Posted by femlite on November 11, 2003, at 22:45:15
In reply to Re: DSCH » EscherDementian, posted by DSCH on November 11, 2003, at 12:20:05
Odder still is the ability to act on one's own behalf.
***Forgive me for jumping into waters Im quite sure my head is not suffiecintly above, but just for fun, what is odd exactly about acting on belief?
.. concerned only with the fit of theory to observations rather than the fit of theory to our preconceptions of how the universe works.***there is no such thing as true objectivety, scientist often start with presupositions, ie..the metaphysical relm does not exist... and work from their presupositons. Pasteur and a great many scientist were laughed out of the profession, for just such myopic hard headedness, no?
They take on an air of reality (or even "ueber-reality" to make a gross cross-linguistic construct) to the user, but do any of them necessarily conform to objective reality? Is it even testable? However, they are indeed interesting for revealing what is latent inside of our own "mental territory".***As science is continually evolving, how can any scientist worth his salt claim that it is possible to possess "objective" realism? To rule out what we have not yet proven or disproven seems a lack of true scientific spirit.
> >You do occur to me German- is it your composer/moniker? Probably a throwback from conversing with my Swedish friends via text.
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> DSCH is the Germanization of his initals that corresponds to a four note figure he used as a musical signature. He himself was most definately Russian (St. Petersburger to be precise). As for me I am of Norwegian-German(Holsteiner)-English heritage. :-)***I have great respect for your opinions on MOST occassions DSCH, (and shall continue to have). And not ALL Germans are so materialistic. ;-)
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