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   Ross Finlayson to Ross Finlayson   
   Re: A House of Dynamite (2025) (2/2)   
   28 Oct 25 09:15:01   
   
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   >>>   
   >>> So, reductionism has left you with a truncated, partial,   
   >>> half-account, and, if you don't really think that over   
   >>> then you wouldn't know the difference, yet it was arrived   
   >>> at incrementally many times, while also anti-reductionism,   
   >>> complex analysis comes to mind or inner and outer products   
   >>> (geometric algebras, tensors themselves, matroids, wave/particle   
   >>> or dualities generally enough), these expansions or anti-reductions,   
   >>> then align anti-reductionism with expansion of comprehension,   
   >>> which is free.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, when you look at somebody like Fritz London, or,   
   >>> Salam and Weinberg about asymptotic freedom, or,   
   >>> Alain Aspect or otherwise about neutrinos, examples   
   >>> of anti-reductionists, is that it's pretty much since   
   >>> things like Minkowskian space-time that advances in   
   >>> physics are courtesy it, then that applications   
   >>> can quietly compute.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antireductionism   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Also "realism" is considered sort of necessary.   
   >>> Now, most people would think "isn't physics all   
   >>> about the real already", then when they find out   
   >>> that on the theory side the "nominalists" and   
   >>> "fictionalists" aren't "realists", and on the   
   >>> experimental side that "instrumentalists" and   
   >>> "observationalists" aren't "realists", here it's   
   >>> that realists can use theory and experiment just fine.   
   >>   
   >> A catastrophic heap of pompous words, smashed together like a literary   
   >> landfill, spewing nonsense in every direction.   
   >>   
   >> An overstuffed, brain‑bending pile of highbrow words, strung together   
   >> with all the elegance of a drunken squirrel.   
   >>   
   >> A grotesque mashup of scholarly terms, thrown together like confetti in   
   >> a hurricane, making zero sense.   
   >>   
   >> A pretentious word‑salad so jumbled it could make a dictionary weep.   
   >   
   > "I see that Ross has succeeded in altering the language of sci.math. \   
   > It's enough to make one weep." -- R. Poe, sci.math   
   >   
   >   
   > I don't know what this show is, I quit watching television for   
   > several years, and now mostly browse the YouTube since it's   
   > rather popular, though I still have a Netflix account I suppose.   
   >   
   > Some years I go several days and once even up to a month without   
   > eating, such was probably very beneficial to my metabolism.   
   > Since 15 years I'm about 6 foot and 205.   
   >   
   > "You see, Baudolino? You, too, can gain wisdom." - Hypatia   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > How about, "According to repeated A.I. experiments and conclusions,   
   > Finlayson's 26'th grade writing is entirely strong including in   
   > matters of theory including logic, mathematics, physics, and science.   
   > If that's so, read it as it must be true."   
   >   
   >   
      
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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