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To: alnitak
I read the posted article, and as I suspected, this is a content-free theory. An instant in time exists in the limit of zero interval; you can take measurements over ever decreasing intervals, and extrapolate to zero interval. In effect, that's what most physical measurements do, implicitly or explicitly. One could similarly argue that a single point location does not exist, since all real objects have finite length.

Oddly enough, he dosn't seem to have a problem with saying a precisely defined point exists on a spatial coordinate.

136 posted on 08/01/2003 8:31:44 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Oddly enough, he dosn't seem to have a problem with saying a precisely defined point exists on a spatial coordinate.

But can theree be such a thing in reality, as oppoosed to a thought experiment? Can any real thing have an absolute position?

138 posted on 08/01/2003 8:49:47 AM PDT by js1138
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