On 4/19/2018 11:01 AM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
According to [quantum mechanics] discrete points do form a continuum, because they are blurred. Or something like that.
Maybe. But that would be a different ontology for time. In any case, the distinction between Aristotle and Zeno (or Peirce and Cantor) represents two important ways of thinking, talking, and reasoning about the issues. That is independent of any version of physics at the atomic level. John
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