pseudoscience – Matty (Headwind)

August 29, 2020August 29, 2021

Sir Isaac Knew Tons

Quantities aren't really quantities, even if we give them names. Words define the thing, even though the thing may be unknown.

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
(2 Peter 3:16) KJV

Sir Isaac Newton was fully aware that we could use words to define phenomena which were in fact unknown. Words are defined by what we use them for. It’s a sublimely subtle form of induction.