On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:48 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 11:51 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:34 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 10:35 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:11 AM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:01:14 AM UTC+2 Bruce wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> One can have confidence in the continuation of angular momentum >>>>>> conservation because there is nothing in prospect that will spoil this >>>>>> symmetry -- the rotational invariance of space. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And there is nothing in prospect to maintain the symmetry either. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Why should you think that symmetry requires maintenance? Unless you >>>> take a medieval religious view and hold that God is necessary in order to >>>> hold the universe in order -- to hold the heavens in place. I think Galileo >>>> and Newton successfully dispelled such a notion. >>>> >>> >>> >>> "For each law-governed world, there are countless variants that would >>> fail in different ways to be wholly law-governed." >>> -- Derek Parfit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit> in “*Why >>> Anything? Why This? <http://www.sfu.ca/~rpyke/cafe/parfit.pdf>*” >>> >> >> >> What does Derek Parfit know about it? That is just his unevidenced >> opinion. >> > > He's just using reasoning according to math and logic. Do you see a flaw > in his reasoning? If so, what is it? > I have no idea what his reasoning might be. With a conclusion like this, I see no reason to actually try to find out. But all conclusions depend on premises, and even if the reasoning from these premises is flawless, the conclusions are not valid if the premises are flawed. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLR%2BEoBxkxmS1My78TUEhqM2dwHxykyhrXmndGvpdgr2LQ%40mail.gmail.com.
