Re: The puzzle science is solving

W dniu 28.10.2024 o 18:11, gharnagel pisze:

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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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 7:10:30 +0000, Maciej Wozniak wrote:

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It is not "how things really are".

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I agree.
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It is "which word sequences are good ones".

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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.

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

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".

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

 There is no such thing as "exact science."

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