Why aren't you reading what will one day be regarded as

Wat is it

>>9543447
I'm too dumb to read something like that.

>List Price: $1,131.92

>>9543447
because i've never heard of it. please, anon, explain why i should read it.

>>9543464
download it online for free

>>9543447
>mythologies
Get out of here.

tf is it

>>9543464
they're releasing a revised printing soon it's gonna be cheaper

What is it?

>>9543464
new hardcopy is $50

>>9543803

"As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits."

>>9544612
If we must war with bromides:

"To a human, Maxwell's Equations take much longer to explain than Thor. Humans don't have a built-in vocabulary for calculus the way we have a built-in vocabulary for anger. You've got to explain your language, and the language behind the language, and the very concept of mathematics, before you can start on electricity.

And yet it seems that there should be some sense in which Maxwell's Equations are simpler than a human brain, or Thor the thunder-agent.

There is: It's enormously easier (as it turns out) to write a computer program that simulates Maxwell's Equations, compared to a computer program that simulates an intelligent emotional mind like Thor."

IOW: science =/= mythology

>>9543817

It's a physics textbook all about title-related. Lots of calculus and (relatively) higher math.

I've flipped through it once or twice when it was on the shelf at a Borders bookstore, back when Borders was a thing. What I remember of the book is that the whole thing is structured into two tracks which differ in some significant way, and then you can work through the book using either track, depending on your needs.