Well there are 3 fragments related to this, one likely fake. It is a way to wake you up in his crazy paradox.
There are books and articles and may be one can start with the key phrase What is same river
And the hidden issue is you. If you think it is unique every time frame ... what is same river and same you. Can One same you even step into the River
And if step into it and swim in parallel is the molecules mostly the same ...
Back to What is river? If it is keep on changing as any river that is not changing and moving is not a river, the sameness if you accept then you can step into the same river as many time as you like. But that is wrong per the statement. Hence what is “same river”.
Indeed. But the scientific approach is different -- it's all about finding patterns that do repeat and making predictions.
The original comment's "theorem" is funny, but unless you are doing a homework problem, you better have a good intuition for when to take a second look at a seemingly simple situation.
> the scientific approach is different -- it's all about finding patterns that do repeat and making predictions
Sure, but if you're scientifically looking to answer "where and when will the sun rise" you're only going to collect enough variables to answer that question, and within an acceptable margin of error, right? If you can measure with greater accuracy and collect more data, then you would probably realize that every sunrise is not strictly identical.
We're splitting hairs at this point but I wonder if the comment I replied to that stated that "it has never happened before and will never happen again" can't be argued to be actually true. In a philosophical sense it's more obvious, but in a scientific sense, the more precision you get in your analysis of a sunrise, the more data you would get that differentiates it from other sunrises, no? After all, our solar system isn't closed and constant and there are minor changes not only in smaller factors like weather on Earth, but also larger factors like the orbit of the earth and the drift of the different planetary bodies.
