(August 9, 2023 at 11:08 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(August 9, 2023 at 10:49 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: The use of the word "prior" becomes a category mistake in the absence of time. It's like asking what is the weight of Catholicism in grams.
There are two kinds of priority: temporal and essential. The essential type is sometimes called ontological.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontologica...reference.
This view is not compatible with modern physics, which has space and time unified in a single field, identical with the gravitational field, where a "prior" event is defined as a point on or within the past light-code of any given event. Thus the red flag of category mistake.
