The philosophy of existence (ontology) has recently focused on the status of language (having been displaced by "psychology" for investigations of "cognition"...Numerous references including Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Quine and Rorty). From this focus emerges the view that it may be futile to search for trancendental absolutes, either in language itself or in "the world" to which it refers.It may be that "meaning" can only reside in "usage for particular purposes". Thus "particles" are merely "nodes of iner-relationship" within a particular scientific paradigm. Whether such a view is "philosophical" or nor is a mute point.

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