Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:23 pm
bahman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:14 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:46 pm
Then that's more than two points. It's a bunch of points, with two on the extreme sides of the series. You might find it easier just to work with two, and with the interval between them. It will keep things clear.
Yes, if we accept that time is continuous then we are dealing with a bunch of points. The point is that those points have to exist otherwise there cannot be any change.
"Continuous" is the opposite of "points." So no, that's not what we're dealing with.
No, it is not given the definition of change in a continuous substance. A change in a continuous substance is given by deferential which is defined as the limit when two points tend to each other.
Time is not a concept.
No, but it's not a substance either.
I am wondering why you didn't comment on the rest of my argument!
I can't see what your argument is. It doesn't make sense to me. Maybe you can explain more clearly?
It is a substance if you follow my whole argument!
Well, then, where is this "argument" I'm supposed to be seeing? You haven't made it to me, so far as I can see.
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Here is my argument: I am talking about two points that different events lay within. If two points don't exist then events lay at the same point, so they are simultaneous, or in other words, there cannot be any change.