Will_Newsome comments on Were atoms real? - Less Wrong

61 Post author: AnnaSalamon 08 December 2010 05:30PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 09 December 2010 01:17:35AM 0 points [-]

By the way, User:ata made this illuminating comment which I agree with; see my reply (where I admit to defecting when it comes to using words correctly).

Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 December 2010 02:35:46AM 0 points [-]

(nods) Cool. This is essentially why I have been talking all along about the use of words, rather than talking about what kinds of things exist; it has seemed to me that our primary point of discontinuity was about the former rather than the latter.