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Beryllium oxide meets your requirements. I used it successfully with silicone grease coupling to remove heat from the collectors of rf power transistors in telemetry transmitters (1961 - 1962). Caution: Beryllium oxide powder is poisonous (similar to lead oxides ). Any cutting or grinding of the...

basePARTICLE, in #74 you asked: I cannot deny you anything, nor would I want to. If you want to think that symbols give meaning, fine. Maybe it’s just a language thing that separates us. For me a symbol is merely a token or placeholder. When we sense a symbol it stimulates our mind to find the...

basePARTICLE, in #71 you wrote: I do not deny you your symbols on paper. What I would deny is the notion that the symbols on paper or in computer memory are meanings. The meanings of the symbols and of certain combinations of symbols are in your head, in your subconscious memory. At anyone...

Lord Ping in #70 you wrote: Now, after agreeing to the idea of an imaginary world, you can’t get out of the habit of calling it a possible world. By the way, it does not follow that all imaginary worlds are possible worlds. But, I digress. You are completely right where you wrote...

basePARTICLE, in #66 you wrote: I would like to understand what you have written, but I cannot. Perhaps the problem is mine. Meanwhile, since the brain is a mass of soft tissue encased in a rather rigid bony container, how can you extend your brain? Or do you really mean something other than...

The Case of the Vanishing Referent Lord Ping in #65 you wrote: Aha! Another now you see it, now you don’t’ trick --- a kind of misdirection. In this counterfactual you are not referring to Aristotle Onassis; you are referring to Aristotle the person who taught Alexander. You hope that by...

BasePARTICLE in #62 you wrote: Certainly we can store information in many ways other than in the head; however, such storage is symbolic and is meaningful only to someone who understands what the symbols represent. The memory system of the head is absolutely necessary not only for that...

Lord Ping in #61 you wrote: To identify an attributee an attributer must first recognize one or more attributes of the attributee other than what the attributer intends to attribute to the attributee. We identify anything by its attributes, where the noun ‘attribute’ means a character...

Lord Ping{/b] in #57 you wrote: What does follow from that statement is that you called the person who proved the incompleteness theorem Godel and imply that his name is “Godel.” For the argument you presented in [b]#41 it is immaterial whether Godel was real or imaginary, or, if real, what...

Lord Ping, more about the argument Thanks for directing my attention to the first sentence. That sentence, “All Kripke knows about Godel is that he proved the incompleteness theorem”, is a thinly veiled fallacy because the sentence implies that Kripke also knows Godel’s name. Thus, “Godel” is...

Lord Ping, in #41 you wrote: Please disregard my previous attempt at a disproof of that argument. Here is a more cogent one. A word is a symbol for the meaning it represents. Usually that meaning is given in terms of several other words. A name is a word that is a symbol for a particular...

Lord Ping, in #44 you wrote: Yes, you can do that without possessing any abstract notions at all. You can do that by first recalling (imagining) your observations of something that changed its length. Next, with analogical imagination you can imagine anything else doing the same thing...

octelcogopod in #43 you wrote: I think you have it reversed. Spoken language facilitated abstract thought. The idea to represent a spoken word by a graphic symbol is an abstract idea that had to arise before there could ever be written language. Written language was a side effect of abstract...

A vote for both To invent means to originate as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentaion, or contrivance. Mathematics and its subjects are abstract ideas. Abstractions must be ingeniously created using mental processes includiing negation. analogizing, and word creation. To discover...

Lord Ping, in #41 you wrote: It seems that Kripke’s intuition let him down. In addition to being true or false, his counterfactual could also be indeterminate, and if indeterminate, would have no truth-value. As I will now demonstrate, that is the case. Because “All Kripke knows about...