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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Thermodynamics / Statistical Physics
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Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 01:23:10 EST
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In article <12736@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Matthew P. Wiener writes:
>No one denied that heat and td-heat (the microphysical realization of heat)
>are the same thing.  Indeed I said as much in my article.  What is unclear
>is whether 'heat' and 'td-heat' *mean* the same thing.

Well, what sort of "meaning" are you after?  Apparently not reference.  Maybe
something more along the lines of Fregean "sense" (a way of thinking about
a referent)?  Well, that's up to English speakers to stipulate, and now that
we know that heat == td-heat, why not make them mean the same?

--Paul Torek							torek@umich