Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by xtiansimon on Saturday July 06, 2019 @07:35PM (#20372692)

There is a lot to unpack in your response, but I guess it’s your use of the term ‘degenerate’ which confuses me. It’s not common in the Semiotic cannon, and so you say it’s not something you’ve studied.

From your original comment: “...contextualizes that good as being different from all the others (un)like it.”

This is textbook Semiotics. Meaning is not derived from the designation (‘apple’ is the red fruit with the thin skin and firm ...eh flesh. Rather, Apple is not a banana; not a kiwi; not a tomato; not beef; ad infinitum.

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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by soganess on Saturday July 06, 2019 @10:01PM (#20373174)

It's totally common when talking about quantum states that have identical energies! Which is not helpful at all in this conversation. It's just one of the words in my everyday tool bag and I used it without thinking too deeply.

All that said I just order an intro book on Semiotics. Interest definitely peeked.

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