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- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Philosophy before science ? (was : S
- Message-ID: <102937.522.21099@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
- Date: 8 Jan 93 00:08:42 GMT
- Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
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- > In article <102936.2005.14241@kcbbs.gen.nz> Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakk
- > >
- > >> Science *is* the study of basic facts, ....
- > > (science, basic-facts)
- > >
- > >> ..time, space, matter, interactions, motion, change. All of these are
- > >> basic facts.
- > > (basic-facts)
- > >
- > >> Science is to be judged by facts...
- > > (science, facts)
- > >
- > >However My Son!
- > >'fact' is not a fact unless it is prescribed by a theory...in other words
- > >there are NO facts in science unless we prescribe one by a theory...and whe
- > >you withdraw the theory away, all the facts attached to it disappear into t
- > >thin air....
- >
- > This is pure, unadulterated nonsense. Theories arise in reaction to
- > facts discovered beforehand (not by "induction", certainly, but there
-
- these are NOT our 'facts' ??!!
-
- > are facts before the theory). It's true that some facts framed in
- > terms of a theory depend heavily on the theory itself for their sense,
- > but not all of them.
-
- we agreed on to talk about 'facts' only according to a theory, just for
- the sake of clear communication among our colleages in our mutual scientific
- efforts ....:-)...so we don't know what you are talking about when you
- say there were facts before the theory...what facts ??!! whose facts ??!!!
- we DON'T need such loose FACTs anymore...:-)...go away ...!!!
- don't waste our time ...:-)
-
- > it is like this; if we didn't invent QM then we wouldn't have
- > >electrons..but, of course, if electrons are _some_ facts for you :-> then
- > >what would you do without QM, you would look like a fish out of pond
- > :-)
- >
- > The discovery of the electron predates formal QM :-) :-)
-
- which electron ? according to what theory ? under what exprimental setup
- according to what theory ?
-
- > >as you say, fortunately, the middle-ages are over with all their bogeys cal
- > >- scientific-facts...:-)
-
- > There is a world, and some statements about it are true and known to
-
- 'there is a world' ?!! is this a grammatical observation about 'world' ?
-
- > us. The term "scientific facts" is unfortunate; "scientific" refers
- > to the way the facts were uncovered, not any feature of the facts
- > themselves.
-
- Our subject matter is what is 'fact' in our scientific activities ...
-
- > ..now we can live happily here-after without clinging
- > >to some theories as if they were revealed words of the God...
- >
- > Such clinging would not be proper scientific methodology.
- >
- > and also
- > >we don't confuse the revealed words of the God with
- > scientific-facts....
- >
- > God reveals Its (real) Word only to those whose methodology is
- > properly scientific :-)
-
- and this must be revealed to you by the same God :-)
- however my Son, you are not even properly scientific, listen to what you
- said:
-
- > to the way the facts were uncovered, not any feature of the facts
- > themselves.
-
- 'feature of the facts' ??!! what facts ? according to what theory ?
- and according to what observation prescribed by what theory ?
-
- > >> Christoph Schiller
- > M. Randall Holmes
-