On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 5:18:05 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
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> On 2/21/2020 1:16 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> 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
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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.
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>> LC
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> 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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> Vic said just clocks. The constancy of the speed of light allows time
> measurements to be used to measure distances...and in fact that's how high
> precision distance measurements are made.
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> Brent
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There are both radar and ruler distances. They are not the same. The radar
distance is obtained with a light ray and clock. The ruler distance is a
distance measured along a spatial ruler.
LC
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