On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 8:58:15 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
>
> It is not so simple. Language as with any symbolic system is incomplete.
> So any symbolic structure will by Gödel's theorem be incapable of proving
> it's consistency. Wittgenstein seemed to recognize this and backed away
> from his Tractus.
>
> Even with basic physics we have F = ma, which has a force, a dynamical
> quantity, equal to mass, kinematical, times acceleration that is
> geometrical. This is a categorical confusion! Yet we appeal to this as a
> fundamental principle. That has a few aspects of metaphysics.But
But of course "F = ma" is simply a string of characters which is
interpreted by our program(s) of physics. Force, mass, space, time are all*
fictional entities* ("characters" in another sense!) that are fitted into
its framework.
@phiilipthrift
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