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Re:The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential N... by ineptech on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:37PM (#35586459)
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it's not very related to my point about "is", which was that describing things in "[noun] is [adjective]" terms carries the implicit assumption that the universe is made up of things have objective qualities, which is a useful model most all the time but still a model, and hence ultimately wrong.
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Re:The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential N... by maxbond on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:31AM (#35587534)
For what it's worth, I think the connection is, once you surrender "is", you accept a world that is stranger and fuzzier than may be comfortable - a world where the question, "what is an electron?" may actually not have an answer.
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