No heaven above us and no hell below us

[Evee]

Perhaps no one has recognized when a question has been asked.

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him." Wittgenstein (PI, p.223)

 

[Coriolis]

van der waal's forces

Ah - so you mean naming physical principles after people? Have you any objection to naming cities or buildings after people? How about land formations? What is your opinion on Mt McKinley?

Much standard usage has developed surrounding units like watts, volts, amperes, coulombs, etc. All that would have to change were we to eliminate the use of people's names.

Also why has no ape ever asked a human a question with sign language before? That's pretty meaningful right?

That's pretty unsupported as an assertion.

Perhaps no one has recognized when a question has been asked.

A distinct possibility.

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him." Wittgenstein (PI, p.223)

We won't get far addressing matters of science using philosophy.

 

[Evee]

We won't get far addressing matters of science using philosophy.

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

How is this a matter of science and not philosophy?

This thread is in the philosophy forum, not the science forum.

 

[Evee]

That's pretty unsupported as an assertion.

I found this quickly:

Enculturated apes, who underwent extensive language training programs, successfully learned to answer quite complex questions and requests (including question words "who", "what", "where"), although so far they failed to learn how to ask questions themselves. For example, David and Anne Premack wrote: "Though she [Sarah] understood the question, she did not herself ask any questions — unlike the child who asks interminable questions, such as What that? Who making noise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Limitations_of_ape_language

 

[prplchknz]

Ah - so you mean naming physical principles after people? Have you any objection to naming cities or buildings after people? How about land formations? What is your opinion on Mt McKinley?

Much standard usage has developed surrounding units like watts, volts, amperes, coulombs, etc. All that would have to change were we to eliminate the use of people's names.

yeah, well mckinley is denali and i was being facsiesuoust because i had a geology exam recently and i'm not a geology major so having to learn terms that i don't really use and don't really have a thing to connect to frusrates me. but i think being angry about that word actually helped me remember it.

 

[Coriolis]

yeah, well mckinley is denali and i was being facsiesuoust because i had a geology exam recently and i'm not a geology major so having to learn terms that i don't really use and don't really have a thing to connect to frusrates me. but i think being angry about that word actually helped me remember it.

I see. Anything that helps you remember. Did you ever take physics? My username is related to such a phenomenon. See coriolis effect.

 

[prplchknz]

I see. Anything that helps you remember. Did you ever take physics? My username is related to such a phenomenon. See coriolis effect.

i've never taken physics. but people who know me well said i'd be possibly good at physics. my uncle was physcist, he even has a wikipedia page which i'm proud of. i didn't know this until after he passed though. he was a professor at ole miss. he told me about growing up on the cumberland homesteads in crossville,tn during the great depression i recorded the interview if my mom has the tapes (she probably does i might figure out how to convert them digitally because there's a lot of really cool history about the homesteads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_A._Breazeale

 

[Coriolis]

i've never taken physics. but people who know me well said i'd be possibly good at physics. my uncle was physcist, he even has a wikipedia page which i'm proud of. i didn't know this until after he passed though. he was a professor at ole miss. he told me about growing up on the cumberland homesteads in crossville,tn during the great depression i recorded the interview if my mom has the tapes (she probably does i might figure out how to convert them digitally because there's a lot of really cool history about the homesteads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_A._Breazeale

I encourage you to digitize the tapes and transcribe the interview. This would be a great contribution to history of the region. There is much recent interest in oral history especially. If he taught at Ole Miss, their library might be interested, or might even help you get the tapes digitized.

 

[prplchknz]

I encourage you to digitize the tapes and transcribe the interview. This would be a great contribution to history of the region. There is much recent interest in oral history especially. If he taught at Ole Miss, their library might be interested, or might even help you get the tapes digitized.

yeah i need to ask my mom if she has the tapes still, i started to transcribe the interview but i would have no idea where any of that would be and would probably need to start over.