dream_weaver

I read this series almost 20 years ago. It is a well done 5 volume set. Bertrand Russell is of the Linguistic Analysis school, and one may need keep that in mind in digesting his writings.

These are not axioms. Hint: Ayn Rand points out, and outlines Existence, Consciousness and Identity as the 3 axioms that underscore, and are implicit within all knowledge, understandings and percepts. As Jake points out, you are applying a mathematical concept to an attribute of the universe. Time is more to the universe as Length, or Weight, or Shape is to any entity within the universe. See Jake's point above. You are creating an arbitrary 'JN' as eternal - you obviously can grasp eternal - now you just need to apply it to that which is, rather than create that which isn't to apply it to. Ponder this - perhaps motion (change) IS the natural state of the universe. As for me and mine. I am back to gathering thoughts on 'Circular Time Theory'. Keep searching and inquiring though. If you are intellectually honest, you will be asking, 'What do I know', and 'How do I know it' at every stage of the quest.

We can see that you do not think that we understand. You wish to base it on Aristotilian logic and that the argument is logical - fine - Upon which axioms do you derive your antecedent conclusions?

You referenced Kalam in an earlier post. You reference a 'kalam argument' and refer to classic(al?) logic, and then brush aside the inquiry: To what logic are you appealing, considering the 'kalam arguement' is most likely based on something other than Aristotilian logic? As an aside: An infinite amount of time between when and when? What beginning? That which has always been, has no beginning. It is impossible for that which has always been to have a beginning.

Agreed. This follows the earlier context she built upon:

It is not the first time the Middle East has suggested a unified currency. Even the 'common enemy' has not been enough to bind them together on this at the moment. The other articles have been predicting hyper-inflation for years. Press them for a date, - it will be in the future. Duh.

Humans rights originate in Nature, thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges: - Rights of Man - Thomas Paine The American philosophy of the Rights of Man was never grasped fully by European intellectuals. Europe's predominant idea of emancipation consisted of changing the concept of man as a slave of the absolute state embodied by a king, to the concept of man as a slave of the absolute state embodied by "the people"—4.e., switching from slavery to a tribal chief into slavery to the tribe. - Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand

Setting fire to on member of Congress per year would broaden the scope of weinie roast. The FDA might object however.

Is it a fundamental problem, or are we just seeing the cause/effect of permitting language to be diluted, allowing it to deteriorate, permitting something other than definitions to be the guardian against epistemological disintegration? 'Society' and 'Popular thinking' trump 'Reason'. Thinking, logic and truth should just fold to 'Consensus'.

The proper understanding of 'rights' should only bring about justification for their protection. Arguing for their protection/limitation suggests that rights come from an agency other than nature.

In your Kalam dialectic, to who's logic are you appealing? You mention classic(al?) logic, yet Islam rejected Aristotilian and presumable Platonic reasoning centuries ago.

Medicaide and Medicare reduce the number of participants via voluntary insurance offerings, thus spreading the cost among a smaller pool. They also shift the premiums to a less efficient (government) manager of the funds involved. FDA sets up roadblocks to bringing potential new products to market. In short, since the government has gotten involved in health care back in the 50's, like the education system or anything else they get involved with, efficiency is tossed out the window, and the end product has been defective. (Why Johnny can't think, read, . . .) Look to Canada, the U.K. and anywhere else that has heavy government involvement in health care to see what the US has to look forward to if it too adopts such draconian measures.

Medicare, Medicaide, FDA.

Kalām (Arabic: علم الكلام‎) is the Islamic philosophy of seeking Islamic theological principles through dialectic. In Arabic the word means "words, discussion, discourse". A scholar of kalam is referred to as a mutakallim (Muslim theologian; plural mutakallimiin). There are many interpretations of why this discipline was called "kalam"; one of them is that the widest controversy in this field was about Allah's speech. Ibn Warraq did an excellent piece on the history of these thugs and barbarians (Muslims, in general). That must really frost them having 'Why I am not a Muslim' being done under a pen name. Who do they fatwa against? I am sure that S. Rushdie can attest to this.

You have quite the Muslim population though, at least some of the news reports would lead one to believe.

Beginning? What beginning? How does anything 'pop into existence?' Most comedians charge for their entertainment, not all of them though.

http://www.google.com/dictionary blithering Web definitions •Talking incoherently; jabbering If someone is blathering on about something, they are talking for a long time about something that you consider boring or unimportant.

If you combine your net worth with your assets, you find your liabilities are $1?

There is nothing quite like John Galt in monotone. Are the text to voice programmers working on inflection out there yet?

http://mises.org/ is a good resource for Austrian based economics.

Would it be fair to suggest that Seconds, Minutes and Hours are to Time as Inches, Feet and Yards are to Length?

may the God you invented forgive you!— Ayn Rand

Hmm, either 'chance is a choice', or could it be 'nothingness choosing', or even 'nothingness taking on a human attribute'?

Mark Scott once identified that time travel was not possible because it violates the law of causality. The speed of light is identified as a physical constant, 299,792,458 m•s (meters per second). A meter is a man made standard. Seconds appear to be a man made standard as well. Time is at least a relational concept, or as someone else stated 'a concept of aspect entities' which I do not yet get. We get a seconds by divying up the duration of two consecutive sunrises. This relationship between motions (earth spinning on its axis with the sun as a reference point) is then used as a standard to 'unitize' for quantifying other motional events. Does this make it a dimension, or just dimensionable? This flows from a rather limited attempt to grasp the 'circular time theory' of which there is surprizingly little sensible information available on currently.