double-filtration of nouns
Henri Poincare once said the following: “Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.” In other words mathematics filters down the number of nouns.
Similarly physics can be thought of as a linguistic siege against the plurality of nouns. For example, a truly reductionist stance could be described as follows: "Everything is made of a small zoo of elementary particles which are the same everywhere. The dynamics of these particles explain the dynamics of everything."
Since physics employs mathematics in its explanatory framework, we can combine the above two observations and conclude that there is a double filtration of nouns at work here.
Similarly physics can be thought of as a linguistic siege against the plurality of nouns. For example, a truly reductionist stance could be described as follows: "Everything is made of a small zoo of elementary particles which are the same everywhere. The dynamics of these particles explain the dynamics of everything."
Since physics employs mathematics in its explanatory framework, we can combine the above two observations and conclude that there is a double filtration of nouns at work here.
