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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: debates
- Message-ID: <11281@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 18:59:14 GMT
- References: <Bx5qtw.Cvw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <MATT.92Nov5105233@physics2.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov6.085912.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Nov6.153132.7988@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- In article <1992Nov6.153132.7988@midway.uchicago.edu> sl26@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >
- >Frankly I'm quite surprised that there exist people who believe the
- >realistic view of science, which I thought were dead long long time ago.
- > ...
-
- Maybe as far as philosophers go, but I know plenty of physicists who take
- the "realistic" view, both theorists and experimentalists. Often it was
- this view that got them interested in physics in the first place. And,
- of course, ones view of epistemology does not necessarily affect how
- you do your science: an external observer may have very different
- opinions of what is going on that the actual participants.
-
- >However, one should never fail to discern theories from real hard facts.
-
- I suppose the same statement applies to theories about how scientists
- decide what is a "fact"....
-
- --
- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I
- jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises
- Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges."
- Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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