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thanks, you are obviously drawing a reservoir of work in producing these so regularly, I appreciate the effort to publish here as a keen student at your feet, at nearly 60 this is no mean feat. And so I wonder, have you material to come dealing with (1) Christopher Beckwith (I am thinking more about his book on the Scythians -- see m ignorant review at https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/christopher-i-beckwiths-the-scythian)

and (20 Julian Barbour, also his latter book The Janus Point (which has a handy PDF on the history of thermodynamics as a supplement. via http://www.platonia.com/ )

Which I mentioned because the worked helped dispel any lingering effect of the Newtownian Space-time grid or crystal, which is perhaps indicated in your quote by Windelband, on my thinking. Which is all now tensegrity-like.

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I've heard of Julian Barbour and was suspicious of his book about the denial of the reality of time, but after getting your message I looked up his website and there was quite a bit that was interesting there. I am revising my opinion of Barbour. I haven't previously heard of Beckwith, but I will look him up. I haven't written anything about either of them, but when a new influence enters into my thinking it eventually appears in my writing.

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I've just digested some more of his book at https://whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/minimum-viable-product.html but I do not deal with his main "point" just his framework. His, is an immanent position on time, not transcendental to the universe. My details may be wrong of course.

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