内容 科学与假设 · 07
Science and Hypothesis · Experience and Geometry
Experiment can recommend a geometry, but it does not simply dictate the axioms.
实验可以推荐某种几何，但不会简单命令公理。
Convention is constrained convenience, not arbitrary naming.
约定是受约束的方便，不是任意命名。
命题
Experience and Geometry should be read as a question about how science stabilizes its objects.
卷一 5 · 经验和几何 要读成一个问题：科学怎样让自己的对象稳定下来。
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题
What is the difference between convenient and arbitrary?
“方便”和“任意”有什么区别？
解
Convenience answers to repeated experience and successful coordination.
方便要回应反复经验和成功协调。
互链 context
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