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- From: danco@titan.ucs.umass.edu (DANIEL F COHEN)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Which theory before observation ?
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:24:34 GMT
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- In article <schiller.726827765@hpas5> schiller@prl.philips.nl (schiller c) writes:
- >
- >Obviously I embrace the idea that no theory is necessary. (This is to
- >make you angry a little more ... :-) The historical account even prooves
- >this to be so.
-
- Indeed, you embrace ideas as if they were low-rent prostitutes, uncritically,
- without regard to their background or provenance, thinking as little as
- possible so as to avoid the unwanted truth of the matter.
- >
- [Ill-conceived gibbering deleted]
- >
- >I also subscribe to the idea that every theoretical term (such as
- >'alpha particle', 'mass', 'charge', etc.) is simply *shorthand* for
- >observations. This is the way physics and the other sciences have grown
- >and have been developed.
-
- Have you even read any of the posts directed at you on this topic? Or, for
- that matter ANYTHING relevant to this topic? You began this converstaion
- with a set of inconsistent and ill-defined ideas, and have responded to
- every comment on them with a reassertion of those ideas, held as if by
- unreasoning religious faith: "It is my position that...", "I embrace the
- theory that...", "I subscribe to the idea that..."
-
- Please, embrace what or whomever you wish, but don't feel obligated to
- garb your peculiar illusions in the trappings of a reasoned position. It shows
- more about your ability to reason than about the ill-considered attitudes to
- which you cling.
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- danco@titan.ucc.umass.edu
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