Were There Any Attempts to Patent or Profit from Discoveries Related to Phlogiston Theory?

Is Information to Become the Phlogiston of the Late 20th Century? (Wolfgang Hesse). 171. On Collaborative Linking Support for the FRISCO Concept System ... Sep 1, 2017 ... Phlogiston was the substance proposed to explain combustibility. ... informational. A building code, once adopted into law, has transformed. 6 That is a little unfair to Brian Ellis. See section 9 below. Page 8. 5I6 Jonathan Bennett or in facts about the presence or ... Mar 8, 2023 ... 14 For eliminative materialists, mental terms and concepts stand to neuroscientific terms and concepts in the same relation as. “phlogiston” ... Feb 20, 2018 ... But phlogiston doesn't. And fire isn't, it turns out, an element ... informational boundary distinguishing it from its complement ... In responding to worries from realists (§5.1) we helped ourselves to the idea of representing non-existent entities (e.g., phlogiston). But how, one might ask, ... As. MacKay [1] remarks, " 'Amount of information' measures not a 'stuff' but a rela- tion." Nevertheless, what I have called elsewhere [2] the Phlogiston Theory ... May 21, 2016 ... Insofar as they concern the informational structure of ... phlogiston in our mental inventory, as Casasanto and Lupyan's argument implies. happened to phlogiston? One does not get a warranted realism for the ... the informational cause of the judgement. But then, the I-language was ... Information (e.g. Shannon) entropy is not equivalent to thermodynamic (e.g.. Boltzmann-Gibbs) entropy (or to the absolute statistical variety of physical states) ...