On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 1:10 AM Lawrence Crowell <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 9:58:37 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's just the Physics Gestapo I criticize.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is not physics Gestaop. Only physicalist gestapo, or the usual
>>> confusion (Aristotle basic philosophy) between physics and metaphysics,
>>> which is incompatible with Mechanism.
>>>
>>> Bruno
>>>
>>
>>
>> The Physics Gestapo apparently  treats lightly those who say matter comes
>> out of arithmetic. :)
>>
>> @philipthrift
>>
>
> I can't remember the moniker on this, but there is a signature of an email
> discussion gone bad when people start invoking Nazis. There is no Gestapo
> here. The problem is frankly you are most likely wrong; these sorts of
> deformations of QM have a consistent history of not working. Just because
> people such as Price keep banging their heads on this does not mean it is
> alive --- more like beating a dead horse. Please stop using Nazi references.
>

It's known as Godwin's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

And according to the widely accepted corollary, since Phil was the first to
introduce the Nazi reference, he automatically loses the debate!

Bruce

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