doboprobodyne on Nostr: I beg your pardon; I chose a dreadful way to convey my thinking. I merely meant to ...

I beg your pardon; I chose a dreadful way to convey my thinking. I merely meant to differentiate between things that can be demonstrated to exist or be objective laws, and things that are human constructs.

Many of the basic concepts in #maths and #physics can be agreed to exist (for a given actuarial definition of existing) or be true. Many things like money and churches and nation-states are constructs of the mind; usually shared constructs, and often well-defined legal fictions.

I meant only to suggest that without a clear, universally agreed definition of 'health' or 'security' or some other such human construct, I feel unable to agree that such a thing exists or could be said to be true.

Again I ought to reiterate that when I say exists I mean exists like a prototype of a kilo of metal exists, or could be said to be true like addition or multiplication or perhaps thermodynamics could be said to be true.

My gut feeling is that we want to use the same words in different ways, rather than that we disagree upon the fabric of reality.

I of course welcome readjustment if I am clearly mistaken.

I regret again my limited lexicon; that I suspect I do not have the wit to adequately articulate or present my beliefs for wider consideration. I also accept that finer discussion might be out of scope, although I do think it might still bear some relevance if anyone can frame it with greater clarity than my feeble attempt.

#thermodynamics #physics #engineering #science #reality #platosCave #philosophy #maths #math #law #religion #health #security #money #safety #economics