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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
The concept of change presupposes the concept of time because change
is defined by comparing the state at two different points in time.
Because you ponder whether the relation of time and change is a
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
Your question doesn't have a meaningful answer, because it pre-supposes something that is physically impossible. In effect, what you are asking is what would be the implications for time if we ignore ...
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Is there a distinction between one iteration and multiple iterations of Sleeping Beauty Problem?
No, the credence one should apply should be derived from large sample distribution. The idea is that any given particular instance of the sleeping beauty experiment corresponds to one of the cases of ...
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
If you are talking about physical versus psychological time, the relation between time, motion, and change comes up again and again. In modern physics, of course, we have v = x/t which rewritten is t =...
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Is there a meaningful aspect of human life that is close to a material eureka moment?
I do not believe there can be a single universal eureka moment,I.e. the same event for everyone. My life experience shows the nature of human beings to be universally subjective and so while, for some,...
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How can something exist and then cease to exist?
Existence can very well be simply temporary. There is no reason for existence to be neither eternal nor immutable in order to be called existence.
Western metaphysics has long been obsessed with ...
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Is there a distinction between one iteration and multiple iterations of Sleeping Beauty Problem?
It depends on whether one is a halfer or a thirder: the thirder won't change the belief but the halfer will. Consider repeating the experiment just twice. Then there are four possibilities for the ...
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Is there a distinction between one iteration and multiple iterations of Sleeping Beauty Problem?
After some thinking, I made two variations each of the "single coin toss" and "multiple coin tosses" experiment. The conclusion is that the credence in a multiple coin tosses ...
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Is there a distinction between one iteration and multiple iterations of Sleeping Beauty Problem?
Should there be a difference in Sleeping Beauty's credence that a random awakening corresponds to Heads, depending on whether we do the single coin toss or the repeated coin toss experiment?
A ...
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can the way a radically different idea is presented optimize the process of accommodation on the receiver's end?
The most helpful precaution to take in such circumstances is to alert your audience to the fact that accommodation is needed, ideally pointing out exactly which concepts from their current mental ...
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
See The Science of Timekeeping Application Note 1289 - Hewlett Packard.
http://www.allanstime.com/Publications/DWA/Science_Timekeeping/TheScienceOfTimekeeping.pdf
Resonant systems (clocks) are the ...
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
In physics, in a world with maximum entropy, there's no way to distinguish which way in time is forwards and which way in time is backwards. Atoms and molecules are in motion, but their motion is ...
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Kant's remarks about the concept of time and the principle of noncontradiction
Kant: "if this representation [of time] were not an intuition (internal) a priori, no conception, of whatever kind, could render comprehensible the possibility of change"
OP: "how could ...
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