Re: BHA: Re: starting up DPF readings again.

[Louis Irwin <lirwin1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tobin,

>>     If SOMETHING changes, then EVERYTHING
>>changes.  As long as we accept as a premiss that something in the world is
>>always changing, then everything is always changing.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by "everything."  Does the value of pi, or
>Planck's constant, or the molecular structure of water change?  If you're
>simply talking about material bodies, wouldn't that entail an atomistic
>concept of the world?

I think the number pi can change in empirical ways.  For example, now I am
thinking of pi, but an hour ago I was not.  So pi now has a property that
it did not possess an hour ago, namely that I am thinking of it.
Therefore, pi changed.  It is of course the same number as before, but it
enters into changing relations with other things.  In that respect it is no
different from a material object.  It is a fallacy to think that abstract
objects do not enter into empirical relations.  Of course the resulting
empirical properties of pi are not mathematical properties, which are
essential to it, unlike my thinking about it.

A similar principle holds for Planck's constant and molecular structures.

I don't understand your reference to material bodies or why an atomistic
concept of the world would follow.

Louis Irwin



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