Form, Substance and Dynamics

• Back to basic analysis:

• There are three categories of terms in physics:

  • existential terms
    • about what exists
  • formal terms
    • about the structure & static properties of what exists
  • dynamical terms
    • about what would happen, in new and/or hypothetical conditions
    • only by hypothesizing dynamics, can we deduce the future.

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