Re: What is Maslow's hierarchy really?


forbisgaryg@xxxxxxx napisal(a):
> By assuming light moves at a constant rate with respect to time one
> can use light as a standard.

Yes.

> The speed of light is measured in unit
> distance per unit time.

Time *is* the distance (something travels).

> It isn't how fast or slow light is that
> matters
> but rather that it is (mostly) a constant with respect to velocity.

Right.

> When one substitutes f(x) for y in an equation one doesn't eliminate
> the units of y.

Object A has velocity V iff object A advances N units of space, while
object B (the chronometer) advances M units of space, V=N/M.

LW, TLP, 6.3611 We cannot compare a process with 'the passage of
time'--THERE IS NO SUCH THING--but only with another process (such as
the working of a chronometer). Hence we can describe the lapse of time
only by relying on some other process.

> Where's light?

Let's forget about that. I really meant / any chronometer / i.e. any
basis of comparison.

I _suspect one can name no single example of a relation uneliminable in
spatial terms.

Kindest regards,
Tom

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