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Kant's remarks about the concept of time and the principle of noncontradiction
In the Transcendental Aesthetic he notes:
... I shall add that the conception of change, and with it the conception of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation ...
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Does time exist/is fundamental in such a scenario?
Suppose you have nothing, but only a thing X which doesn't change at all, is there time? How would you say how many seconds/units of time have passed when there is only the thing X i.e. static too, ...
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Is all change movement?
Is there a change in the universe that cannot be reduced to movement? One counter-example should be enough. :)
Heat is a type of change that was once thought to be qualitative, but is now realized to ...
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Time as a transition from a whole which is constitutable by each of many sets of parts to the set of parts that generates the shortest path?
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Any entity E which is constituted by extrinsically indiscernible parts A and B remains extrinsically the same, in all stages of the change, even if A changes to B and B to A (concurrently).
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Is moral responsibility consistent from an ontological perspective of change?
Let a being be arbitrary, suppose that this being has the capacity to be morally responsible.
(EDIT 2) Regardless of group morality, but assume this being is in a moral environment with no moral ...
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Is there a quantitative model of change?
I am trying to build a particular theory, and I am wondering if there is a quantitative formulation for how much an object has changed.
For example, if an oak seed grows into an oak, how much has it ...
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No change can be responsible for an essence ceasing to exist?
Essences - assuming there are no bare essences - of things that exist, exist forever.
I think so, and I even have my own most argument for it below. Which philosophers agree or disagree? It may have ...
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Why does Thomas Aquinas conclude that the First Mover is God?
It appears to me that the First Mover of any motion must not move only with respect to the change it is producing, but otherwise could be moved in a way unrelated to what it is changing, or moved ...
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Which discipline of philosophy is most interested and relevant to studying the nature of change?
Often as a beginner, I wonder: who studies this idea?
Is there a body of literature on 'change', and if so, which discipline of philosophy is most interested in the nature of 'change' and truths ...
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How do philosophers differentiate between change and progress at the intersection of art, design, and business management?
I do Theory of Knowledge (IBDP) at school and in regards to the subject areas, I was thinking of linking the arts and design (humanities? design of products?) to reason, sense perception, intuition, ...
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How can we differentiate between change and progress in the area of history and natural sciences?
I'm studying a branch of philosophy that is concerned with knowledge.
I'm studying theory of knowledge(epistemology) and I want to use faith, reason, and memory as tools for carrying this ...
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Beginning of time problems?
Dear philosophy stackexchange,
I'm curious as to whether there have been arguments by philosophers for there being a finite past/future or whether it has always been past/future temporally infinite? ...
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Does the act-potency distinction lead to Meinong's jungle?
The Aristotelian-Thomistic distinction of act-potency is, among other things, supposed to solve Parmenides' paradoxes of change. Since change requires something non-existent popping into existence ex ...
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Is process philosophy at odds with orthodox Christian theology?
Process philosophy regards change, as opposed to stasis, as the basis of reality. Does this contradict orthodox Christian theology, such as Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and the various Protestant ...
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Question About Shoemaker's Thought Experiment (Time Without Change)
In his argument that time intervals can exist without change, Shoemaker gives us an interesting thought experiment. For those unfamiliar, here it is:
Assume that an entire universe is divided into ...
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Is Heraclitus really a Mobilist?
I learned that Heraclitus stressed the importance of change and the ephemeral nature of things in the cosmos. However, it seems that Heraclitus refers to a "logos":
The opening of Heraclitus' book ...
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How to resolve this argument against possibility of change?
Let's say that some being A is changed to being B (example: lion burned to ashes, cold metal turned to hot metal, etc.).
Thesis. It is impossible that being A is changed to being B.
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Suppose ...
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Does Tegmark's hypothesis include dynamical mathematical structures?
Tegmark's hypothesis is the idea that mathematical structures are physical and thus have physical existence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis)
Zuse's thesis says that ...
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Which philosophers has proven existing is being part of the change in time?
Does anyone know any philosopher(s)/mathematician(s) who has proven that existing is being part of change in time or a journal article from a credential academician/scholar who conclude this with ...
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What exactly is the 'potential' that is actualized in Aristotelian metaphysics?
From my understanding, Aristotelian metaphysics uses the concepts of potentiality and actuality to explain change. Since being cannot come from non-being, when change occurs a potential is simply ...
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What are the best arguments for the defense of the "principle of motion"?
How would someone (I would love to hear how Aquinas and/or Aristotle would) defend the principle of motion (that is, whatever is changed is changed by another or only actual being can actualize ...
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Does it make sense to say that change is just what is changing?
Does it make sense to say that change is just what is changing? If so, which philosopher or philosophers have claimed it?
If no-one goes as far as to say so, then what could change be in addition to ...
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can you rationally believe in an ever changing identity, but also believe that parts of us persevere?
Is it possible to rationally believe that certain aspects of the identity don't change, while still acknowledging the fact that we are not the same person we were an instant ago? In other words, is it ...
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How could being follow action?
Some philosophers have denied the philosophical axiom "Agere sequitur esse"* ("'To act' follows from 'to be'"). What reasons do they give for thinking that action precedes (logically? ontologically? ...
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