Helmut, List: I will offer brief responses to the specific questions posed. The much longer answer is my entire paper, "Temporal Synechism: A Peircean Philosophy of Time" (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09523-6 or https://rdcu.be/b9xVm).
HR: Now, are time and space a kind of ether? No, because although time and space are *real*, they do not *exist*. HR: A divine clock ticking, a divine measure tape of meters or parsecs applied to the world? No, because measurement relative to a *discrete *unit of duration or distance is something that we impose on *continuous *time and space. HR: Or is time produced by events, and is space produced by matter? No, time and space are together the medium (3ns) in which events occur and matter exists (2ns). HR: Does the world consist of just and only signs? Or rather of objects, and the signs merely denote them? Are just correlates? According to Peirce, the entire universe is a vast sign--in my view, a semiosic continuum that we *analyze* into individual objects, signs, and interpretants as *entia rationis*. As such, the continuous flow of time matches the continuous process of semiosis--the past determines the present to determine the future, just like the object determines the sign to determine the interpretant. HR: What now can the second tribe do to solve this paradoxon, or problem, and win in the end? Anybody got a proposal? What would it look like for the second tribe to "win in the end"? Their postmodern notion of each individual constructing his/her own reality is utterly incompatible with the very definition of reality--often invoked by Peirce--as that which is as it is regardless of what anyone thinks about it. Thanks, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 2:47 PM Helmut Raulien <h.raul...@gmx.de> wrote: > Dear List members, > > obviously there are two kinds of vibration: Acoustic vibration deserves a > substance like air to have it vibrated, but electromagnetic vibration > doesn´t, it delivers its own means to do so (vibrate). Before this was > clear, people thought, that electromagnetic vibration (e.g. light) deserved > a so-called "Ether". But this concept is long refuted. > > Now, are time and space a kind of ether? A divine clock ticking, a divine > measure tape of meters or parsecs applied to the world? Or is time produced > by events, and is space produced by matter? I think, Mach suspected so. > > Does the world consist of just and only signs? Or rather of objects, and > the signs merely denote them? Are just correlates? > > Like with the two kinds of vibration, I see two quasi-tribal modes of > interpretation of reality. One tribe says, that reality is a field we all > have to obey, and compete against each other, following the field´s rules. > The other tribe says, that we, each individual, constructs the reality, and > that it is possible to abandon the fight, and start creating a better > world. > > Now the paradoxon is, that these are two tribes, that fight against each > other. This fight applies to the logic of the first tribe only. What now > can the second tribe do to solve this paradoxon, or problem, and win in the > end? Anybody got a proposal? > > Best, Helmut >
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