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Re: [Phys-l] "Flow"

At 01:12 PM 5/21/2006, Mike Edmiston, you wrote:

/// what's wrong with
talking about the components of a model as if the components were real?
Energy is a concept... so what? If the model (in which the concept of
energy is used) describes energy as flowing, and if the model has proven
and is proving useful, then so what?
///
Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.

For some people, worthy, people, there are concepts they know to be real,
and what is real need not be reified - it is already real:
but other concepts are imaginary, so reifying them is making some
imaginary thing out to be real.
( ??)

:-)

Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!