On Sep 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
By the way, I think that we should remind or inform readers that many
physicists, when they speak of 'realism', mean ideas such as that a particle
has an objective, determinate state, even when unmeasured. Peirce's
Gary R, lists,
This is an extremely helpful post, Gary, and I'm still in the process of
following up on it, but thought I'd better (rather than wait any longer)
mention some of the considerations it inspires with particular reference to
dicisigns.
First, your quote from CP 2.275-276 is
On Sep 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Benjamin wrote:
By the way, I think that we should remind or
inform readers that many physicists, when they
speak of 'realism', mean ideas such as that a
particle has an objective, determinate state, even when unmeasured.
Goble: I think the ultimately problem
On Sep 29, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Howard Pattee hpat...@roadrunner.com wrote:
Goble: I think the ultimately problem is that most physicists (like most
scientists) are nominalists and thus to make a realist claim requires
knowing what the singulars are. Yet most physicists donât think they
