Also, forgetting Karl Popper, inventor of the hot popper, Craig is in a sense, reminding us all of Kurt Godel's mathematical proof, on mathematical proofs. This, I suppose, also applies to bench science and bench scientists?
-----Original Message----- From: Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 1:50 pm Subject: Re: What gives philosophers a bad name? As usual, I see a microcosm of science in this thread. From Bruno's perspective, the power of reason is in its ability to see through its own bias to find questions, problems, and shades of grey. From John Clark's perspective, reason is about black and white evidence which provides answers and closes the door on what is wrong as it opens the door to a future which leads to what it true and right. To me, these are both exaggerations - idealizations of how we would like to seem to ourselves and how we would like science to be. I think that the truth of science is that there is no formula, no method other than a general faith in precision and methodology and a hope for discovery. Thanks, Craig On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:35:16 AM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Bruno Marchal <mar...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: >>> I do not like very much Feyerabend, and disgaree with its overal >>> philosophy of science, I do agree with him on Galileo. >> OK so let me get this straight, you agree that "the church at the time of >> Galileo was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself", > I did not say that. Nor did Feyerabend. Bruno you are incorrect, Feyerabend did say "the church at the time of Galileo was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself", and he also said "Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just": hemultidisciplinarian.com/2012/08/07/the-worst-enemy-of-science/ Bruno, is this really the sort of toothless hillbilly you want to be associated with? >> Blinded? BLINDED!? Were talking about Galileo and the church but it's >> Galileo who was blinded!? > Yes, he was blinded by its Aristotelian faith Aristotelian faith!? Galileo was the guy who proved that Aristotle was the worst physicist who ever lived! And I thought this list was supposed to be about cutting edge developments in human knowledge, so why the hell do we keep talking about ancient Greeks who (with the important exception of Greek mathematicians) didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
