On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 6:12 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *I am not saying that examples are not suggestive of laws of physics. > All I am saying, which you irrationally deny, is that definitions are part > of an overall process for knowing reality,* > Definitions have nothing to do with knowing reality, sometimes they can help in communicating with fellow human beings but even then they are usually not needed, the meaning of the word is obvious from the usage. That is after all how children learn language, by observing its use in the physical world. > *And most people still use dictionaries* > Dictionaries are only a few hundred years old and even today most humans on this planet have never used a dictionary even once in their entire life. > *> As I recall quite clearly, it was YOU who have been vigorously critical > of Bruno for his alleged sloppy and varying DEFINITIONS!.* > Definitions are arbitrary human conventions not signposts to ultimate reality, but for communication to be effective they need to be consistent, at least from one paragraph to the next in the same post. John K Clark > -- 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/CAJPayv22iPzM_ueg1eyWGRs2mCfDbpMmus3LoFgaa5C4%3D0EYZQ%40mail.gmail.com.
