From Harry Binswanger ... Good point. "Arbitrary" is what is asserted on the premise: evidence--who needs it. Harry Binswanger hb@......
Harry Binswanger
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Jun 1, 2000 7:13 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... Since 'arbitrary' would really be zero, I will take the integer scale to be between possible and conclusive, and I would then rate...
Stephen Speicher
sjs@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:20 am
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From Lee Pierson: ... I think that [Ed Matthew's] basic point is right, but not for the reason [he] gave! The real problem is that I should not have applied...
Lee Pierson
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Jun 2, 2000 1:36 am
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... Yes it can, but he should have labeled it 0. Arbitrary means 0 evidence, and 0 belongs on every continuum. It just means the absence of whatever the unit...
George Marklin
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Jun 2, 2000 1:38 am
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... But the EWs also consist of particles. So there are only particles as the fundamental existents in TEW. This leads to what I think of as the "Packing...
George Marklin
marklin@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:13 am
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From: Michael R. Brown ... The meaning of Burke Chester's question, and the precise denotations of "standards," "rules," and "defining" in that context, are...
michael brown
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Jun 2, 2000 4:22 am
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From Travis Norsen ... Of course there is no "dichotomy" between identity and action. That is the whole point of Ayn Rand's theory of causality: an entity...
Travis Norsen
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Jun 2, 2000 4:30 am
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From: Travis Norsen ... [snip] In my opinion, TEW gets a 6. The essential new attribute of the theory--the reverse motion of the waves which govern the motion...
Travis Norsen
norsen@...
Jun 2, 2000 5:42 pm
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[From: Edward Matthews] In response to my comment that arbitrary claims do not belong along the same continuum with possible and certain ones, George Marklin...
Edward Matthews
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Jun 2, 2000 5:57 pm
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From: Stephen Speicher Michael Brown's was a long post, and like a prior one I only had time to quickly scan it, which is why I probably missed this before. ...
Stephen Speicher
sjs@...
Jun 2, 2000 6:01 pm
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From: Stephen Speicher ... This is an entirely mistaken notion, and I again refer George Marklin to the TEW literature, specifically Dr. Little's 1996 paper,...
Stephen Speicher
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Jun 2, 2000 6:16 pm
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[From George Deliz] ... I pretty much agree. I certainly don't expect Dr. Little to have all the answers to the TEW since there have been no laboratory...
George Deliz
gdeliz@...
Jun 3, 2000 7:30 am
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[From: Ed Matthews] I've gotten a few private e-mail's on this, so I'll try one more time to clarify. (This is an issue of epistemology and applies to the...
Edward Matthews
ematthe1@...
Jun 3, 2000 8:19 am
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From: Shayne Wissler ... The distinctions being made here are much too fine, given the sloppiness of using numbers to represent the strength of evidence for...
Shayne Wissler
sjw@...
Jun 4, 2000 12:18 am
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[From: Burke Chester] I would be interested in the comments of some of the scientists here regarding the news report that the speed of light has been exceeded...
Burke Chester
bche0000@...
Jun 6, 2000 3:45 pm
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[From: Burke Chester] Michael Brown wrote, "Accordingly, I submitted in my previous post a challenge to the TEW and any other theory purporting that a truly...
Burke Chester
bche0000@...
Jun 6, 2000 3:52 pm
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[From: Burke Chester] Travis Norsen wrote, "There is no dichotomy between identity and action, but that does not mean they are equivalent. It is identity--the...
Burke Chester
bche0000@...
Jun 6, 2000 4:06 pm
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[From: Patrick Power] ... So Dr. Little does in fact endorse (and require) Einstein's relativity? If so then I'm curious to hear more about how to get around...
Patrick Power
ppower@...
Jun 6, 2000 4:12 pm
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[From: Phil Oliver] [Re: Elementariness, Explanation and the TEW] To add to what others have already said on this point; all that you need to express an...
Phil Oliver
philoliver@...
Jun 6, 2000 5:36 pm
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[From: Patrick Power] ... I'm making the assumption that this is based on Aristotle's "refutation" of Zeno's arrow "paradox" (and perhaps his stadium...
Patrick Power
ppower@...
Jun 8, 2000 7:21 am
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From: Travis Norsen ... No, I don't think so. An action performed by an entity is not the same as a property of an entity. A spinning ball is a *ball* that...
Travis Norsen
norsen@...
Jun 8, 2000 7:41 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... The TEW is consistent with both special and general relativity, but it offers completely different causal explanations for the ...
Stephen Speicher
sjs@...
Jun 8, 2000 10:51 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... The paper is still under review, and has not yet been published, so specific comments on their experiment is not possible. Until you...
Stephen Speicher
sjs@...
Jun 8, 2000 10:57 am
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From Lee Pierson: ... First, "object permanence" need not be understood in the way described above. It can be seen as a case of perceptual learning (increased ...
Lee Pierson
leepierson@...
Jun 8, 2000 3:26 pm
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From Harry Binswanger I agree with Travis Norsen's excellent discussion of why an action is not a ... Harry Binswanger hb@......
Harry Binswanger
hb@...
Jun 11, 2000 1:58 am
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[From: Al Tino] Greetings all, I have just joined this list and I look forward to learning from it. [Moderator: Welcome! And congratulations on your first...
Tino, Allen J (Al), H...
allen.tino@...
Jun 11, 2000 2:18 am
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From Burke Chester [Responding to Travis Norsen's message #254 entitled The Nature of 'Elementary' (formerly subthread of <Nothing "waving">}] According to...
Burke Chester
bche0000@...
Jun 11, 2000 2:42 am
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From Travis Norsen ... I am not saying the "causes ... have no identity". I am saying "the cause *is* the identity!" In physics today one can calculate to ten...
Travis Norsen
norsen@...
Jun 13, 2000 1:25 am
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[From: Al Tino] Here is another difficulty that I have with the TEW treatment of special relativity (SR). In his 1996 paper, Lewis Little discusses a thought ...
Tino, Allen J (Al), H...
allen.tino@...
Jun 13, 2000 2:37 pm
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[From: Jeff L Jones] [Al Tino wrote:] ... It's true that the light from the two different lamps travel different distances to get to the rocket, from the...
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