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- Subject: Re: Philosophy before science ? (was : S
- Message-ID: <102936.85652.20991@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
- Date: 7 Jan 93 23:47:32 GMT
- Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
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- > |> However my son ! Facts are never presecribed by theory, facts are the
- > |> results of observation.
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- What facts ? What observations ?
- An observation is conducted according to a theory, in the first place...
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- > I don't have much of a clue what "prescribed" means here. Perhaps
- > what is meant is that the range of "possible facts" or the range
- > of "descriptions of facts" is limited by theory. That wouldn't be
- > *so* bad a claim.
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- > |> For example, electrons were there much before quantum mechanics
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- 'electrons were there' ?! according to what theory ?
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- > A great deal of
- > *theory* needs to come into play in order to describe how an electron
- > is observed (if indeed we want to say that this is possible) or
- > what "observed" *means* when applied to electrons.
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- exactly..
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- > Gary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]
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