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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 01/16/04 9:52am
In reply to:
Damoclese
's message, "Comma" on 01/14/04 3:19pm
>>I know that the past is, and I know what the present
>>is, but you have not defined "past present." What is
>>it exactly?
>
>I omitted a comma on accident. It should be past,
>present, not past-present.
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>>And how is time in a perpetual loop necessitate that
>>every point in time never exists elsewhere then in our
>>minds?
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>Points by mathematical definition, don't exist.
That's not what my math teacher suggested. In math, points exist all the time. For instance, (1, 2) is a point in the equation y = 2x.
>A
>point on a circle is simply a point.
It doesn't mean the point doesn't exist.
>It wouldn't make
>much sense to divide the cirlce up into three sections
>and say "okay, this point is in the lower hemisphere
>section". All of them are on a circle, and any one
>point is just as much on the circle as any other.
In y = 2x the point (1, 2) is just as much on the line as any other relevant point. That still doesn't prove points don't exist in mathematics.
>Therefore, if time is circular, it wouldn't make sense
>to have a past or present or future designation.
If true, doesn't seem obvious that there is a past? That there was something I did yesterday etc.?
>A line by definition has a start point and an end
>point so that one can make a distinction as to where
>that point "is".
Actually, a line by definition doesn't have start point or end point (e.g. the line drawn by y = 2x). A segment is what has a start and end point.
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