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On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:02:58 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 07/09/2025 22:34, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Sep 2025 13:05:25 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 
>>> 	One other planetary bodies the rated of acceleration would be
>>> according to the mass of the body in question.
>>> 	The so-called Law of Gravity is the name given to the knowlege
>>> that if you drop something on the Planet Earth it will fall at 32'
>>> ft./second/second.
>> 
>> Has it occurred to you that both feet and seconds are inventions?
> 
> Careful Bob.
> 
> You are fringing into metaphysics here.

Language gets hazy and is inadequate for the description of reality. It 
was a convenient development to convey information between humans, 
expanding the range of communication beyond gestures and grunts.

The problems began when we used the tool to construct a continuous 
narrative of the world around us and created handy structures and 
abstractions. There aren't two cats out in the yard. Humans use 
generalities to build the construct 'cat' from the reality and use that 
construct to say there are two of those constructs. In reality there 
aren't two of anything. 

Trying to pull yourself up with imaginary bootstraps is a difficult task 
and tends to result in Zen type constructs. Or, you can make the fatal 
flaw that Plato made when he created metaphysics and say the imaginary 
construct is reality.