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Re: reification



Reification... neologize... extant...

I learn about as many new words on this list as I learn physics.
Fortunately I have an on-line dictionary... otherwise I might wear out
the pages of my paper copy.

Just curious Leigh, are these words part of your everyday vocabulary,
or do you look them up and then use them just for fun?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Palmer [SMTP:palmer@SFU.CA]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 2:59 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: reification

I view it as a useful model. Models are fundamentally unreal. They are
not reifications in any sense. You can't neologize with an extant word,
especially when you seem to want to pervert it.

Leigh