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To: betty boop
Then does this mean that the very basis of quantification is a fiction? Were that true, then how/why could we ever depend on it to give us useful, reliable measurements?

No, it simply means that it is not within the scope of things that have observable and empirically measureable properties. That was the context in which the statement was made.

756 posted on 01/06/2009 11:20:44 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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No, it simply means that it is not within the scope of things that have observable and empirically measureable properties.

Does that make it untrustworthy? If not, then why not?

762 posted on 01/06/2009 11:30:52 AM PST by betty boop
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