All good science, can be translated into the technical vocabulary of physics,’ yet ‘nothing happens in the world, not the flutter of an eyelid, not the flicker of a thought, without some redistribution of microphysical states
To adopt this stance is not to confound the questions confronting the philosopher – with those confronting the physicist.
Theories require language, thought is too elusive to be studied except in its expression. So our question about thought of objects becomes a question about verbal reference to objects.
There is, for the philosopher, the question of how we come to have the very thought of the objects of physical theory; indeed, of how we come to have the thought of objects at all, of any kind. e are launched into the philosophy of language and, in particular, into the theory of linguistic reference.
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To adopt this stance is not to confound the questions confronting the philosopher – with those confronting the physicist.
Theories require language, thought is too elusive to be studied except in its expression. So our question about thought of objects becomes a question about verbal reference to objects.
There is, for the philosopher, the question of how we come to have the very thought of the objects of physical theory; indeed, of how we come to have the thought of objects at all, of any kind. e are launched into the philosophy of language and, in particular, into the theory of linguistic reference.
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