On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 2:33:12 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
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> LC
>
Didm't Vic say all measurements can be reduced to rulers and clocks?
Then something to do with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_%CF%80_theorem
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