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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Senses' and 'A Powerful Particulars View of Causation'

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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion

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In modern physics the first and second laws of motion (unlike the third) fail at extremes [Ingthorsson]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter

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If particles have decay rates, they can't really be elementary, in the sense of indivisible [Ingthorsson]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]

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It is difficult to handle presentism in first-order logic [Ingthorsson]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment

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The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]

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Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]