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On Aug 12, 1:11 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> False (but not absurd!) axioms, e.g. Einstein's 1905 light postulate,
> are extremely dangerous and can convert science into ideology:
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
>
> Still some criticism involving REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM remains possible:
>
> http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/4514/2/attack-on-grea...
>
> However in the era of Postscientism absurdity knows no limits and can
> be inherent in the axioms themselves:
>
> L. McGlashan, Chemical thermodynamics, Academic Press, London (1979),
> pp. 72-73:
> "For an infinitesimal change in the state of a phase alpha we write
> dU = T dS - p dV + SUM mu_B dn_B (1)
> We regard equation (1) as an axiom and call it the fundamental
> equation for a change of the state of a phase alpha. It is one half of
> the second law of thermodynamics. We do not ask where it comes from.
> Indeed we do not admit the existence of any more fundamental relations
> from which it might have been derived. Nor shall we here enquire into
> the history of its formulation, though that is a subject of great
> interest to the historian of science. It is a starting point; it must
> be learnt by heart."
>
> In the case of ABSURD axioms no criticism is possible and
> postscientists are free to deduce anything. So Ilya Prigogine combined
> the above "fundamental" (Gibbs') equation with the INCOMMENSURABLE
> equation dU=dQ-pdV and mathematically vindicated his idiotic idea that
> the entropy, like a substance, is either produced inside the system or
> imported or both. The postscientific community immediately gave
> Prigogine the Nobel prize.
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

xxein:  Nothing wrong with that.  It's idiots that cling to old axioms.