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From: Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:09:47 -0700
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I'm with John on this one.  Most of our understandings of physics are based
on a terrestrial frame of reference.  Check out dark energy for contrast:    (01)

http://www.nickull.net/darkenergy.html    (02)

Duane    (03)


On 9/21/07 7:37 AM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    (04)

> Azamat,
> 
> Yes, that is true:
> 
>> So, antimatter as a form of matter (made of elementary antiparticles)
>> is a kind of substance, the first class citizen of Aristotle's
>> categories.
> 
> But that is so very general that it hardly says anything.  Aristotle
> also developed the form-matter distinction, which doesn't quite fit
> the ten categories.  Aristotle's matter does not correspond exactly
> to the modern physicists' concept of matter, which itself undergoes
> major revisions with new discoveries and new theories.
> 
> As Peirce said,
> 
>     "It is easy to be certain.  One has only to be sufficiently vague."
> 
> For some purposes, a vague answer is adequate.  But for other purposes,
> it is necessary to deal with the very annoying details that don't fit
> together as nicely as one would hope.
> 
> John
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