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google the constituents of the phrase and build it up from there

birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs aren't birds

you've reversed the vectored direction of time in your claim

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What does a classification have to do with time?

Edit: And what does "vector" add to your sentences?

I think since a vector has a direction, he’s suggesting that the direction of the vector is pointed “the wrong way” with respect to time

What is the difference in meaning between:

  A: "you've reversed the vectored direction of time in your claim" 
  B: "you've reversed the direction of time in your claim"

time has multiple vectors

downvote me if you will but you were the one claiming dinosaurs are birds

I'm not downvoting anything, just trying to figure out what you are trying to say. Can you give names to the multiple vectors of time?

The scientific consensus is that while there are significantly many dimensions to the time space continuum, time makes is only one of those dimensions. Whether or not it is a strictly unidirectional component may be under some debate, but even in quantum mechanics and hypotheses like string theory, there aren’t multiple vectors to time, as it has only one axis and no start or end (that we know of). A vector necessarily has a start, end, and direction.

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