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Has anybody revised Kant's Antinomies of space & time in view of modern physics?
Has anybody updated Kant's antinomies in view of modern physics?
In The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) he laid out the Antinomies of Pure Reason highlighting contradictions in the ideas of time and ...
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Is "infinity" simply an accident of brains/turing machines?
As far as I know, no actual "infinity" exists in the universe. For example, the age of the observable universe is thought to be 10 - 15 billion years, while its size seems to be about 93 ...
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Limitless Space
I know many talked about this, however I am not a professional philosopher, rather a mathematician.
In mathematics we have the concept of infinity, so we speak about infinitely big things, we compare ...
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Can something sensible be said about a world of complete nothingness?
One thought that keeps me up at night is when I start to think about the world "before" the universe existed and "beyond" the universe itself. I know that it doesn't really make sense to speak about "...
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