On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 4:33:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 6:12 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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. >
How would you know what a LT is unless it was well defined? I think this discussion is worthless and I won't reply to any nonsense put forth to continue it. AG > > > *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/f7db4c1c-af0a-422a-840e-140f0e368cb9%40googlegroups.com.
