Not being able to name birds for an ornithologist would be like a physicist not being able to say whether an electron and a positron are the same thing or not.
Did you deliberately pick this example, where Feynman speculated that they might be the same thing?
Names are useful as shorthand for a bundle of properties—but only once you know the actual bundle of properties. I sometimes think science should be taught with the examples first, and only given the name once students have identified the concept.
Did you deliberately pick this example, where Feynman speculated that they might be the same thing?
Names are useful as shorthand for a bundle of properties—but only once you know the actual bundle of properties. I sometimes think science should be taught with the examples first, and only given the name once students have identified the concept.