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the nothing we don't know
xyroth Started conversation Aug 23, 2000
When you talk about the physics being about what we don't know, you are only scratching the surface. In the thirties and forties, count alfred korzybski extended the uncertainty in physics to apply to everything that we interact with and invented/discovered general semantics. This deals not with finding out what we know, but with finding where the limit of applicability is for what we know.
a much better explanation of it is given at www.general-semantics.org/
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