What a photon really is:
fitz
Heron Bull
"fitz" <zeu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"It was found that the background linguistic system (in other words,
the grammar) of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for
voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas, the program and
guide for the individual's mental activity, for his analysis of impressions,
for his synthesis of his mental stock in trade."
(Benjamin Lee Whorf: 'Language, Thought and Reality')
"...the identity type - in terms of both quality and quantity of statements
made - presents the greatest stumbling block in that it provides a vehicle
for the strongest dogma and hard line views.
Examples illustrating the form:
..a) Joe Bloggs is a pig
..b) The Zygonwis are heathens
..c) The electron is a particle <<<<<<<<
..d) Clapton is God
All these statements, irrespective of the speaker's delivery, (dogmatism
exists in the language forms anyhow), represent matters of OPINION - the
speaker's opinion - and not of fact. They illustrate the way in which the
speaker INWARDLY COMPARES one noun phrase with another, not 'out there'
immutable fact - and the reader should continually keep this in mind."
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