BaalChatzaf Posted April 6, 2017 Posted April 6, 2017 2 hours ago, merjet said: Employer-paid Health Insurance WW 2 is the reason why we have employer paid medical insurance plans. During WW2 wages were frozen by law and the only way employers could attract employees was not by higher wages, but by offering benefits as a non-cash kind of salary inducement. A bonus as it were. That is how Blue-Cross and Blue-Shield became the major players they became.
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BaalChatzaf Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 1 hour ago, merjet said: How We Know #3: Concept-Formation How We Know #4: Concept-Formation What is the length of an expansible body subject to temperature variation? Since molecular motion is somewhat random there is no definite length that can be assigned. The best we can do is specify a length interval. In nature nothing is at rest.
merjet Posted July 6, 2017 Author Posted July 6, 2017 1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said: What is the length of an expansible body subject to temperature variation? Since molecular motion is somewhat random there is no definite length that can be assigned. The best we can do is specify a length interval. In nature nothing is at rest. Do you mean like the mercury or alcohol in a thermometer? It varies with time. The precision of any measured length is limited by the nature of the measuring instrument.
BaalChatzaf Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 1 hour ago, merjet said: Do you mean like the mercury or alcohol in a thermometer? It varies with time. The precision of any measured length is limited by the nature of the measuring instrument. The Heisenberg Indeterminancy Principle implies that we cannot get either the temperature or the length exactly. We have to settle for an interval. The very act of measure the length of a body causes the length to change a bit. I bet Ayn Rand did not know that....
merjet Posted July 6, 2017 Author Posted July 6, 2017 1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said: The Heisenberg Indeterminancy Principle implies that we cannot get either the temperature or the length exactly. We have to settle for an interval. The very act of measure the length of a body causes the length to change a bit. I bet Ayn Rand did not know that.... You conflated quantum mechanics with everyday tasks like measuring the square footage of a room or how long it takes to run a mile.
BaalChatzaf Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 2 hours ago, merjet said: You conflated quantum mechanics with everyday tasks like measuring the square footage of a room or how long it takes to run a mile. quantum mechanics pertains to every and all physical actions in the cosmos. The term "everyday" means not rigorously thought about. Everyday actions are for everyday people who don't think much and who don't think deep.
merjet Posted July 9, 2017 Author Posted July 9, 2017 On 7/6/2017 at 2:38 PM, BaalChatzaf said: quantum mechanics pertains to every and all physical actions in the cosmos. The term "everyday" means not rigorously thought about. Everyday actions are for everyday people who don't think much and who don't think deep. Huh? http://www.onelook.com/?w=everyday&ls=a Do you (a) not brush your teeth or use toilets, or (b) not think much or deeply?
BaalChatzaf Posted July 9, 2017 Posted July 9, 2017 9 minutes ago, merjet said: Huh? http://www.onelook.com/?w=everyday&ls=a Do you (a) not brush your teeth or use toilets, or (b) not think much or deeply? Everyday = mundane, ordinary and mostly mediocre.
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Brant Gaede Posted July 12, 2017 Posted July 12, 2017 On 7/6/2017 at 7:36 AM, BaalChatzaf said: The Heisenberg Indeterminancy Principle implies that we cannot get either the temperature or the length exactly. We have to settle for an interval. The very act of measure the length of a body causes the length to change a bit. I bet Ayn Rand did not know that.... Define "exactly." If you mean something needs to be at rest we know nothing is at rest. Heraclitus got that right. --Brant
BaalChatzaf Posted July 12, 2017 Posted July 12, 2017 8 minutes ago, Brant Gaede said: Define "exactly." If you mean something needs to be at rest we know nothing is at rest. Heraclitus got that right. --Brant Exactly has a nice mathematical definition. Exact measurements which involve a physical interaction or energy transfer cannot be exact. They can be bounded by an interval of some sort. What the interval is is a function of what is being measured, the surrounding physical conditions and the technology of the measuring devices.
Peter Posted July 12, 2017 Posted July 12, 2017 2 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said: Exactly has a nice mathematical definition. Exact measurements which involve a physical interaction or energy transfer cannot be exact. They can be bounded by an interval of some sort. What the interval is is a function of what is being measured, the surrounding physical conditions and the technology of the measuring devices. Sort of like a meat thermometer in the turkey? Don't you hate it when there's some reddish blood around the bone? Spock. What does your tricorder show? It shows an interior temperature of 160 degrees. I suggest we leave it in the oven for another hour, Captain.
BaalChatzaf Posted July 12, 2017 Posted July 12, 2017 1 hour ago, Peter said: Sort of like a meat thermometer in the turkey? Don't you hate it when there's some reddish blood around the bone? Spock. What does your tricorder show? It shows an interior temperature of 160 degrees. I suggest we leave it in the oven for another hour, Captain. Broil long and prosper.
BaalChatzaf Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 3 hours ago, merjet said: How We Know #8: Higher Level Concepts There is more to motion than just getting from Here to There. Aristotle extended the idea of motion to more than changes in place over time. He included changes in state, quantity and relation. He saw motion as the actualization of potential. Please see: http://www.iep.utm.edu/aris-mot/#H7
Wolf DeVoon Posted July 19, 2017 Posted July 19, 2017 10 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said: There is more to motion than just getting from Here to There. Aristotle extended the idea of motion to more than changes in place over time. He included changes in state, quantity and relation. He saw motion as the actualization of potential. Aristotle was more concerned with causation, and he named four types, of which First and Final became a two-headed monster that ate whole civilizations.
Roger Bissell Posted July 19, 2017 Posted July 19, 2017 On 7/6/2017 at 9:36 AM, BaalChatzaf said: The Heisenberg Indeterminancy Principle implies that we cannot get either the temperature or the length exactly. We have to settle for an interval. The very act of measure the length of a body causes the length to change a bit. I bet Ayn Rand did not know that.... Here's something else that Ayn Rand - and apparently other people closer at hand - did not know: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-smart-atomic-cloud-heisenberg-problem.html
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