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| From | The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity |
| Subject | Re: The Speed of Thought |
| Date | 2017-05-16 10:35 -0700 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <591B3867.232D@ix.netcom.com> (permalink) |
| References | (20 earlier) <slrnohhn4c.i6.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> <591933C4.2FE4@ix.netcom.com> <slrnohj28c.jrh.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> <5919F188.29DC@ix.netcom.com> <slrnohm9u2.194.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> |
Ned Latham wrote:
>
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > Ned Latham wrote:
> > > The Starmaker wrote:
> > > > Ned Latham wrote:
> > > > > The Starmaker wrote:
> > > > > > Ned Latham wrote:
> > > > > > > The Starmaker wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ----smip----
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > One cannot measure Time.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > One can, howevber, measure duration.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Surely you heard Einsten said Time is an illusion...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is that what he meant when he included time as the fourth dimension
> > > > > > > in his postulated "space-time" continuum?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ----snip----
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The fact is...Time cannot even be...observed.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > False.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > My how time flies...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Start your stopwatch, observe the flies crawling along the surface
> > > > > > > you put them on, stop the stopwatch.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Simple, realt.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Using a stopwatch, and observing the flies crawling along the
> > > > > > surface..is not measuring Time itself.
> > > > >
> > > > > I didn't say it is, dimwit. It's hiw you time flies.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "From these movements, we infer the passage of time."
> > > > > > --According to Newton
> > > > >
> > > > > Tou've been told. Time is nor a pgenimenonm it's a boumenon.
> > > > >
> > > > > > "infer" is the operative word...it means 'guess'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wrong. It means "deduce".
> > > > >
> > > > > And Newton was wrong. Time is like Number: all in the mind of man.
> > > > >
> > > > > You've been told all that before. Pay attention.
> > > >
> > > > 3.
> > > > to guess; speculate; surmise.
> > >
> > > Get back to me when you've learnt something about English usage, nitwit.
> > > "Argument" from some subliterate "authority" don't cut it.
> >
> > I looked here and I don't see the meaning being "deduce"
>
> You do understand that the web is not a good source of accurate information,
> right? And that thanks to the invidious and virtually ubiquitous influence
> of Hollywood, it's worse with English than pretty much everything else?
>
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infer
>
> Merriam-Webster is a case in point. It's American, for one thing,
> and it's far too generous with faddistic usages.
>
> Even so. it's definition of "infer" starts of with
>
> "1: to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises"
>
> IOW, deduce.
>
> > I see..."guess"!
>
> That's the second definition, you lying maggot.
I see fire and I infer there is smoke
your letter … allows me to infer that you are as well as ever — O. W.
Holmes †1935
It means ..."guess"! Which is what the 'scientific community'
specializes in...guesses. Guess what time it is.
Definition of infer
inferred; inferring
transitive verb
1
: to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises
we see smoke and infer fire — L. A. White
— compare imply
2
: guess, surmise
your letter … allows me to infer that you are as well as ever — O.
W. Holmes †1935
3
a : to involve as a normal outcome of thoughtb : to point out :
indicate
this doth infer the zeal I had to see him — William Shakespeare
another survey … infers that two-thirds of all present computer
installations are not paying for themselves — H. R. Chellman
4
: suggest, hint are you inferring I'm incompetent?
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Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-04-28 10:38 -0700
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Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-02 12:37 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 21:16 +0000
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-03 10:21 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-04 13:29 +0000
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-04 15:10 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-06 11:03 +0000
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-08 22:37 -0700
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Re: The Speed of Thought Jonathan Doolin <good4usoul@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 08:54 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-09 23:23 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Jonathan Doolin <good4usoul@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 06:03 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-10 09:42 -0700
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Re: The Speed of Imagination "David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-13 10:42 -0700
Re: The Speed of Imagination The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-13 11:45 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-11 12:52 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-10 10:06 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-10 10:45 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-10 15:41 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-11 04:49 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-14 12:43 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-14 17:39 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-14 21:51 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-15 05:55 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-15 11:20 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-16 11:24 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-16 10:35 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-16 12:52 -0700
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Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-16 16:57 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought "David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-16 15:09 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-17 10:03 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought "David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-17 10:13 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-16 16:42 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-17 09:53 -0700
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Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-17 10:01 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-17 16:07 -0500
Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-04-27 11:41 -0700
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Re: The Speed of Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-04-27 23:15 -0700
Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-28 12:57 +0000
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Re: The Speed of Thought Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-28 23:45 +0000
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Re: The Speed of Thought Jonathan Doolin <good4usoul@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 10:07 -0700
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