(October 24, 2019 at 4:56 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(October 24, 2019 at 10:09 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: The questions that belonged to metaphysics once now belong to science. The question of whether time had a beginning is not a question of metaphysics now, it belongs to physics. The questions about whether reality, locality and causality exist once belonged to metaphysics, they now belong to physics (Bell's Theorem, interpretations of quantum mechanics...). The questions about whether geometry is entirely based on reason or whether it's partly empirical once belonged to metaphysics and epistemology, today they belong to mathematics (non-Euclidean geometries) and physics (special and general relativity).
Once again you've changed the subject rather than follow through on what was said before.
I pointed out that there are arguments -- philosophical, metaphysical -- which don't operate in the way science operates. And that you were misapplying standards.
Rather than acknowledge that, you've now made a number of different claims. As it happens, I disagree with your conclusion here, too, but from experience I know that if I take the time to type out an argument, you will respond with yet another subject.
I think you aren't interested enough to focus on the conversation, so I'll stop here.
I don't think I changed the subject. You said that what Spinoza was talking about belongs to metaphysics, and not to physics. I said that, although it did belong to metaphysics back then, it probably belongs to physics today.