¶ Verbs: No 'Where’s, No 'What’s, Only 'When’s
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Verbs: No 'Where’s, No 'What’s, Only 'When’s:
“because physics has found no continuums, no experimental solids, no things, no real matter, I had decided half a century ago to identify mathematical behaviors of energy phenomena only as events. If there are no things, there are no nouns of material substance. The old semantics which permitted common-sense acceptance of such a sentence as ‘A man pounds the table,’ wherein a noun verbs a noun or a subject verbs a predicate. I found it necessary to change this form to a complex of events identified as ‘I,’. ‘He’ must be identified as a verb and that/the complex verb ‘He’ observed another event complex ignorantly called a ‘man,’ which event complex developed as a complex interference pattern with another complex of events identified again ignorantly as a ‘table.’ I disciplined myself to communicate exclusively with verbs. There are no where’s and what’s; only angle and frequency events described as when’s.”
- hBf Marginalia on SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 250.04 (Gray) Dec '71, at 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 26 Jan '72. Incorporate at SYNERGETICS Sec250.32, 11 Oct’72
