(December 22, 2021 at 9:04 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(December 22, 2021 at 7:22 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Another variant of Last Thursdayism.
Like pure solipsism, it cannot be proven wrong. But anyone who actually believes it is legitimately crazy.
In both cases, it is necessary to define precisely how it is possible to talk about things that cannot be proven to exist, but which are mighty convenient for hypothesis testing.
Every nanosecond the world is destroyed and recreated.
That's how we perceive the passage of time and how we move.
If it didn't happen, we'd be stuck in one moment, one position, for ever.
Can anyone prove me wrong?
One of the positions taken in Islamic theology. God renews the universe between each instant and the next, creating anew in whatever way he desires.
Because of this, the notion of 'natural law' is seen as being anti-Islamic in medieval Islam.