On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 1:56:02 PM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 8:58:15 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> @phiilipthrift
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But, the different parts, F, m and a have different units of measure, which
is what is of relevance.
LC
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