physicists are bad philosophers

T. A. Gardner said:
Japan only uses a variant of pictographs in one of their three alphabets.
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They tend to use kanji (which are just Chinese characters) for most nouns and common verbs. Hirigana is used for their particles, tense conversions, and extensions to the kanji. katakana is used mostly for foreign words imported into the language and also for sound effects in manga.

Mostly, Japan uses pictographs, just like the Chinese do.
Korea abandoned pictographs in favor of a syllabic alphabet, but with more composite sounds than the alphabet used in the West.

In China, pictographs are used exclusively, since their particles are less important.

If you learn about 100 of them or so, you can read quite a bit of material from these countries, but in Japan, you must also learn the hirigana. Katakana is useful, since words imported into Japanese from English words are written in katakana. The Japanese often mispronounce these imported words in much the same way we mispronounce their words that we imported into English.
 
IBDaMann said:
Physicists are the best philosophers.
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They can be. Some have trouble with it.
IBDaMann said:
Science is not subjective and contains no opinions.
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True.
IBDaMann said:
Karl Popper was not only spot on, his take on science and on testing are now the de facto norm throughout global industry and governments.
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Also true. Karl Popper, a marvelous philosopher, finally separated the difference between religion and science as definitions; and defined 'science' as a set of falsifiable theories. His philosophies describe why his definition makes sense.
 
Into the Night said:
They tend to use kanji (which are just Chinese characters) for most nouns and common verbs. Hirigana is used for their particles, tense conversions, and extensions to the kanji. katakana is used mostly for foreign words imported into the language and also for sound effects in manga.

Mostly, Japan uses pictographs, just like the Chinese do.
Korea abandoned pictographs in favor of a syllabic alphabet, but with more composite sounds than the alphabet used in the West.

In China, pictographs are used exclusively, since their particles are less important.

If you learn about 100 of them or so, you can read quite a bit of material from these countries, but in Japan, you must also learn the hirigana. Katakana is useful, since words imported into Japanese from English words are written in katakana. The Japanese often mispronounce these imported words in much the same way we mispronounce their words that we imported into English.
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Wrong! The Japanese tend to mix all three alphabets, Kanji, and Katakana, in writing. If the word has an old base and has long been around it's typically a kanji, anything newer and it tends towards on of the two Katakana sets.

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IBDaMann said:
Physicists are the best philosophers.


Science is not subjective and contains no opinions.

Karl Popper was not only spot on, his take on science and on testing are now the de facto norm throughout global industry and governments.
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You know one philosopher of science who no one talks about today.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Wrong! The Japanese tend to mix all three alphabets, Kanji, and Katakana, in writing. If the word has an old base and has long been around it's typically a kanji, anything newer and it tends towards on of the two Katakana sets.
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You just agreed with me. How do you call that 'wrong'?? If you look at those signs, you will find they are mostly kanji.
The Japanese have been putting Romaji and English on their signs lately for the tourists.
T. A. Gardner said:
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