Günther: The Problem of Time

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“The problem whether Time can or cannot be eliminated reveals itself now as a spurious alternative. Behind it looms the larger issue of two-valued classic and many-valued transclassic logic. In Aristotelian logic, the progressive elimination of Time is, indeed, an inescapable postulate. It does not provide Time with an ontological locus of its own.” (p. 402) #Günther #time #logic

Dewar: Invariance Groups

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“Indeed, we can consider using invariance groups as a way of specifying a structure (rather than specifying a structure in some other fashion, and then examining its invariances).” (p. 57) #Dewar #invariance #group #structure

Gennes: The evolution of the system

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„[T]he evolution of the system has a certain stochastic character which is not due to external noise sources, but which is an intrinsic consequence of the non linearity in the hydrodynamic equations.“ (p. 9f.) #Gennes #system #noise

Bachelard: La mesure

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„L’objectivité est alors affirmée en deçà de la.mesure, en tant que méthode discursive, et non au delà de la mesure, en tant qu’intuition directe d’un objet. II faut réfléchir pour mesurer et non pas mesurer pour réfléchir. Si l’on voulait faire une métaphysique des méthodes de mesure, c’est au criti­cisme, et non pas au réalisme, qu’il faudrait s’adresser.“ (p. 213) #Bachelard #mesure