On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 8:14:58 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 6:54:40 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 1:10 AM Lawrence Crowell < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 9:58:37 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> It's just the Physics Gestapo I criticize. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It is not physics Gestaop. Only physicalist gestapo, or the usual >>>>> confusion (Aristotle basic philosophy) between physics and metaphysics, >>>>> which is incompatible with Mechanism. >>>>> >>>>> Bruno >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The Physics Gestapo apparently treats lightly those who say matter >>>> comes out of arithmetic. :) >>>> >>>> @philipthrift >>>> >>> >>> I can't remember the moniker on this, but there is a signature of an >>> email discussion gone bad when people start invoking Nazis. There is no >>> Gestapo here. The problem is frankly you are most likely wrong; these sorts >>> of deformations of QM have a consistent history of not working. Just >>> because people such as Price keep banging their heads on this does not mean >>> it is alive --- more like beating a dead horse. Please stop using Nazi >>> references. >>> >> >> It's known as Godwin's Law. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law >> >> And according to the widely accepted corollary, since Phil was the first >> to introduce the Nazi reference, he automatically loses the debate! >> >> Bruce >> > > He has also resorted to ad hominem attacks as well. I am not responding to > this thread any more for a number of reasons and I am not writing about > retrocausality. I figure if people want to waste their time on that it > means there are fewer people in the way. > > LC >
*fewer people in the way* is an authoritarian expression. People should read *Feyerabend* to cure themselves of monolithic dogmatism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/781daa7a-f507-457a-bd10-90a24d83828e%40googlegroups.com.
