In article <b1cc6ec0-c4f2-4ea2-bd05-acaa2f7f9ae5@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, Tony Orlow <tony@lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 1:20 am, George Greene <gree...@email.unc.edu> wrote: > > On Jul 11, 7:56 am, Tony Orlow <t...@lightlink.com> wrote: > > > > > If there is no clear answer to this question, then something is wrong > > > with your concept of time in this case, thanks to Zeno, and the > > > problem itself makes no sense. > > > > Why does Zeno deserve thanks, and why is it we who make no sense, > > as opposed to you and he? It simply is NOT NECESSARY for there to > > be an "event" called "the vase becomes empty" in order for the vase to > > be > > empty. The vase is empty as a result of an infinite number of > > different events, > > NOT ONE event. > > If the vase goes from one state to another in a thought experiment > involving time, then it should happen at some...time. There is no time > when this state transition can occur.
If the vase becoming empty has to happen AT some time, that time would be noon, since it has not yet happened at any time before noon and has already happened at any time after noon.
