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|    Message 224,269 of 226,054    |
|    Ross Finlayson to Ross Finlayson    |
|    Re: A House of Dynamite (2025) (2/2)    |
|    28 Oct 25 09:15:01    |
      [continued from previous message]              >>>       >>> 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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