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Ideas for Archimedes, David Lewis and Bertrand Russell
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Occupying a place and change are prior to motion, so motion is just occupying places at continuous times [Russell]
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Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
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Force is supposed to cause acceleration, but acceleration is a mathematical fiction [Russell]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
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Matter is the limit of appearances as distance from the object diminishes [Russell]
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Matter is a logical construction [Russell]
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Matter requires a division into time-corpuscles as well as space-corpuscles [Russell]
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At first matter is basic and known by sense-data; later Russell says matter is constructed [Russell, by Linsky,B]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
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There is 'private space', and there is also the 'space of perspectives' [Russell]
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Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
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Space is the extension of 'point', and aggregates of points seem necessary for geometry [Russell]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block
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It is quite implausible that the future is unreal, as that would terminate everything [Lewis]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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We never experience times, but only succession of events [Russell]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / j. Time travel
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The interesting time travel is when personal and external time come apart [Lewis, by Baron/Miller]
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Lewis said it might just be that travellers to the past can't kill their grandfathers [Lewis, by Baron/Miller]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / b. Instants
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Mathematicians don't distinguish between instants of time and points on a line [Russell]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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We could be aware of time if senses briefly vibrated, extending their experience of movement [Russell, by Bardon]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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The 'universe' can mean what exists now, what always has or will exist [Russell]
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