Ray Saintonge wrote:
Ian Woollard wrote:
On 04/11/2009, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious; it's not an
experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious; it's not an
experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
actually see, you would get either an alive cat, or a dead cat.
The Higgs boson is supposed to be a *real* particle; it is not
fictitious, it is hypothetical, it's
Fiction is a very broad term. fictions can be used for rhetorical
purposes in serious discourse--fictional examples are a mainstay of
philosophical argument, dating back to Plato's cave, if not earlier.
For this hypothetical animal, I do not think there will be any
difficulty finding a citation
I freely admit I have an issue with fictional categories. I find them
somewhat in the face of what categorisation was intended to do, or at
least my thoughts on what it was intended to do, which was to classify
as unambiguously and as relevantly as possible. I'm prompted into this
David Goodman wrote:
Fiction is a very broad term. fictions can be used for rhetorical
purposes in serious discourse--fictional examples are a mainstay of
philosophical argument, dating back to Plato's cave, if not earlier.
For this hypothetical animal, I do not think there will be any
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Surreptitiousness
surreptitious.wikiped...@googlemail.com wrote:
David Goodman wrote:
Fiction is a very broad term. fictions can be used for rhetorical
purposes in serious discourse--fictional examples are a mainstay of
philosophical argument, dating back
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote:
Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious; it's not an
experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
actually see, you would get either an alive cat, or a dead cat.
I agree with the
Ian Woollard wrote:
On 04/11/2009, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com
wrote:
Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious; it's not an
experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
