Saturday, August 25, 2018

Internal time and God

  1. The internal time of a substance is constituted by the causal order within its accidents.
  2. But God is a substance that has no accidents.
  3. So God has no internal time.
Pity that both premises are controversial.

7 comments:

Philip Rand said...
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Philip Rand said...
Your concerns are solved thus:

x1=ix, x2=iy, x3=iz, x4=ct

r=(x,y,z), x=(x1,x2,x3,x4)

Sorry, noted the "==", this may have caused confusion.

The above can also be read as:

x1=x, x2=y, x3=z, x4=ict

r=(x,y,z), x=(x1,x2,x3,x4)

Both choices of co-ordinates, (ir,ct) or (r,ict) fully describe the system.

The interesting question is: Where is zero? and: Is zero simple?

Philip Rand said...
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Philip Rand said...

Another interesting question is: Why is light so important?

Since the laws of physics are symmetric:

particle + anti-particle -> annihilation + photon

particle - anti-particle <- construction - photon

What is one of the terms Christ uses to describe Himself?

Alexander R Pruss said...

Dear Philip: Thank you for all your contributions, but I am afraid a number of your comments while intriguing are too cryptic and off-topic. I may have to start deleting such comments.

Philip Rand said...

Asses prefer straw to gold. [Heraclitus]