Re: heat is not a noun

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Not the ancient dict.,  the more ancient reader.  Comparing the two
definitions makes this clear.

bc


Leigh Palmer wrote:

> > This is the first time I've read (heard) this term!  My t. r. dict.
> > gives it the same definition as phlogiston.  Maybe all your (pl.) point
> > is people "reify" and that is what bothers you all.  An admirable
> > project, but I think you all should make this clear, or am I off track?
> >
> > bc
> >
> >
> >
> > Leigh Palmer wrote:
> >
> > >  >Phlogiston died in 1804, must we continue to beat it?
> > >
> > >  It's not phlogiston that is the enemy; it's caloric.
> > >  caloric is alive and actively misconceiving!
> > >
> > >  Leigh
>
> Your dictionary is off track. "Phlogiston" is the substance which was
> associated with fire. Caloric is the substance which was associated
> with heat. It was the unlimited creation of caloric, presumably a
> finite quantity of substance, in the bottom of a cannon by a dull
> boring tool that led Count Rumford to doubt its supposed nature.
>
> (This is not the first instance of scientific discovery having been
> associated with a dull, boring tool.)
>
> Leigh