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The Poetics of Physics

Version 1 : Received: 31 October 2022 / Approved: 2 November 2022 / Online: 2 November 2022 (03:31:27 CET)

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Jeynes, C.; Parker, M.C.; Barker, M. The Poetics of Physics. Philosophies 2023, 8, 3. Jeynes, C.; Parker, M.C.; Barker, M. The Poetics of Physics. Philosophies 2023, 8, 3.

Abstract

Physics has been thought to truly represent reality since at least Galileo, and the foundations of physics are always established using philosophical ideas. In particular, the elegant naming of physical entities is usually very influential in the acceptance of physical theories. We here demonstrate (using current developments in thermodynamics as an example) that both the epistemology and the ontology of physics ultimately rest on poetic language. What we understand depends essentially on the language we use. We wish to establish our knowledge securely, but strictly speaking this is impossible using only analytic language. Knowledge of the meanings of things must use a natural language designed to express meaning, that is, poetic language. Although the world is really there, and although we can indeed know it truly, this knowledge is never either complete or certain but ultimately must rest on intuition. Reading a recently discovered artefact with a palaeo-Hebrew inscription as from the first century, we demonstrate from it that this ontological understanding long predates the Hellenic period. Poetic language is primary, both logically and temporally.

Keywords

thermodynamics; info-entropy; ontology; epistemology; palaeo-Hebrew; poetry

Subject

Arts and Humanities, Philosophy

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