Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 22-août-06, à 18:36, 1Z a écrit : > > > > > > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > >> I can agree. No physicist posit matter in a fundamental theory. > > > > All physical theories are theories of matter (mass/energy). > > I believe so. This does not entail per se that matter is primitive.
A philosophical notion of pimitive matter is both constent and useful. > Also I prefer to define physics by the science of the observables. It isn't, de facto. "Machian" physics is a side-issue or minority interest, like intuitionism in maths. > It > is more neutral and misleading than by using the notion of matter, > which is so different when considered along Plato line or Aristotle > one. People have come up with different theories about the same thing ?! Next, you'll be telling me there is more than one philosophy-of-maths...so obviously maths must be dicarded wholesale , to avoid confusion. > Bruno > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---