBN 36-7
    In order to know whether any objects, which are join'd in impression, be separable in idea, we need only consider, if they be different from each other; in which case, 'tis plain they may be conceiv'd apart. Every thing, that is different, is distinguishable; and every thing, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explain'd. If on the contrary they be not different, they are not distinguishable; and if they be not distinguishable, they cannot be separated. But this is precisely the case with respect to time, compar'd with our successive perceptions. The idea of time is not deriv'd from a particular impression mix'd up with others, and plainly distinguishable from them; but arises altogether from the manner, in which impressions appear to the mind, without making one of the number. Five notes play'd on a flute give us the impression and idea of time; tho' time be not a sixth impression, which presents itself to the hearing or any other of the senses. Nor is it a sixth impression, which the mind by reflection finds in itself. These five sounds making their appearance in this particular manner, excite no emotion in the mind, nor produce an affection of any kind, which being observ'd by it can give rise to a new idea. For that is necessary to produce a new idea of reflection, nor can the mind, by revolving over a thousand times all its ideas of sensation, ever extract from them any new original idea, unless nature has so fram'd its faculties, that it feels some new original impression arise from such a contemplation. But here it only takes notice of the manner, in which the different sounds make their appearance; and that it may afterwards consider without considering these particular sounds, but may conjoin it with any other objects. The ideas of some objects it certainly must have, nor is it possible for it without these ideas ever to arrive at any conception of time; whichsince it appears not as any primary distinct impression, can plainly be nothing but different ideas, or impressions, or objects dispos'd in a certain manner, that is, succeeding each other.

    T 1.2.3.11, SBN 37
    I know there are some who pretend, that the idea of duration is applicable in a proper sense to objects, which are perfectly unchangeable; and this I take to be the common opinion of philosophers as well as of the vulgar. But to be convinc'd of its falshood we need but reflect on the foregoing conclusion, that the idea of duration is always deriv'd from a succession of changeable objects, and can never be convey'd to the mind by any thing stedfast and unchangeable. For it inevitably follows from thence, that since the idea of duration cannot be deriv'd from such an object, it can never in any propriety or exactness be apply'd to it, nor can any thing unchangeable be ever said to have duration. Ideas always represent the objects or impressions, from which they are deriv'd, and can never without a fiction represent or be apply'd to any other. By what fiction we apply the idea of time, even to what is unchangeable, and suppose, as is common, that duration is a measure of rest as well as of motion, we shall consider[9] afterwards."

    ADDENDUM : The bolds are by the OP
  • Physical cannot be the cause of its own change


    I got my baseball out, and put it on the desk at 5 PM. Now 10 PM, 5 hours later, nothing changed. The baseball has not changed at all 5 hours later. No movement, no breaking and no flying anywhere. It sits exactly same spot as it was 5 hours ago. Therefore time cannot cause physical to change. Physical changes only by force or energy.

    If I pick up the baseball, and throw it to the wall, it flies to the wall, and hits the wall, and drops to the ground. No time is required. Only energy of throwing the ball is required.

    Therefore physical changes only when force or energy was applied to it. No time is required. Time only emerges if and only if I measure it with the stop-watch. Correct?
  • Meinong rejection of Existence being Prior to Predication
    Can any objects be EPP,
    — Corvus
    This does not parse. EPP is a principle, and I don't know what it means for an object to be (or not) a principle.
    noAxioms
    Isn't EPP, Existence Prior to Predication? Hence it is a type of existence such as unicorn or dragon. We can describe how they might look, and they have properties such as has horn, breathes fire, being mythical etc. It is not possible to say they exist, but they exist prior to predication as concepts.
    So is it a principle? Principle is the way something works with consistency and coherence mostly in physical objects and movements, and sometimes in the law and logic too. Nothing to do with existence.

    You can ask what sort of objects are inapplicable to EPP for instance. My typical example is that 17 has the property of being prime, yet no conclusion of 17's existence follows from that. EPP seems not to apply there.noAxioms
    17 is a number. Numbers don't exist in real world. Numbers are concept. 17 has property being odd number, as well as being prime etc. Therefore it is EPP. Let me know if you don't agree or think not correct. Must admit EPP is a new concept for me.
  • Ontology of Time
    Investigate someone else’s metaphysical exposé of time, you’ll get a different set of premises for its explanation, right?Mww

    Just ordered a book on time. It is filled with various articles by 30 different academic contributors. It is called "Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality"

    What's your view on time?
  • Ontology of Time


    Fairdos. I am still thinking, and try to perceive time. But time is not perceivable like the other objects around me. I still use time, and tell the time. But that doesn't convince me time exists. Time is a concept or as Kant put it a priori condition for human perception. If time is a priori transcendental condition, then it doesn't exist. We have them in our minds. :)
  • Ontology of Time
    Yeah, well, you know….no one’s gonna admit to being “done with all this thinking”, but might still judge that everyone else seems to be done with his.Mww

    We should go back to Kant.

    "We dispute all claim of time to absolute reality [absolute Realität], namely where it would attach to things absolutely as a condition or property even without regard to the form of our sensible intuition. Such properties, which pertain to things in themselves, can also never be given to us through the senses. Therefore herein lies the transcendental ideality of time, according to which, if one abstracts from the subjective condition of our sensible intuition, it is nothing at all, and can be considered neither as subsisting nor as inhering in the objects in themselves (without their relation to our intuition). " - CPR (A36/B52)