--- On Sat, 11/28/09, archytas <arch...@live.co.uk> wrote:
> From: archytas <arch...@live.co.uk>
> Subject: [epistemology 11002] Re: Different points of view.
> To: "Epistemology" <episte...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 6:06 AM
> I would doubt Nom that any of this
> kind of void has anything to do
> with thoughts in physics about the nature of
> emptiness.
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G:
There are no "thoughts in physics about the nature of emptiness".
Physics never met her.
Georges
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> Just more shorthand on the
> idiot.
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G:
Which idiot?
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Neil:
There is a separation of truth and
> meaning in scientific epistemology.
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G:
Quite a separation indeed:
There ain't no sich animal as "truth" in science. There is a fuzzy
plausibility, but even that has nothing to do with "meaning".
"Meaning" (of abstraction) is the pointer to observable event(s)
it represents.
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Neil:
We speak of holes as though they are objects, ...
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G:
Who speaks? About which "holes"? And what are "objects"?
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Neil:
... of light as propagated with mass rather than as
disturbance in a medium.
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G:
Which "mass"? Mass is just a mathematical coefficient having no
phenomenal meaning. Which "medium"? How "disturbed"?
Since the death of Aether light has no "medium", disturbed or
otherwise.
Present my respects to the idiot.
Georges.
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--- On Sun, 11/29/09, archytas <arch...@live.co.uk> wrote:
> From: archytas <arch...@live.co.uk>
> Subject: [epistemology 11021] Re: Different points of view.
> To: "Epistemology" <episte...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 2:33 PM
> Sadly Georges, one can play these
> idiot games with words at will and
> choose meaning in them having failed to grok the
> other's.
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G:
One may, I don't. Meaning of a concept it's the structure of perceived/
recalled events, a point. So, it's given and there is nothing to
choose, unless one wants to lie to himself.
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Neil:
We wouldn't
> know truth if we met it, should it be possible to
> achieve.
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G:
Sure we wouldn't, as there ain't no sich animal as truth.
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Neil:
You ask
> the usual questions about holes, though these have long
> been
> answered. Maybe you have lost your spade?
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G:
I did not ask any questions about holes, usual or otherwise. I just
asked what you meant by "holes"
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Neil:
Has
> the Higg's Field
> replaced the Aether?
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G:
No. Knowing both you would not ask.
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Neil:
Does it bring about some new
> notion of mass?
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G:
No. "Mass" stays a pure mathematical, abstract coefficient without
any concrete physical meaning. BTW, what is its "old notion"?
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Neil:
> How is it possible to make one's mind up on theories of
> tired light?
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G:
I don't know. I ignore them and, unlike most, hate to prattle about what I ignore.
CHeers
Georges.
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