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[Vexari]

State the obvious and miss the point

Prove your accusation

and you might start an honest discussion..

The word "heat" as it was once "understood" by many scientists serves as an example of scientific Slavespeak.

Robert Anton Wilson wrote..

The language we use influences the thoughts we think much more than the thoughts we think influence the language we use.

We are encased in fossil metaphors; verbal chains guide us through our daily reality-labyrinth.

Physicists, for example, spent nearly three centuries looking for a substance, heat, to correspond to the substantive noun, "heat";

it took a revolution in chemistry and thermodynamics before we realized that heat should not be thought of as a noun (a thing) but a verb (a process)

a relationship between the motions of molecules.

So scientists wasted nearly three centuries because their thinking was essentially entrapped by the word "heat," as they interpreted it.


Notes on “The Paradigm Conspiracy”
by Denise Breton and Christopher Largent