On 16 Sep, 01:48, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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> From: "Flammarion" <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden>
> To: "Everything List" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
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> > On 15 Sep, 15:19, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> >> A modest question. What's left of materialism (to even argue about) when
> >> orthodox theoretical physics itself reduces the world to virtual
> >> particles and one-dimensional strings? m.a.
>
> > What makes you think they are not material?
>
> They certainly seem to occupy a hazy border between nothing and something.
Do they? Why would that be true of strings and not the point particles
of classical phsycis?
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Received on Wed Sep 16 2009 - 02:47:33 PDT