scientists

The useful knowledge

feed_eater on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 15:29
irrelevance
ethics
admonishment
wisdom
scientists
Immanuel the wise wrote:
It is a real joy to see the ardour with which the older geometricians investigated these properties [of conical sections], not allowing themselves to be troubled by the question which shallow minds raise, as to the supposed use of such knowledge.
Some of my dear scientific peers seem to be assailed by the question tha

The prickly problem of induction

feed_eater on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 02:11
logics
induction
scientists
We scientists (while logicians)are left greatly perplexedwith the prickly problem of induction(vide Rudolf)What is the problem?c aseca secas ethen rule?this is no proof!induced,merely intuited,may be indicted,not vindicated!Now.Humans are induction toolscase case case ruleno problem!Humans are induction toolsand this alone is evolution's sufficient proofthat induction works.Sorta.

Scientist: the ventriloquist of nature

feed_eater on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:59
ventriloquism
nature
scientists
he believesthe puppet to bethe one sayinghis wordsbut it's notit is he whois the puppetand those are nothis wordsthose are strings,waves that vibrate,rever berate,with the soundsof his nature