ontology
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Is reality continuous or discrete?
Reality is whatever it is… only our models of it can be considered continuous or discrete (or true, or false, or useful). I say this like it’s obvious, but it’s a potentially controversial opinion. 🙂 People have a strong tendency to confuse the map with the territory. So a very successful theory becomes synonymous with reality itself.…
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Is “nothing” a thing, or is there no such thing as “nothing”?
Perhaps we have to start by asking what a “thing” is. Let’s try the following definition: a thing has the attribute of location in space and time. Further, we might conclude that in order to locate something, we must have a sense of its extent in space and time: its boundaries. This definition of “thing” is handy because…