Re: The puzzle science is solving

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:48:25 +0000, Maciej Wozniak wrote:

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W dniu 28.10.2024 o 18:11, gharnagel pisze:

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:21:16 +0000, Maciej Wozniak wrote:

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W dniu 28.10.2024 o 13:05, gharnagel pisze:

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I disagree.  Humans build maps of reality.
They're called scientific theories.

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Maps? Harrie, poor idiot, maps are
drawings. Scientific theories are
descriptions; they're word sequences.

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(sigh!)  Wozniak goes nuts again!
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https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/map
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a plan, a portrayal.
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plan: "scheme, design, way of doing things, idea"
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Wozniak seems to have trouble with understanding
that words have a range of meaning.

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Rather, Harnagel seems to have a problem
with understanding that the range of
meaning for  "plan" is different than the
range of meaning for "map".

Since "plan" is in the range of words for "map"
and a plan is more than a drawing, Wozniak isn't
making any sense, as usual.

Well, exact science was never good
at this kind of problems.

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There is no such thing as "exact science."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_sciences

Wozniak is conflating "exact" as an adjective
with "exact_science" as a noun, which describes
a branch of science which doesn't mean that its
results are in any way absolutely "perfect" or
"true" which was how Wozniak was using the word
and I went along with it.
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/exact
His link was merely an attempt to conflate the
meaning of words to foment an argument.