The reification of the word against science
History and Philosophy of Physics
2022-11-10 v2 Popular Physics
Abstract
Research in foundations of physics is stagnant, as claimed by many scientists during the last years. I suggest that one reason might be the reification of language, particularly of mathematics, which favour the search for answers to wrong questions.
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@article{arxiv.2211.03410,
title = {The reification of the word against science},
author = {Luigi Foschini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03410},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure. English translation and revision of an essay published in Italian: L. Foschini, "La reificazione della parola contro la scienza''. La Citt\`a del Secondo Rinascimento, n. 99, Giugno 2022, p. 13. Corrected an error I made about Arnold Sommerfeld