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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: one_less who wrote (66256)5/18/2006 1:21:24 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
I said I see no reason why not and you still haven't offered one.

Quite simply because you cannot quantify it which I have said in various ways. It is not incumbent on me to prove that you can't quantify it; it is incumbent on you to prove it can be. You can postulate all sort of dimensions. It's not up to the rest of the world to prove you wrong.

We measure time in the context of material events taking place in space. We measure change in the same manner.

Only because we are limited to a phyical extistence. We can still consider time, and we do, as a separate and distinct dimension which we can quantify. Change cannot be. Change is intrinsically tied to one or more other dimensions and has no meaning without those dimensions. You're taking "qualities" and claiming them to be dimensions.

Let's look at one of your passages....

"Do ideas have value as form and dimension? I see no reason why the same rules would not apply. So common recognition of concepts such as generousity as a 'good' value and 'corruption' as a bad value is not surprising and should be valid as proof unto itself. Proof that is confirmed by nearly universal acceptence among rational self-aware persons. The validity of self-evidence springs from this. Hat tip to Jefferson."

Your lead question: Do ideas have value as form and dimension? Did you even answer it? No. Near universal acceptance of generousity is no proof of form and dimension.

I could come closer by saying that temperature is a dimension, or light is a dimension. I doubt if there is a physicist out there that would agree with that.

jttmab
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