Behaviourism | Philosophy Glossary

[@rastgo4432]

Very awesome, hope you do some videos on famous philosophers and main ideas, thank you so much for your efforts

[@KudaIzka]

Excellent video. I was wondering if you could address the difference between metaphysical, logical and physical impossibility. I especially have a problem with the latter as I have a hard time distinguishing when a state of affairs is a physical impossibility or a physical improbability. For example, I have recently read literature on quantum physics and the authors of those books consider that there is nothing physically impossible with one day the arrow of time flowing backwards or running through a wall. What they say is that these states of affairs are physically improbable (very, very, improbable), even the language they usually use bothers me a bit, they say that for a person to run and run through a wall requires trying for an eternity. But that this is not the same as saying that it is physically impossible?

[@AtticPhilosophy]

Physical impossibility is where an event or state of affairs goes against the laws of nature, for example, a situation in which gravity obeys an inverse cubed (rather than the actual inverse squared) law. Improbable events (with very low probability, according to scientific law) aren’t impossible, since they have a non-zero chance of occurring.

[@KudaIzka]

@@AtticPhilosophy thank you for your answer!