On Protocol Sentences*
Richard Creath, Richard NoIlan · 2021
The questions of whether the protocol sentences occur outside or inside the system language and of their exact characterization are, it seems to the author, not answered by assertions but rather by postulations. The object can also be an organism, e.g., a tree which perhaps by the shape and placement of its branches reacts to certain properties of the soil and air. The signals of the machine and the statements of the man are treated like sentences of a language in that translation rules are constructed for them. Each protocol sentence can be translated into our system language in accordance with the B-rules as well as with the T-rules. Concrete system sentences can be acquired from the given protocol sentences at any time with the help of these rules. Every concrete sentence of the physicalistic system language can serve under certain circumstances as a protocol sentence.