4ce

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[–] 4ce@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Depending on what exactly you mean, you might be onto something referred to as structural realism in the philosophy of science. Citing from the intro of the wikipedia article:

In the philosophy of science, structuralism (also known as scientific structuralism or as the structuralistic theory-concept) asserts that all aspects of reality are best understood in terms of empirical scientific constructs of entities and their relations, rather than in terms of concrete entities in themselves.

For those who want to read more, there is also an article on the SEP (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), and books like "Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized" by James Ladyman and Don Ross (2007) or "How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?" by Sunny Auyang (1995).

In particular, your "nothing exists" reminds me of this in "Every Thing Must Go":

a first approximation to our metaphysics is: ‘There are no things. Structure is all there is.’

[–] 4ce@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

you don’t die just because you’re outside with no AC

At wet-bulb temperatures of 35 °C or above you do, actually, if you're exposed to them for longer. Your body can then no longer cool by sweating and just keeps getting heated up by the environment. And old people in partiuclar do regularly die due to heat even at much lower wet-bulb temperaturs.

[–] 4ce@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Emmerich is also just an old-fashioned German name. I would assume that the name Amerigo is derived from the name Emmerich, not the town Emmerich.

[–] 4ce@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. I've no idea what u/vegantomato@lemmy.world is talking about. I'm pretty sure I've personally never seen it used as a slur. What I've seen is people not knowing what it means and assuming it's one of them there evil genders, so maybe some people think it's meant as a slur, but imo that says more about their ignorance than the word itself.

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