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Re: [Phys-l] How and why words.



On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Dr. Keith S. Taber wrote:

At 14:19 -0500 2/2/11, ludwik kowalski wrote:
The words "how" and "why," which I emphasized, reminded me a recent
suggestion that the word
"why" should not be used by physicist.

Why?



Sorry.


Keith

The suggestion for not using the word "why" was made (not by me) in the context of the idea of causality.

Ludwik

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html