[time-nuts] Beginner's time reference

Mike Feher mfeher at eozinc.com
Mon Dec 14 05:08:16 UTC 2009


Well, one thing for sure, my mind was a lot more impressionable in my early
20's than it is now at 65 :). Regardless, I found Weyl's writings to
coincide a lot more with my way of thinking than any of the other
philosophers whom I read at the time. Coincidentally, your middle name would
not be Proteus by any chance :). Regards - Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Charles P. Steinmetz
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:28 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Beginner's time reference

Mike wrote:

>You guys obviously missed Hermann Weyl's writings, specifically his 
>"Space-Time-Matter" and "Philosophy of 
>Mathematics"     *  *  *     That was mainly why earlier I expressed 
>my opinion simply as "bullshit"

Not at all.  It's just that for all of Weyl's brilliant contributions 
to mathematics, philosophers generally hold an opinion similar to the 
one you expressed of his unfortunate forays into philosophy (as well 
as for the phenomenology of Husserl and Cassirer, upon which Weyl's 
views were based).

Best regards,

Charles




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